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Academy Award for Best Picture
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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American game show winnings records
In the United States, a game show is a type of radio, television, or internet program in which contestants, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering trivia questions and/or solving puzzles, usually for money and/or prizes.
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American Heritage (magazine)
American Heritage is a magazine dedicated to covering the history of the United States of America for a mainstream readership.
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.
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Bowling
Bowling is a sport or leisure activity in which a player rolls or throws a bowling ball towards a target.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Charles Ingram
Charles William Ingram (born 6 August 1963) is an English former British Army major, known for cheating on the British game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001, in order to win its £1 million jackpot.
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Charles Van Doren
Charles Lincoln Van Doren (born February 12, 1926) is an American academic, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.
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College Bowl
College Bowl (also known as General Electric (G.E.) College Bowl) was a radio, television, and student quiz show.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Communications Act of 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code, et seq.
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Dan Enright
Daniel "Dan" Enright (August 30, 1917 – May 22, 1992) was an American television producer, primarily of game shows.
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Dan Greenberg
Daniel "Dan" Greenberg (born December 9, 1965) is an American nonprofit executive and former politician.
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Dotto
Dotto is an American television game show that was a combination of a general knowledge quiz and the children's game connect the dots.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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Game show
A game show is a type of radio, television, or stage show in which contestants, individually or as teams, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles, usually for money or prizes.
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Golden Age of Television
The first "Golden Age of Television" refers to the era of live television production in the United States, roughly from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
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Grand jury
A grand jury is a legal body empowered to conduct official proceedings and investigate potential criminal conduct, and determine whether criminal charges should be brought.
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Hal March
Hal March (born Harold Mendelson; April 22, 1920 – January 19, 1970) was an American comedian and actor.
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Herb Stempel
Herbert Milton Stempel (born December 19, 1926) is an American television game show contestant and subsequent whistleblower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the quiz show scandals.
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House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight
The House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight was a special subcommittee of the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, responsible for the oversight of federal regulatory agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission.
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Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati, Captain Pete Lassard in Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.
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ITV (TV network)
ITV is a British commercial TV network.
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Jack Barry (game show host)
Jack Barry (born John Barasch; March 20, 1918 – May 2, 1984) was an American television personality and executive who made a name for himself in the game show field.
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Jack Narz
John Lawrence Narz Jr. (November 13, 1922 – October 15, 2008) was an American radio personality, television host, and singer.
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Jackpot Bowling
Jackpot Bowling (also known as Phillies Jackpot Bowling and Jackpot Bowling Starring Milton Berle) was a professional bowling show on NBC from January 9, 1959, to March 13, 1961.
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Jay Jackson
Jesse Greene "Jay" Jackson (November 4, 1918 – August 16, 2005) was an American radio and television quiz show host and announcer.
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Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
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Joyce Brothers
Joyce Diane Brothers (née Bauer; October 20, 1927 – May 13, 2013) was an American psychologist, television personality and columnist, who wrote a daily newspaper advice column from 1960 to 2013.
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KCBS-TV
KCBS-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 43), is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Make That Spare
Make That Spare was a fifteen-minute bowling program that aired on ABC from October 8, 1960 to September 11, 1964.
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Mama's Family
Mama's Family is an American television sitcom starring Vicki Lawrence as Thelma Harper (Mama). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family" featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1974–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979).
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Marie Winn
Marie Winn (born 1936) is a journalist, author, and bird-watcher.
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Martin Flood
Martin Flood (born) is an Australian quiz show contestant who competed in the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and participated in the short-lived program The Master.
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Marty (film)
Marty is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Delbert Mann.
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Michael Larson
Paul Michael Larson (May 10, 1949 – February 16, 1999) was an American contestant on the television game show Press Your Luck in 1984.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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New York Journal-American
The New York Journal-American was a daily newspaper published in New York City from 1937 to 1966.
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Obstruction of justice
Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other (usually government) officials.
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On the Waterfront
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and written by Budd Schulberg.
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Oren Harris
Oren Harris (December 20, 1903 – February 5, 1997) was a U.S. Representative and United States District Judge from El Dorado, Arkansas.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.
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Perjury
Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.
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Prime time
The prime time or the peak time is the block of broadcast programming taking place during the middle of the evening for television programming.
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Private Lessons (1981 film)
Private Lessons is a 1981 American sex comedy film starring Sylvia Kristel, Howard Hesseman, Eric Brown, and Ed Begley, Jr. The screenplay was written by Dan Greenburg, who wrote the original source novel, Philly.
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Public service
Public service is a service which is provided by government to people living within its jurisdiction, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing provision of services.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
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Quiz bowl
Quiz bowl (quizbowl, scholar bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, etc.) is a quiz-based competition that tests players on a wide variety of academic subjects.
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Quiz Show (film)
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical film produced and directed by Robert Redford, and written by Paul Attanasio, based on Richard N. Goodwin's memoir Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties. It stars John Turturro, Rob Morrow, and Ralph Fiennes, with Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, and Christopher McDonald appearing in supporting roles.
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Ralph Story
Ralph Story (born Ralph Bernard Snyder; August 19, 1920 – September 26, 2006) was an American television and radio personality.
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Redondo Beach, California
Redondo Beach is one of the three Beach Cities in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area.
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist.
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Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson.
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Sonny Fox
Irwin "Sonny" Fox (born June 17, 1925) is an American television host, executive and broadcasting consultant, who was the fourth full-time host of the children's television program, Wonderama.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Sylvia Kristel
Sylvia Maria Kristel (28 September 1952 17 October 2012) was a Dutch model and actress who appeared in over 50 films.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Television and the Public Interest
"Television and the Public Interest" was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961.
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The $64,000 Question
The $64,000 Question was an American game show broadcast from 1955 to 1958, which became embroiled in the 1950s quiz show scandals.
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The $64,000 Question (UK game show)
The $64,000 Question is a UK game show based on the US format of the same name that originally ran from 19 May 1956 to 18 January 1958 produced by ATV (always keen to pick up successful US formats) and was originally hosted by Jerry Desmonde, and called simply The 64,000 Question with the top prize initially being 64,000 sixpences (£1,600), later doubling to 64,000 shillings (£3,200).
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The Generation Gap
The Generation Gap was a primetime American game show that aired from February 7 to May 23, 1969, on ABC.
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The Joker's Wild
The Joker's Wild is an American television game show that has aired at different times since the 1970s.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Plug-In Drug
The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children, And The Family is a book of social criticism written by Marie Winn and published in 1977 by Viking Penguin with the.
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Tic-Tac-Dough
Tic-Tac-Dough is an American television game show based on the paper-and-pencil game of tic-tac-toe.
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Today (U.S. TV program)
Today, also called The Today Show, is an American news and talk morning television show that airs on NBC.
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Tom Kennedy (television presenter)
James Edward Narz (born February 26, 1927), known professionally as Tom Kennedy, is an American television presenter best known for his work in game shows.
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TV Guide
TV Guide is a bi-weekly American magazine that provides television program listings information as well as television-related news, celebrity interviews and gossip, film reviews, crossword puzzles, and, in some issues, horoscopes.
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Twenty One (game show)
Twenty One is an American game show originally hosted by Jack Barry which aired on NBC from 1956 to 1958.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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Walter Karp
Walter B. Karp (May 14, 1934 – July 19, 1989) was an American journalist, historian, and writer who published in magazines such as American Heritage and Horizon, and was also a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine (edited by friend Lewis H. Lapham), which re-published some of his political history books in 2003.
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.
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Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)
Wheel of Fortune (often known simply as Wheel) is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (abbreviated WWTBAM and informally known as simply Millionaire) is an international television game show franchise of British origin, created by David Briggs, Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight.
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Wonderama
Wonderama is a children's television program that originally appeared on the Metromedia-owned stations from 1955 to 1977.
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100 Grand (game show)
100 Grand is an American game show hosted by Jack Clark.
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26th Academy Awards
The 26th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 25, 1954.
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27th Academy Awards
The 27th Academy Awards honored the best films released in 1954.
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86th United States Congress
The Eighty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s_quiz_show_scandals
