Gary Davies will host the first edition of BBC Radio 2’s new mid-morning pop music quiz today, called Ten to the Top.
As PopMaster takes a short break before reappearing with Ken Bruce on Greatest Hits Radio in April, the replacement competition will see 10 questions test listeners’ musical knowledge.
Ten to the Top is a pre-recorded accumulator quiz where it pays to answer the questions correctly in order. Each player will be asked 10 questions about pop music.
Question 1 is worth 1 point if answered correctly, question 2 is worth 2 points, question 3 is worth 3 points, all the way up to 10.
However, if a question is answered incorrectly the value of the following question goes back to 1 point again, then the next question is 2 points if answered correctly, and so on.
Each contestant has a Joker to play, and for that question they’ll get double points if it’s answered correctly.
The player with the most points wins a smart speaker, and if it’s a draw there will be a tie-breaker question.
Gary Davies is covering the 9.30am till 12pm slot on Radio 2 until May as he’ll continue to host Sounds of the 80s (Saturdays, 8-10pm), which he has fronted since 2018.
Vernon Kay will then take over the show in May.
Posted on Monday, March 6th, 2023 at 8:54 am by Roy Martin