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Information Please was a quiz show, but with a clever twist. A normal game show would take members of the audience, put them on stage, ask them questions, and reward those who did well. But, Information Please, instead would have a panel of experts, and audience members would ask them questions. If the experts failed, then the questioner got a rewarded. The show was created by Dan Golenpaul in 1938. Golenpaul’s first task was to assemble a panel of experts. He got Franklin Pierce Adams, who sounds like he should have been President, but was instead a writer and columnist for the New York Post, Herald Tribune and other newspapers. Then Clifton Fadiman joined the program as the host. Fadiman was the book editor for the New Yorker, plus he had done book reviews on radio previously. Each week Information Please would get 5 guest expert panelists. (Just in case you were wondering, the media landscape has changed dramatically over the years. All eight members of the team: Golenpaul, Adams, Fadiman, and the five guest panelists would split $400 each week for their efforts.) People could mail in questions. The questioner got $2.00 if their question was asked and $5.00 if it stumped the panel. (This money also came out of the $400.00) The show became a hit almost immediately. Within 6 months John Kieran, a sports writer, was added as a regular panelist, and he became known as Mr. Know it All. Kieran had the widest range of knowledge from Shakespeare to sports. Then a third regular panelist was added, Oscar Levant. Only about a dozen questions were asked in each episode, this left plenty of time for the panelists to banter and ad lib back and forth, which was a major appeal of the show. The panel correctly answered about three quarters of the questions, which gave enough hope to those submitting questions that they would receive a larger prize for stumping the experts. And much like in modern day Celebrity Jeopardy panel members would flub questions about their own field, or even their own work. Eliot Roosevelt, (son of FDR) missed questions about Eleanor Roosevelt’s newspaper column, and Mr. Know it All, actually missed what date his wife’s birthday was. In addition to experts the show regularly got celebrities to appear on their panel. Gracie Allen, it was revealed only played a ditzy blond, in reality she was quite intelligent, Fred Allen, Boris Karloff, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and many other prominent figures appeared throughout the show until it ended in 1947. The premise of Comedy Central’s "Win Ben Stein’s Money" is very similar, and the atmosphere of the show is similar to NPR’s "Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me." So Wake Up America and Stump the Experts! |
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