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Information Please won this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Platters for the Pacific | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Name Three, a quiz show based on bank night, is a Monday night MBS half-hour sponsored by Dunhill Cigarettes. Candidates picked from the studio audience, asked to name, for example, three vegetables beginning with S, win $2 for each right answer. If a mike-scared quizee can think of spinach, cannot remember squash or salsify, he wins only $2, and the remaining $4 goes into a jackpot. Near the program's end the candidates get a chance to share the jackpot by writing answers to a Toughie (e.g., Name three State capitals named after Presidents). If there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Tryouts | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quizzical Quiz | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Stacks of Art Quiz dwindled like canapés at a cocktail party and in two days the first printing (500) was exhausted, another of 1,500 copies ordered. Pleased Miss Parker planned more quizzical quizzes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Quizzical Quiz | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Your recent quiz was excellent [TIME, Feb. 27]. My score was 27 wrong out of the 105 questions. I will graduate from high school this June and I would like to know if my score is very good for a high-school TIME reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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