Third International
HILE the cricketers sent New Zealand’s prestige sky-rocketing in England and the All Blacks struggled to keep it at a decent level in South Africa a grim battle was being fought on the home front and relayed by 2ZB in place of the usual Citizens’ Forum. In the International Quiz, Australia v. New Zealand, Australia won by the narrow margin of 11 to 9. The contest was a most exciting one, with New Zealand catching up on Australia in the third round and scoring level in rounds four and five. By rounds five and six audience participation was ruled out by the nature of the questions, thus preventing radio sympathisers from using telepathy in support of their own candidates. It was probably inevitable that since both specificially Australian or New Zealand questions were unusable the minutiae of England’s geography or antiquities should form the basis for a disproportionately large number of the questions, and seeing two good men and true come to grief on "What, in terms of feet, is the longest English cathedral?" and "What are the Dukeries?" I was moved to wonder what will happen to the International Quiz of the future, when candidates must be selected from those educated to have little respect for the Fact per se, and to regard History and Geography as firmly rooted in the native enil
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 10
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226Third International New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 10
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