Quiz Kids

Quiz Kids, a popular radio-TV series of the 1940s and 1950s, was created by Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan. Sponsored by Alka-Seltzer, the series was launched June 28, 1940, as a summer replacement show for Alec Templeton Time. Airing from Chicago on NBC, it continued that summer until August 30.

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The premise simply involved host Joe Kelly asking questions sent in 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.

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Other quiz kids of the 1940s were Joan Alizier, Claude Brenner, Geraldine Hamburg, Mary Clare McHugh 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.

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