London's Liberty Radio (963 and 972am) recently had the first stage of a (possible) £1million radio quiz held exclusively for cab drivers. The idea came about on the Alton Andrews show when together with his gorgeous producer Accalia Hipwood, Alton decided that they would find a clever cabbie and turn him into a (possible) millionaire! The game was slightly different to Carlton TV's ultra successful 'Who wants to be a Millionaire' in that you would win a small prize at a time (£5), and if successfully beating off your opponent, you would then come back the following day for another fiver against another cabby and if successful, you would repeat that another 200,000 times and cop the million quid.
   According to Liberty Radio - famous for playing the hits of the past thirty years - if one of our drivers were to lose on his or her 199,999th visit, Alton would spend the last fiver out of his own pocket to make up the million.
   "After all," said Alton, "you can't have a quiz with a top prize of £999,995 and I don't suppose I'll be doing it again!!!"
   Dial-a-Cab's first volunteer was Alex Constantinou (N5) who was up against a gentleman known as Del-Boy, apparently of the unlicensed fraternity (Express Cabs) or possibly one of the newly licensed batch. He had answered four of his five questions correctly meaning that for Alex to climb that first rung of the ladder to £1million (which the winner - according to Call Sign calculations - should arrive at the top of in July 2401), Alex would need to answer 5 out of 5. Well, there's no easy way to a million!
   Alex's voice arrived to a fanfare. Knowing the whole of 

DAC DRIVER ALEX TAKES FIRST AND LAST STEP TOWARDS LIBERTY RADIO'S £1M...!

Dial-a-Cab were tuned in, Alton was about to start the questioning. Alex jumped in quickly with a protest...
   "You asked the other bloke easy questions...!"
   Alton, realising that Alex was nervous with his first fiver at stake, tried to calm him down.
   "Bit of a big-head are you then...!!!"
   Then came the questions....
   1...Which disease killed almost half the population of Europe in the 14th century? 2...What colour is Art & Literature in Trivial Pursuits? 3...What is the Japanese word for Divine Wind? 4...Which two groups of Islands belong to Spain? And finally, which direction was Manchester from Leeds?
   Unfortunately Alex got just two correct... Art & Lit in Trivial pursuits is Brown and Manchester is to the west of Leeds.
   So Alex's dreams of the million ended just 199,999 trips short! "I'd rather have come second to Fred Housego than Del-Boy," Alex told Call Sign afterwards, "but it was still great fun..."
   Fortunately (!!!), Del-Boy didn't last long after being defeated by Johnny Carter of Radio Taxis London who then went on to defeat 

DaC's Martin Hizer (M47), but not before Martin had 'sportingly' announced that RTL had no work and that DaC had lots! Obviously 'Cabby to Cabby' is developing into a real friendly contest!
   The next day, John came up against Call Sign's 'Politically Incorrect' writer, Chas Kissin (P99J) who bought glory to this mag when he scored a perfect 5 out of 5 to prove that Call Sign only employs ultra-intelligent correspondents. As the new champion, Chas followed up with another perfect score the next day before going out on a tiebreak on his third appearance.
   Later DaC Champions were Russell Poluck and Call Sign's Steve Shaller.
   Liberty Radio has asked Call Sign to express their thanks to all the Dial-a-Cab drivers who volunteered for the quiz. The quiz was carried out in a spirit of fun and even if you aren't on it, you can still listen to Liberty's great sounds from the past three decades on 963 or 972am...
   The correct answers to the questions Alex got wrong were: 1.Bubonic Plague: 3.Kamikaze: 4.Balearic and Canary Islands...