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Transatlantic Quiz was an international version of Information Please.

Broadcast[]

Blue Network (Weekly): 4/15/1944 – 9/2/1945

Host[]

Alistair Cooke

Regular Panelists[]

Christopher Morley and Russel Crouse

Format[]

Unlike Information Please, the panels were split between New York City, NY and London, England. Listeners from both sides of the "pond" sent questions to the show, and the answers were discussed across the Atlantic Ocean by an underwater cable. The side that answered the most questions correctly was the winner.

Trivia[]

Alistair Cooke would later host the award-winning PBS drama series Masterpiece Theater.

While Cooke hosted the show in America, the British hosts were Lionel Hale and Ronny Waldman (although Cooke was British himself).

The regular panelists in the British studio were David Niven and Dennis Brazan.

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