60's Game Shows by chrisivision

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Sharpj


Runner(s)-Up:

IngramB
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Quiz Description

Third in a series. A quieter decade for the genre as it readjusted from the scandals and readied for its resurgence.

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Questions:

What Mad magazine writer and creative consultant (whose work spanned over 400 straight issues) was also a writer for the 60's Match Game and inspired the show's direction towards suggestive questions?

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Dick DeBartolo

What short lived 1967 Barris production, a clone of The Newlywed Game, was the only collaboration between Barris and Bob Barker?

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The Family Game

Who was the final mystery guest on the original What's My Line on 9/3/67?

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John Charles Daly

Wink Martindale was not known as Wink Martindale when he hosted his first national game show in 1964 with What's This Song? How was he billed at the time?

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Win Martindale

What was Jack Narz's younger brother's most successful daytime game show, airing primarily in the 1960's?

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You Don't Say!

Shortly after they married, Betty White appeared with host Allen Ludden on Password along with what other celebrity, famous for the clue he gave for the word "me"?

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Jack Paar

Mel Brooks was mortified when he inadvertently made fun of Bill Cullen's polio-induced limp when he made a guest appearance on what game show, the first produced by Bob Stewart?

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Eye Guess

Within 1 year, how old was Bob Eubanks when he began hosting The Newlywed Game?

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28

Name 6 of the 10 celebrities that appeared in the premiere week of Hollywood Squares from 10/17 to 10/21/64. (One square varied during the first week.) You may name up to 9, of which 6 must be correct.

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Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Abby Dalton, Ernest Borgnine, Agnes Moorehead, Pamela Mason, Charley Weaver, Sally Field, Nick Adams

How many number of spaces did the original Concentration game board have?

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30

Jackie Gleason's disastrous game show, 1961's You're in the Picture, made TV and game show history for what reason?

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It only aired once. The second aired episode, introduced by Johnny Olson as "what will be sure to be a unique program," was Gleason's apology -- "[it] laid, without a doubt, the biggest bomb."

During a live episode of the game show Say When!!, host Art James did a commercial for peanut butter, when he accidentally sent a knife through the entire can, causing peanut butter to spill as he was doing the commercial. What brand of peanut butter was it?

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Peter Pan