Kahoot!

Kahoot! (2019)

Kahoot! Is an American teen game show developed for NBC, Freeform, and Netflix by Peter Bidon-Weymouth in July 5, 2019. The show features a quiz format, in which ten teenage contestants are presented a question, sometimes accompanied with an image, and must answer it in 25 seconds or less. It’s based on a game-based learning platform launched in March 2013 under the same name.

History
The development behind this show is currently undisclosed information with the only mention of the show’s creation being of the host, Jonas Suthergi, “I asked Peter, the producer, and his face lit up”. There is little known about the process behind the conceptualization, or the relationship of Suthergi and Weymouth during its creation.

Gameplay
The teenage contestants, usually 10 to 19 years, stand behind a black lectern with screens attached to the front displaying handwritten names, referred to as “usernames” by the show. Suthergi dedicates the first few minutes gathering a few interesting facts about the contestants. It is an option for some participants to remain anonymous and only disclose information throughout the rounds they get first place in. (These players are called “Ghosts”.) On a large touchscreen monitor displays questions with the timer to the left of it. During the first and second rounds, players must click the correct answer, and fast, to get maximum points. The most a contestant ever got was 1,987,345 points on the quiz “Song Lyrics of Billboard Top Twenty (1998-2018)”. The material for the clues covers a wide variety of topics, including technology, science, the arts, popular culture, literature, and viewer requested.