Hey! Spring of Trivia
Hey! Spring of Trivia | |
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Genre | Comedy game show |
Presented by | Katsumi Takahashi Norito Yashima |
Judges | Tamori Bibiru Ōki Becky Rabone Megumi Hiroshi Aramata |
Narrated by | Shinji Nakae |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language | Japanese |
Original release | |
Network | Fuji TV |
Release | October 7, 2002 September 7, 2006 | –
Hey! Spring of Trivia is the name given by Spike TV to the show The Fountain of Trivia (Japanese: トリビアの泉, Hepburn: Toribia no Izumi), a Japanese comedy game show on Fuji TV.
Concept
Trivia consists of a series of video segments that introduce and confirm the validity of unusual trivia. Past trivia has included exploding
At some point in the show, there is a segment called "Seed of Trivia" (トリビアの種, Toribia-no-tane). Viewers submit hypothetical questions intended to produce answers in the form of new trivia; "Trivia" then "go[es] to great lengths to answer them." Tamori (referred to as "Chairman Tamori" in the English dubbed version) evaluates the Seed of Trivia by pulling a lever. The Seed of Trivia's grade is shown as a flower. "Full bloom" (満開, Mankai) is the highest of grades. Past examples of "Seed of Trivia" segments have included the fastest Japanese baseball mascots, the brand of ramen containing the greatest net noodle length per package, and which form of barbecue lions prefer most.
As of 2005, there is a new segment called "Bog of Falsiva" (ガセビアの沼, Gasebia no Numa). This is where they take a trivia sent in by a viewer that turned out to be false and sink it in a sort of bog. Additionally, they say, "If you use this trivia, you might be called," and then they always show a cute girl (Tamaki Ogawa) doing some date-like activity and saying, "Liar" (うそつき, usotsuki) at the end of the segment.
At the end of the show, host
History
Trivia has been running in Japan since October 7, 2002, first as a low-budget program after midnight (with initially much more obscene and sexual trivia than afterwards).[citation needed] Its increasing cult status (the show obtained viewership ratings just above 5%) made Fuji TV shift the broadcast time to prime time July 2, 2003.[citation needed]
On November 4, 2004 Fuji TV announced that twenty six episodes of Trivia would be adapted for broadcast in the
See also
- Sponge (TV series)
- MythBusters
References
- ^ a b "Spike TV Gets 'In The Know' With International Hit Game Show 'HEY: SPRING OF TRIVIA'". PRNewswire. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
- ^ "U.S. version of Fuji TV's 'Toribia' to start". Yomiuri Shimbun. Archived from the original on December 4, 2004. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
External links
- Fuji TV's site (in Japanese)
- Spike TV's site