Summary: As Jeopardy marks its 50th anniversary, including 30 years with Alex Trebek, take a look at the phenomenon of game shows, the iconic hosts and personalities, the contestants, and the triumphs and controversies that have shaped the evolution of this important part of our culture. See the power and influence of game shows and television personalities we₂ve invited into our living rooms.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GAM

Hadleigh, Boze

Summary: "Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network's Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim's Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HAD

Contents: Disc 1: Barack Obama -- Terry Gross -- Major Robert Bateman -- Lee Smith -- Harold Ramis -- Penn Jillette. Disc 2: Janeane Garofalo -- Brian Williams -- Ken Jennings -- Sarah Silverman -- Tom Hanks -- Tom & Ray Magliozzi.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2007

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WAI

Summary: Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SLU

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Slumdog

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLU

Gephart, Donna.

Summary: After overcoming a number of obstacles, especially in the subject of geography, Olivia is on her way to Hollywood to appear on Jeopardy! and, she hopes, to reunite with her father who left the family two years ago.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2012

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GEP

Summary: Brian is a working class student from Essex navigating his first year at Bristol University with a ragtag group of new friends. Brian's life-long dream is to join the team for the British quiz show University Challenge, and pull Alice, the cutest girl on the team.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STA

Summary: When a simplistic, "question and answer" quiz show, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", goes on the air in the UK. the nation is gripped. As the show's ratings grow, so does Diana Ingram's desire to be in the hotseat with the chance of winning the biggest cash prize in history. When her husband Charles, an eccentric army man, makes it onto the show, he causes a major scandal after being caught...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUI