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Game Show Trivia

Come on down for 150 game show trivia questions covering Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Price Is Right, Family Feud, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and more. From the man who cracked Press Your Luck and the lullaby behind the Final Jeopardy! music to Meghan Markle's briefcase-model days and the town that renamed itself after a quiz show, test your knowledge of TV's greatest games.

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The phrase 'the $64,000 question' grew out of the top '$64 question' on which 1940s radio quiz?

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Which host retired from Wheel of Fortune in 2024 after more than 40 years at the helm?

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In the Monty Hall problem, what is your chance of winning the car if you switch doors?

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On which show did contestants bid to identify a song in as few notes as possible?

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Which Seinfeld actor, famous as J. Peterman, hosted Family Feud from 2006 to 2010?

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In Wheel of Fortune's Bonus Round, contestants choose how many additional letters after R, S, T, L, N, E?

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How much time does the first player get in Family Feud's Fast Money round?

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On which game show would you drop a disc down a pegboard in the game Plinko?

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Which IBM computer defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in 2011?

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How much did Ken Jennings win during his 74-game Jeopardy! streak in 2004?

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Exactly how much did Michael Larson win on Press Your Luck in 1984 by memorizing the board's patterns?

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Which ascot-wearing Match Game panelist was famous for his sparring with Brett Somers?

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Who holds the second-longest winning streak in Jeopardy! history, with 40 straight wins?

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Who turned the letters on Wheel of Fortune before Vanna White?

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What do Jeopardy! contestants use to write their Final Jeopardy! responses?

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Which Who Wants to Be a Millionaire lifeline lets a contestant call someone for help?

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Which comedian has hosted Family Feud since 2010?

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Who won a record 74 consecutive games of Jeopardy! in 2004?

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Which rebus-based game show did Alex Trebek host on NBC from 1987 to 1991?

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What is the name of Family Feud's two-player bonus round?

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Who hosted the original 1978 version of Card Sharks?

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Which comedian hosted the U.S. version of Deal or No Deal when it premiered in 2005?

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Herb Stempel threw his Twenty-One match by 'forgetting' which 1955 Best Picture winner?

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Which Columbia University instructor was at the center of the 1950s Twenty-One quiz show scandal?

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On Card Sharks, players guess whether the next card will be what?

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On Let's Make a Deal, what is a worthless booby prize, like a goat or a giant tricycle, called?

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Which game show ended with the host asking, 'Will the real ___ please stand up?'?

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On Supermarket Sweep, contestants race through what kind of store?

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Which host ended every show by reminding viewers to 'help control the pet population' by spaying or neutering their pets?

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How much is the center slot at the bottom of the Plinko board worth?

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In what year did Congress make rigging a TV quiz show a federal crime?

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Which Hunger Games actress hosts ABC's 2019 revival of Press Your Luck?

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Which comedian played a very exasperated Alex Trebek in SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy! sketches?

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How many wrong answers does the 50:50 lifeline remove on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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Who took over as host of Wheel of Fortune in 2024?

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What was the very first program broadcast on the UK's Channel 4 in November 1982?

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Who was the original host of Family Feud, famous for kissing female contestants?

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How many briefcases are on the stage in the U.S. version of Deal or No Deal?

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Who ended Ken Jennings' 74-game winning streak in 2004?

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What did Ken Jennings write under his final answer after losing to IBM's Watson in 2011?

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Which Glee star hosted the 2020 revival of Weakest Link?

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In which Canadian city was Let's Make a Deal host Monty Hall born?

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Who hosted Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

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Judith Keppel became the first UK Millionaire ยฃ1 million winner in 2000 by knowing which king married Eleanor of Aquitaine?

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Which future late-night host was Ben Stein's sidekick on Win Ben Stein's Money?

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Who was the original host of Wheel of Fortune when it debuted in 1975?

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The famous 'three doors' probability puzzle is named after which game show host?

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How long do players have to write their Final Jeopardy! response while the 'Think!' music plays?

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What was the top prize on the original U.S. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

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What is the title of the famous tune that plays during Final Jeopardy!?

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Which six letters are given to contestants for free in Wheel of Fortune's Bonus Round?

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In a famous 2011 blunder, what did IBM's Watson answer to a Final Jeopardy! clue in the category 'U.S. Cities'?

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Jeopardy! contestants must phrase their responses in the form of what?

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Bob Barker has a famous fistfight with which Adam Sandler character?

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To which company did Merv Griffin sell his production company for $250 million in 1986?

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Which drag superstar hosts CBS's 2023 revival of Lingo?

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On Wheel of Fortune, which wedge wipes out all of a player's money for the round?

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On Legends of the Hidden Temple, which color were the Barracudas?

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Alex Trebek was born in which country?

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Vanna White earned a Guinness World Record for what?

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Which of Pat Sajak's children became Wheel of Fortune's social correspondent?

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What is the hidden Jeopardy! square that lets a player wager their own money on a clue?

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How much does it cost to buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune?

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The French game show Fort Boyard is filmed inside what kind of structure?

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Who won the $4.56 million prize on Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge?

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How many categories appear on the board in each main round of Jeopardy!?

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On The Chase, what is the nickname of chaser Mark Labbett?

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Deal or No Deal originated in which country in 2000?

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On what date did Alex Trebek's final episode of Jeopardy! air?

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What was James Holzhauer's profession when he went on his 32-game Jeopardy! run in 2019?

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Which 1965 game show had a bachelorette choosing a date from three bachelors hidden behind a wall?

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Which Twenty-One contestant was ordered to lose on purpose to Charles Van Doren?

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On Deal or No Deal, who calls in on the phone with offers to buy the contestant's case?

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Merv Griffin originally wrote the Jeopardy! 'Think!' music as what?

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On The Gong Show, what did judges strike to end a bad act?

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Before hosting Family Feud, Richard Dawson played Corporal Newkirk on which sitcom?

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In what year did the original version of Jeopardy! premiere on NBC?

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What is the contestant's chair on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire called?

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Password host Allen Ludden was married to which Golden Girls star?

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Who hosted Nickelodeon's Legends of the Hidden Temple?

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Who has famously revealed the letters on Wheel of Fortune's puzzle board since 1982?

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What was Wheel of Fortune's working title when Merv Griffin piloted it in 1973?

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What is James Holzhauer's record for the most money won in a single regular Jeopardy! game, set in April 2019?

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By the end of his run, roughly how many Jeopardy! episodes had Alex Trebek hosted?

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What was the name of the giant climbing obstacle at the end of Nickelodeon's GUTS?

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Spike TV's comedy series MXC was a re-dubbed version of which Japanese game show?

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Which Price Is Right game features a tiny yodeling mountain climber?

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On The Price Is Right, what bonus does a player win for landing exactly on $1.00 on the Big Wheel?

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What was the name of the giant talking stone head on Legends of the Hidden Temple?

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How many points must two players reach in Family Feud's Fast Money to win the big prize?

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What is Vanna White's birth name?

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In what year did Plinko debut on The Price Is Right?

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Which future member of the British royal family was a briefcase model on Deal or No Deal?

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In 1950, the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico renamed itself after which radio quiz show?

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In 2008, Terry Kniess bid the exact price of his Price Is Right Showcase. What was it?

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Ken Jennings lost his streak on a Final Jeopardy! clue about which company's seasonal white-collar workers?

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Who delivered the icy catchphrase 'You are the weakest link. Goodbye!'?

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What is the name of the last round of Jeopardy!, where players wager on a single clue?

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Whom did Family Feud host Richard Dawson meet on the show and later marry?

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Which game show quizzes recently married couples on how well they know each other?

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Which host of The Joker's Wild also co-produced the scandal-plagued Twenty-One?

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What does the Family Feud host shout right before an answer is revealed on the board?

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Which Whose Line Is It Anyway? star has hosted Let's Make a Deal since 2009?

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How did Major Charles Ingram's accomplice allegedly signal answers on UK Millionaire in 2001?

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Which announcer first bellowed 'Come on down!' on The Price Is Right?

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What was Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show hosting job, in 1973?

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On Family Feud, how many people are typically surveyed for each question?

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Who was the original host of Jeopardy! before Alex Trebek?

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Which Home Improvement actor, who played Al Borland, hosted Family Feud from 2002 to 2006?

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Which Nickelodeon game show, hosted by Marc Summers, was famous for messy physical challenges and green slime?

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In 1984, Michael Larson memorized the board patterns of which game show to win over $110,000?

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Who served as the numbers expert on Countdown for 26 years, from 1982 to 2008?

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Who hosted the original British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from 1998?

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How much prize money did the winner of Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge take home?

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Which Discovery Channel game show quizzed unsuspecting passengers inside a New York City taxi?

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Roughly how long are Jeopardy! players locked out if they buzz in before the host finishes reading?

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Roughly how much did Merv Griffin estimate he earned in royalties from the 'Think!' music?

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How many letter spaces does the modern Wheel of Fortune puzzle board contain?

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Which comedian secretly hosted the 2017 Gong Show revival in heavy makeup as 'Tommy Maitland'?

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Which Big Bang Theory actress co-hosted Jeopardy! from 2021 to 2023?

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On Whose Line Is It Anyway?, everything's made up and what doesn't matter?

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Which future Magnum, P.I. star appeared on The Dating Game twice and wasn't picked either time?

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Which comedian famously occupied the center square on the original Hollywood Squares?

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What was Pat Sajak's job while serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War?

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Who hosted the original U.S. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire when it debuted in 1999?

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What was Jeopardy!'s original working title?

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Who gave Merv Griffin the idea to give contestants the answers and have them supply the questions?

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Alex Trebek's syndicated version of Jeopardy! premiered on September 10 of which year?

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Who hosted Jeopardy! from 1984 until his death in 2020?

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Which Parade magazine columnist ignited a fierce national debate over the Monty Hall problem in 1990?

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Who directed Quiz Show (1994), the film about the Twenty-One scandal?

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Who was the original host of Hollywood Squares, from 1966 to 1981?

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Who was the original host of Concentration when it premiered on NBC in 1958?

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Since 1997, how does Vanna White reveal letters on the Wheel of Fortune board?

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On Press Your Luck, what is the name of the cartoon creature that steals a player's winnings?

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Who replaced Bob Barker as host of The Price Is Right in 2007?

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Which Newlywed Game host was known for asking couples about 'making whoopee'?

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Which Match Game host was known for his extremely long, skinny microphone?

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In what year did Bob Barker stop dyeing his hair and go gray on air?

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How many years did Bob Barker host The Price Is Right?

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On The Price Is Right, what famous phrase summons contestants from the studio audience?

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Which entertainer created both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune?

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Who occupied the center square on the 1998 revival of Hollywood Squares?

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Hollywood Squares is based on which classic game?

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What was Pat Sajak's job at Los Angeles station KNBC before Wheel of Fortune?

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Which creator of The Gong Show and The Dating Game claimed in his memoir to be a secret CIA assassin?

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Which celebrity chef hosted NBC's Minute to Win It in its 2013 revival?

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John Carpenter, the first U.S. Millionaire top winner, used Phone-a-Friend just to tell whom he was about to win?

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What job had Michael Larson held before his record-setting Press Your Luck appearance?

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Until the late 1980s, how did Wheel of Fortune winners typically use their round winnings?

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