A "QUIZ" FOR READERS
UIZZES, broadcast and printed, have been described in America as a craze comparable only to miniature golf, flagpole sitting, and marathon dancing. And an American humorist has observed that if all quiz sessions ever broadcast were laid end to end, the result would be just too horrible to contemplate. Here, at any rate, is another. It is concerned, as you will see, with programmes broadcast by the Commercial Broadcasting Service, and should be "a sitter" to listeners who know their ZB features. But a word of warning-it is not as simple as it appears. The answers are on page 44. All the features mentioned are heard over all ZB stations. 1, "Audience participation" is a high flown term for a programme which takes the public into its confidence, and very often shows up how little they know. Which audience participation programme is on the air twice the same night? 2. Frederick Shields is a well known American radio player who has been heard in several features here. In what programme does he play the leading part. 3. Without looking at the programmes, can you tell what feature is broadcast at 9.15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays? 4. A theme song, a cynic might observe, is any popular song which is hammered to death at the beginning and end of a radio feature. What popular song introduces and concludes The Youth Show? 5. Again without consulting the programmes — when is Imperial Leader broadcast? Five seconds for this. 6. Morning Reflections is not the title of a painting representing Narcissus looking at himself.in a pool, but a (Continued on next page)
A "QUIZ" FOR READERS (Continued trom previous page) regular morning programme from the ZB’s, Who conducts Morning Reflections over all Commercial Stations at 9.45 a.m. on Saturdays? 7. Which feature ends each episode with the greeting "Cheerio from Hollywood"? 8. Blood Brotherhood might be a secret society of Albanian bandits, a new Nazi racial theory or, an idea from an Edgar Wallace novel. Or, on the other hand, it might not. But in what ZB feature does The Blood Brotherhood figure? 9. Which radio characters frequently use the following phrases, and in which features? (a) "Why doesn’t someone tell me these things?" (b) "What in thunderation . .?" (c) "Pleased to meet your acquaintance." (d) "Dear Diary i os
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 101, 30 May 1941, Page 14
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