QUESTIONS:
1) Soon to retire from hosting “The Price Is Right,” Bob Barker makes two CBS prime-time appearances this week: “The Price Is Right Million Dollar Spectacular” Wednesday, May 16, and “Bob Barker: A Celebration of 50 Years on Television” Thursday, May 17. What was the name of the first television game show Barker hosted?
2) Who was the original host of “The Price Is Right” when it premiered in the mid-1950s?
3) Of which game show was Allen Ludden the longtime host?
4) Who served as host Monty Hall’s announcer on “Let’s Make a Deal”?
5) Peter Marshall, John Davidson and Tom Bergeron all hosted incarnations of which game show?
6) For several years while he had his own variety program on CBS, which game show did Garry Moore also host for the network?
7) On which game show were Dorothy Kilgallen and Bennett Cerf longtime panelists?
8) Which host presided over “The Dating Game”?
9) Name the game show with which host Gene Rayburn was associated closely in separate versions in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
10) When Groucho Marx hosted “You Bet Your Life” throughout the 1950s and into the early ’60s, what descended from the rafters — carrying a $100 bill — when a contestant said the episode’s “secret word”?
ANSWERS:
1) “Truth or Consequences”
2) Bill Cullen
3) “Password”
4) Jay Stewart
5) “Hollywood Squares”
6) “I’ve Got a Secret”
7) “What’s My Line?”
8) Jim Lange
9) “Match Game”
10) A stuffed duck
