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Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper

Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper was an RTÉ television quiz show show presented by Brendan O'Carroll and also starring Gerry Browne that was broadcast for two series between 1996 and 1998.

Champagne for Caesar

Champagne for Caesar is a 1950 American comedy film about a radio quiz show, directed by Richard Whorf and written by Fred Brady and Hans Jacoby.

Dudley J. LeBlanc

LeBlanc humorously recounted his French-language campaigning, as a contestant on Groucho Marx's NBC television quiz show, You Bet Your Life.

Jon Hutman

Some of his film credits in that field include Heathers (1989), A River Runs Through It (1992), Quiz Show (1994), French Kiss (1995), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Coyote Ugly (2000) and Rock of Ages (2012).

Millionaire

Millionaire is also a common nickname of the international quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, first hosted in the UK by Chris Tarrant, and later in the U.S. by Regis Philbin and Meredith Vieira.

Monica Rose

Monica Rose (11 February 1948 - 2 February 1994) was a British TV quiz show hostess on Double Your Money and The Sky's the Limit, both presented by Hughie Green.

Samuel J. Seymour

Just two months before his death, at age 95, he appeared on the February 9, 1956 episode of the CBS TV quiz show I've Got a Secret as a mystery subject, in an episode in which Lucille Ball made an unusual appearance as a guest panelist.

Steven Derounian

This event is presented in Robert Redford's 1994 film Quiz Show, where Derounian is shown harshly criticizing Charles Van Doren, after he admits to cheating on the TV game show Twenty One.


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Aconcagua

It was also mentioned as the correct answer to a quiz show question in the 1969 Disney film, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

Ai wa Katsu

It was used as the opening theme of quiz show aired on TV Asahi during the summer 1990, and released as the second single from the album.

Alan Coren

He was invited to be one of the regular panellists on BBC Radio 4's new satirical quiz show, The News Quiz.

Alfred Gruenther

After retiring from the Army, he served as president of American Red Cross from 1957 to 1964 and was a member of the Draper Committee, even appearing as a guest on February 10, 1957's successful TV quiz show What's My Line.

Andrew O'Keefe

From 2007 until 2009, O'Keefe hosted the quiz show The Rich List and in 2006 took the helm of Weekend Sunrise, which he currently hosts on Saturday and Sunday mornings with journalist Monique Wright.

Anna Mahler

While married to Fistoulari, but separated, she appeared on the 2 January 1952 radio quiz show (and the 3rd January 1952 TV edition) "You Bet Your Life."

Barry Simmons

Barry Simmons (born 1948) is a quiz show contestant and was the winner of the BBC Two show Are You an Egghead? and as a result became the sixth Egghead, joining Kevin Ashman, C. J. de Mooi, Daphne Fowler, Christopher Hughes and Judith Keppel on the regular show on 2 December 2008.

Bill Beaumont

He went on to be another captain, this time on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport.

Bob Dyer

It was first sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and later by BP, and was the first big quiz show on national television.

Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper

Production company Frontier Films devised Brendan O'Carroll's Hot Milk and Pepper as a comedy quiz show vehicle for Brendan O'Carroll.

Ciara Whelan

In 2006, she began presenting with Channel 6 (now 3e), fronting their live-interactive quiz show, Quiz 6.

Danijay

His second single, "I Fiori di Lillà" (The Lilacs) featured Italian singer-songwriter Alberto Fortis and was played on the Italian quiz show Passa Parola.

Dario Baldan Bembo

His main hit as a songwriter was the song "Amico è", ending theme song of the Mike Bongiorno's quiz show SuperFlash, which later became a widely spread football chant.

Dawid van Lill

They also compiled questions for the M-Net sports quiz programme Going for Gold, as well as for two series of the SABC 3 quiz show Greed, e.tv’s Mahala on e and he was a consultant and researcher for SABC2’s Flinkdink and SABC3’s Weakest Link.

Dirty Laundry Live

Dirty Laundry Live is an Australian comedic television quiz show hosted by Lawrence Mooney.

Dotto

The Dotto revelations prompted the New York Journal-American, at last, to take seriously the previously-presented accusations by deposed Twenty One champion Herb Stempel that the popular nighttime quiz had been rigged, and the quiz show scandals were on in earnest.

Emily Booth

She also hosted the now defunct Quiz Night Live, a premium rate call-in quiz show, shown on satellite/Freeview channel Ftn.

Erland and the Carnival

The track "Everything Came Too Easy" was inspired by a speech by Charles Van Doren to the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, a United States Congress subcommittee, investigating a rigging scandal on the quiz show Twenty One.

Gerard Tierney

The low timbre of his voice and his infectious laughter were unmistakable and the RTE radio Quiz show - Twenty Questions- which he hosted also proved to be another firm family favourite.

Glenn Ridge

In April 1991, Ridge joined the Nine Network as host of the prime time quiz show Sale of the Century with co-host Jo Bailey, taking over from Tony Barber and Alyce Platt.

Häusler

Cherie Hausler, Australian TV presenter of the Nine Network quiz show The Mint (Australia)

Hillary Howard

Howard also took over hosting the quiz show It's Academic after Mac McGarry, who hosted the show for fifty years, retired in 2011.

IBM Research

IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnetic storage, the relational database, UPC barcodes and Watson, the question-answering computing system that won a match against human champions on the Jeopardy! television quiz show.

Jabab Kinte Chai

Inspired by the British game show Sell Me the Answer it is basically a quiz show with a mix of bargaining.

Jan Struther

In the 1940s she was a frequent guest panelist on the popular American radio quiz show Information Please, where she provided a warm and witty presence.

Jana Bach

In 2006, Jana Bach took a job hosting the late-night call-in quiz show Lanotte on the commercial German channel 9Live.

Logi Bergmann Eiðsson

Logi was a sports correspondent, and later news reporter, anchor, producer and deputy head of news for Sjónvarpið; in addition to hosting the quiz show Gettu betur for six years.

Lydia Dean Pilcher

After receiving an MFA at New York University Graduate Institute of Film and Television in 1983, Pilcher began her career making documentaries and working in the production department of feature films including After Hours (dir: Martin Scorsese); F/X (dir: Robert Mandel); Round Midnight (dir: Bertrand Tavernier); Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (dir: John Hughes); Mississippi Burning (dir: Alan Parker); and Quiz Show (dir: Robert Redford).

Mac McGarry

Maurice James "Mac" McGarry (June 15, 1926 – December 12, 2013) was the longtime host of the television quiz show It's Academic, which airs in Washington, D.C. on NBC-owned WRC-TV.

Matt Arnold

He then worked as a runner on the ITV daytime quiz show Talk About, before returning to college to study journalism at Highbury College in Hampshire.

Neena Gupta

She also hosted the Indian version of the television quiz show The Weakest Link, Kamzor Kadii Kaun.

Nick Weir

In 1997, he presented the programme On the ball and presented a daytime quiz show on ITV, called Waffle in 1998, and also teamed up with Lisa Rogers to present the show Grudge match from 1999 to 2000.

Nina Violić

She also hosted the Croation version of the quiz show The Weakest Link.

Penny to a Million

Penny to a Million was a primetime American television game show (at the time more commonly called a "quiz show") that aired on ABC from May 4 to October 19, 1955 on Wednesday nights, for alternate sponsors Brown & Williamson's Raleigh cigarettes, and W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company.

People's Postcode Lottery

From 2008-2010, People’s Postcode Lottery sponsored the Postcode Challenge, a quiz show hosted by Angus Purden on STV.

Rolf Kirkvaag

Among the shows he hosted were the children's show Titten Tei and the radio quiz show 20 spørsmål (20 Questions).

Roy Blount, Jr.

As of 2011 he is featured regularly as a panelist on the NPR news/comedy quiz show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!.

Ship Street, Oxford

At the eastern end once stood the QI Building, a member's club, bookshop and café associated with the comedic quiz show QI television series on BBC2, and established by the comedy producer John Lloyd.

Stephen Pound

In May 2005, Pound appeared on British TV quiz show Have I Got News For You and in December of that year in a special edition of University Challenge.

Stoopnagle and Budd

He did the goofy quiz show Quixie Doodles on Mutual and CBS (1941-44), continuing through the 1940s with The Colonel (1943), Stoopnagle's Stooperoos (1943), Burns and Allen (1943), substituting for Bob Hawk (1947), Vaughn Monroe's Camel Caravan (1947-48) and Duffy's Tavern.

Sylvan Richardson

After training as a masseur, in 2009 he made a guest appearance on the BBC comedy quiz show Would I Lie To You?, in which he revealed that he was cyclist Sir Chris Hoy's masseur.

The Love Specialist

Diana Dixon, a Texan girl (played by Dors), wins a quiz show jackpot, and uses her winnings (a prize in cash and a brand new Cadillac car) for a trip to Italy.

Think Fast

Think Fast!, a children's quiz show on the Nickelodeon network

Tord Øverland Knudsen

The Wombats appeared on an episode of the Australian music quiz show Spicks and Specks, hosted by Adam Hills.

Tractor Monkeys

Tractor Monkeys is an Australian comedic television quiz show hosted by Merrick Watts.

What I Go to School For

On 4 November 2012, Michelle Blair appeared as the correct answer in the "line-up" section of BBC TV comedy music quiz show Never Mind the Buzzcocks.