Answer, Please
IX-THIRTY last Monday brought us a new programme from 2ZB entitled "Answer, Please’-a classy version of the usual quiz, closely akin to a Brains Trust. Listeners send in questions, a panel of four well-known members of the community endeavour to answer them. The listener whose question the panel cannot. answer is handsomely rewarded. The listener whose question is asked in the session is rewarded. Members of the panel (though this was not specifically mentioned) presumably get their 3/8 an hour. The sponsor gets a certain amount of kudos for sponsoring a better-than-average session. And the Average Listener gets a quarter-of-an-hour of profitable entertainment, provided (as seems probable) he can take time off from 2YA’s London News. The questions in the first session of "Answer, Please" were on the simple side, possibly to get the field off to a fine start, and I am tempted to suggest that it needs no magic name plucked from the headlines to tell us what a "decree nisi" is or when England went off the gold standard. On the other hand it was good to find that members of the intelligentsia know their onions and famous cricketers their Aesop.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 14
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196Answer, Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 431, 26 September 1947, Page 14
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