The big chance (radio quiz)

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The great opportunity was the name of an Austrian radio quiz program broadcast by the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting group from 1951 to 1955 . The presenter of the extremely popular program recorded in the Mozart Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus was Maxi Böhm . The signature melody "The great opportunity, the great opportunity, it knocks on your door ..." was composed by Gerhard Bronner . Norbert Pawlicki acted as piano accompanist . The format came from the American radio quiz show Take It or Leave It ( CBS 1940-1947), later continued as The $ 64 Question ( NBC , 1950-1952). The pattern has also been successfully imitated as a television quiz in other countries, for example in France ( Quince ou double? ) And in Italy as Lascia o raddoppia

The candidates had to answer questions of increasing difficulty. As sponsors of the joined Unilever - Group and the Schwechat Brewery on. The formula for the consolation prize, which at times became proverbial, after a wrongly answered question, with which the candidate was eliminated, was: "A box of Schwechater lager and a bottle of Jules Bouchet." That one was a beer and the other was the most famous Austrian brandy had to be in Austria not be said.

As a result of the dissolution of the Red-White-Red broadcasting group founded by the American occupation forces , the popular program was initially discontinued. In the 1960s there was a remake .

literature

  • Maxi Böhm: With us in Reichenberg. Unfinished memoir. Finished told by Georg Markus . 2nd Edition. Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna et al. 1983, ISBN 3-85002-177-7 , p. 198 ff.
  • Gerhard Jagschitz , Klaus-Dieter Mulley (eds.): The "Wild" fifties. Society, forms and feelings of a decade in Austria. Niederösterreichisches Pressehaus, St. Pölten et al. 1985, ISBN 3-85326-752-1 , pp. 236, 240.
  • Hans Veigl : The 50s and 60s. Planned happiness between scooter and miniskirt. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-8000-3629-0 , p. 22.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The $ 64,000 Question # Take It or Leave It (Eng. WP)
  2. ↑ Lascia o raddoppia? (Italian WP)