A game show is a type of radio, television, or streaming program in which contestants, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering trivia
Pat Sajak, former host of Wheel of Fortune (middle) along with two United States Armed Forces contestants (left and right) during Armed Services Week, airing on the week of April 3, 2006.
Twenty One host Jack Barry (center) with contestant Charles Van Doren (right) and fellow contestant Vivienne Nearing (left)
Ken Jennings previously held the highest all-time game show winnings record.
From 1956 to 1958, numerous quiz shows airing on CBS and NBC, two of the three American TV networks at the time, were revealed to have prearranged outcomes, such as certain contestants winning after b
Conspirators in the rigging of Twenty-One, host Jack Barry and contestant Charles Van Doren, on set in June 1957
Mike Wallace hosting The Big Surprise in March 1956
Jack Barry hosting Tic-Tac-Dough in 1957