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	Quiz show scandals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were the result of the revelation that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposed competition.
		American Broadcasting Co., Inc. that quiz shows were not a form of gambling paved the way for their introduction to television.
		In the 1950s, it was common practice for game shows and other shows to be sponsored solely by one company, even to the extent of having the company's name in the title of the show.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quiz_show_scandals (1848 words)

	Quiz Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
		Quiz Show was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Paul Scofield), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.
		The film is the first major picture based on the 1950s controversy that rocked American television and nearly led to the ruination of quiz-show producers Jack Barry (who was also Twenty-One host and here played by McDonald) and Dan Enright (Paymer).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quiz_Show (543 words)

	Images - Quiz Show as Persuasive Docudrama - Steve Lipkin
		In this view the quiz show scandal in general and the case of Charles Van Doren in particular reveal a moral weakness in the American social fabric, exposing a willingness to compromise intellectual integrity and public trust for the sake of celebrity and material gain
		Quiz Show further departs from established historical accounts by asserting that Van Doren was in fact intellectually and visually comparable to the scandal's primary investigator.
		The leading two-shot shows both men to be dressed almost identically as they walk and discuss how they've come to be on opposite sides of legal and moral issues stemming from the choice of wealth and fame on the one hand, and retaining one's integrity on the other.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue01/features/quiz.htm (1850 words)

	Quiz Show (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Goofs: Anachronisms: During the "Today Show" interview, flags are visible as the camera pans to the shot of the crowd.
		Although `Quiz Show' is entirely concerned with morality and the nature of moral choices, I can't think of a single moment when it isn't obvious whether or not a character is doing the right thing.
		Here's most of the ethics in a nutshell: the star contestants of a popular quiz show are cheating, with the connivance of the producers, the sponsor, and the network.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110932 (491 words)

	Quiz Shows of the Fifties - Twenty One, $64,000 Question. Price is Right and more
		Although there were no laws prohibiting the "fixing" of game shows, both the networks and their sponsors acknowledged the public's distaste and kept game shows off the air for quite some time.
		The guest was lured to the show under a pretext and then Edwards would exclaim, "This is Your Life!" Sometimes the honoree was a famous person and other times a worthy one.
		"Quiz Show" is presented in its entirety in this program--including commercials for Geritol and Sominex.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /quizshow.htm (886 words)

	THE KNOW-IT-ALLS.
		Despite dabbling in every corner of a liberal arts education, Quiz Bowl is a test of total recall that rewards mental pack rats, not poets, and so it shouldn't be surprising that the lifers of NAQT lack a similarly poetic sense of self-promotion.
		Quiz bowl is something I've always wanted to do, and I know people have tried to do similar things but have never been able to make it work.
		His prescription was a hybrid game show ("because no one says 'quiz show' anymore; the networks hate the sound of it") and reality show about the players' lives on campus.
	www.blacktable.com /lindsay060127.htm (4038 words)

	Quiz Show (Remastered) (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quiz Show was among the five nominees for Best Picture at the 1995 Academy Awards, along with some other truly exceptional pieces of cinematic excellence.
		Rather than a true quiz style test of the competitors' knowledge it is, in the words of the network heavies, entertainment.
		Unfortunately, it may be too late with the show's producers, the network, and the sponsors already beginning to wash their hands of the whole saga.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4076 (1282 words)

	Quiz Show Essay by Hadley Ajana
		The admission is a satisfying cathartic resolution for the many story lines woven into the plot of Robert Redford’s 1994 film Quiz Show about Van Doren and the scandal he was at the center of in 1959.
		Quiz Show is the story of three men.
		Stempel is a long-winning contestant on the quiz show Twenty-One who turns bitter after being forced to lose when ratings drop.
	www.theintrovertzcoach.com /quiz_show_review.html (1211 words)

	Amazon.com: Quiz Show (1994) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Directed by Robert Redford and nominated for several Academy Awards, this 1994 film tells the true story of the quiz show "21" in the 1950s and how the contestants were given the answers ahead of time and coached for the show.
		"Quiz Show" has been described, in turns, as a political thriller, a morality play, a parable on the loss of innocence and a fact-based drama; and it is all that, and more.
		Producers of the TV quiz show, Twenty One (1956-58), didn't seem to care how many contestants they corrupted as they pursued their goal to get the highest ratings possible.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004RR92?v=glance (1877 words)

	Quiz Show Scandals
		Broadcast live and in prime time, the big money quiz show presented itself as a high pressure test of knowledge under the heat of kleig lights and the scrutiny of fifty-five million participant-observers.
		By the standards of the dumbed-down game shows of a later epoch, the intellectual content of the 1950s quiz shows was downright erudite.
		Matching an incongruous area of expertise to the right personality was a favorite hook, as in the cases of Richard McCutchen, the rugged marine captain who was an expert on French cooking, or Dr. Joyce Brothers, not then an icon of pop psychology, whose encyclopedic knowledge of boxing won her (legitimately) $132,000.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/Q/htmlQ/quizshowsca/quizshowsca.htm (2102 words)

	Quiz Show Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		The quiz show scandal of the 1950s is played out, as an investigator discovers that a popular contestant is being given the answers in order to boost television ratings.
		The show, after all, was one of the premiere television shows of its era — that is, until scandal erupted and Twenty-One went bust.
		It's 1958, and the quiz show era is riding high at a time when both education and knowledge for its own sake are fashionable.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?mid=7654 (861 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Quiz Show (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The audience doesn't want to see the contestants - they want to see the money." Dialogue from "Quiz Show" Amilestone in the decline of American values came in the mid-1950s, when it was revealed that many of the top TV quiz shows were rigged - that contestants were being supplied with the answers.
		"Quiz Show" remembers it was also a decade when intellectuals were respected, when a man could be famous because he was a poet and a teacher, when TV audiences actually watched shows on which experts answered questions about Shakespeare and Dickens, science and history.
		Charles Van Doren lied on a quiz show, and then the standards that created that quiz show went on to infect ever-widening circles, until Oliver North could lie to Congress, and then run for it.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19940916/REVIEWS/409160302 (1002 words)

	NPR : The Quiz Show, Present at the Creation
		Clifton's daughter Anne Fadiman remembers her father's reaction to the show: "I think he thought it was going to be great fun, especially when it was explained what kind of panelists were going to be on the show.
		And because the show was taped in advance and edited, host Groucho Marx was given some room to maneuver as well, and the show's most memorable moments often came during his improvisations.
		Some of these shows have had a more obvious impact on the scores of other quiz shows that have followed, but each was founded on an unshakable premise.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/quizshow (1106 words)

	The Political Quiz Show
		quiz to see where - and with whom - you really stand.
		Talk radio shows should be regulated to ensure both sides of a debate are represented, because talk radio has an unhealthy impact on the political process.
		It was written by Victor Kamber and Bradley S. O'Leary for the October 28-30, 1994 issue of USA Weekend.
	madrabbit.net /webrabbit/quizshow.html (460 words)

	Radio Active: Quiz Show - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Morgan does her show on Radio Active, revealing that she was the only one who signed up to compete for the high school quiz show while George practises his advertisement performances.
		Kevin thought that the quiz challenge was a waste of time, it would ruin his image, and that he was able to beat Morgan and he was forced by Ms.
		Morgan was able to get the answer (due to earlier in the show where Kevin talked about a baseball player which was the answer to this question) and could appear on the quiz show.
	www.tv.com /radio-active/quiz-show/episode/76276/summary.html (425 words)

	Quiz Show
		All of these shows had a different format but they did share one thing in common; "secret manipulation by the producers, who made sure that popular contestants were asked questions they would answer correctly and unpopular ones were asked questions they were likely to miss," according to Walter Karp (Karp 78).
		But when the show Twenty-One was accused of fixing the show and providing the contestants with the answers, the American people lost trust in these truly entertaining shows.
		Because television has a defining role in our culture today that was only being discovered when the quiz shows created mass audiences for the first time, the stakes now are higher than many anticipated when the scandal unfolded 35 years ago.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/quiz_show.htm (1960 words)

	Twenty One - 1956-58 NBC-TV and Quiz Show
		This set was used in the 1994 movie Quiz Show that focused on the scandal involving the Twenty One show.
		AND who would have believed it, the show, that was guilty of cheating that lead to the 1950's quiz show scandals, did return, and aired in 2000 on NBC-TV, with Maury Povich (born January 17, 1939, Washington, D.C.)as host.
		PBS televised a special called American Experience The Quiz Show Scandal that was a documentary about Twenty One and other TV game shows in the 1950s.
	www.geocities.com /alcus2/21.html (957 words)

	Quiz Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		was uncovered that the show was actually rigged and preferred candidates were fed the questions and answers before the show.
		Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), a young aspiring teacher at Columbia University, is watching the show and with his universal trivia knowledge, he decides to apply as a candidate for a similar, albeit easier show.
		Buena Vista Home Video’s DVD release of “Quiz Show” is a bare-bones disc, as most of their other releases.
	www.dvdreview.com /html/quiz_show.shtml (1155 words)

	The American Experience \| Quiz Show Scandal \| People & Events \| Charles Van Doren
		At that time, producers for the quiz show "Twenty-One" were looking for ways to bolster faltering ratings.
		In April of 1957, the quiz show celebrity signed a $150,000 three-year contract with NBC, which committed him to appearances as a guest on Steve Allen’s show, a guest host on the "Today Show," and a panelist on NBC radio’s "Conversations."
		When the quiz show scandals broke, Van Doren repeatedly asserted his innocence, repeating the lie to his lawyer, the district attorney, and even to the grand jury.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/quizshow/peopleevents/pande02.html (822 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Quiz Show [1995]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movie 'Quiz Show' is based upon the true story of 21 and the scandals surrounding a fix in the questions and answers to facilitate ratings.
		Quiz Show is a remarkably good film, presenting in vivid detail an important if disillusioning piece of Americana.
		Quiz Show is simply a fantastic view of not just the show 21, but of the entertainment world.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CYAH (2101 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Bob Monkhouse: Quiz show king
		One clergyman who criticised the show for being unsafe was invited to the studio - and hit by a bow that ricocheted off the studio lights.
		Another early 1990s ITV show, this was a forerunner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, with contestants answering questions and their cash prizes doubling each time - from £1 up to £6,400.
		By the late 1990s, Monkhouse replaced magician Paul Daniels as host of daytime BBC quiz Wipeout, another general knowledge-based quiz where contestants had to work out which were the correct answers and which the red herrings from a grid of 16 names.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3354055.stm (657 words)

	Jeopardy: An Inside Look at America's Favorite Quiz Show! DVD Review - MovieWeb
		If you explained the show to someone who has been in a coma for the past 21 years since the show has been on the air, the format might seem quite baffling.
		For instance, I didn't know the show had a previous run in the 60s and 70s before watching this, and there is some nice commentary by series creator Merv Griffin with how he came up with the show...
		They show us what is behind Trebek's lecturn; how he sees the clues on the board from behind the lecturn and how he can stop the taping if a problem arises.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/reviews/review.php?upc=043396128118&id=1052 (1726 words)

	Review: Quiz Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The clearest message of Quiz Show is a cynical truth: the entertainment industry is a business where ethics are meaningless when it comes to winning a ratings war.
		One of the reasons that Quiz Show is so extraordinary is because it spins a story as compelling on the personal level as on the national one.
		Viewers of Quiz Show, however, are likely to form the opposite impression -- that, in the end, there were no winners.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/q/quiz.html (698 words)

	QUIZ SHOW
		Producers are still manipulating shows to get big ratings and there are plenty of average Americans willing to do just about anything for fame and money.
		It's pretty clear what the network and the show's sponsors are getting in return for their behavior – oodles of cash.
		Redford captures this time in American history perfectly, from the clothes to the class struggles to the set of "Twenty-One." QUIZ SHOW proves to be somewhat ahead of it's time.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsQ/f_quiz_show.html (392 words)

	DVD.net : Quiz Show - DVD Review
		Quiz Show tells the true story of how contestant Herb Stempel (John Turturro) on the late 1950's quiz show "Twenty One" brought the fixed nature of the show to the awareness of the American people.
		However, as his popularity started to decline, the shows sponsors decided it was time to find a new contestant, one more popular with the audience.
		Fortunately for the shows executives, along comes Charles van Doren (Ralph Fiennes) - handsome, intelligent university lecturer with several degrees, and Stempel is asked to take a dive.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=191 (602 words)

	Wayne's Movie & Photo Blog: Quiz Show
		This quote from Dick Goodwin comes out near the end of Quiz Show, a true story of dishonesty in television back in the 50's.
		I kept in mind while watching Quiz Show that this is a Robert Redford film.
		Because the show involved a slot machine style pull of a lever bringing up three random cards, we thought that it could easily have been rigged.
	www.wayneklick.com /movie_blog/archive/000052.html (717 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Quiz Show (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The story is filled with examples of Republicans (plus the two Demopublicans who showed up for the hearing) saying nasty things about Brown, and even more examples of Brown tripping all over his own tongue in his pathetic attempts to defend himself.
		Only in a real show trial, a shabbily dressed and unshaven Brownie would have played his role a little better -- groveling and weeping and professing his undying love for the Great Vacationer, even as he confessed to screw ups he hadn't even been accused of.
		Some years back Robert Redford made a great little movie about the quiz show scandals of the 1950s, when Congress was shocked (shocked!) to discover that the contests were rigged, with the winners instructed to lose as soon as their audience appeal started to slip.
	billmon.org /archives/002194.html (713 words)

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