From: Slaan@a...
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:47:28 -0500
Subject: $64,000 Question
<<Since some people don't seem to know: The $64K question is a reference to some quiz show, where the final big question could earn you the afore mentioned sum.>> I believe the show was a 50s thing called "You Bet Your Life", and the prize was actually $64. Rampant inflation, I guess.
From: Joachim Heck - SunSoft <jheck@E...>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 08:51:19 -0500
Subject: $64,000 Question
> Slaan@aol.com writes: @:) I believe the show was a 50s thing called "You Bet Your Life", and @:) the prize was actually $64. Rampant inflation, I guess. I don't know if the show was actually called "The $64,000 Question" (I think it was) but I'm certain that there was such a question and that the prize for it was in fact $64,000. This was during the peak of the quiz show hype when you could make pretty good money. I don't know if many people answered the question, though.
From: Win Baker <WinB@D...>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 10:14:36 -0500
Subject: RE: $64,000 Question
It was indeed the $64,000 Question and Dr.Joyce Brothers was a winner. It was the show that the movie "Quizshow" was loosely based-upon. > ----------
From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:38:47 -0500
Subject: Re: $64,000 Question
> At 06:47 PM 4/3/97 -0500, you wrote: There was a different show called the $64,000 Question. In the late 70s they redid the show as the $128,000 Question. I remember only seeing the latter show. I remember two or three people who's area of expertise was Star Trek (he said, deftly bringing the thread back to SOME semblance of on-topicality). Inevitably they would ask the guy some incredibly obscure ST question (which I KNOW there are people who would know it) and the guy would fail. Like a couple of other game shows, I thought it went under in a hail of controversy over it being rigged.
From: Slaan@a...
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 18:32:39 -0500
Subject: Re: $64,000 Question
Lord, I must be show my age by remembering back to "You Bet Your Life"!
From: Michael Brown <mwbrown@s...>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 19:52:42 -0500
Subject: Re: $64,000 Question
From: Slaan@aol.com Lord, I must be show my age by remembering back to "You Bet Your Life"!
From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 20:18:22 -0500
Subject: Re: $64,000 Question
> At 07:52 PM 4/5/97 EST, you wrote: You forgot two. $64,000 Question: TV show, possibly sixties and early seventies (I can't remember precisely). $128,000 Question: TV show, late seventies. You are right, 21 is the subject of _Quiz Show_. However, I also remember some sort of scandal surrounding either $64000 Question or $128000 Question.
From: Jonathan white <jw4@b...>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 06:32:01 -0400
Subject: Re: $64,000 Question
Look, I don't mean to be nasty but I'm going to put my list administrator hat
on..
Can we put an end to this thread please? It's got so I don't even remember if
it was ever FT relevant in the first place...
TTFN
Jon