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| - | Noughts-and-crosses with questions chosen from 98 different categories. Every right answer earned you £10 (worth about £150 in today's money). | + | Noughts-and-crosses with questions chosen from 98 different categories. Every right answer earned you £10 (worth about £150 in today's money). If the game was drawn then in the second round the challenger went first and the questions then went up to £20. |
<div class="image">[[Image:Crisscrossquiz gameboard.jpg|400px]]''Some great categories here''</div> | <div class="image">[[Image:Crisscrossquiz gameboard.jpg|400px]]''Some great categories here''</div> | ||
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The final two contestants were Anthony Douglas from London and Rennie McGowan from Liverpool. On the very last programme, because the game was unfinished and there was obviously no way of continuing the game, both contestants were awarded £10 for each score they'd made on the board. And that was that. | The final two contestants were Anthony Douglas from London and Rennie McGowan from Liverpool. On the very last programme, because the game was unfinished and there was obviously no way of continuing the game, both contestants were awarded £10 for each score they'd made on the board. And that was that. | ||
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| + | Our thanks to Roz O'Hanlon who helped out with the details and adds: | ||
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| + | :I was a contestant on this show in 1966 when Barbara Kelly was the question master. Unfortunately I only got £10 which was a premium bond and not cash. I still have it today and as yet have still not won anything on ERNIE. | ||
==Merchandise== | ==Merchandise== | ||
Revision as of 18:37, 21 January 2011
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Host
Jeremy Hawk (1957-62)
Barbara Kelly (1963-7)
Broadcast
Granada for ITV, 17 June 1957 to 22 September 1967
Synopsis
Noughts-and-crosses with questions chosen from 98 different categories. Every right answer earned you £10 (worth about £150 in today's money). If the game was drawn then in the second round the challenger went first and the questions then went up to £20.
Some great categories hereThere was also Junior Criss Cross Quiz, which ran alongside the main show for the whole run.
Key moments
One contestant walked away with £2,360. Not surprisingly, they put a limit on the number of times you could win shortly after.
Inventor
Based on Jack Berry and Dan Enright's US format Tic Tac Dough.
Trivia
The final two contestants were Anthony Douglas from London and Rennie McGowan from Liverpool. On the very last programme, because the game was unfinished and there was obviously no way of continuing the game, both contestants were awarded £10 for each score they'd made on the board. And that was that.
Our thanks to Roz O'Hanlon who helped out with the details and adds:
- I was a contestant on this show in 1966 when Barbara Kelly was the question master. Unfortunately I only got £10 which was a premium bond and not cash. I still have it today and as yet have still not won anything on ERNIE.
Merchandise
A board game was produced.
Surely the only quiz game ever to include "currency" as a category.Pictures
Hawk and contestants during a game