That is, until 2012, when the Museum of Television Production Music discovered them. Stumpers!
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Though the element of familiarity made it slightly easier this time around, we still had some stumpers.
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At the GOAT level, outside of Daily Double and Final Jeopardy stumpers, all three champions likely know the answer.
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There are always some real logic stumpers in a cryptic, and it helps to not be afraid to leap once in a while.
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This year, VR is an enormous chunk of the Sundance press in my inbox — drowning out all but the most aggressive foreign documentary stumpers.
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He includes a number of generally-clued phrases that draw more on one's conversational than one's literary vocabulary, and thus can be stumpers sometimes.
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And while some gifts are no-brainers (or maybe your BFF is just really good at dropping hints), there's always a few stumpers on your list.
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The finals of the competition took place on the track usually reserved for horses, with the likes of Benji, Loki, Nubby and Jojo using their stumpers to zoom to glory.
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The first four entries to the theme weren't stumpers for me, ranging from something I consider a New York institution, to something Washingtonian, a child's poem and a poetic phrase.
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I did find a handful of total stumpers, some anachronisms that I imagine will challenge the youngest among us, and some great misdirection and general vagueness that made for a very crunchy, slow but satisfying solve.
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Trump stumpers, though, were trying their best to change those numbers: Anthony Scaramucci, one of the most high-profile Trump fund-raisers, was making the rounds, and Priebus himself came to pitch the RNC to the well-heeled in Deer Valley.
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I don't think any of them are total stumpers, but they're funny and will certainly make you wonder why constructors aren't employed more by corporations trying to make their products sound appealing (please: just compare the names in this grid to the actual sites here and tell me which you'd rather consult for a date).
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A book of Stumpers-L questions and answers was published in 1998 by Random House, edited by Fred Shapiro of Yale and titled Stumpers! Answers to Hundreds of Questions That Stumped The Experts (). Roncevic, Mirela. "LJ Talks To... Fred J. Shapiro" Library Journal April 10, 2007 Shapiro was an active member;Rotella, Carlo.
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Bumper Stumpers later aired on the Canadian specialty channel GameTV from October 1, 2012 until 2017, from January 8 to February 25, 2018 and again from February 4, 2019 to March 1, 2019.
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The Stumpers-L electronic mailing list, was a resource available for librarians and others to discuss reference questions which they were unable to answer using available resources. It was succeeded by the similar Project Wombat.
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A replacement list, known as Project Wombat, commenced in January 2006, and is hosted by Project Gutenberg. Originally the Stumpers-L archive was a gopher resource, but it migrated to the World Wide Web once the web became more universally used in the mid-1990s.
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In Super Stumpers, the object for the contestant was to correctly guess the subject of stumpers with the celebrity giving clues. This time, the idea was to give clues that would be more helpful in guessing the subject instead of being ones that would be less helpful. The celebrity was shown three clue words and one at a time would relay them to the contestant until the contestant correctly solved the stumper or all three words were exhausted. In order to receive another of the clue words, the contestant had to say "clue"; giving one without being asked forfeited the chance at the jackpot.
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Stumpers! is a game show hosted by Allen Ludden that aired on NBC from October 4 to December 31, 1976. Lin Bolen, former head of NBC Daytime Programming, developed the show. Bill Armstrong was the program's regular announcer, with Charlie O'Donnell filling in for several episodes.
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Bumper Stumpers is a Canadian game show in which two teams of two players attempted to decipher vanity license plates in an attempt to win money. The show was a joint production of Canada's Global Television Network and the United States' USA Network, the two networks that aired the series in first run, in association with Barry & Enright Productions and Wink Martindale Enterprises. This was one of three original series that USA and Global co- produced in the 1980s, with a 1985 revival of Jackpot and 1986's The New Chain Reaction preceding it. Bumper Stumpers premiered on June 29, 1987 and aired concurrently on Global and USA until December 28, 1990.
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"Can a book of quotations include Cher, MC Hammer, and 'Get a life'? Ask the man who out-Bartletted Bartlett's" Yale Alumni Magazine September/October 2006 other prominent members include Barbara and David P. Mikkelson, the co-editors of Snopes.com. The unofficial mascot of the Stumpers-L list is the wombat.
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Contestants were given sixty seconds to guess ten subjects, and doing so won $10,000. If a contestant did not do so, $100 was awarded for each subject guessed. Two complete games were played per episode. Contestants could stay on the show until they were defeated or won Super Stumpers twice.
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The show featured game play similar to Password, with two teams (consisting of one celebrity and one contestant) attempting to guess the subject of puzzles based on clues provided by their opponents. The series premiered and ended on the same dates as 50 Grand Slam, which immediately followed Stumpers! on the NBC schedule and was hosted by Tom Kennedy.
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These were the first two games to air in first-run on the network since the 1990-91 season, when USA aired the final season of Bumper Stumpers and The New Chain Reaction. The two programs were in fact paired on the schedule, but Free 4 All failed after nineteen weeks while Quicksilver ran for sixteen months.
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Alan Claude "Al" Dubois (born July 30, 1947 in Magog, Quebec) is a Canadian television personality, weather presenter, actor, and narrator. He hosted the game show Bumper Stumpers between 1987 and 1990. He was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. In addition to his television work, DuBois had minor roles in such films as Student Seduction, The Aviator, Upside Down, and Pawn Sacrifice.
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Fielder was described by Wisden in 1907 as being "quite modern in his methods, keeping the ball for the most part well outside the off-stump". He generally bowled out-swing deliveries, swerving the ball away from the batsman and relying on catches by slip fielders.Sengupta A (2014) Arthur Fielder — and the Bowlers, and Stumpers, Cricket Country, 2014-08-30. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
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The third Bumper Stumpers bonus round consisted of a series of five plates connected to a subject, with each plate serving as a clue to the subject's identity. This time, only one player from the winning team played the first half of the round. That player was given 30 seconds to decipher the plates, with given for each. Unlike the previous bonus round formats, Dubois did not give out clues to the plates.
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Stumpers-L began in 1992, created by Ann Feeney, a library school graduate student at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois, in the United States. It was moved to Concordia University, Chicago, then back to Rosary, which was then renamed Dominican University. From 2002 to 2005 it was maintained by the Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science program. At the end of 2005 Dominican University ceased hosting the list.
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Bumper Stumpers featured two teams, one usually a returning champion pair. The teams' goal was to correctly solve the Super Stumper, a puzzle designed to resemble a vanity license plate that consisted of seven spaces. At the beginning of each game, host Dubois would tell the teams whom or what the plate belonged to, and the first space was revealed. In order to begin filling in the spaces in the Super Stumper, the teams played a series of jump-in questions.
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NBC first slotted Shoot at 11:30 AM (10:30 Central), replacing the Allen Ludden-hosted Stumpers. It faced Happy Days reruns on ABC and Love of Life on CBS until April 25, when ABC placed Family Feud in that slot. On June 13, NBC moved Shoot to 12:00 Noon (11:00 AM, Central), where the series promptly sank against CBS' hit soap opera The Young and the Restless, but also faced two short run ABC shows Second Chance and The Better Sex.
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If a team could not solve the Super Stumper after all seven spaces were revealed, the opposing team had one final chance to solve it. Whichever team solved two out of three Super Stumpers became champion and won with a chance to win more in the bonus round. Originally, solving a Super Stumper won the team that did so and the right to play the bonus round. If a Super Stumper went unsolved, a new one was played for more and play continued until one of the teams solved one.
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Thicke had a successful career as a TV theme song composer, often collaborating with his then-wife Gloria Loring on these projects, which included the themes to the popular sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life. He also wrote a number of TV game show themes, including The Wizard of Odds (for which he also sang the vocal introduction), The Joker's Wild, Celebrity Sweepstakes, The Diamond Head Game, Animal Crack- Ups (which he co-wrote with his brother Todd Thicke and Gary Pickus), Blank Check, Stumpers!, Whew!, and the original theme to Wheel of Fortune.
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At FOX Reality Channel, Boden served as Executive Producer on Solitary, American Idol Extra, The Academy, Paradise Hotel 2, Reality Remix, Reality Binge, Househusbands of Hollywood, the Really Awards, My Bare Lady, Battle of the Bods, Night Club Confessions, among others. Boden was also Executive Producer on Challenge of the Child Geniuses, Co-Executive Producer of BOOM!, consulting producer on To Tell the Truth and Superhuman, supervising producer on Family Feud, Bumper Stumpers, Pictionary and The NOVA Quiz and a writer on Jeopardy!. Other shows that Boden consulted on include Ellen, America’s Funniest Videos, The Tonight Show with Jay leno, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, Million Second Quiz and The Wall.
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The Yale Book of Quotations' introduction also exhaustively describes the editor's attempts at research to identify many famous quotations, trace them to their original sources as far as possible, and record those sources as precisely and accurately as he could. In compiling the book, Shapiro made extensive use of online databases to find earlier or more precise information about famous quotations. He also used the Stumpers network of reference librarians and other research professionals; and the American Dialect Society electronic mailing list, as well as traditional library research. Shapiro claims that, to ensure that famous quotations were included, he reviewed more than a thousand previous quotations collections and other types of anthologies, read the alt.
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It began in October 1984 with reruns of The Gong Show and Make Me Laugh. In September 1985, the network began airing its first original game show, a revival of the mid-1970s game show Jackpot; two more original game shows, Love Me, Love Me Not, and a revival of the short-lived 1980 series Chain Reaction, were added in September 1986. More shows were progressively added soon afterward such as The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Press Your Luck, High Rollers, and Hollywood Squares (with John Davidson as its "Square-Master", or host), along with Wipeout, Face the Music, and Name That Tune. In June 1987, the channel debuted another original game show, Bumper Stumpers.
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Enright's changes dissatisfied several longtime employees, including producer Richard S. Kline and Barry's sons, Jon and Douglas. Kline left to form his own production company, Kline and Friends, and took Barry's sons and several other staffers with him including set designer John C. Mula and music composer Hal Hidey. Enright continued to run the company for several years after Barry's death and Kline's departure, but after both Joker and Tic Tac Dough went off the air in 1986. Barry & Enright Productions failed to produce another hit series in America (although Enright and Wink Martindale co-produced a Canadian-based hit in Bumper Stumpers for the Global Television Network, which also aired in America on USA Network and in the UK, a series called Chain Letters co-produced by Action Time and Tyne Tees Television the same year for ITV).
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Bumper Stumpers used a game board consisting of seven monitors, and each jump-in question used the top row of two monitors. The teams would be shown two plates, one of which belonged to someone or something, and had to guess which of the two was the correct plate. For instance, a plate belonging to swashbucklers would read "PYR88" with the solution being "pirates" while one belonging to Bill Cosby would read "IIPI" with the solution being the title of his television series I Spy; consecutive letters or numbers in a plate were usually treated as plurals, so the two numbers at the end of the first plate would read as "eights" and not "eighty-eight" while the first two letters in the second would not be pronounced "eye-eye". In another example, a plate belonging to a saboteur would read "VTHKOLM" but be pronounced "fifth column", with the V serving its purpose as the Roman numeral five, while a plate with "H2O" in it would belong to something having to do with water due to it being the chemical symbol.
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