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| John Robert Hayward | 29th March 1942 - 14th February 2010 |
15 to 1 was a Regent Productions quiz show on Channel 4 that ran for 2265 episodes in 35 series from 4th January 1988 to 19th December 2003 and John was runner up from the 15 contestants in the show below.
William G. Stewart (2nd left) was the host
The Game:
Fifteen contestants started off with three lives and the idea was to not lose lives by not getting questions wrong.
Round one began with each of the fifteen contestants being asked two questions each. If they got one wrong they lost a life but if they got both of them wrong they were automatically eliminated.
Round two was slightly different, a player was asked a question. If they got it wrong they lost a life. If they got it right they nominated whoever they wanted to answer the next question. If that person got it wrong the nominator got to choose somebody else. This kept going until there were only three people left.
After the break, the three people left were given a single point for every life they had left before the break and a clean set of three lives. The idea now was to get a high a score as possible. This round had forty questions and each answer was worth ten points. The first questions were on the buzzers but as soon as somebody got over thirty points it changed to 'Question or Nominate'. If they chose 'Question' they took a question themselves, to build up their score, and if they chose 'Nominate' somebody else took the question. No matter what your score, if you lost your three lives you were out.
When there was only one person left they were the winner but they were allowed to answer as many of the remaining questions as they could to build up their score and if they made it past the 40th question they were given a ten-point bonus for every life they had left.
further details: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Fifteen-to-One