"Captain Speedee's Tours"
HE new Speedee Show came on the air last Thursday night with a bright and promising debut. It looks as though this latest Speedee fledgling will spread its wings and encircle the globe on its gay career many many timesfor that’s precisely what "Captain Speedee’s Tours" are planned to do. It may be that in one evening he will take you from the shores of India to far Cathay. In other words "Captain Speedee’s Tours" is the latest, fascinating geographic radio game-and this is how you play it: When you enter as a competitor you buy your ticket to step aboard the good ship "Speedee," and it’s "anchors aweigh"-for a cruise round the world and back again for a possible prize of 5/-. Here are the rules: One competitor is taken at a time to somewhere in the world. After the first set of clues are given, you have fifteen seconds in which to answer
the question: "Where are you?" If you answer correctly you win 5/-. Now if you don’t answer the first time you'll have ten seconds more in which to name it-that’s worth 2/6-and if you can't answer-well, you will be sure to enjoy the cruise anyway. Apart from that, it’s going to be very good for everyone’s geography. It’s astonishing how rusty you get, and it'll be amusing to dust up those old school memories and fit capitals of remote coun-tries-to, well, to remote countries. Why not have a try? Or-if you don’t feel like entering for a studio competition just at firstyou can think up a tour on your own account-and send it in. All that’s necessary is the name of the place and a few facts about it. Any kind of fact that will help identify it. Just sign your name and address and mail your entry into
your ZB Station. You can send in as many entries as you like, For every one that’s used you will receive a prize. Anyway don’t fail to listen in to your ZB Station next Thursday at 9 p.m., and see how it’s done!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 20, 10 November 1939, Page 47
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