Author Topic: The Nobel Laureate of Game Shows (Read 6870 times)

zachhoran · « **Reply #15 on:** October 05, 2005, 07:55:10 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 06:32 PM\']

1) I don't think she appeared on either show and
2) According to this official list, she isn't a Nobel Laureate.

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Another possible answer or answer(s), if this would count: Weren't there recent Nobel Laureates who have read clues on J! in recent times?

mmb5 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 05, 2005, 08:23:40 PM »

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 06:55 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 06:32 PM\']

1) I don't think she appeared on either show and
2) According to this official list, she isn't a Nobel Laureate.

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Another possible answer or answer(s), if this would count: Weren't there recent Nobel Laureates who have read clues on J! in recent times?

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If they have, I don't know about them. But unless you have specific examples, and if anyone would. . .

--Mike

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #17 on:** October 05, 2005, 09:07:23 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 08:23 PM\'][quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 06:55 PM\']
Another possible answer or answer(s), if this would count: Weren't there recent Nobel Laureates who have read clues on J! in recent times?[/quote]
If they have, I don't know about them. But unless you have specific examples, and if anyone would. . .[/quote]
Zach gets a point:
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/93106/2001/oct8/nobel/nobel.html

RMF · « **Reply #18 on:** October 05, 2005, 11:56:13 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Oct 5 2005, 09:17 AM\']
Yes, but I have found one more. Can you still live with that?

Hints on the "unknown" three:
2 American
1 Israeli
All are now deceased

--Mike

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According to Wikipedia, there are three dead Israeli Nobel Prize winners: Menachem Begin (Peace 1978), Yitzhak Rabin (Peace 1994), and Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Literature 1966). Is your pick one of these three, or is there another that both Wikipedia and I have missed?

mmb5 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 06, 2005, 10:59:22 AM »

Next hints:

1. The Israeli and one of the Americans appeared on Front Page Challenge
2. The other American appeared on The Quiz Kids
3. The source for #1 I got from a book, not the Internet. Not to say that it isn't on the Internet, but I didn't look there for them.
4. The source for #2 can be found on the Internet.

--Mike

RMF · « **Reply #20 on:** October 06, 2005, 12:03:08 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Oct 6 2005, 09:59 AM\']Next hints:

1. The Israeli and one of the Americans appeared on Front Page Challenge
2. The other American appeared on The Quiz Kids
3. The source for #1 I got from a book, not the Internet. Not to say that it isn't on the Internet, but I didn't look there for them.
4. The source for #2 can be found on the Internet.

--Mike

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#2 is Glenn Seaborg (Chemistry 1951), according to this site

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #21 on:** October 06, 2005, 12:16:47 PM »

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Oct 6 2005, 10:59 AM\']Next hints:

1. The Israeli and one of the Americans appeared on Front Page Challenge
2. The other American appeared on The Quiz Kids
3. The source for #1 I got from a book, not the Internet. Not to say that it isn't on the Internet, but I didn't look there for them.
4. The source for #2 can be found on the Internet.[/quote]
Well, I don't have the FPC history book, only the quiz book, so anything there would be a guess. Guessing, I'd say Begin was more likely than Rabin, and I wouldn't have any way of picking an American.

The other you spoon-fed me. Glenn Seabourg appeared on The Quiz Kids.

...and I've found another one from radio. The ball's in your court.

mmb5 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 06, 2005, 02:36:49 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Oct 6 2005, 11:16 AM\']
[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Oct 6 2005, 10:59 AM\']
...and I've found another one from radio. The ball's in your court.

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Matt's new find is a 90 second Google search.

--Mike

mmb5 · « **Reply #23 on:** October 07, 2005, 12:16:28 PM »

The remaning ones, for the three of you still following this, are:

Information Please - Sinclair Lewis
Front Page Challenge - Menachem Begin and Martin Luther King, Jr.

So, the final count seems to be 11:
What's My Line - Jimmy Carter
Quiz Kids - Glenn Seaborg and James Watson
Information Please - Sinclair Lewis
Front Page Challenge - Menachem Begin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Lester Pearson
Jeopardy! - David Baltimore, Rudy Marcus, George Olah and Alan Heeger

Sources: Jeopardy, What's My Line, Quiz Kids, Information Please and Front Page Challenge

--Mike

RMF · « **Reply #24 on:** October 07, 2005, 05:28:39 PM »

I found one more, also from a radio game show: Pearl S. Buck (Literature 1938) appeared as a contestant on the 5/28/49 edition of "RFD America".

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Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #25 on:** October 07, 2005, 11:03:04 PM »

[quote name=\'RMF\' date=\'Oct 7 2005, 05:28 PM\']I found one more, also from a radio game show: Pearl S. Buck (Literature 1938) appeared as a contestant on the 5/28/49 edition of "RFD America".

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WELL done! Mike and I have been going back and forth on this for the better part of a week -- and I was IN radiogoldindex searching names, but Buck never occurred to me.