2006-11-26 00:02:14 · 16 answers · asked by Bob F 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The $64 thousand dollar question was an american game show in the 60-70s which the top prize was $64 thousand dollars at that time the highest prize allowed to be awarded on an american tv quiz show. The saying meaning the big question stems from that.
2006-11-26 00:13:44 · answer #1 · answered by jojo 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a million money isn't something now adays. I study some article that in the process the previous three hundred and sixty 5 days on my own the style of human beings who've a million million of their financial employer account grew by making use of like 2 hundred% or some thing loopy like that. In 10 years at my contemporary in basic terms i will make a hell of a great style of money and my probabilities of changing right into a millionaire get greater appropriate each three hundred and sixty 5 days - so - easily does no longer provide up 10 years
2016-12-13 14:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by pasillas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question!: I find the question very difficult to answer: US, since the early 1950s and, by adoption, Brit. since the 1960s. From the US "quiz game" -with a very much smaller top prize in UK and the Commonwealth (Shaw, 1968)
But this is itself a development from and elaboration of the purely US "that's the sixty-four dollar question", which, as a catch phrase dates from circa 1942. Webster's International Dictionary, 1961, tells me that "the sixty-four dollas question" was 'so called from the fact that $64 was the highest award in the CBS radio quiz show'. "Take it or Leave it" (1941-8) The meaning of both of these catch phrases is "That is the crucial question -the most
difficult one- a real puzzler". It is still heard, 1975, in UK, whereas it was already, in US, 1969, passing into history, as Prof. Emeritus S.H.Monk told me in that year.
Extracted from "A Dictionary of Catch Phrases- from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day" by Eric Partridge.
2006-11-26 00:11:22 · answer #3 · answered by j0n.john 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was a game show that had 2 participants competing to win $64 thousand dollars. It was set up that one person sat in one chair and could see clues. They had to say words or items to get the 2nd person (their partner) to guess what the main clue was.
For example; it could say "things that are square in shape". Then the person who is trying to help the 2nd person answer guess the clue would say things like "CD cases, cube faces, cities blocks, stamps, wooden blocks, 5x5 etc." Obvioulsy the first person couldn't say the word square. However the 2nd person had to deduce that the clue was "things that were square". These clues got more difficult. They had to answer a pyramid of clues and if they made it to the top in a certain amount of time they won 64,000 $
I think that's it
2006-11-26 00:15:35 · answer #4 · answered by answers_anyone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who gave the chimpanzees the type writer in the first place ? And given that there was an infinite number of them I think Inspector Morse would want to know why noone had missed any from zoos, wildlife parks etc.. Didn't any of them have to be back by the end of lunch time ?
2006-11-29 21:03:00 · answer #5 · answered by Aunty Wendy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who is the million Dollar baby?
2006-11-26 00:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by bugi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE $64 MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION IS..................WHEN DO I GET IT?
2006-11-28 11:45:59 · answer #7 · answered by crazeeladee no more 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It wasn't - it was the Sixty four THOUSAND dollar question - quiz show.
2006-11-26 00:05:22 · answer #8 · answered by Dover Soles 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What came first, the chicken or the egg?
2006-11-28 16:50:09 · answer #9 · answered by AlleJo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was $64,000 question and the jackpot question on a US television quiz show.
thats inflation for you !!!!
2006-11-26 00:09:17 · answer #10 · answered by Daddybear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋