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The $64,000 Question was created by Louis G. Cowan, formerly known for radio's Quiz Kids and the television series Stop the Music and Down You Go.Cowan drew the inspiration for the name from Take It or Leave It, and its $64 top prize offering.
The $64,000 Question was a British quiz show based on the American format of the same name.The show originally ran from 19 May 1956 to 18 January 1958 produced by ATV and was originally hosted by Jerry Desmonde, and called simply The 64,000 Question with the top prize initially being 64,000 sixpences (£1,600), later doubling to 64,000 shillings (£3,200).
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During the 1940s, "That's the $64 question" became a common catchphrase for a particularly difficult question or problem. In addition to the common phrase "Take it or leave it", the show also popularized another phrase, widely spoken in the 1940s as a taunt but now mostly forgotten (except in Warner Bros. cartoons).
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The "64 million dollar question", if you ever hear it put that way, is probably a conflation of the 64 thousand dollar question and The Six Million Dollar Man. Unless it's after 2040, in which case 64 million dollars probably doesn't amount to even a small hill of beans. :o) 92.21.13.201 19:21, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
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