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If you have a Herst-Argyle station in your area, you are familiar with their websites....www.theomahachannel.com, etc.
Tom Moor presents his quiz:
http://www.theiowachannel.com/quizzes/index.html (http://\"http://www.theiowachannel.com/quizzes/index.html\")
Note: Some of the questons have a very, very, low percentage of "right" answers.
Look for one by myself in the near future.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 10:20 PM\']If you have a Herst-Argyle station in your area, you are familiar with their websites....www.theomahachannel.com, etc.
Tom Moor presents his quiz:
http://www.theiowachannel.com/quizzes/index.html (http://\"http://www.theiowachannel.com/quizzes/index.html\")
Note: Some of the questons have a very, very, low percentage of "right" answers.
Look for one by myself in the near future.
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I got a 70% on it....I very stupidly missed the question with the poem, the question about "Picture This" and "Tattletales".
Of course, some of those are ones only game show geeks would most likely get..Looking forward to your quiz eventually as well, Mark.
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Nice quiz, some nitpicks: "Gambit" ended in 76, not 77, "Blackout" lasted less than 26 weeks, etc.; but who with a significant other would even notice?
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I got a 10/10 (don't know if that's a good thing here), but other than the small errors (like Jimmy said, no one outside of us would know or care), but it was an interesting quiz. Looked like it was tailor-made for this group. :-)
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Like the 1992 CBS late night relationship game, I had A Perfect Score. :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Proud "Chuckie Baby")
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10 out of 10! My girlfriend chuckled as I celebrated...by which I mean I was completely alone and realized how stupid my dance would look to anybody who might pass by the window.
Good quiz though, somebody did their homework to throw that one together.
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Only four out of 10. Hmmm, maybe I do have a life after all ;-)
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My nitpick is with the Tattletales question. Sometimes they played so fast that they were able to squeeze in an extra question, so technically it was possible that a couple could win even more than the correct answer that was given.
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I just took the quiz myself and got 9 out of 10. The only one I missed was the question about "Picture This".
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I could swear we tackled this quiz a while back.
You'll note I'm too lazy to dig up the thread.
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I managed 6/10 ... I missed the question on "Picture This" (mainly because it was a show I wasn't familiar with, looks like it's time for another sitdown with the "encyclopedia"), the Tattletales question (because I can't add at 5am for some reason), and then both Pyramid questions (I never knew that Billy Crystal had posted such a time...and for some reason I don't remember Blackout replacing pyramid, but alas it happens)
So I guess I'm a slightly above average geek.
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I scored 80% on it. I too missed the Picture This question but I dumbfoundedly missed the Jackpot! question. The Trump Card question was tricky but I nailed it. Alao, to clarify the Tattletales question, the final score could concievably be $2,050 if an extra question was asked, however, $1,750 is usually considered the "max" on that show anyway.
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[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Apr 20 2005, 04:30 AM\']I scored 80% on it. I too missed the Picture This question but I dumbfoundedly missed the Jackpot! question. The Trump Card question was tricky but I nailed it. Alao, to clarify the Tattletales question, the final score could concievably be $2,050 if an extra question was asked, however, $1,750 is usually considered the "max" on that show anyway.
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THe max score would be $1900, because when they played an extra question, that question was always worth $150. Did any couple ever win higher than $1675 for their rooting section(David Doyle and spouse and Isabel Sanford and her son are two duos that amassed $1675)
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THe max score would be $1900, because when they played an extra question, that question was always worth $150. Did any couple ever win higher than $1675 for their rooting section(David Doyle and spouse and Isabel Sanford and her son are two duos that amassed $1675)
Actually, on one episode there was a maximum of $2050 - on a 1983 episode with Jerry Mathers as a guest they played 6 questions. GSN has aired it and several people have it in their collections.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody won more than the $1675, but there was a chance...in a 1983 episode with Ken Howard, two couples ended with $0, and Ken had a chance at the whole $1750 - but he missed the last question and got $1450 instead.
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Back to the quiz for a second...I got 9 out of ten. I forget exactly which question tripped me up, but I did somehow know the CNR question (how I don't know).
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8/10. Fun quiz. Blew Tattletales and the Pyramid record time. There has to be more than just one of us who ever remember watching an episode of Picture This, isn't there? Hopefully?
The Lone Fossil
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' date=\'Apr 20 2005, 12:36 AM\']I could swear we tackled this quiz a while back.
You'll note I'm too lazy to dig up the thread.[/quote]
It's very similar to one I remember from a while back too, but I don't think it's exactly the same. To the general entertainment-beat writer, there aren't that many interesting facts about game shows, so the same ones keep floating to the top.
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[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 10:44 PM\']Like the 1992 CBS late night relationship game, I had A Perfect Score. :-)
Chuck Donegan (The Proud "Chuckie Baby")
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Preferred "Night"Games" to "Perfect Score" (both hosted by Jeff Marder and in the same time slot)
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Apr 20 2005, 10:20 AM\']8/10. Fun quiz. Blew Tattletales and the Pyramid record time. There has to be more than just one of us who ever remember watching an episode of Picture This, isn't there? Hopefully?
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THAT's the one that screwed me up! If anybody got that, either you deserve props or need to be committed (just kidding about that last part).
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...no plans for padded-wall interment yet, however, I have been approached by several museums....;-)
I'll double check my dates when I get home, but the one celebrity I remember being on the show was William Bendix (The Life Of Riley). That may have been one of his last appearances, as he died not long after.
For the curious, think the Password set. Two teams, a celeb and a civilian, divided by the host. About all the desk had on it was a set of three round scorekeeping lights under the teams, not much unlike the Face Is Familiar buzz-in lights. On their turn, one of the teammates stood behind the other, who scooted up to what came off to the viewers like an old overhead projector. Each side had their own drawing unit. I'm not sure if the viewing area was a screen or framed in, or whether the light just shone off the stage wall. The standing player (with the picture of the item) gave instructions as the other drew until they could identify the object they were drawing. Very plain, very low-budget, but interesting.
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Swept, of course.
That Iowa Channel web site is run by Internet Broadcasting Systems, who also masters several other TV web sites for stations besides Hearst-Argyle, including NBC, all of which tend to share content. So it's not just Hearst-Argyle. Mike James of newsblues.com criticizes IBS sites of being confusingly designed and overgimmicky to the point of crashing computers--it's hard not to agree with him.
And I did see "Picture This." Probably would've liked it, but my mother thought it was another stupid game show (which did owe a slight debt to "Password") and I never saw it again. This was when there was only one TV in the house and there would not be a second one in my room. :)
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in a 1983 episode with Ken Howard, two couples ended with $0, and Ken had a chance at the whole $1750 - but he missed the last question and got $1450 instead.
Prolly because Bert's dutiful reminder of the fact psyched him out...the question was "Does your spouse think you should be more predictable, or less?"...Ken claimed that he was very predictable, yet he thought wife Margo would think he should be MORE predictable, and you know the result. :-(
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
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8/10 for me; missed on "Picture This" and the TT question.
But I got the Gambit question right, which is interesting since the only version I remember was the Las Vegas one.
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I got 10 out of 10...on the Beverly Hillbillies quiz (and even that one had a mistake; the Clampetts got a lot more than $25 million for their oil). I only managed 7/10 on the game show one (I missed the three questions about who hosted what show - for some reason, I thought Theisman hosted Trump Card).
-- Don
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7 out of 10!!
Great quiz.
Ben
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A measly 6/10. I'll plead extenuating circumstances, as we didn't get American channels ABC, CBS, or NBC until well into the 80's. Only KVOS would creep in from Bellingham.
Now, if they would have asked about Definition, Reach for the Top, or This is the Law, I'd have aced it. :)
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A coworker pointed this out to me on our local version (thepittsburghchannel.com) the other day. I tried it and ended up with 9/10. I missed the Gambit one. Having never seen the show nor read the opening spiel, I had no idea. It sounded like an opening Card Sharks poem with a bad rhyme, so that's what I guessed. I only got the Picture This question because I'd read this recent thread (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=7548\") and clicked on the link about the home game on eBay. Otherwise I would probably have picked Buddy Hackett.
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And I'm one of the 93% who bombed the TT question. Otherwise, got 'em all. And I GUESSED on the "Picture This" question.
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Just took the Restaurant quiz I got 5 out of 8 right..I've been at the first Wendy's In Columbus.Like a Museum almost..But its still operating
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' date=\'Apr 19 2005, 09:31 PM\']Of course, some of those are ones only game show geeks would most likely get..Looking forward to your quiz eventually as well, Mark.
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Well, I got an email this week saying the quiz will be published on the 30th. Hope y'all enjoy it...it should be avaiable on any Hearst-Argyle station's website.