Before she was hosting the QI, and even before she was hosting The News Quiz, Sandi Toksvig had another quiz on the TV, in the form of The Sandwich Quiz.
How many of the contestants did you recognise?
No. 73 ran for 8 series on ITV, on Saturday mornings between 1982 and 1988. I don’t know how much of it I ever actually watched, but the theme tune has stuck with me ever since.
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