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Far Out (game show where two teams did tasks in several European cities; the week's winning team, voted by the TV audience, went to a different city for the following week; the losers had to come back to Finland) Giljotiini (quiz show where you need to know who doesn't know) Kymppitonni (word guessing game) Maailman ympäri (geographical quiz show)
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The 2009 World Quizzing Championships were held on June 6, 2009 at more than 45 locations, including 10 venues in the US, 9 in India and 4 in Russia. Kevin Ashman regained his title and became the first ever to win 4 World Quizzing Championships. Second again was Ronny Swiggers from Belgium. Third was last year's champion Mark Bytheway.
What in the World? is a 1951 to 1965 television quiz show hosted by Dr. Froelich Rainey in which the scholar-contestants tried to identify artifacts. [1] The objects were primarily archaeological in nature, but also consisted of fossils, ethnographic items and more. [2] [3] It premiered on October 7, 1951 on CBS.
Countries of the world that have or had their own version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (painted in purple) As of February 2020. This table lists all international variants in the television game show franchise Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? that have been broadcast since the debut of the original British version of the show on 4 September 1998.
The site's most popular quiz, the "Countries of the World Quiz", has been played over 35 million times. [29] The site has also been mentioned in the Hindustan Times as a "great trivia hotspot", [ 30 ] and some of its geography quizzes have been featured in various YouTube videos, including one by British YouTuber GeoWizard .
The first known example of a panel show in the world is the radio program Information Please, which debuted on 17 May 1938 on the NBC Blue Network.An evolution of the quiz show format, Information Please added the key element of a panel of celebrities, largely writers and intellectuals, but also actors and politicians.
A quiz is a form of mind sport in which people attempt to answer questions correctly on one or several topics. Quizzes can be used as a brief assessment in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and skills, or simply as a hobby. They can also be televised for entertainment purposes, often in a game show format.