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With two months to go before their first year on the air is completed, NBC's Quiz Kids this week were hard on the heels of NBC's Information Please. The juniors' Crossley rating was 11.6 against 11.9 for the senior masterminds. Last week the Quiz Kids did their stuff for the largest audience in radio when they appeared as guests on Jack Benny's Jell-O show. And Jack Benny once again proved himself the most astute gentleman in radio by tying up with the infant marvels for four combined broadcasts...
Unlike regular Quiz Kid shows, their first question-and-answer act with Benny was carefully rehearsed and gags for the program were supplied by Benny's writers. Rated the drollest Jell-O show this year, the program involved a question bee between the Kids and the Benny cast. Typical question addressed to the Kids: Name the five orders of fishes in order of their development, and give examples of each. Typical question addressed to the cast: If you had 20 apples and your mother took away ten and gave back five, how many would you have...
...review of Nature Notes by Radioman John Kieran (Information, Please), the Chicago Daily News called on eight-year-old Radiomoppet Gerard Darrow (Quiz Kids). Reviewer Darrow, a naturalist himself, called in his stenographer and dictated the book review of the week. Excerpts...
...Corp. of America, makers of an ointment that retards the growth of hair and so permits users to reduce their barber bills. A great one for contests, the Professor has introduced the Slo-Gro Triple-or-Nothing, Take-it-or-Stuff-it, True-Blue Americana Quiz, on which contestants have a chance to make $50,000, provided they can figure out such problems as getting the cube root of 11,682⅞ within three seconds flat. No one as yet has won any prizes...
...Quiz the Scientist pays listeners $1 for every question used, receives on the average about 80 a week. Typical query last week: Does a heavy weight drop faster than a light one? Other queries: What makes grass green? What causes the rainbow? What makes the sky blue? Not entirely academic, Quiz the Scientist has included tips from Dr. Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware...