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Noah Webster Says was a radio word quiz.

Broacast[]

NBC Radio (Weeky): 4/4/1942 – 2/20/1943, 7/14/1945 – 12/1/1945
Blue Network (Weekly): 7/6/1943 – 9/28/1943

Host/Inventor/Producer[]

Haven MacQuarrie

Announcer[]

Doug Gourlay

Judge[]

Professor Charles Ferederick Lindsey of Occidental College

Format[]

Listeners sent in lists of words, and the contestants had to define them. Usually, eight contestants appeared in each broadcast. Each contestant was given a list of five words. They won $1 for defining the first word, and each new word was worth $1 more than the previous. If the contestant could identify all of the first four words, they could keep the $10, or try for a total of $50 by identifying the last word. If they couldn't define it, all was lost.

The winners of the show were given a "final exam", which was a written quiz that determined how they would divide the money that the losers didn't win. Lidsley was the one who decided whether a contestant won or lost.

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