ADbc is an Australian television comedy history quiz show

Quiz Show

Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film produced and directed by Robert Redford. Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s...

 hosted by Sam Pang

Sam Pang

Sam Pang is a Chinese Australian radio and television host, writer and producer.-Career:A former Collingwood Football Club under 19s member, Pang turned to radio hosting at an age of 18 at the urging of his friends to do so. He co-hosted Triple R's Breakfasters program for 5 years.He then began...

. It was first broadcast on SBS One in 2009.

Summary

There are two teams of two contestants, the AD team and the bc team. Each team consists of an academic and a celebrity working together in an attempt to win the game. ADbc is full of facts and games that inspire some intelligent discussion and some blatantly silly behaviour.

Cast

Sam Pang is a presenter, writer, broadcaster and producer. Regular panellists include comedians Meshel Laurie

Meshel Laurie

Meshel Laurie is an Australian comedian and radio-television personality. She was born in Toowoomba, Queensland.Laurie moved to Melbourne early in her career as a stand-up comic to take advantage of its strong comedy industry/community. Her first Melbourne International Comedy Festival show was...

 and Tony Martin

Tony Martin (comedian)

Tony Francis Martin is a comedian and writer from Te Kuiti, New Zealand who has had a successful TV, radio, stand-up and film career in Australia.- Career :...

, Dr Andrea Rizzi of Melbourne University, Professor Graeme Davison from Monash University and writer Alice Pung

Alice Pung

Alice Pung is a writer, editor and lawyer. She wrote the memoir Unpolished Gem and edited Growing Up Asian in Australia.She is a practicing solicitor, and has worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at at Janet Clarke Hall,...

. Other Guests include Matt Preston

Matt Preston

Matt Preston is a British-Australian food journalist and restaurant critic. He is best known for his role as a judge on Network Ten's MasterChef Australia and his weekly food column in the Herald Sun 'Taste' supplement...

, Kate Langbroek

Kate Langbroek

Katherine Elizabeth Wilhelmina Beuving Langbroek is an Australian television and radio personality of Jamaican, Jewish and Dutch heritage...

, Judith Lucy

Judith Lucy

Judith Mary Lucy is an Australian comedian, known primarily for her stand-up comedy. She has toured Australia with several highly successful one-woman shows, including No Waiter I Ordered the Avocado , King Of The Road , An Impossible Dream , The Show , The Show 2 , Colour Me Judith...

, Graeme Blundell

Graeme Blundell

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, Celia Pacquola, Andrew Rule, Angus Sampson

Angus Sampson

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, George McEncroe, Santo Cilauro

Santo Cilauro

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 and Merrick Watts

Merrick Watts

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