The Quiz Kids
HE fascinations of the Quiz for the listening audience have been pretty well examined, and are indeed sufficiently obvious. That it should rise ultimately to the height of an International Contest was only to be expected. But, for me and I suspect for many listeners, the Quiz Kids remain supreme in this field. They have so many advantages. No other members of the community are as practised in answering questions as schoolchildren. What they know, too, they know clearly, untroubled by the doubts of age. And their width of interests puts to shame the adult’s narrow grooves. Best of all, there’s no nonsense about them, no nerves and palpitations. Barring the odd prig, they are supremely natural. Sometimes I wonder, however, about the effects of so, much publicity on these talented children. It isn’t the money they win; children like these are better to be trusted with an £80 jackpot, such as they won the other Friday, than most adults. But a ready tongue and a knowledge of miscellaneous facts may easily be over-valued by their pos-
sessors,
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 11
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183The Quiz Kids New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 538, 14 October 1949, Page 11
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