Twenty Questions was a Canadian

Canada

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 television game show

Game show

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, which aired on CTV

CTV television network

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 in the 1961-62 television season. Produced by CJAY-TV

CKY-TV

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 in Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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 and hosted by Stewart Macpherson, the show was an adaptation of the earlier American

United States

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 game show Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions

Twenty Questions is a spoken parlor game which encourages deductive reasoning and creativity. It originated in the United States and escalated in popularity during the late 1940s when it became the format for a successful weekly radio quiz program....

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Panelists on the show included Rassy Ragland, the mother of Neil Young

Neil Young

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Twenty Questions was broadcast on Wednesday evenings, 19:30 in Toronto, beginning 4 October 1961. The programme lasted only a single season on CTV. Macpherson subsequently went on to host a British

United Kingdom

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 adaptation of Twenty Questions for Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion

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Les Wedman, television columnist for The Vancouver Sun

The Vancouver Sun

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, deemed the production to be a "dull, witless presentation of a parlor [sic] game".

External links

• Twenty Questions at the Canadian Communications Foundation
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