Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even pass a simple foreign policy quiz," he said...
...four major countries--India, Pakistan, Taiwan and Chechnya--and could only come up with the last name of the Taiwanese president. Ignoring the fact that Bush didn't know Lee Teng-hui's full name, we can see that he scored a disappointing 25 percent on that little pop quiz. His academic record in this particular case would actually overestimate the extent of his knowledge, a revelation that can be buttressed by his recent confusion of Slovenia and Slovakia and inability to distinguish a Greek from a Grecian. (Bradley, on the other hand, was smart enough to refuse to play...
After August's stunning Nielsen success, ABC's quiz show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is back for another two weeks. Starting last Sunday, viewers could once again watch contestants sweat over deceptively simple multiple-choice questions. Hosted by the ever-suave Regis Philbin, the show has yet to produce a grand prize winner...
Still don't know if you want to play? Take the simple quiz below and judge for yourself. If you get stuck, feel free to call a friend or use the fifty-fifty option at the bottom of this column. But be warned, there are no lifelines. If you fall, you fall all the way to ground negative-costs-minus-revenue...
...turned down. But the Clark team's one-page proposal quickly appealed to Fox executive vice president Mike Darnell, who oversees the network's successful reality-based programming, such as World's Scariest Police Chases and When Good Pets Go Bad. In the market for a quiz show to pep up Fox's increasingly anemic-looking fall lineup, Darnell thought Clark's idea would work if it employed an edgier title and execution--contestants not only cooperating but also competing with one another. Thus while the zeitgeist twitched did All for One become Greed...