That 64 Hundred Question

New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 945, 20 September 1957, Page 23

That 64 Hundred Question

()NCE upon a time 64 dollars was the top of the quiz-prize ladder. Now, an American quiz-show, the 64,000-dollar question, has set a new pattern. Basing his show on this, Jack Maybury is now putting the 64 Hundred Question to New Zealand contestants, for 64 hundred shillings, in a new quiz being heard from the ZBs at 7.0 p-m. on Wednesdays. Before the questions start, Jack Maybury is helped by his attractive wife Dorothy-Jean (see left), in explaining the scheme of the show. To reach the top prize of goods worth £320, contestants answer 11 ‘questions in allfour qualifying questions, and then a series with numbers attached and prizes to that value-100, 200, 400, 800, 1600,

3200 and 6400. The contestant may stop at any point with the prize he hag already won, but if he chooses to attempt the next question, it is ‘with the risk of losing all. Contestants are given plenty of time to make up their minds, Listeners to this quiz show will not usually be able to feel superior to the quaking contestants by knowing all the answers. As in America, the contestants are chosen because they are experts in some field not connected with their daily work. So far Jack Maybury has quizzed an electrical linesman on horse racing and- breeding, a wharf labourer on Salvation Army Bands and band music, an electrician on space travel, and a meteorological observer on archery.

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