50 Fun Facts About The Chase

Which ITV show has Bradley Walsh hosted since 2009, facing quizzers called Chasers?

It shares its DNA with The Master, an Australian quiz that aired briefly in 2006.

How many seconds does a contestant get in the Cash Builder round?

Each correct answer is worth £1,000 and there is no penalty for a wrong answer or a pass.

How many steps are on the Head-to-Head board?

Playing for the Cash Builder money means starting three steps down, so five correct answers get you home.

Once one side locks in a Head-to-Head answer, how long does the other have before being frozen out?

A frozen-out player simply stays where they are on the board for that turn.

How long does the team get to answer questions in the Final Chase?

The team gets a head start of one step for every contestant who made it to the final.

Which Chaser is known as "The Beast"?

The nickname is a pun: his surname sounds like the French la bête, meaning the beast.

What is Shaun Wallace's Chaser nickname?

In Australia he is billed as simply "The Destroyer" after concerns about the original name.

Which Chaser is nicknamed "The Governess"?

She joined in series 2 and also chases on the Australian and New Zealand versions.

Which Chaser is "The Sinnerman"?

He has also been billed as "The Smiling Assassin" and "Sarcasm in a Suit".

What is Jenny Ryan's nickname on the show?

Walsh coined it for her red hair, freckles and ponytail; producers liked that vixens are famously cunning.

Which Chaser is known as "The Menace"?

Before joining the panel he beat Sinha as a contestant in 2017, banking £9,000 in his Cash Builder.

What does Ennis study as a laboratory researcher?

He is an entomologist and neuroscientist who works in the Department of Biochemistry.

Besides quizzing, what is Shaun Wallace's profession?

He was called to the Bar in 1984 and has argued cases at the Old Bailey.

What was Shaun Wallace's specialist subject in his winning 2004 Mastermind final?

Before finding quizzing fame he had failed his O-level English exam four times.

Sinha qualified and worked in which profession before full-time quizzing and comedy?

He began doing stand-up while working as a junior doctor in London and King's Lynn.

Which 2018 reality show did Hegerty compete on, finishing seventh?

She once ghostwrote two books for Richard Scarry and says they "were a bit rubbish and nobody bought them".

Who recommended Jenny Ryan for the Chaser job after captaining her on a quiz team?

Ryan made her debut on 2 September 2015 and is also known as "The Bolton Brainiac".

Jenny Ryan reached the final of which 2019 singing contest, finishing third?

She was cut before the live shows, but viewer outcry got her invited back.

What was Labbett's specialist subject on his 2000 Mastermind appearance?

A year earlier he had taken the Olympic Games as his subject.

Labbett earned his mathematics degree from a college of which university?

He later worked as a maths and PE supply teacher before quizzing took over.

Bradley Walsh was a professional footballer for which club in 1979?

Ankle fractures ended his playing career at 22; he later went on loan to Barnet.

Bradley Walsh played Danny Baldwin in which soap opera?

The character was going to be called Vic; Walsh asked for Danny in honour of his late father.

Which sci-fi series cast Bradley Walsh as Graham O'Brien from 2018 to 2022?

He also played DS Ronnie Brooks in Law & Order: UK for five years.

Bradley Walsh's 2016 album Chasing Dreams peaked at what position on the UK Albums Chart?

His follow-up, When You're Smiling, landed one place lower the next year.

Which German skier's name sent Bradley Walsh into a viral laughing fit in 2011?

Sinha credits the clip with doubling the audience; Walsh finally apologised to her in person in 2024.

If all four celebrities are caught, what prize fund does their nominee play for in the Final Chase?

It was originally £20,000; each celebrity who reaches a lost final still earns £1,000 for charity.

Which 2020 prime-time spin-off pits a single player against up to five quizzers at once?

Its working title was Take On the Chasers, and its theme reuses part of the 2009 Chaser walk-on music.

Who narrated The Chasers' Road Trip: Trains, Brains and Automobiles?

Three Chasers took on child geniuses, great apes, dolphins and robots across the UK, US and Japan.

Which BBC One quiz, launched two months after The Chase, is its long-running teatime ratings rival?

In September 2012 the two were almost level: 2.44 million viewers against 2.27 million.

In January 2021 the show hit an all-time peak audience of more than how many viewers?

During its first two series it averaged only one to two million.

In which year did The Chase win the BAFTA Television Award for Best Daytime?

It had been nominated for the inaugural prize the year before.

Which company released The Chase board game in 2012?

A card game from Ginger Fox followed in 2013, and an iOS app arrived that December.

Ennis's Chaser debut in November 2020 drew how many viewers, a series record?

Fans had once set up a GoFundMe for him after teammates took low offers during his 2017 contestant win.

Which Chaser stormed off and punched a wall after a Final Chase loss aired in January 2022?

He later apologised on Twitter, explaining his mental health had been poor at the recording.

Which Australian broadcaster airs The Chase Australia?

It premiered in September 2015 to replace Deal or No Deal and Million Dollar Minute at 5 pm.

Who replaced Andrew O'Keefe as host of The Chase Australia in 2021?

O'Keefe's contract was not renewed after he was charged with domestic violence.

How much is each correct Cash Builder answer worth on The Chase Australia?

The biggest Australian win is $141,000, split four ways.

Which Australian Chaser is nicknamed "The Supernerd"?

He filled in on the UK spin-off in 2022 when Hegerty tested positive for COVID-19.

Which American cable channel first aired a US version of The Chase in August 2013?

Fox had ordered two pilots in 2012, taped in London with Walsh hosting, but passed on the show.

Which former Baywatch actress hosted the GSN version of The Chase?

She earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for the job in 2016, losing to Craig Ferguson.

How many contestants form a team on the American version of The Chase?

The British original uses teams of four.

Who hosted the 2021 ABC revival of The Chase?

She came from ABC's daytime talk show The View; the premiere was dedicated to Alex Trebek.

Which Jeopardy! legend was nicknamed "The Professor" as an ABC Chaser?

He holds the longest Jeopardy! winning streak at 74 games and left the show after its second season.

What was James Holzhauer's Chaser nickname on ABC?

He had actually been a contestant on the GSN version, winning $58,333 as part of a three-person team.

Which ABC Chaser, known as "The Buzzsaw", is the highest earner in Jeopardy! history?

He never lost a regular Jeopardy! game; his only defeat came in the Greatest of All Time tournament.

Which ABC Chaser is nicknamed "The Queen" and ended David Madden's 19-day Jeopardy! streak?

She joined in season three alongside Brandon Blackwell and Buzzy Cohen.

How much was each correct Cash Builder answer worth in the first ABC season?

It dropped to $10,000 for seasons two and three; GSN had paid $5,000.

Which comedian was unmasked as mystery Chaser "Maverick" in a 2025 spin-off finale?

He covered for Ennis, who was absent because of a family bereavement.

Which YouTube group filmed a 2024 spin-off on the real set, with Vikkstar123 as Chaser "The 123"?

Stephen Tries hosted, and Walsh popped up in a surprise interlude.

Which independent adjudicator rules on whether a buzzer-beating answer was in time?

Walsh says compliance lawyers stand in the studio and halt him the instant he misreads a question.