I also have fond memories of watching College Bowl as a kid (and how the one team seemed to sit on top of the other) and was on intramural College Bowl Teams in undergrad (champion team one year). The Toss Up question may have been Jeopardy level, but the rest were harder. My sense of CB is that you really do have to have specialists on the team, because a majority of the time even very knowledgeable generalists will not know the answers.
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 2:54 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < [email protected]> wrote: > As I mentioned on Jim's FB page, I got three questions in and bailed. > > My memory of the original College Bowl -- and, granted, my age was in the > single digits -- was that the questions were really hard and not > trivia-based. This seems to be on a Celebrity Jeopardy-level of pub quiz > questions. > > The biggest drawback is the Mannings. I realize that, as producers, > they're baked in, but if a show is touting intellectual prowess, Peyton > Manning might not be your best exemplar of that. > > --Dave Sikula > > On Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 3:03:14 PM UTC-7 Jim Ellwanger wrote: > >> The opening included a montage of clips of the original version, as seen >> on an old-timey TV. For some reason, they put the 1960s NBC peacock in the >> lower right-hand corner of the clips, as if NBC had a logo bug back then - >> a color peacock on the clips that were in color, and a black-and-white >> peacock on the black-and-white clips. (Among other things, note that NBC >> currently positions their logo bug at the lower left.) >> >> Looking forward to NBC’s 100th-anniversary special in 2026! >> >> >> On Jun 23, 2021, at 2:49 PM, Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Your starter for 10: >> >> Why didn’t Betty White join her husband on the ‘60s-era “College Bowl” as >> an on-set sidekick? >> [buzzer] >> Time’s up. The answer – Cooper Manning. >> >> _ _ >> |_>|_> Brad Beam- Belle WV >> |_>|_> http://www.facebook.com/74bmw >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/007501d76879%24affe7760%240ffb6620%24%40suddenlink.net >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/007501d76879%24affe7760%240ffb6620%24%40suddenlink.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d4992113-130f-4783-8dca-09268150c70cn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/d4992113-130f-4783-8dca-09268150c70cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYK-Qx9hcNqoi%3DzsYjjvXZPLzMwU6Q6Cu3KHL1H2fyo%2BQg%40mail.gmail.com.
