Brain Gym

Brain Gym was a Dutch radio program, which from 1938 to 1992 , with an interruption during the Second World War , was broadcast by the AVRO .

History
The idea in the Netherlands, a quiz was to broadcast radio AVRO program leader Jaap den Daas . The first quiz in history in 1935 broadcast in Canada and a year later the US program "Quiz Professor". The first broadcast of the Brain Gym took place on May 26 1938.

Game
The program took two teams against each other, in which general knowledge questions were asked. Presenter 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 Sonder , Hans Schiffer and Aldith Hunkar . The score was recorded in the postwar years by announcer Mieke Melcher . The question "What is the situation, Mieke?" was a famous statement, and was maintained even 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 given invariably musical questions. Permanent employees were the pianists Gerard Krevelen and later Rudy van Houten . The signature tune of the quiz was the chorus of the English song "Run, rabbit run '. [1]

Status
Brain Gym was in its heyday, the 50s, and was particularly popular competition from countless other games. Some time was also broadcast on television, but there were other programs such as Theo Eerdmansmore success. "Brain Gym" remained as a radio program last long and at the time of the end in 1992, one of the oldest programs in the world.