Quick review: College Bowl

[Brad Beam]

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.

 

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[Jim Ellwanger]

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!

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[Dave Sikula]

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

[Adam Bowie]

Of note: in the UK 'College Bowl' became 'University Challenge' and has basically been running since 1962, with a brief hiatus between 1987 and 1994 when it got a new presenter and moved from ITV to the BBC (although still produced by ITV Studios).

And yes, the questions remain very hard.

Adam

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[Diner]

I listened once to a BBC Radio documentary on the history of University Challenge, and I found its origin quite interesting.

Basically, the producer at Granada Television in Manchester had seen College Bowl on a trip to America and decided to do his own version of it. He was asked "Wait, that's a copyrighted format - don't we have to pay the College Bowl company for the rights?" The producer replied "This is a little television station in the north of England - they're never going to find out about this in America!" And they got away with it for years. Today they pay the College Bowl a licensing fee.

[PGage]

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.

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[Karen Owen]

I recorded and watched it last night.  I played College

Bowl and our team won our campus competition 3 times

and we went to regional Upstate New York competitions.

I agree that the questions were not as hard as actual College

Bowl.  The only ones that I thought were hard were the ones

in the category on Tony Awards because Broadway shows

probably aren't really general knowledge for most college students.

One of the questions where the team could work together

on the answer was on Gettysburg Address and nobody on the

team that got that question knew the answer, just like the

recent Jeopardy contestants.   You can apparently answer before

the questions are completely read in the bonus round

because the girl who was  captain for Michigan was really fast and

answered most of the questions herself without waiting for

the whole question or consulting with teammates.



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