Günther Jauch (65), Johannes B. Kerner (57) and Guido Cantz (50) face a special challenge on TV on January 10th and 17th (each at 8:15 p.m. on RTL): At the "Summit of the Quiz Giants". the experienced quiz masters compete against candidates who also have quiz experience, as they are the winners of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?", "ZDF Quiz Champion" or "The Cleverest German" in the race. In which programs have Jauch, Kerner and Cantz been able to expand their horizons of knowledge so far?
Günther Jauch
Günther Jauch can probably come up with the greatest quiz show experience: in 1999 he started as a moderator of "Who wants to be a millionaire?". With wit and enthusiasm, he still leads the RTL quiz show today. In an interview with n-tv in 2019, he revealed how he assesses his future as a "WWM" presenter: "The next anniversary would be in five years, then I'll slowly be approaching 70. It's hard for me to imagine, but I just let myself be surprised." Jauch was able to celebrate an anniversary at least recently: RTL organized a surprise show for him in June 2021 for the 1,500th birthday. Broadcast.
Günther Jauch also likes to change sides and has already gained experience as a quiz show candidate: Since 2009 he has proven in "5 against Jauch" that he has accumulated considerable general knowledge through his many years at "WWM". In it, he is challenged by a team of five candidates who can answer the questions together, while Jauch has to do it alone.
In "Die 2 – Gottschalk & Jauch gegen alle" he dueled from 2013 to 2017 together with Thomas Gottschalk (71) against candidates. The successor "Because you don't know what's happening" has been available since 2018, in which the two moderators alternate with Barbara Schöneberger (47) against celebrities. In Frank Plasberg's (64) "Das Quiz" at the turn of the year, Jauch performed for the 14th time at the end of 2021. In an interview with RTL on the “summit of the quiz giants”, the moderator revealed that despite years of puzzle fun, there are also many areas of interest that have left him completely cold for decades – “Royal houses, film actors and everything to do with space or astronomy are at the forefront Has".
Johannes B. Kerner
Johannes B. Kerner is also very familiar with quiz and game programs. His moderation of "The Quiz Champion" is particularly well known. In the ZDF quiz show that has been broadcast since 2012, a candidate has to defeat a round of five prominent experts in various question and answer sessions and in areas of knowledge such as sports, literature or geography. As a "quiz champion" he can then win an amount of money.
Before that, Kerner moderated other rate formats such as "The Great General Knowledge Quiz" in Sat.1 in 2011. From 2007 to 2009 he presented "How clever is Germany?", since 2017 the ZDF format "You never figure it out!" and since 2019 "The Big Terra X Show", also on ZDF.
Guido Cantz
Guido Cantz, recently dismissed as "Do you understand fun?" moderator, was also seen in "The Quiz Champion". However, in 2016 and 2017 he took a seat as an expert in the "Film and TV" category. He was also in 2017 and 2020 in Kerner's "You never get it!" and represented as a guest in the SWR knowledge program "Meister des Lebens".
In 2020 he presented his own guessing show "Quizz dich auf 1" on WDR. In it, candidates had to answer questions related to North Rhine-Westphalia. "I don't want to scare our opponents, but it's going to be tough," Cantz said in an RTL interview about his "quiz giant" challenge. "I only see my weaknesses in the area: South Korean expressive dance," he jokes and knows how to assess the Quizmaster team: "Our strengths: spontaneity, humor, collective intelligence. Weaknesses: three alpha animals."SpotOnNews
