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Meana wolf cheating12/31/2023 ![]() ![]() They were scrambling, talking to experts on boxing, talking the old boxers, trying to find questions that nobody in the world could answer.įENSTER: And she did. And now the producers are saying she's run her course. And they're asking her harder and harder and harder questions each week she kept coming back. They didn't expect her to know anything.įENSTER: Yeah. KING: And then she gets on the show, and she wins, surprising everyone because they didn't expect her to know everything. And she went back to the producer and said, I'm ready to be a contestant regarding boxing. Joyce Brothers had an encyclopedic mind, and she studied book after book after book - encyclopedias of boxing, old clippings about boxing. Why don't you become an expert on something like boxing?įENSTER: They thought they'd never see her again. She was a very well-educated scholar in psychology, and they said nobody wants to look at an intellectual woman and hear about psychology. Joyce Brothers because she wanted to go on the show. Next time anybody tells you that, oh, everybody does it, regarding cheating, you've got to remember Dr. Joyce Brothers and what she refused to do, essentially.įENSTER: Yeah. Joyce Brothers, who started her public life as a contestant on "The $64,000 Question" when she was just another face in the crowd in New York City, circa 1956. But not all the contestants on these shows were willing to cheat, and Julie Fenster writes about one woman in particular who had a chance on the $64,000 question and didn't take itįENSTER: Well, the person that did not cheat was Dr. ![]() You might remember the movie "Quiz Show" from the 1990s. KING: Lots of TV game shows in the '50s were up to the same tricks. KING: It was - as you say, it was in casual conversation.įENSTER: Maybe even a stagehand would mention something. It wasn't like, hey, we're handing you the answers. KING: They would say it, like, over lunch. And for the people that they kind of liked and wanted to stick around, they would, in casual conversation, mention some arcane fact as though it would - just came up that the president of Brazil might have had a wife named Darcy (ph). So for the ones they were tired of, the producers would come up with questions that were beyond difficult. They wanted some contestants to exit stage right, and they thought the charismatic ones should stay around. The producers couldn't leave well enough alone with their hit show. KING: But something was going on behind the scenes, which was.įENSTER: Manipulation and cheating (laughter). And then very few people got to the $64,000 question, but the ratings skyrocketed as the people went up the ladder. So there was a jockey who was an expert on fine art.įENSTER: You know, those were the kind of grabber pairings that the producers really, really loved. So part of the appeal from the producer's point of view was to get strange pairings of people and their expertise. But the key was that each person only answered questions on one subject. It started out miniscule, but as we know, the questions were supposed to get harder. JULIE FENSTER: They would have one contestant who would sit in a little booth, and you'd get basically one question per week. Julie Fenster in her latest book "Cheaters Always Win" looked at why so many people were captivated by that show. It was a big money quiz show, high on drama, and it turned out it was also rigged. In June 1955, "The $64,000 Question" debuted on CBS.
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