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Over the course of two episodes of the primetime quiz show "Twenty One," Oberholtzer amassed the record...
...Twenty One" is a remake of a 1950s game show that was mired in scandal. It became the focus of the popular 1994 movie, Quiz Show, starring Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro...
...again in politics. Having run just once, and lost, in a 1978 House race, he ousted a favored incumbent Governor and then won a thumping re-election four years later. Now he is trying to do it again. After flubbing a reporter's foreign-policy pop quiz in the fall and seeming to be in over his head at those early debates in December, Bush has begun to erase some of the doubts about whether he has the sure-footedness to be a winning presidential candidate...
...Washington working as an investigator for a congressional committee when rumors of quiz-show fraud began to surface. An investigation in New York City had ended, the New York Times reported, with the grand jury reports mysteriously impounded, their contents kept secret. Its suspicions aroused, the committee sent me to New York, where we began an inquiry that was to expose a massive fraud...
When the hearings ended, the quiz shows disappeared. But they were not dead. They had merely entered a 40-year sleep, destined to reappear in our own, wildly materialistic time. And as the times are different, so are the quizzes. Today's shows are almost certainly not fixed. Not only would it be impossible to keep such fraud secret in this age, when every rumor finds a ready voice, but it is not necessary. The questions are too easy, answerable by a person of modest intelligence and learning. The early quizzes asked for information almost no one could provide...