Game Shows

0:03 Calarogus, Shark Media, Greeting's TV fans, I'm Journey Joe Mitchell, and welcome to a buzzer beating edition of five daily trivia questions. On this day in television history, several iconic game shows made their debuts, So let's play along. Question one. Before hosting Jeopardy, what game show did Alex Trebek debut on NBC in nineteen seventy three that was canceled after just one episode? Question two? Which item from the Price's Right set was accidentally sold at a yard sale in nineteen ninety four, causing Bob Barker to offer a one thousand dollars reward for its return? Question three? What did Chuck Woolery originally want to call Wheel of Fortune when he pitched it to merv Griffin and why was the name rejected? Four? When Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Debuted?

1:03 What unusual security measure did ABC take to prevent contestants from cheating with the Phone a Friend Lifeline? Question five? What common practice on Family Feud did Richard Dawson start by accident? On his second day of hosting when a contestant was too nervous to speak I'll be back in a minute and we'll see what the survey says. Welcome back, Trivia fans, Let's reveal today's answers. Question one asked before hosting Jeopardy, what game show did Alex Trebek debut on NBC in nineteen seventy three that was canceled after just one episode. Answer? Wizard of Odds was canceled when the first episode's grand prize winner proved to be an NBC employee using a fake name. Trebek didn't learn about the scandal until years later. Question two asked which item from the Price's Right set was accidentally sold at a yard sale in nineteen ninety four, causing Bob Barker to offer a one thousand dollars reward for its return. Answer. The original Plinko board was sold for thirty dollars at a CBS studio yard sale after a stage hand mistook it for trash. It was recovered two weeks later from a college dorm room. Question three asked what did Chuck Woollery originally want to call Wheel of Fortune when he pitched it to merv Griffin and why was the name rejected? Answer?

2:20 Woollery wanted to call it Shopper's Casino, but NBC thought it sounded too much like a gambling show. The name Wheel of Fortune came from a roulette wheel in Griffin's Casino. Question four asked, when Who Wants to Be a Millionaire debuted, what unusual security measure did ABC take to prevent contestants from cheating with the Phone a Friend Lifeline answer? They stationed security guards in the homes of all potential Phone of Friend contacts during filming to prevent them from using computers. The guards also had to confiscate all books and magazines. Question five asked what common practice on family feud did Richard Dawson start by accident on his second day of hosting when a contestant was too nervous to speak. Answer.

3:04 Dawson's signature move of kissing female contestants began when he kissed a nervous contestant to help calm her down, and the audience reaction was so positive that it became his trademark. The practice continued for his entire hosting run, with estimates that he kissed over twenty thousand contestants. That concludes today's five daily trivia questions. I'm Journey Joe Mitchell, and today's questions were crafted with the help of AI technology. Have a great weekend and see you Monday.