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This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [1] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule. A moniker also means a nickname or personal name.
Host Jack Barry and contestant Charles Van Doren on the set of Twenty-One in 1957. NBC took the show off the air after the scandals made headlines; its production was dramatized in the 1994 film Quiz Show. The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular American television quiz ...
Definition was one of the longest-running game shows in Canada and helped secure venerable host Jim Perry his iconic status. Only about 850 of its 1,950 episodes still exist, due to a then-common practice known as wiping. Beginning in the 1980s Definition encouraged viewers to send in their own puzzles via mail, with at least one chosen per ...
In 1997, he presented the regional sports game show On the Ball in the Granada ITV region. In 1998 he presented the nationally broadcast ITV daytime game show Waffle and also co-hosted Grudge Match with Lisa Rogers from 1999 to 2000. In 2000, Weir replaced Roy Walker as the host of the TV game show Catchphrase. During his first series, he broke ...
In 1956, after tuning in to a new program, Twenty-One, he was intrigued by the questions and wrote to Dan Enright, the show's producer, asking to be a contestant.The qualifying trivia test took a grueling three-and-a-half hours; Stempel got 251 out of 363 questions right, which he claimed was the highest score ever achieved.
William Lawrence Cullen [1] (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. [2] Known for appearing on game shows and later as a prolific game show host, he hosted 23 shows, earning the nickname "Dean of Game Show Hosts". [3]
He moved to Washington, D.C. in 1973 to host the talk show Take It From Here for WRC-TV, where he remained for the next three years. Ron Greenberg was developing the game show Showdown for ABC and hired Peck to host the pilot. Although ABC did not pick up the show, in 1974 Greenberg taped a second pilot and the show was retitled The Big ...
Dotto debuted on January 6, 1958 at 11:30 a.m., replacing the long-running (and controversial) Warren Hull game Strike It Rich.Facing Bob Barker's Truth or Consequences on NBC and local programming on ABC (who had not programmed at 11:30 in three years), within six months Dotto became the highest-rated quiz program of the year, and Narz achieved a popularity equal to that of Hal March on The ...