QUIZ PROGRAMMES
Sir,-May I make a plea for greater accuracy in the various quiz programmes? Admittedly the entertainment angle is the most important one to consider in many of these programmes, but at the same time it is to be expected that standards of accuracy should be very high. Some answers accepted as correct seem to ‘be the result of sheer inaccuracy on the part of the person providing the question and answer. For example, with ‘the big New Zealand quiz, we heard that the first transAtlantic flight was made by Alcock and Brown, whereas in actual fact (vide Encyclopaedia Britannica and others) the American seaplane N.C.4 made the crossing a little earlier, Other mistakes seem to be due to old questions being used, as for example when we are told that Mackenzie King is Prime Minister of Canada and that France is the example of a great democracy where women have no vote. Such statements were true a couple of years ago, but not now. Then there is the compére who misreads his answers and tells us that Cordell Hull won the Nobel Prize for literature; or who adds of his own accord when accepting as correct that the Sokol Festival is held in Prague. "Yes, at Prague, in Holland;" or who, not being too conversant with history, agrees that the Bill of Rights (passed in 1689 near the end of the Stuart period) was passed at the beginning of the Stuart period, apparently confusing it with the Petition
of Right of 1628.
BOWMAN
. (Epsom).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 20
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256QUIZ PROGRAMMES New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 20
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