Rob Jeffries on Who Dares Wins

EXCLUSIVE by Rebecca Clark: A Staffordshire student has won his second big money TV quiz show prize – and plans to celebrate by taking his parents on holiday.

Over the past two years, Rob Jeffries has won £20,000 after appearing on TV shows, with his most recent success coming on the BBC’s Who Dares Wins.

The 20-year-old Staffordshire University sports journalism student and his quiz show partner split their winnings of £20,000.

But while other young winners might think of sports cars and holidays to Las Vegas, Rob’s planning to spend his money taking his parents on the trip of a lifetime.

He explained: “I always said I was going to take my parents to Australia with it after I finish university. That’s all safe and in the bank.”

His latest win was filmed last year but only screened recently and Rob admitted it was hard work keeping his windfall secret.

He said: “It’s weird, very weird to see myself on TV after so long.

“The show was filmed a year ago and I had to keep it quiet for a long time – so it was a relief  to get it all out in the open.”

Rob Jeffries on Don't Forget The Lyrics

Rob also appeared on Sky One’s Don’t Forget The Lyrics back in 2008, again winning £10,000.

He could have won £250,000 had he scooped the jackpot on that show, but he admitted he didn’t want to risk his winnings.

“I just didn’t know any of the lyrics,” he explained. “So I didn’t want to risk it. It was the second verse of the Time Warp and I just had no idea.”

Rob has set readers of StaffsLive a just-for-fun quiz to see whether they have what it takes to follow in his winning footsteps.

He also provided us with some quiz questions for you to have a stab at

QUESTIONS:

1. What was Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name?
2. In New Jersey, what cannot be sold, by law, on a Sunday?
3. How long is a “jiffy”?
4. Who is the only football player to have broken the world record transfer fee twice, and in doing so broke his own transfer fee?
5. What piece of office equipment, now regarded as obsolete, was put on show for the very first time on May 1st 1808 in Turin?
6. The first man-made object to break the sound barrier was what?
7. Who has won the most individual acting Oscars to date?
8. In weights and measures, how many pounds (lbs) does one UK imperial pint of water weigh?
9. What do Whoopi Goldberg, Nelson Mandela and the late Pope John Paul II all have in common?
10. In what year were barriers stopping the public from walking down Downing Street first put in place?

Scroll down for the answers to Rob’s quiz…

Rob Jeffries with his partner on Who Dares Wins

ANSWERS:

1. Moon (quite ironic)
2. Cabbage
3. 1/100th of a second
4. Diego Maradona (In 1982 and 1984)
5. A typewriter
6. The whip
7. Katharine Hepburn (winner of four best actress awards)
8. 1.25lbs (simple rhyme – a pint of water is a pound and a quarter)
9. They are all honorary Harlem Globetrotters (US TV star Bill Cosby is also on a $1.05 contract a year with the team – aged 72)
10. 1920 (November 11, 1920 to be precise, when the unveiling of the Cenotaph took place)