A Quiz Query
"‘[ HE element of competition in the 4ZB Talent Quests reminds me of the popularity which various Quiz programmes have always enjoyed. I suppose the same spirit is at the back of both types of programme-the idea of bringing out your light from under the bushel, and to see whether it has any monetary value. The invention of the first Quiz programme has a lot to answer for. Even those closely concerned with commercial radio have at times paused and asked themselves "Why?" Ilka Chase, herself a popular figure on American radio, says in her racy reminiscences: "Any child exposed to radio today must conceive of literature as a y of quotations, capable of being memorised and worth money. Education has assumed the character of an amiable inquisition, conducted on a sliding scale. Somewhere along the line, the boy must have been handed an inaccurate map of the world which puts the Pierian spring deep in the heart of Eldorado. It is a forbidding picture, this glorification of ~ (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) the encyclopedic mind, the steady drip of facts into the world’s crock. What we hope eventually to see*is a quiz programme which will not only pay the winner 64 dollars for knowing who succeeded Van Buren but will fine him heavily if he doesn’t know. Such a programme would not only offer the customer more drama, it would be selfterminating."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 8
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238A Quiz Query New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 8
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