QUICKY QUIZ! #7 WHEN DID CZECHOSLOVAKIA BECOME AN INDEPENDENT NATION?

Description: This short film is one of a series entitled "Quicky Quiz!", which were developed and produced by Los Angeles TV personality Jim Hawthorne. Billed as the "TV's biggest little show", each Quicky Quiz! posed a question for viewers to answer. In this case, the question is "when did Czechoslovakia become an independent nation? The footage shows the first Czech President Tomáš Masaryk on horseback in a parade. Masaryk co-founded Czechoslovakia together with Milan Rastislav Štefánik and Edvard Beneš. If you got the right answer, you must be very smart so take a bow! Short format shows of this type don't really exist today, but back in the early era of television -- especially during the live era when show lengths were irregular -- programs such as Quicky Quiz! were important to fill dead air. Jim Hawthorne (1918 –2007) was a beloved radio personality, disc jockey and TV comic actor who produced (in addition to Quicky Quiz!) the short format show "Jim Hawthorne's Funny World". He worked for a variety of TV stations including KLAC / Los Angeles Channel 13, where he created the first late evening talk show on television, "This Is Hawthorne."

Complete Record: This short film is one of a series entitled "Quicky Quiz!", which were developed and produced by Los Angeles TV personality Jim Hawthorne. Billed as the "TV's biggest little show", each Quicky Quiz! posed a question for viewers to answer. In this case, the question is "when did Czechoslovakia become an independent nation? The footage shows the first Czech President Tomáš Masaryk on horseback in a parade. Masaryk co-founded Czechoslovakia together with Milan Rastislav Štefánik and Edvard Beneš. If you got the right answer, you must be very smart so take a bow! Short format shows of this type don't really exist today, but back in the early era of television -- especially during the live era when show lengths were irregular -- programs such as Quicky Quiz! were important to fill dead air. Jim Hawthorne (1918 –2007) was a beloved radio personality, disc jockey and TV comic actor who produced (in addition to Quicky Quiz!) the short format show "Jim Hawthorne's Funny World". He worked for a variety of TV stations including KLAC / Los Angeles Channel 13, where he created the first late evening talk show on television, "This Is Hawthorne."