Alex Trebek, the popular host of the quiz show Jeopardy!
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This clever new quiz show has an interesting and pointed twist.
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Daily programming will end with a quiz show at around 7 p.m.
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Jump in and play the quiz show whenever you're in the car.
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My sister and I took part in this South Park quiz show.
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He sometimes hears himself slurring his words on the quiz show, he said.
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Washington (CNN)Answer: He is a quiz show host-turned-political debate moderator.
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She was famous, I learned, for having dominated a popular Georgian quiz show.
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One character in Peter Carey's new novel is an Australian radio-quiz-show genius.
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But the quiz show — knowledge as public display — is, for him, a dead end.
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Heck, even quiz show contestants get asked if they're sure they chose the right answer.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Artificial intelligence programs have beaten chess masters and TV quiz show champions.
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Some suggest it might have had something to do with a decades-old BBC quiz show.
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My joke on a quiz show had somehow devolved into a group discussion of my breasts.
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At age 21she met British journalist Henry Bernard Levinwhile on a panel for a quiz show.
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Mr. Wallace could be replaced by a network quiz show moderator if no "truth squadding" is involved.
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Content as he was producing his own quiz show, "Tic-Tac-Dough", he did not want to switch.
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Robert Redford directed the 1994 movie, "Quiz Show" -- with Ralph Fiennes playing Van Doren -- about the cheating scandal.
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The long-running Alex Trebek-hosted quiz show is filming its "Power Players Week" in Washington next month.
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The actor will play a quiz show host on episode 11, which airs on Wednesday on The CW.
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Scruff, a gay dating app, is launching a new live quiz show, called Hosting, that'll live inside the app.
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I think this was one of the best features of IBM's Watson, which played the American quiz show Jeopardy!
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"The CNN Quiz Show: Race for the White House" airs on CNN on Sunday, February 200 at 8 p.m.
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Jurate Kazickas went on the quiz show "Password" to win the $500 she needed for her ticket to Saigon.
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Shockingly, and truly I'm shocked, this isn't the first dating app to try its hand at an attached quiz show.
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Scruff has committed to being an ad-free platform, so it says there won't be ads during the quiz show.
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The quiz show, which premiered in 1964, has been on a roll lately when it comes to pop culture references.
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Related: This quiz show reveals how well you handle uncertainty The disease is rare, affecting only about 30,000 American adults.
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LONDON — Channel 4 quiz show Countdown isn't usually a laugh a minute, but there are occasionally some unexpectedly amusing moments.
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The hit quiz show has officially handed out over $100 million in total winnings since its syndicated debut in 2002.
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In Kyrgyzstan they use religious leaders and quiz show competitions about the Quran to debunk falsities extremists try to use.
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"I think Hillary's going to win," the face of the long-running quiz show says of the Democratic presidential nominee.
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He refused to co-operate with "The Quiz Show", the film Robert Redford made nearly 40 years after the scandal broke.
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Examples include a much-plugged quiz show about classical poetry and another in which children compete to write complicated Chinese characters.
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" Ms. Toksvig is a veteran TV presenter best known in Britain as the witty, bantering host of the quiz show "QI.
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Mr. Freedman recanted his testimony to another quiz-show grand jury, admitting that he had given questions in advance to contestants.
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Ms. Stowell has won six times in a row on taped episodes of the quiz show that began broadcasting last week.
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The entire scandal was memorably depicted in the film Quiz Show, which was far better-received than Twenty One ever was.
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The syndicated program "Jeopardy" is viewed by 23 million people each week, making it the top-rated quiz show on U.S. television.
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In October 2018, Trebek renewed his contract with Sony Pictures Television to continue as host of the popular quiz show through 2022.
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Apprehension deepened for some in 2011 when two stars of the quiz show "Jeopardy!" were soundly defeated by a new IBM gizmo.
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Part of "Remembering America" focused on the scandals and was a basis for the 1994 film "Quiz Show," which he helped produce.
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Quiz-show rigging was exposed in investigations by the New York district attorney, Frank Hogan, and the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight.
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" Game show host OJ Sampson (Bill Hader) invites three contestants to play the Game of Thrones quiz show, "Game of Game of Thrones.
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This is the fifth edition of the CNN Quiz Show and contestants have raised a total of $200,83 in just the past year.
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" You can read about the game show this complaint refers to, The $27,000 Question, on a Wikipedia page called "1950s quiz show scandals.
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Color commentary was led by a puzzle maker, Greg Pliska, as well as Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's "Ask Me Another" quiz show.
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The fun continued in Philadelphia, where a TV station did a quiz show segment with them, focusing on trivia about their new city.
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At home, a snazzy TV quiz show is encouraging millennials to take an interest in the life and ideology of President Xi Jinping.
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"We are taping today, and Alex is here and behind his lectern as scheduled," a spokeswoman for the beloved quiz show said Tuesday.
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"We are taping today, and Alex is here and behind his lectern as scheduled," a spokeswoman for the beloved quiz show told me.
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Andre Sousa, a quiz show developer and assistant producer at ITV Studios, is also optimistic about the future of these sorts of shows.
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His wife at the time, Julann, suggested a way to alleviate concerns about the quiz show format: Give contestants the answers from the start.
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The teenage climate activist formerly known as Greta Thunberg is going by Sharon now, after an unfortunate mix-up on a British quiz show.
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Van Doren's game show cheating scandal was the subject of the 1994 movie Quiz Show starring Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow, John Turturro and Martin Scorsese.
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Most recently, I was thrown big time when watching the opening scene to Quiz Show, Robert Redford's 1994 movie about a rigged TV game show.
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When IBM's Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show "Jeopardy!" it was a stunning achievement that suggested limitless horizons for artificial intelligence.
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No Such Thing As A Fish The researchers of the delightful British quiz show QI talk about the fun facts they've discovered this week. 13.
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While the quiz show recently ended its run, its impact continues to ripple through television, having opened the floodgates to all forms of unscripted projects.
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As his winnings grew—to $129,000 (worth $1.2m today), more than anybody had ever won on this new klondike, the television quiz show—America became transfixed.
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In one, Burrell has his arm around Dobson—shirtsleeves rolled up and rictus grin on his face—bearing the jaunty aspect of a quiz show presenter.
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This twice-monthly comedic quiz show usually tapes its podcast episodes in Los Angeles, but for two days in July they're calling New York City home.
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But, to revive a question posed by the title of Carson's long-forgotten TV quiz show, whom would we trust in the same way we trust Trebek?
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The quiz show decided to shake things up with "a format we have never ever before attempted," according to Trebek, for their first-ever team tournament. Jeopardy!
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Among other things, users can create digital flashcards, matching games and games that can be used to get students playing quiz show-style games in the classroom.
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Yes, for a whole seven months, beginning in February, Canadians weren't allowed to send in applications to compete on the much-loved quiz show—and nobody knew why.
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Ms. Eisenberg, host of the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another," is a popular stand-up and raconteur, equally skilled at short, sharp jokes and carefully planned stories.
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Eventually I was transferred to Toronto and had two shows: One a quiz show called 'Reach for the Top,' and another a teen-music variety program called 'Music Hop.
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Mr. Trebek has hosted more than 7,000 episodes of the quiz show "Jeopardy!" since its daily syndicated debut in 1984, when it was revived by its creator, Merv Griffin.
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They face off against one another in intra-school "battles," similar to a quiz show, and then each school can send one team in each division to regional tournaments.
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When Alex Trebek leaves Jeopardy, the quiz show he's hosted since 1984, he says his producers will find out about his departure the day he tapes his final program.
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In the months before Kroll's death, HQ Trivia had been a viral sensation, drawing more than 1 million players each game to compete on the virtual live quiz show.
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In his video announcement, Mr. Trebek used the same calm cadence he typically employs to host the nightly quiz show, and he added a joke to soften the blow.
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So, quit being a soggy bottom and give a warm welcome to Fielding (The Mighty Boosh), Toksvig (host of BBC comedy quiz show QI), and Leith (cookery writer and restaurateur).
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"I've never been the least bit prudish, but I definitely felt creeped out by all of their comments," Lynsey McMullen, who appeared on the quiz show in December, told me.
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He came to wider public attention with his star turns on the BBC's popular satirical TV quiz show "Have I Got News For You" and his gift for humor comes naturally.
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Back in the early 1960s, the U.S. Congress asked the media industry to self-regulate around measurement due to a "quiz show scandal," where advertisers alleged a show's ratings were rigged.
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Peter Sagal is the host of the NPR quiz show "Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me!" and the author of "The Incomplete Book of Running," from which this essay is an excerpt.
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An avalanche of curiosity was backed up inside E. She began to demand information from me faster than a quiz show M.C. "How did European explorers find their way?" she said.
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IBM's Watson computer gained notoriety in 2011 when it beat two champions at the quiz show "Jeopardy!" and its Deep Blue computer beat chess champion Garry Kasparov more than two decades ago.
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ET. (CNN)The contestants for "The CNN Quiz Show: Race for the White House" might be competing against each other, but they all agree on who the real winner should be: charity.
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"Grange Park Opera moving here is going to make it a different and effective place," said Mr. Gascoigne, the former host of the long-running quiz show "University Challenge" on British television.
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In an article he wrote about the scandal for The New Yorker in 1003, Mr. Van Doren recalled that he had not even owned a television set in the quiz-show era.
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I wanted to do something that related to my career, as many guest constructors had done, but didn't know how to work the idea of a "quiz show host" into the puzzle.
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Wang Ran, a prominent investor and head of Beijing-based private investment bank CEC Capital Group, posed a question on his WeChat account about the future of the online quiz show trend.
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Mr Holzhauer has proven himself a master at the quiz-show aspect of the game, correctly answering 60% of total clues and 95% (21 of 22) of the more difficult Final Jeopardy prompts.
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Standing in the soundproof glass booth on the set of "Twenty-One", NBC's flagship quiz show during the winter of 0003-57, he'd bite his lip, furrow his eyebrows, blow out his cheeks.
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The concept of HQ Trivia, a twice-daily quiz show that usually airs at 3 pm and 9 pm Eastern, is simple: A friendly host livestreams to you 12 multiple-choice trivia questions.
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A video recently doing the rounds on Facebook included a segment from the BBC comedy quiz show QI. The video asks which of avocados, almonds, melon, kiwi or butternut squash are suitable for vegans.
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Instead, to gather by the film "Quiz Show" of 1994, his control of "Twenty One" had started a moral rot that led inexorably to Vietnam, Watergate, and lies and corruption on a national scale.
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HQ Trivia, a zippy quiz show launched in August, springs to life on hundreds of thousands of hand-held devices in America at 9pm eastern time on weekends, and twice each weekday (see chart).
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In the mid-1990s, Mr. Burton conceived "Win Ben Stein's Money," a quiz show in which Mr. Stein competed against three contestants; if he got an answer wrong, money was deducted from his pay.
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It is, of course, incredibly disturbing that three human adults on a quiz show wouldn't be able to identify Tom Hanks, much less with video footage of Tom playing in front of their faces.
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The investigations formed one of the story lines in Robert Redford's 1994 film "Quiz Show," which featured Hank Azaria as Mr. Freedman, John Turturro as Mr. Stempel and Ralph Fiennes as Mr. Van Doren.
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Many viewers of the comedy show "Have I Got News for You" trace Boris Johnson's ascent back to the '90s, the first of many times he would appear on the long-running BBC quiz show.
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In 21988, testifying before a congressional committee, Mr. Ross, admitted that Patty, who had appeared not long before on the TV quiz show "The $64,000 Challenge," had been fed the answers by the show's producers.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek said on Wednesday he has no plans to retire any time soon, but after 36 years on the television quiz show he knows what his legacy should be.
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Tinder has tried to pair people at musical festivals and spring break hot spots this past year, and the dating app Scruff even tried an in-app quiz show, like HQ, to bring people together.
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People were so interested in his performance on the "Twenty One" quiz show in the 1950s because he is the son of Mark Van Doren, who was one of the great English professors at Columbia University.
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Carey has never been afraid of freighting his characters with past professions, current passions, hobbies, interests and secrets, but Willie is truly laden: He's a quiz show champ, so he can dispense facts and trivia throughout.
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Robert Earle, who tested the wits of hundreds of students and countless television viewers as moderator of the long-running quiz show "The General Electric College Bowl," died on Wednesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 93.
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James Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, won Tuesday's episode with a total of $110,914 -- breaking the record for single-day cash winnings, the quiz show said in a press release.
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Instead, it generates revenue through its paid dating tier, While creating a quiz show isn't the most obvious product decision for a dating app, it does potentially make Scruff part of the cultural conversation, if it's successful.
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But a good many watchers of British television and politics trace the two men's ascent to something else: "Have I Got News for You," a long-running BBC quiz show that began its newest season this month.
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Back in Britain, Johnson pursued his media career as editor of the Spectator magazine while becoming a household name thanks to his star turns on the popular satirical TV quiz show "Have I Got News For You".
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That's Ophira as in Eisenberg, the host of the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another," and Adira as in Adira Amram & the Experience, a song-and-dance machine that also includes Maresa D'Amore-Morrison and Jessi Colon.
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Opinion Columnist I had never heard of Charles Van Doren until, in college, I saw the movie "Quiz Show," and I probably never thought of him again until I read his obituary this week in The Times.
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The theme is fun and there's some good, nontheme stuff in here: QUIZ SHOW is very nice; SLUGGER is fun; and it's always nice to have a BORZOI race through the grid and a KAZOO humming away.
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Ken Jennings, best known for his record 74-day run on the quiz show, is one match away from being crowned the greatest of all time after handily defeating James Holzhauer and Brad Rutter on Thursday night.
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" In the nineteen-fifties, while Salinger wrote about the Glass family, who had appeared, as children, on a quiz show called "It's a Wise Child," Tewksbury directed a hundred and thirty-four episodes of "Father Knows Best.
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Watson Health is the first industry-focused unit IBM has set up to try to build the artificial intelligence technology, renowned for beating human champions in the quiz show "Jeopardy!" five years ago, into a large, profitable business.
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HQ Trivia might be falling on hard times, but Cash Live is looking to take the daily mobile quiz show in a new direction by leaning on the laurels of gaming and some good old-fashioned casino titles.
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"I have some news to share with all of you, and it's in keeping with my longtime policy of being open and transparent with my 'Jeopardy!' fanbase," the quiz show host said in a YouTube video posted Wednesday.
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" We follow a trio of characters: a husband-and-wife driving team, who aim to parlay their Redex fame into a successful car dealership, and their navigator and neighbor, an unemployed teacher and former radio "quiz show king.
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Kasell was best known in recent years as the announcer and scorekeeper for the NPR news quiz show "Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" for which he would record answering machine and voice mail greetings for the show's winners.
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The show was created by Merv Griffin, a TV innovator and former game show host, after the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, in which contestants on "Twenty-One" and "The $64,000 Question" were given the answers beforehand.
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This month, one quiz show, "Millions Winner," backed by internet security company Qihoo 360, apologized after it was chastised by a regulator for listing Taiwan and Hong Kong, over which China claims sovereignty, as independent countries in a question.
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This month, one quiz show, "Millions Winner," backed by internet security company Qihoo 360, apologised after it was chastised by a regulator for listing Taiwan and Hong Kong, over which China claims sovereignty, as independent countries in a question.
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With demand for its legacy hardware and software businesses stagnating, IBM has been shifting towards cloud-based services, security software, data analytics and artificial intelligence such as its supercomputer Watson, which once defeated human contestants in the quiz show Jeopardy.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek is taking a break from taping episodes of the U.S. television quiz show to recover from surgery to remove blood clots on the brain, he said in a video message released on Thursday.
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Avi Armoza, the boss of a firm that has sold over 60 Israeli television formats abroad, says his biggest hit is "Still Standing", a general-knowledge quiz show in which unsuccessful contestants are dropped through a trapdoor in the studio floor.
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He lost his job at Columbia, NBC canceled his contract, and, along with others who had lied to the grand jury about their quiz show roles, he pleaded guilty to second-degree perjury, a misdemeanor, and received a suspended sentence.
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He declined to assist in a documentary on the subject for the PBS series "American Experience" in 1992, or in Robert Redford's 1994 movie, "Quiz Show," which focused on the role of Mr. Van Doren, who was played by Ralph Fiennes.
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Their quiz show Shooting Stars, which at its peak pulled in more than 6 million viewers a week, once blessed a mainstream television audience with the sight of a confused Larry Hagman from Dallas being presented a "Fartridge" (it's half fart, half partridge).
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With a 48-page instruction book, loads of modules, different types of batteries, jumper wires, and baseboards, kids can build a virtually unlimited number of games and electronics such as motion-sensing room alarms, an electronic drum kit, and a quiz show game.
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Doctor Ronny Jackson's withdrawal from the feckless nomination to lead Veteran Affairs, after a stint in the small White House medical office, made him the likely subject of future quiz show trivia, so short-lived was his blaze across the national scene.
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Mr. Trump's political rise has been maddening for me to watch, and I sometimes feel like the character played by Kevin Bacon in the movie "Diner" who screams the right answers to a TV quiz show as the contestants get them wrong.
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Charles Van Doren, a Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged, died on Tuesday in Canaan, Conn.
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In 21980, he vaulted briefly from his daily five seconds of fame — his name flashing by as producer in the onscreen credits for "Tic-Tac-Dough" — to center stage as a star witness in a sensational congressional investigation into quiz show rigging.
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Producers guessed viewers wanted to know who was the ultimate winner, but I think getting to see the pinnacle of modern quiz-show performance provides just as corny and lovable an answer as the tradition of Jeopardy itself: It's us, the viewers.
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Albert Freedman, a television producer who became a central figure in the quiz-show scandals of the 500s for giving questions in advance to contestants — notably Charles Van Doren, an English instructor at Columbia University — died on April 227 in Greenbrae, Calif.
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IBM's natural-language AI program Watson — which conquered the television quiz show "Jeopardy" — will be integrated with Salesforce's Einstein, the AI that helps mine its hugely popular customer relationship management software, to provide customer purchasing habits and shopping data for businesses that run Salesforce.
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B. It'd been years since I'd watched this nightly quiz show institution with any regularity, but a few rather major things happened in my life this year: One, my husband and I adopted our newborn son; two, we started going to bed at 10 p.m.
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While the format of the quiz show meant it had to commit to a single answer, the algorithm also presented a series of alternatives that it had considered in the process, along with a score indicating how confident it was in each being correct.
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Almost two months after revealing that he had been diagnosed with stage 353 pancreatic cancer, the longtime quiz show host, 78, stopped by Good Morning America on Wednesday to chat with Robin Roberts (a breast-cancer survivor) about the support and love he has received.
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The very word "computer" was so novel that Dr. Huskey described the SWAC as "a large-scale electronic computing machine" when he appeared on the radio quiz show "You Bet Your Life" in 1950 and tried to explain it to the host, Groucho Marx.
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Looking at ratings alone, once niche quiz show Only Connect—miles away from the razzle-dazzle of The Million Pound Drop—evolved into a sleeper hit on BBC One last year and didn't need a "shiny-floor" format or official hashtag to do it.
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While HQ's primary host Scott Rogowsky appears in a tailored suit with a classic game show host smile, The Q's Monahan, in one episode, wears in a bucket hat, Hawaiian shirt, and an air of cocky confidence — like a quiz show version of Jurassic Park's Dennis Nedry.
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"Niche works," proclaims HistoryHit cofounder Justin Gayner, previously a producer on BBC quiz show QI. Regardless of their differences, this mantra is a recurring theme among the challengers: smaller, better-tailored content for a specific audience could reap massive benefits when distributed on a global scale.
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"Millionaire" was a spectacular format, he believed, because it restored drama to the game format, something games had in the '50's (though of course some of that drama was manufactured by producers who rigged the outcomes — a scandal that inspired the Oscar-nominated "Quiz Show").
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"Coast to Coast Big Mouth," the Season 5 opener two years later, gives Ms. Moore the spotlight: Laura, appearing on a nationally televised quiz show, is tricked into revealing that Rob's boss, the vain Alan Brady (star of the fictional "Alan Brady Show"), wears a toupee.
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Two of those startup founders, longtime Apple executive Cedric Rogers and former developer for VEVO and MLB digital Shaun Newsum, are now pulling the curtains back on the first fruit of their production studio, Culture Genesis, with the launch of TriviaMob — a new quiz show targeting urban audiences.
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We all remember the man who wore a leather vest and that guy who was afraid of buzzers from the last series of the BBC Two quiz show, and the first episode of the new series — which aired on Monday night — didn't disappoint when it came to the contestants.
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That was the claim made by Sandi Toksvig, host of the British comedy quiz show QI. On the BBC-aired program, three guest panelists answer questions that are "extremely obscure," according to Wikipedia, earning points not only for the correct response, but also for unusual or funny answers.
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IBM's Watson, which beat two previous winners of the quiz show "Jeopardy!" in 2011, will sift through data in order to recognize a driver's habits, allowing third-party marketers to deliver targeted offers, whether nearby coffee shops, reminders about shopping-list items, or paying for fuel from their dashboards.
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But Wilmore's show was canceled after only two seasons, officially due to low ratings and tepid social media engagement, though it does not seem incidental that Wilmore's series was reliably home to candid discussions about race and its replacement was a pop-culture quiz show hosted by a white guy.
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Ladies and gentleman, introducing the best selling British debut artist of 2016... You see, the thing about your nan is that she really loves The Chase, the ITV teatime quiz show featuring a few average Joes and Joannes trying to outwit a professional nerd, and, of course, that lovely Bradley Walsh.
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Fielding, famed for his work on The Mighty Boosh, and Toksvig, who, in addition to recently replacing Stephen Fry as the host of quiz show QI, is the co-founder of Britain's Women's Equality Party, will host the show when it makes its leap to Channel 4 after seven seasons on the BBC.
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And since we had recently covered the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, these college students eventually concluded that today's growing awareness of sexual abuses in politics, Hollywood and the media is comparable to that era, with a similar loss of innocence, but a long-overdue re-evaluation of the status quo.
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He's about to back that metaphor with an avalanche of information on the ways in which arcade game typography evolved from the level set by Quiz Show (Atari, 19883) into some 1,600 unique families of letter forms, through small and large design changes in the 8×8-pixel space allotted to each character.
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Indeed, "Sisters" opens with an episode from a mock quiz show called "Peeping Tom," which allows a meet-cute between Danielle (Margot Kidder), a model hired for the show, and a winning contestant, the advertising salesman Philip (Lisle Wilson, best remembered for his regular role on the mid-1970s sitcom "That's My Mama").
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The "Twenty-One" scandal, reprised in the 1994 film "Quiz Show," had been brewing since Herb Stempel, a postal clerk from Queens, revealed that he had been ordered in 1956 to lose to Charles Van Doren, who taught English at Columbia University and was the son of a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor there.
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As illustrated by Robert Redford's Oscar-nominated film "Quiz Show," which recounted the game show fixing scandal of the late 1950s, one appeal of these early game shows was their casting of regular, everyday people — and the possibility that you, as a regular, everyday person, could find yourself propelled into fame and fortune.
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Luckily, the new offerings on Netflix offer some visions of America at its best, from Richard Linklater and John Hughes' nostalgia for good times in the hallowed halls of high school to Clint Eastwood and Sergio Leone's visions of the American West to glimpses of bizarre pockets of America in Quiz Show and Jesus Camp.
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Lightspeed says 17 of its existing company CEOs have already signed the side letter — including CEOs from well-known companies like The Honest Company, Affirm and HQ Trivia, the white-hot quiz show app that had some difficulty raising money after investors unearthed questionable behavior toward women by one of its co-founders, Colin Kroll.
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Appearing on America's favorite quiz show—the show so staid and reliable that John Oliver quipped at last year's Emmys that it might just be the most permanent fixture on earth—can make female contestants feel that they are running a sexualized gauntlet of unwelcome tweets, emails, and Facebook messages replete with explicit sexual material.
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The group Creative Majority PAC, working with TaskForce and Revolution Messaging, launched the cheekily named advocacy campaign Wait Wait … Don't Cut Me, a pun on the popular quiz show "Wait Wait … Don't Tell Me" on NPR — which stands to lose a major source of funding if the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget is zeroed, as Trump's budget proposes.
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Other activities will include making holiday-themed crafts; going on a "Dueling Death of Hamilton" family tour in the galleries; taking part in history contests put on by the Big Quiz Show; and joining the Hudson River Ramblers — the storytellers Jonathan Kruk and Rich Bala — in music and narratives of the past, including the tale of the girl who outrode Paul Revere.
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It comes from Anne Fadiman's memoir about the life of her father, Clifton Fadiman, who was a midcentury public intellectual: host of the popular quiz show "Information Please," board member of the Book-of-the-Month Club and Encyclopaedia Britannica, author of "The Joys of Wine" and "The Lifetime Reading Plan" and other monuments to the glories of Western civilization.
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Among his other films are "Baby It's You" (1983), by John Sayles; "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988), by Frank Oz; "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992), by Mr. Coppola; "Quiz Show" (1994), by Mr. Redford; "Working Girl" and "Primary Colors," both by Nichols; Volker Schlöndorff's television adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Dustin Hoffman; and music videos for Madonna, including "Papa Don't Preach" (1986), directed by James Foley.
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" — were on brand for the 70-year-old New York native who enjoyed a 15-year career in Major League Baseball before America entered World War II.Sports columnist John Kieran called Berg "The Professor" on account of his reputation as an Ivy League-educated linguist and lawyer, a mentor and coach to younger MLB players, and a newspaper-devouring raconteur who earned fanfare as a repeat contestant on the NBC radio quiz show "Information Please.
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