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• Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows and American Culture

A member of the Eastern Illinois University media faculty, the author sets out to critically examine the quiz show over seventy years of American broadcasting history, drawing on many radio and television program series (not all of them "quiz" shows), and making use of archival materials from the broadcast business, program sponsors, advertising agencies, and individual producers.

• Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
• Vol. 86 Nbr. 1, April 2009

• Since We're Not Getting Smarter, Quiz Shows Are Getting Dumber

Ready, contestants? Here's your bonus question: Have TV quiz- show questions become dumber, and have the shows' rules grown wimpier, as producers pander to ever-lower audience expectations and the viewing public's general intellectual flabbiness? Good luck, panel!

• Charleston Daily Mail
• March 16, 2007

• Dumb & Dumber ; That's the Common Denominator (Look It Up) of New Quiz Shows

Ready, contestants? Here's your bonus question: Have TV quiz- show questions become dumber, and have the shows' rules grown wimpier, as producers pander to ever-lower audience expectations and the viewing public's general intellectual flabbiness? Good luck, panel!

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 22, 2007

• Controversy Over Call TV Quiz Shows.

The well publicised controversy surrounding Call TV Quiz shows, where participants pay to enter, rarely connect to the studio and run up large telepho...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Nbr. 2007, January 2007

• Wisconsin Survey Maps the Lives of 1957 Graduates

ARLINGTON, Wis. - Carol and Gregory Schill flip through their high school yearbooks and an entire era comes roaring back to life: Bermuda shorts and saddle shoes, rock 'n' roll on the radio and quiz shows on TV. The Schills were members of the Class of 1957. She attended Markesan High School. He attended Madison East.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• December 20, 2010

• His Career? He's Making a Game of It; Baraboo Man Builds Booming Business Staging Corporate Quiz Shows

Baraboo - Matthew King can utter a sentence few entrepreneurs can honestly say: My role model is Bob Eubanks. He's got a unique, for lack of a better word, swagger on stage," King said of the mischievous former host of "The Newlywed Game," who 40 years ago helped take television into new territory with his titillating questions of recently married couples.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• December 31, 2006

• Americans Dont Know America: ; a Civics Quiz Shows Sad Deficits in Understanding

WASHINGTON So much for the wisdom of The People. A new report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute on the nations civic literacy finds that mos...

• Charleston Gazette
• December 02, 2008

• Out of the Ordinary - Hawking Still Looks for 'Alien Quiz Shows'

WASHINGTON - Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?" The answer is probably not, he says. If there is life elsewhere in the universe, Hawking asks why haven't we stumbled onto some alien broadcasts in space, maybe something like "alien quiz shows?

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• April 22, 2008

• Today in History for Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012

On Jan. 17, 1962, ten former winners of rigged TV quiz shows, including Charles Van Doren, pleaded guilty in New York to perjury, admitting they'd lied under oath when they denied being given answers in advance -- All received suspended sentences. On this date:

• Bangor Daily News
• January 17, 2012

• 'What Is Nasa, Alex?' New Trebek Video Promotes Nasa in Your Life

WASHINGTON, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The king of quiz shows, Alex Trebek, is helping answer the question, "How does NASA affect our daily lives?" The host of the long-running syndicated program "Jeopardy" is featured in a new public service announcement released Wednesday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO)

• U.S. Newswire
• May 23, 2012