• The quiz that starts with the hard questions!
• Presented by presenter Lea Wagner, with a celebrity guessing family consisting of “Mr. Tagesschau” Jens Riewa, “Brisant” presenter Marwa Eldessouky and “Quarks” expert Ralph Caspers
• 28 episodes starting April 8, Mondays to Fridays at 4:10 p.m. on Ersten

Just start with the hard question and then get easier and easier? No problem!

In the new quiz show FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! produced by UFA Show & Factual, the name says it all. In FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! all kinds of general knowledge is required, but the highlight is that the difficult questions are asked first. The new ARD quiz show with presenter Lea Wagner will run from April 8, Mondays to Fridays from 4:10 p.m. on Ersten.

Christof Schulte, Executive Director Entertainment at UFA Show & Factual: “FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! is the new afternoon quiz in which entertaining knowledge duels are about making a strategically clever assessment: ‘Do I trust myself to answer the question or would I be better off choosing FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! and passing it on to my opponent? Presented by Lea Wagner, our charmingly competent guessing family faces the challenge teams every day and provides the best quiz show entertainment.”

How FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES works!

Two teams compete against each other: A team of three viewers against the show’s trio of experts consisting of “Brisant” presenter Marwa Eldessouky, “Tagesschau” spokesperson Jens Riewa and “Mr. Allwissend” Ralph Caspers, known from “Quarks” and “Die Sendung mit der Maus”. The team of viewers consists of three candidates who know each other – be they family members, colleagues, friends, students or classmates.

Each episode features a total of twelve questions from the four categories ‘Brisant’, ‘Tagesschau’, ‘Alles, was man wissen sollte’ and the ‘Super-Kategorie’. In each round, one of the three viewer candidates competes against the respective celebrity expert in the category. The ‘Super Category’, which changes every day, is brought along by the three viewer candidates and thus surprises the trio of experts time and again – from Greek mythology and gardening to winter sports, astronomy or 90s music.

Three questions are played in each category – difficult/tricky/easy – always starting with the most difficult question. The correct answer to the difficult question earns 1,000 euros, the correct answer to a moderately difficult question earns 750 euros and the easy question earns 500 euros. But beware: if the question is too difficult, you can simply pass it on to the opposing player in the hope that he or she will not know the answer.

The aim is to earn as much money as possible for the final by combining the right answers with tactically appropriate question-sliding, which can then be doubled in the final.

If the audience candidate team wins the show, they can not only look forward to the prize money, but can also compete again in the following shows until they are defeated by the expert trio. If, on the other hand, the Expert:innen team wins the show, the money goes into the jackpot, which the team of viewers in the next show has another chance to win.

FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! is a production of UFA SHOW & FACTUAL on behalf of ARD-Degeto for Das Erste. It is edited by Norddeutscher Rundfunk. From April 8th, FRAG MICH WAS LEICHTERES! will be shown every Monday to Friday at 4:10 pm.

Would you like to apply to take part in the program? Please send your application by e-mail to fragmichwasleichteres@ndr.de.