Word: ahmet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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webRIOT (weekdays, 5 p.m. E.T./P.T.) is, frankly, a fairly unremarkable quiz show: four contestants watch videos and answer rapid-fire questions from the relentlessly mugging Ahmet Zappa, on a set that's a cross between Sprockets and a Sega video game. What is interesting about it is its viewers. In each of its daily airings (one for each coast), as many as 25,000 of them will compete simultaneously, online, to post the fastest correct answers in order to win prizes like MP3 players and plaster their names on TV on the high scorers' list...
...venue for voluptuous women in Lycra to go at one another on Rollerblades. Dancing women without Rollerblades--or much clothing--are the main attraction on Happy Hour, a relatively innocuous, if boring, hourlong USA variety show that made its debut in April, with Frank Zappa's sons Dweezil and Ahmet as its hosts...
...military and paramilitary forces went on shelling and burning the villages of Druar, Mihaliq and Shallc, as well as the villages of Qyqavica--Beuk, Stroc and Zhilivoda and the Kosumaj and Haxhaj quarters in Stanoc i Poshtm. Serbian paramilitaries of Prilluzha machine gunned the houses of Rrahman Plakolli and Ahmet Muhaxheri in Stanoc i Poshtm, whose families with 137 other families fled during the night...
...honored juniors are: Charlene S. Ahn '98, Ahmet S. Berker '98, Agnes Dunogue '98, David F. Elmer '98, Narenda K. Ghosh '98, Clifford M. Ginn '98, Robin S. Goldstein '98, Carrie E. Grimes '98, James M. Higbie '98, Jackson, Johari, David A. Lambert '98, Kenneth Y. Liu '98, Jay P. Makadia '98, David W. Marcus '98, McDermott, Karthik Muralidharan '98, David E. Petrain '98, Jinesh N. Shah '98, Sherman, Shirin A. Sinnar '97, Darlene Smith '98, Teleman and Brant K. Wong...
...rock 'n' roll. "I have been subjected--I guess that's the word--to that music by my children for years," he says. "So we have lots of records at home. But I never played them very much." Yet after Atlantic Records co-chairman Ahmet Ertegun and Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner took him on a trip to Graceland and New Orleans to learn more about rock, Pei got interested. (He now listens to some rock, though he admits it's mostly oldies. "I haven't gone very far beyond the Beatles," he says...