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1940–1953 · NBC Blue / ABC / CBS

Quiz Kids

Five children who could out-answer any adult in the room

The joke that made the show work was that Joe Kelly, the host, had almost no formal education and could not have answered a single question — so he read them off the card and let the children be brilliant. It ran for thirteen years, produced several genuinely famous alumni, and sits at an interesting angle to the rest of quiz radio: an unashamedly intellectual programme aimed squarely at families, sponsored by a cereal, and enormously popular.

76 broadcasts · 8 years held · Chicago

76 surviving broadcasts, indexed by programme number and guest. Recordings held by the Internet Archive.

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Guest: Jackie Benny

16 Apr 1941 · 29 min

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Guest: Sister Elizabeth Kenny

24 Jan 1943 · 29 min

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Guest: Jack Benny

21 Feb 1943 · 29 min

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Guest: Fred Allen

28 Mar 1943 · 28 min

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What Husband Gave His Wife Her Only Name

24 Mar 1946 · 29 min

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Guest: Vanessa Brown

21 Jul 1946 · 29 min

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Ambassador Wilhelm Morgenstern

9 Mar 1947 · 29 min

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From Denver Colorado

18 May 1947 · 29 min

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Three Explorers Names La De Da

27 Jul 1947 · 29 min

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Who Hopes to Whip Cream in June

21 Mar 1948 · 29 min

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Easter Bunny Visits

28 Mar 1948 · 29 min

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From Dearborn Michigan

11 Apr 1948 · 29 min

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What Animal Has Always Had the New Look

18 Apr 1948 · 29 min

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What City Has a New Jack in the Box

25 Apr 1948 · 29 min

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The Quiz Kids Mothers

9 May 1948 · 29 min

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Visitors to Pit Ts Burgh

23 May 1948 · 29 min

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A Nymph with a Telescope Looking at a Comet

30 May 1948 · 29 min

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Baseball Dessert

6 Jun 1948 · 29 min

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The Quiz Kids Fathers

20 Jun 1948 · 29 min

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Eight Anniversary Show

27 Jun 1948 · 29 min

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Celebrating Independence Day

4 Jul 1948 · 29 min

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What Combination of Names Means Damp Rabbit

11 Jul 1948 · 29 min

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Popular Song is Name of Explorer

18 Jul 1948 · 29 min

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Tom Dick and Harry Were in the News

25 Jul 1948 · 29 min

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A Monarch Recently Turned Indian

1 Aug 1948 · 29 min

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What Skin Makes the Best Slippers

8 Aug 1948 · 29 min

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Wear Into the White House

15 Aug 1948 · 29 min

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Sign Name for Hershey

29 Aug 1948 · 28 min

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Who is the Most Recent Queen for a Day

5 Sep 1948 · 29 min

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The Railroad Fair

12 Sep 1948 · 29 min

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If Hawaii is the Forty Ninth State

26 Sep 1948 · 29 min

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Fish and the Generals Name

3 Oct 1948 · 29 min

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A Presidents Name is an Indian Tribe

10 Oct 1948 · 29 min

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From St Louis Missouri

17 Oct 1948 · 29 min

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A Mousetrap a Buttonhook and the Statue of Liberty

7 Nov 1948 · 29 min

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Thanksgiving Poem

21 Nov 1948 · 29 min

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There Really is a Santa Claus

5 Dec 1948 · 29 min

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Two Buckets at Different Temperatures

12 Dec 1948 · 29 min

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Christmas Party

19 Dec 1948 · 29 min

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Similar Name

26 Dec 1948 · 29 min

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Fish Spelled Backwards is General

6 Feb 1949 · 25 min

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Atomic Numbers

20 Mar 1949 · 29 min

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Outstanding Man Who Was Pm Then Mp

27 Mar 1949 · 29 min

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Al Capp

3 Apr 1949 · 29 min

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A Hackle and a Ginger Quill

10 Apr 1949 · 29 min

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The Achilles of Baseball

24 Apr 1949 · 29 min

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Diego Rivera

1 May 1949 · 29 min

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Class of People in Washington Dc

29 May 1949 · 29 min

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Quiz Kids Vs the Professors

2 Apr 1950 · 29 min

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Farm Questions

2 Jul 1950 · 29 min

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Voting to Music

6 Aug 1950 · 29 min

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International Trade Fair

13 Aug 1950 · 29 min

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Geographical Delegate

20 Aug 1950 · 29 min

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Hiawatha and Mini Ha Ha

27 Aug 1950 · 29 min

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Gambosi a Finnus

3 Sep 1950 · 29 min

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Beauty Pack Mule Pack or Cinpac

10 Sep 1950 · 29 min

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Kiwannis Club International

17 Sep 1950 · 29 min

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Betty Mc Donalds First Book

24 Sep 1950 · 29 min

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Tallahassee is the Capitol

1 Oct 1950 · 29 min

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A Nursery Rhyme Seventh Us President and a Pier

8 Oct 1950 · 29 min

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The Fraternal Order of Eagles

15 Oct 1950 · 29 min

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First Landing Across the Atlantic

22 Oct 1950 · 29 min

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He Threw Off His Bird Cage and Ran Past the Woodpile

29 Oct 1950 · 29 min

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A Mammals Life Span

5 Nov 1950 · 29 min

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My Sugar is So Refined

12 Nov 1950 · 29 min

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Rotary International

19 Nov 1950 · 29 min

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4 H Club Members

26 Nov 1950 · 29 min

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Lions Club

3 Dec 1950 · 29 min

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Elks Club

17 Dec 1950 · 29 min

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Moses Father in Law

21 Jan 1951 · 29 min

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Noah Playing Canasta on the Ark

28 Jan 1951 · 29 min

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Twins from Syracuse

25 Feb 1951 · 29 min

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Walker Bulldogs

4 Mar 1951 · 29 min

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St Patricks Day Diamond

11 Mar 1951 · 29 min

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American Legion Womens Auxiliary

18 Mar 1951 · 29 min

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Live from the Shamrock Hotel

25 Mar 1951 · 29 min

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