Ultra Quiz
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Ultra Quiz was an elimination game show series that was produced by Television South and aired for three series on the ITV network 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.