£250 Red Cross Radio Contest

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Revision as of 12:45, 28 December 2016

Host

Ronnie Waldman

Broadcast

BBC Home Service, 31 May 1941 to 22 June 1945

Synopsis

Regular fundraising spin-off from Puzzle Corner. Each edition featured twelve puzzles, many of them introduced by celebrities, each with a choice of three answers. Listeners sent in their list of answers (say, "ABBB-CACB-BAAC") with an entry fee of one shilling and ninepence, which went to fund the Red Cross Benevolent Homes.

The £250 prize fund (which would be about six grand at 2016 prices - a decent amount for a regular quiz) was split between the senders of the correct entries, and the puzzles (or at least, some of them) were hard enough to keep the number of winners down. A couple of times, one listener won the entire £250, and at least once, nobody sent in a full set of correct answers, and the prize was divided between the entrants who got 11 out of 12. The September 1943 puzzles must have been a bit on the easy side as the prize fund was divided between 175 winners!

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