Did you know?

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Television broadcast
Original title Did you know?
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1958-1969
length 45 minutes
Broadcasting
cycle		 Saturdays
genre Game show
Moderation Heinz Maegerlein
First broadcast June 22, 1958 on German television

Did you know? was a 45-minute quiz show with high ratings , which was produced from 1958 to 1969 by Bayerischer Rundfunk and broadcast on German television in the main program. Heinz Maegerlein was the moderator .

The show initially ran in the evening program. In 1961 the time slot was moved to the afternoon.

The game idea came from the USA, which was called Twenty One there.

procedure

The two candidates each sat in a soundproof booth. In each round, a certain area of ​​knowledge (e.g. foreign words) or a certain category (e.g. “What you know - what you should know”) was asked. These were questions that could often be answered with a good general education . The first acoustically connected candidate said a number between 1 and 11 and was thus able to determine the level of difficulty of the question. The candidate had the opportunity to ask for a so-called "reflection period"; During this time an ascending sequence of dominant seventh chords was played for the audience . If the question was answered correctly, an assistant came to the front of the cabin in question and exchanged the points tag attached to a hook. The higher the number of points, the larger the wooden panels and the painted numbers. The first candidate's headphones were turned off and the second was turned on. He could now name a different point value and was asked the corresponding question.

If one of the candidates had reached 21 points, the game was over and he received a material prize. The maximum price for multiple wins in the show was a BMW Isetta .

Others

The original show, which ran in the US under the title " Twenty One " from 1956 to 1958, caused notoriety and a huge scandal there because the winners had been agreed beforehand. It almost banned such shows on American television. In 1994 Robert Redford made a film about these incidents called Quiz Show .

Fan article

Two types of fan articles were released for the program: A quiz book, which Heinz Maegerlein wrote himself, and a parlor game in which the question cards, just like in the program, were embellished by the - "funny as always" - drawings by Manfred Schmidt .

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