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...bargaining with his three potential partners, all small and conservative religious parties, to get the support he needed. Begin brought up the difficulty in an unusual setting in Tel Aviv. Wearing a black skullcap and sweating under the bright lights, he stood before an audience of the National Bible Quiz, a sort of Israeli College Bowl for scholars of the Old Testament. After telling the group how hard he had been working to try to put a new government together, the Prime Minister declared: "But the Bible is so rejuvenating, I feel quite young and strong." In fact, he joked...
...realm of gifts, indeed, where the royal wedding began to look less like a wide-screen spectacular and more like the world's most deluxe television quiz show. Without undue straining, the voice of a master of ceremonies comes filtering through the imagination, asking the traditional question-"Johnny, tell us what's in the jackpot for this wonderful couple"-and getting, from an agitated announcer who sounds like a tobacco auctioneer just graduated from broadcast school, a far from conventional reply...
...less fortunate prisoner of the personality racket is Alvin Pepler, a Newarker known as the "Jewish Marine" when he starred briefly on a TV quiz show during the '50s. Pepler's problem: he was dumped from the show when he wouldn't take a dive. He now wants Zuckerman to help publish his book about the scandal. In addition to this pathetic pest, there is a blackmailer who grows indignant when Nathan refuses to pay $50,000 to prevent the kidnaping of his mother: "Don't get high and mighty with me," says the caller. "Because...
...Crimson trivia quiz was compiled by Michelle D. Healy. Bruce Schoenfeld, Gwen Knapp, Jeffrey R. Toobin and James S. McGuire...
Fred Friendly, once president of CBS News, regards the ambush technique as "probably the dirtiest-trick department of broadcast journalism." He fears that abuses by television newsgatherers may bring on a new public attack comparable to the one spurred by television's earlier quiz scandals...