Quiz with Hale
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The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a 1940s British game show on the BBC where viewers at home could play along with the quiz. The host Lionel Hale would present questions, and viewers marked their own quiz paper to score points for trying, getting close, or hitting the answer exactly. One episode asked people to identify chemical substances from their Latin labels.
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What happens
Quiz with Hale is a British television game show that aired on the BBC from 1946 to 1947. Presented by Lionel Hale, the 30-minute series invited viewers to play along by marking their own quiz paper with the suggestion that you got 1 mark for a brave try, 2 marks for a near miss and 3 marks for a bullseye. Page 29 (31 of file) of volume 147 of The Chemist and Druggist says episode telecast 28 December 1946 asked viewers to identify three substances from their Latin labels. The programme is lost, as methods to record live television were not developed until late 1947, and were used very rarely by the BBC until the mid-1950s, additionally U.K. game shows were usually wiped into the 1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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