Well asked is half the battle
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Well asked is half the battle |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Year (s) | 1964 to 1970 |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 67 |
| genre | Game show |
| idea | Hans Rosenthal |
| Moderation | Hans Rosenthal |
| First broadcast | 09/26/1964 |
A good question is half the battle was one of Hans Rosenthal hosted game show of ZDF .
content
Well asked is half won was Hans Rosenthal's first TV show. It was an adaptation of his successful radio quiz Who Asks Wins , which in turn was based on the American quiz program "Twenty Questions". Two celebrity teams competed against each other, each consisting of three candidates. The task of the advice team was to guess the given terms as quickly as possible. To do this, they had to ask Rosenthal questions, which Rosenthal only answered with “Yes” or “No”. The “opponent” of the advice team was the sender of the term to be guessed; For each question asked in the first two rounds, he received a sum of 2.50 D-Marks , in rounds three and four the amount was paid out for every second that had passed.
team
Monika Sundermann worked as Rosenthal's assistant , who later also assisted him at KO OK , Rate mal with Rosenthal and Dalli Dalli . Another part of the permanent team was the quick draftsman Oskar , who drew the guessable terms for the audience. Heinrich Riethmüller and his orchestra provided the musical accompaniment .
running time
The first broadcast was broadcast on September 26, 1964 on ZDF. By 1970 there were a total of 67 episodes in the evening program; initially on Saturdays in the evening program, from January 1970 on Mondays. The ZDF abruptly stopped the show after Rosenthal switched to ARD, where he took over the quiz party (subtitle: “A quiz about the latest from yesterday and the day before yesterday”) from Gerd Angermann .