Welcome, one and all

to the world-famous

CBS Television Quiz

presented by
Gil Fates
and Frances Buss
A brief history of our quiz, before we get started
You contestants should be
proud to be on the first ever
regularly-scheduled game
show in television history.
While game shows had been
aired before, they were more
experimental, and only had
one episode. The CBS
Television Quiz, meanwhile,
had a regular time slot and
NOW WITH schedule (Wednesdays 8:30-
GAME SHOWS! 9:30)
Decline and fall
As WWII progressed,
wartime television began to
focus more and more on the
war. The Quiz was first
moved to Thursdays, then
had five minutes taken off the
end of its runtime for a
civilian news broadcast, and
was finally cancelled after
just under a year had passed.
No footage or photographs
remain, and the format has
been lost to history as well.
BUT!
We do know one thing about the format- Will five
It presented the contestants with an
answer, and required them to come up
volunteers
with a question. Its been described as a from the
proto-Jeopardy!
audience
So that is how well play. The questions
in our quiz mostly consist of come
information presented in our slides, but
there will be some extra general-
forward?
knowledge questions added to spice
things up a tad.
Some quick rules for our contestants
Even though our show got cancelled in May of 1942, our time-travelling
version will include questions from the entire decade.
An answer or a picture will be flashed onscreen, and the contestants will
race one another to deduce the answer. The first participant to raise their
hand will be called upon. If they should answer correctly, they will receive
a point.
If they do not, then the second-place contestant will be called upon. If they
answer incorrectly, then the answer shall be provided and the show will
move on.
Question 1
In response to the outbreak of the Cold War,

President Truman established this agency for

the collection of intelligence central to U.S.

interests.
Answer: What is the CIA?
Question 2
 This machine, built in 1949, uses the

movements of ammonia molecules to provide

ultra-precise time.
This broadcast is sponsored by Elmers
Glue-All.
Elmers: Stick things to other things!
Answer: What is the atomic
clock?
Question 3
 Until the end of 1941, Americas stance on

foreign affairs, especially WWII, was strictly

this.
Answer: What is isolationist?
(or neutral I guess)
Question 4
This iconic woman featured prominently on a

very famous yellow poster during the 1940s,

and was a symbol of womens rights during the

time.
Answer: Who is Rosie the
Riveter?
Question 5
 A dairy company called Borden began

producing this commonplace adhesive in 1941.

Answer: What is Elmers
Glue-All?
This broadcast is sponsored by Elmers
Glue-All.
Elmers: Stick things to other things!
Question 6
This executive order, signed by FDR in 1941,

effectively desegregated the armed forces.

Answer: What is Executive
Order #8802?
Question 7
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the

world, she had to walk into this actors.

Answer: Who is Humphrey
Bogart?
Question 8
This corps of civilians was created by FDR in an

attempt to alleviate the effects of the Great

Depression. They planted trees and maintained

federally protected lands.

Answer: What is the Civilian
Conservation Corps?
Question 9
This medicine was first produced in 1940 and

was derived from lots and lots of mold.

Answer: What is penicillin?
Question 10
These two writers are famous for creating

Superman, a character who rose to major

prominence in the 1940s.

Answer: Who are Jerry Siegel
and Joe Shuster?
Question 11
This nation inv-eh-ded France on D-Day along

with the United States and Britain.

Answer: What is Canada?
This broadcast is sponsored by Elmers
Glue-All.
Elmers: Stick things to other things!
Question 12
This iconic sculpture was completed in North

Dakota in 1941 after fourteen years of hard

labor.
Answer: What is Mount
Rushmore?
Question 13
This song, released in 1942 by Bing Crosby, is

the number-one-selling single of all time.

Answer: What is White
Christmas?
Question 14
 In 1947, this town in New Mexico became

famous because of an alleged alien spaceship

crash site..
Answer: What is Roswell?
Final Question
 This movie, popularly considered the best

movie ever made, was released by Orson Welles

in 1941.
Answer: What is Citizen
Kane?