Benchmark is a British game show that aired on Channel 4 from 1 June to 31 December 2015.
[1] The show has been described as "a blend of the survey questions from 8 Out of 10 Cats and the higher/lower element from Play Your Cards Right".
The qualifying contestant faces seven questions, which they must answer higher or lower to; each of the other ten contestants answer a question, such as "What percentage of dating website users are already married?"
Correct answers move the contestant up the money ladder; they start at £50, £100 and £250, and can work up to £10,000, £15,000 and £25,000.
Frances Taylor of BT Group berated the show's lack of "real jeopardy or edge-of-your-seat tension" and "real general knowledge to tackle from the sofa at home, [making] it ... difficult to really engage and care about the answers you were guessing yourself", though praised McGuinness' "good job of holding everything together" and "real rapport with the contestants", summing up by saying that it "fell short of the mark".