In this clip from Australian game show Personality Squares, radio personality George Moore shares the curious origin story of the term 'wireless'.

Moore's spotlight offers a comprehensive glimpse into the show's trivia format, based on the American show Hollywood Squares: a panel of celebrities are offered statements that might be true or playful bluffs, while contestants have to guess correctly to advance in a game of noughts-and-crosses. Moore takes this opportunity to tell the tale of Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi, the father of radio, and how the term 'wireless' originated from a fumble in translation. Cutaways to the baffled facial expressions of fellow panellists demonstrate the fun of this 'strange but true' style.

Personality Squares ran on Network Ten from 1967 to 1969 and was revived briefly in 1981.