The real announcement is that Tom will bring the show on a national tour next year.
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Hard Quiz Series 7
From Wednesday 2 February 8.00pm
Tom Gleeson returns with his Big Brass Mug to test the mettle of average Aussies with eccentric interests. This week it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Project Mercury space program, Lawrence of Arabia and ’60s comedy Get Smart!
Get ready to set your brains to ‘Hard’, because Australia’s favourite quiz show is coming back for 2022!
Multi-award-winning master of smart-arsery, Tom Gleeson returns with another eclectic collection of so-called experts, who are all fired up to put their passions and their egos on the line for a crack at taking home the coveted Big Brass Mug.
The subjects are wider, weirder, and wilder than ever before, with wannabe Hard Quiz winners matching wits with Tom Gleeson and giving as good as they get.
Plus, this year sees the return of not one, not two but three festivals of failure, ‘Battle of the Duds’! So strap yourselves in Australia, it’s time to play – HARD!
In the first episode: Tim who knows the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Project Mercury space program aficionado Anthony, Lawrence of Arabia expert Craig, and Leanne who is into sixties comedy Get Smart.
Production credit: A Thinkative TV production. Producers: Kevin Whyte, Charlie Pickering, Tom Gleeson. Co- Executive Producer John Tabbagh. Executive Producer Chris Walker. ABC Executive Producer Tarni James.
Just watched Battle of the Has Beens which was an extended length episode. Outrageously funny.
There were so many successful steals in the first round.
Tim Rogers of You Am I beat Rhonda Burchmore in the final round to win the brass mug.
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I watched it tonight too, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Am glad that it was an extended episode too. It was good watching the Has Beens laugh at themselves
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Upcoming in Season 7
Ep 1: Wednesday February 02 8:00pm
This week it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Project Mercury space program, Lawrence of Arabia and ’60s comedy Get Smart!
Ep 2 Wednesday February 09 8:00pm
Tom Gleeson faces down another bunch of boffins battling for the Big Brass Mug. Will it be Phil Collins fan Elise, High School Musical fanatic Eli, or Matt who is an expert on famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright? Or perhaps Hew will add the Big Brass Mug to his collection of Telecom Phonecards? And will any of them know anything about Tom’s Round? Because this week Tom has really been getting into Mums!
Ep 3 Wednesday February 16 8:00pm
Tom Gleeson has hard questions on tricky topics for hard quizzers like Nicola with her expertise in revolutionary Leon Trotsky; Josh, a fan of film franchise The Fast and the Furious; Jules who likes the fun fruit bananas; and Jarrod who can’t look directly at his topic, the sun. Will any of them dare to stare into the Big Brass Mug?
Hard Quiz: Battle of the Duds
Wednesday 16 March 8pm
Tom Gleeson offers a second chance at the Big Brass Mug to fans of rock band Goo Goo Dolls, cricketer Virat Kohli, online game World of Warcraft and classic film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in a Battle of the Duds!
It was a good episode tonight. The first segment was quite entertaining. Lano and Woodley made a special appearance on the show tonight.
Great to see studio audience back too.
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Hard Quiz: Battle of the Duds
Wednesday 4 May 8:00 PM
Tom Gleeson faces four people foolish enough to have a second try at the Big Brass Mug with their expert subjects of diamonds, social psychology, Novak Djokovic, and the Australian Dung Beetle Project.
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Another one?
After the Battle of the Duds on May 4, Hard Quiz will take a break to make way for the 2-part Gruen Nation federal election special.
The dud-special aired tonight. It was a good episode, like usual. Tom’s Round was The Logies.
As mentioned above, the show will have a two-week break to make way for Gruen Election Specials.
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With the ABC announcing today that the new season of Gruen will take over the Wednesday 8pm timeslot from June 8, is the broadcaster cutting back on the number of episodes of Hard Quiz for this year?
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I thought that Hard Quiz was only taking two weeks off while The Gruen Nation was on (which is a two-part series in a lead up to the election) and then be returning after that?
Hard Quiz could be back for two weeks on 25/May and 1/June and then off again while the normal Gruen season?
Hard Quiz made its NZ debut on TVNZ1 on August 25 and will air at 9pm Thursdays.
Speaking of Hard Quiz, when are we going to see new episodes?
We are currently seeing repeats in the 8pm slot (due to Win The Week being bumped to a later slot).
Series Returns
Hard Quiz Season 7 - Episode 17:
Wednesday 28 September 8:00pm
Four more contestants are desperate to get their grubby mitts on Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug. Rachel, a fan of nineties sitcom Father Ted; Callum, who loves Arnott’s bikkies; Tony, who has been playing hours of the Final Fantasy game; and Linda, who is a fan of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (AKA Jackie O. The real one. Not Kyle’s mate.)
Series 7, Episode 18
Wednesday 5 October 8.00pm
Which contestant will prove worthy of Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug? Will it be Scott, who is into
Los Angeles basketball team, the Lakers? Or will it be Peter, who has a soft spot for classic
counterculture film, Easy Rider? Will Bayley’s knowledge of the Disney animated film Beauty and the
Beast win out? And can anyone keep up with Brooke, who is into reality television series Keeping Up
with the Kardashians?
Tom tweeted last week that he was recording new episodes of series 8.
Tickets to the recordings (at ABC Southbank studios in Melbourne) are now available at Eventbrite website.
The next session available is next Wednesday night (September 21). After that, there are intermittent recordings up to Friday, November 4.
Coming up on Hard Quiz (note epsidoes not broadcast in production order)
Series 7, Episode 22
Wednesday 26 October 8.00pm
Tom Gleeson has a fistful of questions for anyone who dares covet his Big Brass Mug. Experts lining up to be taken down are Zac, with his knowledge of the global financial crisis; Allan, who is a fan of jazz impresario Miles Davis; Marisa, who loves irreverent stunt team Jackass; and Tom, who thinks he knows all about comedians Hamish & Andy.
Hard Quiz: Battle of the Duds - Series 7, Episode 21
Wednesday 2 November 8.00pm
It’s a Battle of the Duds! Tom Gleeson invites four failed former contestants back to humiliate themselves all over again, in the vain hope that one of them can take home the Big Brass Dud Mug.
Returning are dad-joke spouting dentist, Harry, whose expert subject is teeth; Rachael and her knowledge of social media platform TikTok; A-League soccer fan Kogu; and Bree who knows all about the noughties comedy movie Mean Girls.
Series 7, Episode 23
Wednesday 9 November 8.00pm
Hard Quiz: it’s the quiz show so big that OTHER quiz show hosts turn up in the questions! Vying for Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug are Phantom fan Maria, Love Actually tragic (and Hugh Grant lookalike) Spencer, history buff and Republican China expert Span, and Theo, whose expert topic is… Eddie McGuire! What will be Tom’s final answer?
Season final - Series 7, Episode 24
Wednesday 16 November 8.00pm
It’s another classic line up of wannabe experts on Hard Quiz! Bruce Springsteen fan Phil takes on Mark’s penchant for flags, Miek’s love of the musical Hamilton and Matt’s fascination with Japanese artist Hokusai. Only one will prove worthy of Tom Gleeson’s Big Brass Mug.