10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUIZ KID»
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He had applied to the show, saying, in part, "I would like to be a Quiz Kid. I am not
as good at numbers as Richard [Williams], but I am pretty good. Love and kisses,
Joel Kupperman. RS. My grandfather has teeth that he takes out at night but he ...
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Quiz Kids: The Radio Program with the Smartest Children in ...
Provines, June. “Quiz Kid's Pet.” In “Front Views and Profiles” column. Chicago
1ribune, July 31, 1941, 11. “Pull Up a Chair 4 It's Quiz Kid Time.” Factor W/orks
Attractor (company newsletter), November 1941. Tiers collection. “'Quiz Kid' Can
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Gerard is the youngest Quiz Kid to appear with any regularity on the program,
has made himself its star performer, built up a large personal following. For each
appearance he gets $100 in defense bonds. Gerard disdains offers of a movie ...
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On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
He was the original Quiz Kid: Joan Bishop, Cynthia Cline, and Van Dyke Tiers
completed the panel for the audition record. The first broadcast featured Gerard,
Van Dyke, Joan, Mary Ann Anderson, and Charles Schwartz. Soon parents were
...
Stuck with a question one Quiz Kid quipped: "Leave that one to Kieran!" The
Prudential HOME OFFICE: NEWARK, N. J. ma: t3U "Names... KIDS ARE
LABELED TO AID IDENTIFICATION BY JUDGES, DISCUSS NEW DEAL WITH
APLOMB, ...
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Smiley!: A Laughing Matter
My folks got their first car and I got to be a Quiz Kid. Living so near downtown
Natchez, we walked everywhere we needed to go, and my great-uncles from my
grandfather Druetta's store delivered our groceries, which we ordered daily by ...
“One of us is going to be a Quiz Kid for our school,” he said. “Amazing!” Seymour
was even more excited than I'd expected. That reminded me of the questions he'd
asked Mr. Phelps. I was pretty sure I knew some of the answers. “Jellyfish and ...
Quiz kid, family man, Sydney barrister All the time he had spent studying the
Greek classics and encyclopaedias came in handy for Gough Whitlam when he
became a quiz champion, an earlier version of Pick-a-Box personality Barry
Jones.
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Stengel: His Life and Times
"So," Casey goes on, "when I went in [the clubhouse] they quizzed me and said, '
Why'd you take that Quiz Kid out?' [Meaning Ford, who was only twenty-one.] And
they'd been writing the Quiz Kwids [sic] with the Philadelphia players, but that ...
"Last week she asked for $10. Yesterday she asked for $20. Today she wanted
$15." "My goodness," said the friend. "What does she do with it all?" "I don't know,
" replied the father. "I don't give it to her." — Patrick Ewers, Bronx, N.Y. Quiz Kid: ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUIZ KID»
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'Quiz Kids' star during WW II, author dies at 80
Her prodigious talents soon launched her on a nearly 10-year “career” on the nationally syndicated radio program and subsequent TV show “Quiz Kids,” which ... «Press Herald, Jun 15»
Ruth Feldman, 80, Dies; Quiz Kid Told What It Was Like in a Book
Ruth Duskin Feldman, who died on May 18 at 80, was a regular panelist, and perhaps the best known of the comparatively few girls, on “The Quiz Kids,” the ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
Claude Brenner at 86; MIT board member and 'Quiz Kid'
Claude Brenner was 12½ in 1940 and already a high school freshman when he made the first of what would be dozens of appearances on “Quiz Kids,” a radio ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
Harve Bennett, Quiz Kid and 'Star Trek' Producer, Dies at 84
From shortly before his 11th birthday to the age of 16, Harve Fischman, as he was then known, was a regular on “The Quiz Kids,” the wildly popular 1940s radio ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
Academic decathlon cancellation prompts confessions of a news …
The news that Placer County Office of Education was canceling its academic decathlon moved me to recall my own high school experience as a quiz kid. «Sacramento Bee, Dec 14»
Wellesley High quiz kids qualify for TV show's Final 16
A team of 6 Wellesley High School students has cracked the final 16 for season 6 of WGBH's High School Quiz Show. That means the teens, who beat out ... «The Swellesley Report, Nov 14»
NBC Invites Ken Jennings on Quiz Show, Backs Out
In what Deadline calls a "last-ditch stab for momentum," the show contacted Ken Jennings, (Jeopardy! champion, real-life Quiz Kid Donnie Smith) about coming ... «Vulture, Sep 13»
