The Honeymooners - Episode 18 - "The $99,000 Answer" - Full Episode {ReMastered HD 1080p}
Posted on 04/10/2019 8:44:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
Charles Van Doren, a Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged, died on Tuesday in Canaan, Conn. He was 93.
He died at Geer Village, a retirement community, near his home in Cornwall, Conn., where he had lived for several years, his son, John, said.
In the heyday of quiz shows in the 1950s, when scholarly housewives and walking encyclopedia nerds battled on “The $64,000 Question” and “Tic-Tac-Dough,” Mr. Van Doren was a rare specimen: a handsome, personable young intellectual with solid academic credentials, a faculty post at a prestigious university and an impressive family pedigree.
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.
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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.
So he was an Educrat. Ahead of his time.
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Charles Van Doren, an early phony liberal.
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/
Charles may be gone, but Mamie’s still with us.
I remember that episode! :)
The grandfathering pioneer for liberalism. Cheat and profit until caught and then Mea culpa.
That retirement location should be called:
GEEZER VILLAGE.
And yesterday Jeopardy had a new one day high score...
RIP.
One of my favorite movies ever.
I remember those days - he actually made being smart and educated fashionable for awhile.....
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.
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
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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