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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. [1]

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Alex Trebek

George Alexander Trebek (born July 22, 1940) is a Canadian-American television personality.

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Annuity

An annuity is a series of payments made at equal intervals.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Beat Shazam

Beat Shazam is an American television game show which airs on Fox, which premiered on May 25, 2017, in the United States.

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Beat the Clock

Beat the Clock is a television game show that involves people trying to complete challenges to win prizes while faced with a time limit.

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Big Brother (franchise)

Big Brother is a Dutch reality television game show franchise created by John de Mol Jr., broadcast in the Netherlands and subsequently syndicated internationally.

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Broadcast network

A broadcast network is a group of radio stations, television stations, or other electronic media outlets, that form an agreement to air, or broadcast, content from a centralized source.

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Broadcast syndication

Broadcasting syndication is the license to broadcast television programs and radio programs by multiple television stations and radio stations, without going through a broadcast network.

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Buzzr

Buzzr is an American digital multicast television network that is owned by FremantleMedia North America, a unit of the FremantleMedia subsidiary of RTL Group.

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Cable television

Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.

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Canadian content

Canadian content (CanCon, cancon or can-con) refers to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) requirements, derived from the Broadcasting Act of Canada, that radio and television broadcasters (including cable and satellite specialty channels) must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Celebrity Family Feud

Celebrity Family Feud, which is created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, is a spin-off of the American game show Family Feud.

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Challenge (TV channel)

Challenge is a British digital television channel owned by Sky plc.

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Color television

Color/Colour television is a television transmission technology that includes information on the color of the picture, so the video image can be displayed in color on the television set.

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Daytime television in the United States

Daytime television is the general term for television shows produced for airing during the daytime hours on weekdays.

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Definition (TV series)

Definition is a Canadian television game show, which aired on CTV from September 9, 1974 to March 10, 1989, and filmed at its flagship studio of CFTO-TV, Scarborough, Ontario.

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Disney–ABC Domestic Television

Disney–ABC Domestic Television, also operating as ABC Syndication (formerly known as Buena Vista Television, Inc., also known as Disney Domestic Television and currently known as Disney–ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution), is the in-home sales and content distribution firm of the Disney–ABC Television Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Don't Forget the Lyrics!

Don't Forget the Lyrics! is an international game show in the United States and United Kingdom.

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Double Dare (Nickelodeon game show)

Double Dare is an American television game show on which two teams compete to win cash and prizes by answering trivia questions and completing messy stunts known as physical challenges.

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Family Challenge

Family Challenge is an American game show that aired on The Family Channel from October 2, 1995 to September 7, 1997, lasting for two seasons.

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Family Feud

Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson where two families compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.

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FremantleMedia

FremantleMedia Group Limited is a British international television content and production/distribution subsidiary of Bertelsmann's RTL Group, founded in 2001, and evolved as Europe's largest TV, radio, and production company.

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Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

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Game show host

A game show host is an individual who manages a game show, introduces contestants, and asks quiz questions to test the knowledge of said contestants.

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Game Show Network

Game Show Network (GSN) is an American pay television channel that is a joint venture between Sony Pictures Television (owning a 58% interest) and AT&T (holding 42%).

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Gene Rayburn

Gene Rayburn (December 22, 1917 – November 29, 1999) was an American radio and television personality.

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Goods and services

Goods are items that are tangible, such as pens, salt, apples, oganesson, and hats.

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Greed (game show)

Greed is an American television game show that was first broadcast on Fox in November 4, 1999 and last broadcast on July 14, 2000 with the total of 44 episodes in one season.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

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History of Freeform (TV channel)

The American cable and satellite television network Freeform was originally launched as the CBN Satellite Service on April 29, 1977, and has gone through several different owners (as well as six different name changes) during its history.

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Hollywood Game Night

Hollywood Game Night is an American television game show currently airing on NBC.

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Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes.

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Howard Felsher

Howard Felsher is a former American game show producer.

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I've Got a Secret

I've Got a Secret is a panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television.

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Independent Broadcasting Authority

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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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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Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.

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Jim Perry (television personality)

Jim Perry (November 9, 1933 – November 20, 2015) was an American-Canadian television game show host, singer, announcer, and performer in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Let's Make a Deal

Let's Make a Deal is a television game show that originated in the United States in 1963 and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world.

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List of American game shows

The following is a list of game shows in the United States.

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List of game show hosts

This is a list of game show hosts.

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List of international game shows

Even though game shows first evolved in the United States, they have been presented in many different countries around the world.

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List of The Price Is Right pricing games

Pricing games are featured on the current version of the American game show The Price Is Right.

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Lists of television programs

This is a list of lists of television program articles.

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Mark Goodson

Mark Leo Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an American television producer who specialized in game shows, most frequently with his business partner Bill Todman, with whom he created Goodson-Todman Productions.

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Match Game

Match Game is an American television panel game show that premiered on NBC in 1962 and was revived several times over the course of the next few decades.

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Millennium

A millennium (plural millennia or, rarely, millenniums) is a period equal to 1000 years, also called kiloyears.

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Mock the Week

Mock the Week is a British topical, satirical celebrity panel show, that was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the same people responsible for the comedy game show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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Monty Hall

Monty Hall (born Monte Halparin; August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017) was a Canadian-American game show host, producer, and philanthropist.

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Networking cables

Networking cables are networking hardware used to connect one network device to other network devices or to connect two or more computers to share printers, scanners etc.

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Niche market

A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused.

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Panel show

A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates.

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Password (game show)

Password is an American television game show which was created by Bob Stewart for Goodson-Todman Productions.

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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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Prime Time Access Rule

The Prime Time Access Rule (PTAR) was a broadcasting regulation that was instituted in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1970 to restrict the amount of network programming that a local television station either owned-and-operated or affiliated with a television network can air during "prime time".

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Prize

A prize is an award to be given to a person, a group of people like a sports team, or organization to recognise and reward actions or achievements.

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Prize indemnity insurance

Prize indemnity insurance is indemnification insurance for a promotion in which the participants are offered the chance to win prizes.

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Product placement

Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique in which references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.

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Pyramid (game show)

Pyramid is an American television game show franchise that has aired several versions domestically and internationally.

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QI

QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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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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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate.

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Reg Grundy Organisation

Reg Grundy Productions (later the Grundy Organisation, then Grundy Entertainment and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian television production company founded in 1959 by businessman Reg Grundy.

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Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm; 20 November 1932 – 2 June 2012) was a British-American actor and comedian, and a game show host and panelist in the United States.

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Rural purge

The "rural purge" of American television networks (in particular CBS) was a series of cancellations in the early 1970s of still-popular rural-themed shows with demographically skewed audiences, the majority of which occurred at the end of the 1970–71 television season.

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Shafted

Shafted was a short-lived British quiz show on ITV, presented by Robert Kilroy-Silk, based on game theory.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Spelling Bee (game show)

Spelling Bee was a 15-minute United Kingdom radio and live television show that was the first television game show.

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Sponsor (commercial)

Sponsoring something (or someone) is the act of supporting an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services.

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Supermarket Sweep

Supermarket Sweep is an American television game show.

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Survivor (franchise)

Survivor is a reality competition television franchise produced in many countries throughout the world.

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TBS (U.S. TV channel)

TBS is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System.

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Television in Canada

Television in Canada officially began with the sign-on of the nation's first television stations in Montreal and Toronto in 1952.

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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 Chair (game show)

The Chair was a game show television program that premiered on ABC in January 2002.

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The Dating Game

The Dating Game is an ABC television show.

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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 Million Second Quiz

The Million Second Quiz is an American game show that was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and broadcast by NBC.

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The Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game is an American television game show that pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other.

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The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right is a television game show franchise originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and created by Bob Stewart, and is currently produced and owned by FremantleMedia (Endemol in Netherlands).

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The Price Is Right (1956 U.S. game show)

The Price Is Right is an American game show where contestants made successive bids on merchandise prizes with the goal of bidding closest to the actual retail price of the prize without going over.

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The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)

The Price Is Right is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.

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The Price Is Right (UK game show)

The Price is Right is a British game show based on the US version of the same name.

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The Singing Bee (U.S. game show)

The Singing Bee is a karaoke game show that originally aired on NBC and then CMT.

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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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To Tell the Truth

To Tell the Truth is an American television panel game show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants (the "team of challengers", each an individual or pair) and must identify which is the "central character" whose unusual occupation or experience has been read out by the show's moderator/host.

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Trivial Pursuit (U.S. game show)

Trivial Pursuit is an American game show that ran on The Family Channel from June 7, 1993 to December 3, 1993, with reruns continuing until July 14, 1995.

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Truth or Consequences

Truth or Consequences is an American game show originally hosted on NBC radio by Ralph Edwards (1940–1957) and later on television by Edwards (1950–1954), Jack Bailey (1954–1956), Bob Barker (1956–1975), Steve Dunne (1957-58), Bob Hilton (1977–1978) and Larry Anderson (1987–1988).

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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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UKGameshows.com

UKGameshows.com is a website dedicated to British game shows.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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USA Network

USA Network (commonly referred to as simply USA stylized as usa network since 2005) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, itself a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Website

A website is a collection of related web pages, including multimedia content, typically identified with a common domain name, and published on at least one web server.

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What's My Line?

What's My Line? is a panel game show that originally ran in the United States on the CBS Television Network from 1950 to 1967, with several international versions and subsequent U.S. revivals.

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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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Winning Lines

Winning Lines was a National Lottery game show broadcast on BBC One from 12 June 1999 to 16 October 2004.

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Would I Lie to You? (TV series)

Would I Lie to You? is a British comedy panel show aired on BBC One, made by Zeppotron for the BBC.

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WYSO

WYSO (91.3 FM) is a radio station in Yellow Springs, Ohio, near Dayton, operated by Antioch College.

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Yellow Springs, Ohio

Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States.

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You Bet Your Life

You Bet Your Life is an American comedy quiz series that aired on both radio and television.

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1 vs. 100

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1950s quiz show scandals

The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the outcome of an ostensibly fair competition.

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8 Out of 10 Cats

8 Out of 10 Cats is a British television comedy panel game produced by Zeppotron (a subsidiary of Endemol UK) for E4.

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