Questions of my Youth
B"H
I started following quiz games and quiz questions when I was very young. My mom used to watch all the quiz shows. I particularly remember "College Bowl" originally with Alan Ludden and later with Robert Earl. I even remember the first question I got right.
Once upon a time, there was a program (I don't remember the name) where, for the bonus round, they had a wheel where they had some strange categories of hard questions in 5 of the 6 slots and in the 6th slot they had "Easy Question".
[By the way, I never saw anyone on the show get any of the hard questions right -- I did answer one question right in the category of "Incredibly hard topography" -- not because of any knowledge I have of topography (I have precious little) -- the question was: "The city of Dallas was named after Vice President George Dallas. What would the city be named if they used his Middle Name?" (I'll include the answer below)
I started following quiz games and quiz questions when I was very young. My mom used to watch all the quiz shows. I particularly remember "College Bowl" originally with Alan Ludden and later with Robert Earl. I even remember the first question I got right.
Once upon a time, there was a program (I don't remember the name) where, for the bonus round, they had a wheel where they had some strange categories of hard questions in 5 of the 6 slots and in the 6th slot they had "Easy Question".
[By the way, I never saw anyone on the show get any of the hard questions right -- I did answer one question right in the category of "Incredibly hard topography" -- not because of any knowledge I have of topography (I have precious little) -- the question was: "The city of Dallas was named after Vice President George Dallas. What would the city be named if they used his Middle Name?" (I'll include the answer below)
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Many years ago, Groucho Marx hosted "You Bet Your Life". It had several formats (one of which was the contestant had to answer 4 consecutive questions correctly without answering 2 incorrectly). In some formats, it was not uncommon for a contestant to end up with no money. The "powers that be" on the show decided that it wasn't nice to send someone home with no money, so Groucho would ask them one of those easy questions like "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" (BTW, no one is buried in Grant's Tomb -- Ulysses and Julia Grant are entombed there -- sorry to split hairs...) or "What color was George Washington's white horse?"These sorts of "Easy Questions" have reached their height, in my opinion, in the Jeopardy category "Stupid Answers". While they aren't as easy as the questions from "You Bet Your Life", the "question" appears somewhere in the "answer".
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