BBC Question Time (Drinking) Game Rules
April 8, 2011 3 Comments
Who doesn’t love BBC Question Time, I ask you? Crazy kids, that’s who! (If you want a non-drinking game, I suggest DimbleBingo)
Best played with gin. To declare you’re taking part in the Question Time drinking game, tweet the hashtag #QTDrinkingGame … And follow our account, @QTDrinkingGame
1 finger
1. Every time a panelist raises their voice above an acceptable level
2. Any time Dimbleby gives a panelist a time frame of less than 15 seconds to answer
3. Mass audience approval/disapproval
2 Fingers
4. Every time the camera pans across to a young woman strategically placed in the front row
5. “People misunderstand what we’re trying to do here” (or similar)
6. “We’re going to move on cos we’ll come to that question later on”
7. “The last government left us in this mess” (or similar)
3 Fingers
8. Whenever anyone in the coalition says “difficult decisions”
9. “We have time for just one more”
Buzz Words & Phrases! (All one shot each)
10. “Postcode lottery”
11. “Big Society”
12. “There is no mandate”
13. “Hard-working taxpayer”
14. “The key issue here”
15. “The main thing to remember”
16. “Can I just answer that?”
17. “There are actually two issues here”
18. “Answer the question!”
Down your drink when..
19. …An audience member starts blaming *insert minority here* for our problems
20. …An audience member says “It’s political correctness gone mad!” (Everyone in the room shout “MAD!” – last to do it has to down another)
21. …Dimbleby makes a joke
22. …Dimbleby says “Man in the back row…. sorry, woman” Or vice versa.
23. …Dimbleby says “I’m sorry, that’s all we’ve got time for this week”
Additions to the list welcomed. Tweet me!
Contributors so far: @mycrippledeagle, @kay_ran, @emma_in_edin, @alferis, @microwavedrama, @rattlecans, @danielnobody, @adamvanner, @Tanners77
BBC Question Time is on every Thursday at 10.35pm. Don’t have a TV? Watch it here (have to sign up) or here. Find out who is on the panel this week here. And to get the most out of it, I recommend you follow DIMBELBOT on Twitter.
PS Don’t forget to dance at the beginning. Dunno how to dance? Some inspiration. Oh, and use the hashtag #BBCQT!
About Soph
Technically you can use iPlayer to watch it live too…
Lmao this is great. You could add 2 other things I notice Dimbleby says often which are “you on the gangway” and “you with the spectacles.”
3 fingers: Whenever anybody sat directly to the left or right of David pats him on the shoulder in a condescending manner and makes him look uncomfortable. Eric Pickles did it a few times this week and I’ve seen other veteran pannelists do it also.