The News Quiz in the week following the standard Radio 4 broadcast. This version was also made available as a podcast. The News Quiz The News Quiz is a British topical panel game broadcast on BBC Radio 4. "The News Quiz" was first broadcast in 1977 with Barry Norman as chairman. Subsequently, it was chaired by Simon Hoggart, Barry Took (until 1995), and then again by Simon Hoggart until March 2006. Hoggart was replaced by Sandi Toksvig in September 2006, who in turn was replaced by Miles Jupp in September 2015. The series was created by John Lloyd based on an idea from
Who Knows? (game show) from 3 July to 25 September 1959. Who Knows? (game show) Who Knows? is a Canadian television panel game quiz show which aired on CBC Television in 1959. James Bannerman hosted this show in which a panel attempts to guess the identity of an artifact from a gallery or museum. Archaeologists Walter Kenyon and John Lunn of the Royal Ontario Museum were regular panelists who were joined by a third guest panelist. This concept was previously demonstrated during some episodes of "Tabloid". CBC broadcast a similar panel game quiz program, "What on Earth", from 1971 to 1975. This half-hour series