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...pitchman is willing to bet his salary he knows more than most folks. Stein will star in a new TV show on Comedy Central, Win Ben Stein's Money, where contestants vie for a share of his $5,000-a-show paycheck by beating him in a general-knowledge quiz. "I've been reading the almanac over and over," says Stein. "I know a lot already, but I hope none of my family is ever a contestant." (His father Herb was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Nixon.) Stein's frequent forays into show biz and his willingness...
...BUSINESS, April 28], often as much as 200 times the salary of the average factory worker. How does a salary of $24,000 a year for the typical employee relate to the $20 million to $30 million annual salary that a company executive may earn? The long-ago TV quiz show Dollar a Second provides a clue. With 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour, at a dollar a second the overpaid CEO makes $3,600 an hour. Since he might put in a 12-hour day regularly, his daily rate...
Chan, a future Eliot House resident, began his Jeopardy career by watching the show when he was a child. In high school, Chan competed in the Scholastic Quiz Bowl. This year he trained for the extensive try-out process by playing computer Jeopardy against Harvard friends...
...less than thrilled with how Watchman turned out. He appears to be dealing with it constructively, though, through a friend's Website catalog.com/kevin) which features a parody of the book jacket (The Litt-Man: The Twisted Lies and Writings of Serial Hack Jonathan Littman) and an interactive quiz highlighting "problems" in the narrative...
...QUIZ: What do Arkansas, Delaware, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin have in common...