- This article is about the classic radio and TV show. For the current high school quizbowl TV show, see Quiz Kids (San Francisco). Quiz Kids is a high school academic quiz tournament for San Francisco Bay Area high schools hosted by Brad Friedman the Head of the Drama department at San Mateo High
Quiz Kids, a popular radio-TV series of the 1940s and 1950s, was created by Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan. Originally sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, the series was first broadcast on NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement show for Alec Templeton Time. Alka-Seltzer is a name owned by the German Bayer Corporation for a line of Medications sold over the counter and taken by means of rapidly Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Alec Templeton (b July 4, 1909, Cardiff Wales - d March 28, 1963, Greenwich Connecticut) was a pianist and satirist It continued on radio for the next 13 years. On television, the show was seen on NBC and CBS from July 6, 1949, to September 27, 1956. Events 1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place 1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
The premise involved host Joe Kelly asking questions sent in by listeners and researched by Eliza Hickok. The answers were supplied by a panel of five children, chosen for their high IQs. The first Quiz Kid was six-year-old nature expert Gerard Darrow, and for the initial premiere panel, he was joined by Mary Ann Anderson, Joan Bishop, Cynthia Cline, Van Dyke Tiers and Charles Schwartz.
Other Quiz Kids of the 1940s were Joan Alizier, Claude Brenner, Geraldine Hamburg, Mary Clare McHugh, war refugee Gunther Hollander and math experts Joel Kupperman and Richard Williams. Panelists rotated throughout the 1940s, but they were no longer eligible to participate once they reached the age of 16. One of the notable Quiz Kids is the Nobel Prize-winning biologist James D. Watson. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature Others include actor and dialect coach Bob Easton, legendary Hollywood acting coach Roy London, producer Harve Bennett and actress Vanessa Brown. Vanessa Brown ( March 24, 1928 &ndash May 21, 1999) was an Austrian actress who was successful in American
Later versions
Quiz Kids has been revived three times since the original television series:
- Quiz Kids aired in weekly syndication from April 1978 to September 1978. Jim McKrell was the host. The series originated from WNAC-TV (now WHDH-TV) in Boston.
- The program appeared again from October 1981 to December 1982 on CBS Cable, hosted by Norman Lear. CBS Cable was an early cable network operated by CBS, Inc dedicated to the lively arts (i Norman Milton Lear (born July 27 1922 in New Haven Connecticut) is an American Television writer and producer who produced such popular
- Quiz Kids Challenge, which featured a panel of three kids playing against three adults, aired in daily syndication in 1990. The Quiz Kids Challenge was a Game show series that aired in syndication from September 10, 1990 to December 28, 1990. Jonathan Prince hosted this version. Jonathan Alexander Prince (born August 16, 1958) is an American actor director screenwriter and movie producer
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References
- Whatever Happened to the Quiz Kids? The Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted by Ruth Duskin Feldman (Chicago Review Press, 1982; reprinted by Backinprint. The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and Old-Time Radio (OTR and the Golden Age of Radio refer to a period of Radio programming lasting from the proliferation of radio broadcasting in the early 1920s until com, 2000)
- Novel: Quiz Kids and the Crazy Question Mystery by Carl W. Smith (Whitman, 1946)
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