The Kids Are All Right (game show)


The Kids Are All Right is a British game show that aired on for BBC One from 12 April to 14 June 2008, hosted by John Barrowman.
It shares some similarities with Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old?, which airs on Sky One. It also shares similarities with Eggheads, in that it centres on ordinary people trying to beat a team of super-intelligent ones. The auditions were held in 2007 with the children asked to come to a studio with their parents; they were asked to answer questions about themselves, and had to answer a questionnaire.

Game rules

In this game a team of four persons play against seven kids in various rounds.

Instant Showdown

The first round is the 'Instant Showdown'. Here, the adult team is given £5,000 with which to play the game. Taking turns, each adult must play a 3 question, head-to -head against a randomly selected Super Kid. The first to two points wins. In the event the Super Kid wins a head to head, £1000 is knocked off the adults total. If the adult wins, no money is gained. After each Super Kid has participated in a particular round, they move to the 'Kids Den' to the right of the set. This is a raised platform with some multi-coloured chairs. It is from here they will come to participate in future rounds.
The subsequent rounds vary each week, however three rounds are played, one involving two adults in order that each of the four adults participates in a round. In each of these rounds, the age of the Super Kid is converted into thousands of pounds should the adults win. A win against a 15 year old would result in a £15,000 addition to the prize fund for example. In each round, the Super Kids are randomly chosen.

Information Overload

In this round, a single adult is chosen to play against a Super Kid. At the start of the round, a 60-second video clip is shown. Afterwards, against the clock, and on the buzzer, questions are asked based on what was seen and heard during the video. Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins.

Gridlocked

Here two adults are elected to play against two of the Super Kids. Before the questions, a grid of 12 answers is displayed. A category is then revealed, to which two answers on the grid relate. So for example, the category Greek Goddesses would relate to the answers Athena and Nike on the grid. The Super Kids go first, with both having to provide a correct answer in order to win a point. If either Super Kid provides an incorrect answer, the point for that turn is lost. As an added difficulty, team members are not allowed to confer. After the Super Kids turn, the used answers on the grid are replaced, and the adults then take their turn, following the same rules. The round continues in this fashion with each team seeing a maximum of three questions, with the team with the most points at the end winning the round.

Omission Impossible

This round involves a single adult and Super Kid. On the video screen, images are shown in turn. Amongst others, this could be a photo with a landmark missing, a long word with some letters missing, or an equation with a number missing. Below the main image are four smaller images of items, each lettered A-D, of which one fills the blank in the main image. Against the clock, the adult and Super Kid must buzz in and state which letter they believe to be the correct solution.

Double Jeopardy

This round involves two adults and two Super Kids. Taking turns, each team is shown a category, and then three possible answers. For example, the category may be Space Shuttles, with the possible answers being Discovery, Atlantis and Valiant. The rules are very much in the same vein as the Gridlocked round, with both team members having to provide a correct answer in order to score a point. Like Gridlocked, each team sees a maximum of three questions with whichever team having the most correct answers being declared the winner.

Biggest & Best

In this round a single adult and Super Kid are shown images against the clock and must buzz in and state which answer is correct based on the question. For example, the question may ask which flag has the most colours, which equation results in the smallest number, or which item travels the fastest. Whichever player has the highest score when the clock runs out is the winner.

Beat The Kids

In this final round, the jackpot that the adults have managed to accrue so far is up for grabs. Starting with the youngest Super Kid and working up, an adult must answer a question against a Super Kid on the buzzer. If the adult wins the point, the Super Kid is eliminated, and the adult can play again against the next Super Kid. If the Super Kid wins the point, the adult is eliminated, and they can play again against the next adult. It's a straightforward matter of not running out of players before your opponents do. However the fact there are 4 adults against 7 Super Kids, does add some difficulty. Should the adults win, they take their jackpot, if not, they leave with nothing.

International versions

CountryNameHostNetworkAir date
Arab worldجيل التحدي
Jeel El Tahadi		Michel SananDubai TV2008
Estos Niños Son ImbatiblesEva GómezChilevisión2008
The Kids Are All Right
鸡蛋碰石头		Qing Hong:zh:厦门卫视|Xiamen Star2 June 2013
جيل التحدي
Geel El Tahadi		Ashraf Abdel BaqiAl-Hayat TV2010
കുട്ടികളോടാണോ കളി?
Kuttikalodano Kali		Poornima IndrajithMazhavil Manorama11 August 2016 – 30 April 2017
I Magnifici 7Pino InsegnoItalia 12007
Dzieciaki Górą!Tomasz Kammel
Marzena Rogalska 		TVP212 September 2008 – 17 July 2010
Super MiúdosSílvia AlbertoRTP 128 March 2010 – 1 July 2010
The Kids Are All RightPaul MnisiSABC123 May 2009 – 15 August 2009
The Kids Are All Right
'เด็กอัจฉริยะท้าประลอง		Pipat WittayapanyanonChannel 34 October 2015
Trẻ Em Luôn Đúng''Quang Minh
Anh Vũ
Khương Ngọc
Đình Toàn 		VTV3, VTV6
VTV9		17 September 2011
15 April 2013
30 May 2015