Quizzing the News

Quizzing the News was a short-lived primetime game show where celebrity panelists tried to guess news events being depicted in drawings and descriptions.

Broadcast
ABC: August 16, 1948-March 5, 1949

Host
Allan Prescott

Artist
Albee Triber

Panelists
Arthur Q. Bryan Ray Joseph Mary Hunter Milton Caniff Robert Garland Hope Emerson Joan Lloyd

Gameplay
The series featured three celebrity panelists trying to identify news events from verbal clues and cartoon sketches. In an audience segment, home viewers tried to guess well-known personalities whose pictures were redecorated with glasses, mustaches, etc.

Trivia
The series was one of the first network shows on ABC after they began a full network operation in August of 1948.