So Brothers came up with the idea of entering a television quiz show as a contestant.
Prizes and awards are taxed whether you win a drawing, quiz show, beauty contest, or lottery.
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Jeremy fronts the quiz show Eggheads and the audience complaint programme Points of View.
The quiz show scandal of 1958-59 was one of the biggest scandals in the history of television.
It follows the announcement last week that it had secured a commission for celebrity quiz show Catchphrase.
He wins big on a television quiz show but raises the suspicions of police and the show's host.
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The machine gained fame when it beat two human contestants on the US quiz show Jeopardy last year.
She sang "I'm in the money" and mimicked the hit television quiz show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
But after the quiz show scandals of the late 1950s, networks took control of their programming and generally confined sponsors to 60-second spots.
She later denied any knowledge of cheating, and during a 1959 hearing in the quiz show scandal, a producer exonerated her of involvement.
This year also saw Seaman launch a television career by becoming a panellist on the sports quiz show "They Think It's All Over".
Amid the quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, she demonstrated her well-versed knowledge of boxing to a congressional panel, her family biography said.
The Weakest Link has become the latest quiz show to take the nation by storm - mainly thanks to Robinson's unforgiving attitude towards her contestants.
The entertainer and quiz show host - who has an OBE for services to showbusiness and charity - was released on bail pending further enquiries.
In 1998 Jonsson, a team captain on comedy quiz show Shooting Stars, ended her relationship with Collymore after he attacked her in a Paris bar.
While the word "millionaire"--fodder for a TV quiz show and even the name of a magazine--still carries a nice ring, it isn't a big deal anymore.
The popular quiz show host adopted a piece of the Great Fen so that she would have a piece of wetland to "romp in and enjoy".
Though it remains on the daytime airwaves, the once-hot and frequently aired quiz show was pulled from prime time once viewers had had enough and stopped tuning in.
The rights to the ITV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? went to broadcasters in more than 20 countries, including the US, Germany, Japan, Australia and Russia.
In a nutshell, an unschooled teenager from a Mumbai shanty town wins a television quiz show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, becoming rich beyond the wildest dreams of anyone from his milieu.
IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"
In 65 short years, the humble transistor evolved into an artificial life form called Watson, a computer system that recognizes natural language and, in 2011, handily defeated two former champions on the TV quiz show Jeopardy.
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Of course, in order to come up with some possible explanation requires me to take on the role of a contestant on a quiz show, which ought not be the game rules for a FINRA Arbitration Decision.
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Eggheads is a quiz show on BBC Two, co-hosted by Jeremy Vine and Dermot Murnaghan, in which a team of five challengers pits their wits against a a team of five 'Eggheads' - all highly regarded quiz and game show champions.
He matured and developed, listened and learned and, most of all, began to realise that his fate lay not as the jovial, grinning quiz show captain, the subject of wistful glances from dear old Sue Barker, but rather in the wood-panelled office at the top of the Ibrox marble staircase.
For almost 20 years I've tried to get on "America's Favorite Quiz Show, " going all the way back to my freshman year in college, where I missed passing the written test by "one question" (not really, but the contestant coordinators asked us to say that as they did not reveal actual scores).
An amalgam of "Oliver Twist, " "The Three Musketeers" and Bollywood extravagance, it's the saga -- mainly in English, plus some subtitled Hindi -- of a wretchedly poor Muslim boy, played as a young man by Dev Patel, who pulls himself up by his brains instead of his bootstraps, and gets a shot at becoming a millionaire on a wondrously garish Indian TV quiz show.
As a plucky quiz-show contestant -- a slumdog underdog -- Jamal keeps giving correct answers to obscure questions and winning more rupees.
Yet the core of the movie lies not in our own disbelief (which the movie invites us to suspend entirely), but in the incredulous reaction of the quiz-show host: How did the "slumdog" know the answers?
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