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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network's Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim's Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences...
Series
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A self-proclaimed genius (Coleman) enters a TV quiz show. When he runs the jackpot up to $40 million, the sponsors panic and bring in Holm, a femme fatale as smart as Coleman, to foil him. Price portrays the wacky sponsor.
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Every week on Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, a high point of the public radio news quiz is when a celebrity guest must answer questions on a topic totally outside his or her area of expertise...This collection includes some of the best brightest and most entertaining guests and wackiest topics from recent shows.
Author
Publisher
Gallery 13, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this moving graphic memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupperman traces the life of his reclusive father--the once-world-famous Joel Kupperman, Quiz Kid. That his father is slipping into dementia--seems to embrace it, really--means that the past he would never talk about might be erased forever. Joel Kupperman became one of the most famous children in America during World War II as one of the young geniuses on the series Quiz...
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