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I've a short feature Sunday morning on Broadcasting House (fingers crossed) which sidles up to the issue of the effect of the web on quizzing. Vast storehouses of knowledge are contained within every web enabled mobile phone, and yet we still pride ourselves on knowing large amounts of mostly useless information, stored, rather inefficiently in the "wet-ware" in our heads.
Ease of access to information is also changing the way questions are set. When Bernice Coupe started work on Round Britain Quiz she had to rely on a library full of reference books such as the animal Who's Who and the Who's Who of murderers and forgers (why both together?). In this rough edit of the interview which Bernice kindly granted to me we talk about research, the web and the meandering journey from ignorance to knowledge:

I'll post a longer interview with the producer of QI here soon too.

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