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Originally, television quiz shows Like The $64,000 Question tested arcane knowledge known only by the overeducated few. This week's special called The I Love TV Test (ABC, May 19, 8 p.m. E.D.T.) tests a knowledge of television history so superficial that even the most desultory viewer should score at least a B-plus. It is a multiple-choice TV trivia quiz that is merely trivial. Sample question: What was Lucille Ball's baby's name? 1) Little Desi, 2) Little Lucy, 3) Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What Was Lucy's Baby's Name? | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Another quiz show currently exploiting TV nostalgia is Family Feud, whose host is the oleaginous Richard Dawson, formerly the scheming Cockney Newkirk on Hogan 's Heroes. This daily show has been featuring sitcom families such as the Bradys of The Brady Bunch and the Cleavers from Leave It to Beaver. During the program, the performers behave much as they did on their original shows, fostering the illusion that TV families never break up or die, but live on blissfully in real life as well as on reruns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: What Was Lucy's Baby's Name? | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Thanks for the quiz Robert Rosenberg Senior Writer Development Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quizmaster | 4/12/1983 | See Source »

...celebrate the opening of the 1998 baseball season. The Crimson invites its readers to try our around spring baseball quiz: Ten points for each correct answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Sports Cube's 1983 Baseball Quiz | 4/6/1983 | See Source »

Pistelli presented a standup routine on growing up with a Jewish mother and an Italian father. Danby performed a Star Trek parody and Kjellgren a mock quiz program and a spoof briefing on Libyan weaponry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rising Stars | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

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