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  2. The Impossible Quiz - Wikipedia

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    The Impossible Quiz is a point-and-click quiz game that consists of 110 questions, [1] [2] using "Gonna Fly Now" as its main musical theme. Notorious for its difficulty, the quiz mixes multiple-choice trick questions similar to riddles, along with various challenges and puzzles. [1] [2] Despite the quiz's name and arduousness, the game is ...

  3. World Quizzing Championships - Wikipedia

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    Banner publicising the championship in Bangalore, one of a number of cities simultaneously holding the July 2005 event. The World Quizzing Championships is an individual quiz contest organised by the International Quizzing Association (the umbrella organisation of various quizzing activities from more than 25 countries around the world).

  4. List of the longest English words with one syllable - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...

  5. The Million Second Quiz - Wikipedia

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    The Million Second Quiz is an American game show that was hosted by Ryan Seacrest and broadcast by NBC.The series aired from September 9 to September 19, 2013. For one million seconds (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, and 40 seconds), contestants attempted to maintain control of a "money chair" by winning trivia matches against other contestants, earning money for every second they occupied the ...

  6. Game show - Wikipedia

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    1938 radio quiz show Whiz Kids on WHN Radio in New York. Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, Spelling Bee, as well as the first radio game show, Information Please, were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was Dr. I.Q., a radio quiz show that began in 1939.

  7. List of longest-running American television series - Wikipedia

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    Originally was 15 minutes long. September 6, 1998 present 63 years 63 It's Academic: WRC-TV WJZ-TV WVIR-TV WETA-TV: October 7, 1961 present Longest-running game show of any type. Longest-running high school quiz show (broadcast in the Baltimore, Charlottesville, and Washington, D.C. areas only). 63 years 63 Professional Bowlers Tour [n] ABC [o ...

  8. Long I - Wikipedia

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    In inscriptions dating to the early Roman Empire, it is used frequently but inconsistently to transcribe the long vowel /iː/.In Gordon's 1957 study of inscriptions, it represented this vowel approximately 4% of the time in the 1st century CE, then 22.6% in the 2nd century, 11% in the 3rd, and not at all from the 4th century onward, [1] reflecting a loss of phonemic vowel length by this time ...

  9. English literature - Wikipedia

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    English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. [1] The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the fifth century, are called Old English.