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Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson 1925-2005, American television entertainer, b. Corning, Iowa. Carson, who grew up in Nebraska, began his career as a magician, then wrote comedy sketches for radio and hosted daytime television quiz shows. From 1962 to 1992 he hosted "The Tonight Show," where the personable... Read more |
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Rolonda Watts
Rolonda Watts 1959– Television journalist, talk show host <... Read more |
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Trade shows
Trade Shows A trade show is an event where companies that are involved in a certain industry gather to exhibit their products, learn about current trends in their industry, and gain knowledge about their competitors. Trade shows provide opportunities for selling, reinforcing existing business... Read more |
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Wild West Show
Wild West Shows Sources Colorful Effects.From 1883 to 1916 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show enjoyed a place as the “National Entertainment.” Ownership and the show’s title changed several times, but the show always contained cowboys performing feats of skill and... Read more |
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James Watson
Watson, James Geneticist 1928- James Dewey Watson was the codiscoverer of the structure of DNA. He has also made major contributions to research in genetics and molecular biology as an administrator, and has written widely read and influential books for both academic and nonscience audiences. Early... Read more |
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Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield 1922-2008, English actor, b. Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. Scofield joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1945, and had his first major success in King John. At the Stratford Memorial Theatre he won wide acclaim for his Hamlet and King Lear. His portrayal of Sir Thomas More in... Read more |
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Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar 1922-, American comedian, one of the stars of the 1950s "golden age of live television," b. Yonkers, N.Y. While performing in a World War II military show he met the producer Max Liebman who, impressed with Caesar's comic abilities, later sponsored him in club gigs and had him host... Read more |
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Miniskirt
Miniskirt The miniskirt was introduced in 1965 at the fashion show of French designer André Courreges (1923 Read more |
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Inner Circle
Inner Circle Reggae band Lead Singer’s Death Halted Success Television Show... Read more |
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Redford, Robert
...with films such as The Candidate (1982) and All the President's Men (1976). Redford won an Academy Award for his directorial debut Ordinary People (1980). Other films include A River Runs Through It (1992) and Quiz Show (1994). |
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De Vries, Peter
...1975); The Glory of the Hummingbird (1974), about a small‐town Indiana boy's success through a television quiz show; I Hear America Swinging (1976), treating the effect of the new sexual liberation on an Iowa farming community; Madder... |
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Gabel, Martin
...decades in films and on Broadway, where he also directed productions and even produced a few, most notably the long‐run champ Life with Father (1939). But he became most famous for his many appearances on television quiz shows. |
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Oliver, Edith
...College, Oliver became an actress who worked in regional theatre and on radio before turning to writing and producing quiz shows. She was hired by The New Yorker magazine in 1948, and for the next forty years wrote theatre reviews, usually Off... |
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Godspell
...the Gospel according to St. Matthew, is then told by means of circus and commedia dell' arte tricks, a parody of TV quiz shows, cartoon voices, and similar theatrics. Notable songs: Day by Day, We Beseech Thee; Light of the World; All for... |
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...whipping •dropping, sopping, stopping, topping •clodhopping • show-stopping •wife-swapping •coping, roping •grouping...Cadiz, fizz, frizz, gee-whiz, his, is, jizz, Liz, Ms, phiz, quiz, squiz, swizz, tizz, viz, whizz, wiz, zizz •louis, Suez... |
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Route One
Route One in soccer, the use of a long kick upfield as an attacking tactic. The term comes from a phrase used in the 1960s television quiz show Quizball, in which questions (graded in difficulty) led to scoring a goal, Route One being the direct path. |
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sixty-four thousand dollar question
sixty-four thousand dollar question something that is not known and on which a great deal depends; originally (1940s) sixty-four dollar question, from a question posed for the top prize in a broadcast US quiz show. |
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quiz
quiz • noun 1. there may be a short quiz next class synonyms: exam, test, pop quiz. 2. a music quiz on the radio synonyms: competition, game, game show. • verb a man was being quizzed by police synonyms: question... |
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range
...varied. Another way of expressing the same idea would be to say that the person's interests run the gamut from TV quiz shows to nuclear physics, a word that suggests a graduated scale or series running from one extreme to another. Compass implies... |
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Quiz asks: What does Facebook know about you?
...wanted to use Facebook itself to show how all these quiz creators have access to personal...engineer at Intel who coded the quiz. The text of ACLU's quiz put it in ominous terms...to warn you about Facebook quizzes by asking you to take a ... |
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QUIZZES KEY TO LEARNING FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, RESEARCH CONFIRMS.
...University in St. Louis shows that students who received three quizzes on content questions before...effectiveness of the three quizzes. A first quiz (pre-lecture) was given...exam items related to the quizzes," says Mark McDaniel... |
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Quiz Nights a rural smash
...some decidedly racy names. Quiz categories include the news...games, famous faces, TV-show jingles and others. What is...you can play." Several quizzes are designed to get people...seats, like the Chocolate Bar Quiz. Ten well-known chocolate...similar in ... |
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BUZZ! QUIZ SHOW FRANCHISE DEBUTS ON PLAYSTATION/PSP.
...endless supply of fun, BUZZ! Quiz TV fans can now create and share...online via MyBUZZquiz.com. Quizzes created via MyBUZZ can be played...the PS3 system. BUZZ! Master Quiz for the PSP system takes the popular game show host, Buzz, and shrinks him...fun on ... |
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DROWNING IN QUIZZES ON THE NET.(SAVVY)
...neat. Similar to the color quiz, you will see nine squares...you can take exactly 64 quizzes at the site by clicking on "Show all the quizzes." And they range from how...home/garden/personality/quiz/, where you will find out... |
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Wondershare Unveils Standalone Quiz Management System -- Maximize the Utility...
...to track, analyze and report quiz results accurately and flexibly...Wondershare QuizCreator, a quiz maker that enables HR directors...and trainers to create Flash quizzes, tests and exams with multimedia...users take full control of all quiz results easily. ... |
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Popular BUZZ!(TM) Quiz Show Franchise Makes Its Debut on PLAYSTATION(R)3...
...endless supply of fun, BUZZ! Quiz TV fans can now create and share...online via MyBUZZquiz.com. Quizzes created via MyBUZZ can be played...the PS3 system. BUZZ! Master Quiz for the PSP system takes the popular game show host, Buzz, and shrinks him...fun on ... |
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Popular BUZZ!(TM) Quiz Show Franchise Returns With BUZZ!(TM) Quiz World on...
...options enrich the at-home quiz show just in time for the holidays...contestants at the heart of the quiz show like never before. BUZZ! Quiz...utilizes the same user-generated quiz content from MyBUZZquiz.com. Players can ... |
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Popular BUZZ! Quiz Show Franchise Returns With BUZZ! Quiz World on PlayStation3.
...contestants at the heart of the quiz show like never before. BUZZ! Quiz...BUZZ! game for PS3--BUZZ! Quiz TV--BUZZ! Quiz World utilizes the same user-generated quiz content from MyBUZZquiz.com. Players can create their own ... |
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Popular BUZZ! Quiz Show Franchise Makes Its Debut on PLAYSTATION3 PS3 and PSP...
...endless supply of fun, BUZZ! Quiz TV fans can now create and share...online via MyBUZZquiz.com. Quizzes created via MyBUZZ can be played...the PS3 system. BUZZ! Master Quiz for the PSP system takes the popular game show host, Buzz, and shrinks him...fun on ... |
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