£43 FOR AN ANSWER
A NEW ZEALAND record for a radio quiz was established recently with the award of £43 to the winner of Station 2ZB’s Give It A Name Jackpots. W. J. Winchester, a Wellington civil servant, was the winner, and here is the question which won him his £43: Thirty-two years ago, on December 8, 1914, the famous Battle of the Falkland Islands took place between a naval force under Vice-Admiral Sturdee and the German Commander, von Spee. Four of the German cruisers were wiped out and the fifth escaped, later to be destroyed. Name the German cruisers destroyed and the one that escaped. The answer, correctly given, was: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg and Leipsig; the one that escaped was the Dresden. This quiz has been conducted continuously for the last seven years by Maurice Hawken who, during that time, thas put more than 4,000 posers to contestants for the mantle of wisdom-and cash. It is broadcast from 2ZB every Monday at 8.45 p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 15
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165£43 FOR AN ANSWER New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 393, 3 January 1947, Page 15
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