Mental Gymnastics

Mental gymnastics was a Dutch radio program, that of 1938 to 1992, with a break during the Second World War, was broadcasted by the AVRO. ==History[ Edit] == The idea in a quiz on the radio Netherlands broadcast was by AVRO-programme leader Jaap de Guzman. The first quiz in history was broadcast in Canada in 1935 and a year later followed the American program "Professor Quiz". The first broadcast of the mental gymnastics took place on 26 May 1938. ==Game[ Edit] == In the program names two teams against each other, to which general knowledge questions were. Host of the first hour was Jan Boots. When the program returned after the liberation, he was joined by Bob Wallagh. Subsequent presenters were Jan van Herpen, Lex braamhorst, Gerard Sajadi, Hans Schiffers and Aldith Hunkar. The scoring was in the post-war years tracked by announcer John Melcher. The question "How is the State, Mieke?" was a winged Word, and remained even maintained when Melcher was succeeded by assistants with a different name, such as Cisca Harms. It was also the title of a book from 1947 in which thousands of quiz questions were included.

During the quiz were also invariably musical questions. Permanent employees were the pianists later Gerard Verhagen and Rudy van Houten. The theme song of the quiz was the chorus of the English song ' Run, rabbit run '. [1] ==Status[ Edit] == Mental training was in its heyday, the 1950s, particularly popular and got competition from countless other games. Some time was also televised, but there were other programs such as those of Theo Eerdmans more success. "Mental gymnastics" remained as radio program long existence and was at the time of the end in 1992 one of the oldest programs in the world.