Ultra Quiz

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Ultra Quiz was a Saturday Night elimination game show series that was produced by Television South and aired for 3 series on ITV from 1983 until 1985. Each series was hosted by a different person: Michael Aspel hosted series 1, David Frost hosted series 2, and Stu Francis hosted the final series. The top prize for the winner at the end of the series was £10,000 in £1 coins.

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At the start of the series 500 contestants start off in the programme but in each episode a number of the contestants would be eliminated and would go home with nothing while the remaining contestants would play on until 8 remained and in the final episode they played in 2 final rounds to whittle the 8 contestants down to 2 there they played in a final head to head round where the winner would get the £10,000 while the other 7 finalists went home with some consolation prizes.