Word: quiz
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...indifferent father. So the U.S. investigators unpacked a set of questions often used in custody cases. The examination, delivered orally, is stuffed with minutiae: What size shoes does your child wear? Who are his friends? What are his teachers' names? Juan Miguel, sources say, not only passed the quiz, he painted a portrait of a deep and emotional relationship. Investigators found something else as well: a man who still honestly believes in Castro and the system that he built. "This country is where I can teach my son the values I want him to learn," Juan Miguel explained to TIME...
With ABC running Who Wants to Be a Millionaire three days a week and the other major networks airing prime-time quiz shows, professional contestants around the country are enjoying a gold rush that would make an Internet entrepreneur jealous. Daniel Avila used to have to make a phone call at least to get on a game show. Avila, who began his quiz-show career in 1974 on Joker's Wild, had since appeared on shows like Jeopardy! and Sale of the Century, so he knew the ropes. But in these contestant-needy times, he actually got a call from...
...keys to the success of these shows is the decision to use sub-Jeopardy! questions. "People feel 'I'm better than them,' while in the '50s you may have felt more comfortable saying you had never seen such a smart guy in your neighborhood as you saw on a quiz show," says NBC West Coast president Scott Sassa. Herb Stempel, the one who blew the whistle on the old Twenty-One, has a less upbeat take. "They want the people in the audience to pat themselves on the back and say, 'Gee, I knew the answer,'" he says. "The whole...
Millionaire's interactivity is very merchandise friendly, but most people think viewers tuned in in the first place simply because of all those zeroes the show gives away. "The drama on television at this point is so pitifully synthetic that the only real drama is on the quiz show," says Ben Stein, the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only...
...quiz show promising an astonishing payoff debuts on network television during the summer doldrums. The new prime-time entry attracts good ratings and earns a place on the fall schedule, at which point it becomes a national craze and TV's No. 1 hit. Competitors scramble to come up with big-money quiz shows of their own, offering richer pots and more intricate contest rules. The year...