A Quiz with Spadework
‘THE Musical 1.Q. from 4ZB is an exception among quiz programmes in general. Since listeners write their answers in the comfort of their own armchairs, with the possible aid of a Grove on one side and an Oxford Companion on the other, it might be imagined that the whole thing is a gift. This is not so. Anyone entering for this competition has to. do .a_ surprising amount of spadework before unearthing the answers. Given one excerpt from a composer’s work, and one or two relevant facts such as the date of his death and the fact that he won the Prix de Rome, the listener who can’t recognise the music will have to search methodically through many pages of information before the composer’s name and _ nationality are revealed to him, In so doing, he will have learned several things he didn’t know about that composer, and will have discoveredy through following false clues, several other things about totally different composers and their works. Thus the Musical 1.0. instead of offering bribes for guesswork, in the manmer of the average quiz, offers the listener the excitement of discovering, for himself, something he didn’t know before. There is a prize, certainly, but there is also the fact of knowledge for its own sake; a reward of more value than any jackpot.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 13
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224A Quiz with Spadework New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 13
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