<P> The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is an annual British television programme broadcast in the last or first week of the year on Channel 4 . Essentially , the show is a comedy panel game in the style of a pub quiz . Three teams , of two celebrities each , are asked questions relating to the events of the year just gone by , which they write answers to on an electronic board in front of them . At the end of each round , they then display their answers , scoring a point for each correct one . </P>
when does the big fat quiz of the year air
in the last or first week of the year