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Producing a Quiz Show from Multiple Locations?

Bloke in a box asks: "One of the pubs I help manage is putting on a quiz show. The landlady's two sisters also run pubs, so we have decided to do this quiz for charity (for the Tsunami disaster). At the moment I have: three pubs, three webcams, two laptops, a desktop, three microphones, three sets of 512kb broadband, three big screens, three projectors and one willing quizmaster. I'm aware of various remote admin software which will aid with this, but I'm wondering if there is conferencing software that might be a better fit for this, since I'd need the ability to control the communications between the pubs (like when questions need to be repeated, and so forth)." What other pieces of software would you recommend for such a production?

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  1. Better idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Make a video with your landlady and her sisters, you'd make more money.

  2. screw quizzing.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    At the moment I have: three pubs, three webcams, two laptops, a desktop, three microphones, three sets of 512kb broadband, three big screens, three projectors and one willing quizmaster.

    you got the makings of a small time porno production unit.

  3. Re:PHP by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why yes, of course! PHP! Why didn't I think of that! The Magic Elixir!

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  4. BAC by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 2, Funny
    Get one of those handheld BAC detectors. Have contestants be tested at the end of each round and the first one to reach .2 while still being able to answer questions wins! (And gets free medical care!)

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