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Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn’t, Dies at 93
The New York Times ^
| April 10, 2019
| Robert D. McFadden
Posted on 04/10/2019 8:44:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
Interesting coincidence that he should pass away during the current round of online testing to qualify as a Jeopardy! contestant. I plan to take the qualifying test tonight.
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posted on
04/10/2019 8:46:45 AM PDT
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/10/2019 8:47:06 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: EveningStar
His father was Mark Van Doren, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, literary critic and professor of English at Columbia. His mother, Dorothy Van Doren, was a novelist and editor. And his uncle, Carl Van Doren, had been a professor of literature, a historian and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. Charles himself had bachelor’s and master’s degrees, a $4,400-a-year position at Columbia and an honest look about him.
So he was an Educrat. Ahead of his time.
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posted on
04/10/2019 8:50:47 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
To: Borges
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posted on
04/10/2019 8:54:58 AM PDT
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: All
Charles Van Doren, an early phony liberal.
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posted on
04/10/2019 8:58:25 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( The GOPe is on board with the North American Union and the European Union.)
To: T-Bird45
last night James bet and won the most on a Daily Double and also 1 day winnings record. Where are those who attended the following tapings? They know what happens next. Have they spoken?
Found this site yesterday https://thejeopardyfan.com/
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posted on
04/10/2019 9:02:54 AM PDT
by
SMGFan
("God love ya! What am I talking about")
To: EveningStar
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posted on
04/10/2019 9:03:46 AM PDT
by
C210N
(You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
To: EveningStar
Charles may be gone, but Mamie’s still with us.
To: C210N
I remember that episode! :)
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posted on
04/10/2019 9:14:51 AM PDT
by
EveningStar
(I am a Non-Cultist Trump Supporter.)
To: Yo-Yo
I also recommend the movie Quiz Show.Me too - great flick.
I thought John Turturro (as Herbie Stempel), stole the show.
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posted on
04/10/2019 9:20:09 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: EveningStar
The grandfathering pioneer for liberalism. Cheat and profit until caught and then Mea culpa.
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posted on
04/10/2019 9:38:09 AM PDT
by
Bommer
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To: T-Bird45
That retirement location should be called:
GEEZER VILLAGE.
To: EveningStar
And yesterday Jeopardy had a new one day high score...
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04/10/2019 10:38:34 AM PDT
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Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
To: EveningStar
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04/10/2019 11:25:35 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: Yo-Yo
One of my favorite movies ever.
To: EveningStar
I remember those days - he actually made being smart and educated fashionable for awhile.....
To: EveningStar
Van Doren was a contestant along with Elfrida Von Nardroff on the quiz show ‘Twenty-one.” Elfride labored furiously from inside the glass box to spell what, in retrospect, was just a faux complex word that any idiot could have spelled with a little contemplation. The word is just a string of prefixes and suffixes around the word “establish.”
The word the genius wrestled to the ground was...
antidisestablishmentarianism.
That she first identified this as the longest word in the English language should have tipped us off to the show being fixed.
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posted on
04/10/2019 2:32:44 PM PDT
by
sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: sparklite2
I saw the show. Afterwards i got a cookie as prize when i spelled it in class. Never knew it wasn’t the longest word till after college
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posted on
04/10/2019 2:34:22 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
To: Responsibility2nd
It was easy to believe in the days before the internet that with his background he knew just about anything.
The days when we turned on the TV and believed what we saw, except for my dad. After world war II he was skeptical of everything and was hardened by his experience into coal mines..
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posted on
04/10/2019 2:36:52 PM PDT
by
morphing libertarian
( Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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