Junior Criss Cross Quiz
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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
| - | Children's version of [[Criss Cross Quiz]], played similarly but | + | Children's version of [[Criss Cross Quiz]], played similarly but with hobby-related prizes instead of the cash prizes of the adult version. |
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| - | + | You wouldn't get away with that nowadays: On occasion the show awarded live animals as prizes. Budgies, fish and even a pedigree dog were all given away in the first year. | |
| - | + | Jeremy Purser - a kind of junior Ken Jennings - won consecutive matches for months until they made him retire in the Ian Lygo stylee. | |
| - | + | Questions were edited and verified by Newnes' Pictorial Knowledge. | |
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| - | + | <div class="video"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7aZk5En8mQ8?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7aZk5En8mQ8?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br>''Peter Wheeler in the chair for this last edition of the 1967 series''</div> | |
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Current revision as of 23:59, 24 August 2024
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Host
Jeremy Hawk (original host)
Mike Sarne
Gordon Luck
Danny Blanchflower
Broadcast
Granada for ITV, 13 November 1957 to 29 June 1967 (3 series)
Synopsis
Children's version of Criss Cross Quiz, played similarly but with hobby-related prizes instead of the cash prizes of the adult version.
Trivia
You wouldn't get away with that nowadays: On occasion the show awarded live animals as prizes. Budgies, fish and even a pedigree dog were all given away in the first year.
Jeremy Purser - a kind of junior Ken Jennings - won consecutive matches for months until they made him retire in the Ian Lygo stylee.
Questions were edited and verified by Newnes' Pictorial Knowledge.
Videos
Peter Wheeler in the chair for this last edition of the 1967 series
