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Searching Without Success
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Some missing persons are famous before they go missing. Others become famous by virtue of their disappearance. Here are a few from both categories.
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Mysteries of History
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
May 09 12
798 plays
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ZIV Television: Syndicated Memories Of The '50s
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In TV's infancy, stations had lots of time to fill and very little programming available with which to fill it. Frederick Ziv saw the need and began producing half hour dramas for syndication. Early baby boomers will recall these "ZIV" productions.
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1950s TV
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Sep 20 12
378 plays
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Swashbucklers & Shoot 'Em Ups: Early TV Adventures
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A lot of early television aimed at kids in both the US and Britain involved either swordplay or gunplay. How many of these potboilers do you remember?
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Baby Boomer
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Oct 02 12
366 plays
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Love Me, Love My Slogan
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Planning to run for office? Overthrow the government? Take over the world? A catchy slogan will help. See if you can tell which of these worked in the past.
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Political Science & History
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Jun 20 12
372 plays
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Killer Celebrities
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"Killer" not in the good sense, but celebrities who actually have killed someone. It's not as small a group as you might think.
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Other People
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
May 27 12
534 plays
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ZIV Television & Beyond: More Classic Syndication
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In the late 1950s, TV networks began producing their own syndication and selling reruns of primetime shows for syndication. Frederick Ziv sold his company to United Artists but other producers continued to produce programs for first-run syndication.
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Mixture: Classics
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Average
15 Q
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wilbill
Sep 28 12
300 plays
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More Last Words: Famous and Otherwise
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Parting comments from ten more famous or infamous people.
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Last Words & Epitaphs
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Tough
10 Q
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wilbill
May 11 12
393 plays
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Be Very Afraid! Early TV Cold Warriors
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The Commies were coming! In the early '50s The Red Scare was very real, but you didn't learn about it in network entertainment programs. If you wanted to know about Red agents, you had to watch syndicated spy shows in non-prime time.
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1950s TV
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Sep 29 12
315 plays
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Song Titles (In Parentheses)
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I've long been intrigued by parenthesised song titles. Is the portion in brackets not as important? An afterthought? Or is it just there to cause confusion? Do you remember these parenthetical hits?
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Songs with Subtitles
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Oct 02 12
438 plays
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The Real League of Their Own
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Most of us were introduced to The All American Girls Professional Baseball League by the 1992 movie "A League Of Their Own". The facts of the league's 12 seasons are just as fascinating as the movie, albeit without Madonna.
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Other Leagues
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Average
10 Q
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wilbill
Jun 21 12
99 plays
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Last Words: Famous and Otherwise
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Sometimes famous people leave the world with memorable last words. Sometimes a person's last words are more famous than the person. Here's a quiz about the memorable last words of some famous and not so famous people.
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Last Words & Epitaphs
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Tough
10 Q
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wilbill
Apr 29 12
426 plays
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