Matchwits host Craig Eliot: kids are smarter

interview with Craig Eliot

Carlos and Steve took a morning off from our usual Tuesday, 6:35 a.m. brain starter quiz questions by interviewing Craig Eliot, host of Colorado’s statewide high school TV game show, “Matchwits” (Sundays, 6:30 p.m. on Rocky Mountain PBS).

“Their timing is unbelievable,” notes Eliot.  Contestants have five seconds from the instant they fire the buzzer to answer the question or lose points.  “Yes,  they are intimidating.  The crew and I look at each other and wonder, what we were doing  when we were in school?!”

Eliot offers more behind the scenes perspective in this interview.

Music framing this feature from Irma Thomas, “If I Had Any Sense I’d Go Back Home,” from the CD Simply Grand, and Duke Jordan, “Squakin'” from the CD Flight to Jordan.