NEW KING-SIZE QUIZ CONTEST
K ING OF QUIZ-one of the most popular of the straight quiz shows for adults-is a type of programme which has been missing from the New Zealand radio for some years now. However, the gap will be filled again on o8 August 13, when a new King of Quiz series starts ‘from the ZBs, 1XH and 4ZA. And, of course, since King of Quiz is now invariably linked with the riame of Lyell Boyes, he will again be asking the questions that test the rival claimants to the throne.
"This is not a revival of the old show," he told us, "but a new programme on a national scale, with an element of inter-city rivalry. The first programme is from Auckland, where an Auckland King (or Queen) of Quiz is selected. The next programme is set in Hamilton, where three local challengers in the studio will compete with the reigning monarch-who will be linked by telephone. And it will be the same in the next city, as we search for the best quiz contestants in the Dominion." Each session is to have six rounds of questions, with each round carrying a different number of points, the king being chosen on the highest aggregate. It is a straight quiz, covering every possible field of knowledge, but without any trick questions or ones involving mathematics. ; "IT set all the questions myself," Lyell Boyes said. "I wouldn’t like it any other way, because in a show of this kind I must be absolutely certain in my answers. If I know the background to a question I can tell whether a contestant is working towards the correct answer and so needs alittle more time, or whether he is on the wrong track. I myself like to give a fairly full answer so that people can learn from it." In the last 15 years Lyell Boyes has become quite "quiz-minded." "In my reading I find all sorts of questions suggested," he says, "and I jot them all down immediately on any handy scraps of paper and stuff them in my pockets. Then once a week I empty my pockets and see what I have." What the pockets have held will soon be revealed to listeners as the candidates in this newest quiz show, like the lion and the unicorn, are again in close contest for the crown.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 26
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