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Re: Yankee News Quiz

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Tony BaechlerJul 4, 2013
 

 
No, I didn't like the USA version of the News Quiz either and I'm in the US.
I agree that we really don't know how to do panel games anymore, at least
on radio. It's amazing to me that we've forgotten how to do decent quiz
shows as well. We don't have anything like Brain of Britain, Round Britain
Quiz, Quote Unquote, or of course JAM. That's what attracted me to BBC
shows in the first place. We have Jeopardy! but I find the questions too
simple and generally disappointing. Americans don't seem to be able to
think in terms of puzzles like you hear on RBQ. I would like to find a huge
archive of British quiz shows. I would consider buying them for a
reasonable price, but the BBC America shop doesn't sell most radio shows
except perhaps Agatha Christie.

Then again, the American school system is getting worse and worse, so people
aren't smart enough to understand the questions, let alone actually answer
them. A while ago, I was reading an article that teachers would correct
wrong answers on student tests so the students would get perfect scores.
The reason was because teachers got bigger bonuses for better performing
students.

It's amazing and disappointing to me that we gave up on even trying to
produce decent radio while the BBC kept going and improving on it. It's
next to impossible to find good radio drama and you certainly won't find it
every afternoon. Advertisers aren't interested in paying for dramas and our
equivalent of public radio (NPR) doesn't often want to carry it. I saw that
the World Service archives have some Brain of Britain shows which I'm hoping
to get fairly soon, if I can figure out a streamlined way to download them.
Help in that regard would be appreciated. I'm also looking for past
archives of Counterpoint, especially since I missed series 27 this year.

On 7/4/2013 9:37 AM, delmelza wrote:
> They did this already once last year- it wasn't that good
>
> ( Americans seems to have Lost the knack of How to do Panel shows)
>
> There is a News Quiz like radio panel show ( one of the very few) in the usa called Wait Wait Don't Tell me- except they have people call in as well as 3 'celebrities" to answer questions on the news.
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> http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183214


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