- Who
- Professor Dick and His Question Box
- What
- 1935/5/15 first
- Where
- Canada ()
- When
Canada-based journalist and former teacher Roy Ward Dickinson (UK, 1910-1978) effectively invented the game show format when he adapted quizzes he had set for his pupils to the radio. Professor Dick and His Question Box aired on CKCL Radio on 15 May 1935, and Dickson went on to produce many pioneering game show formats, including the first panel game Claim to Fame
