1966 - GE College Bowl - Part 3 of 3

In living color - An entire 1/2 hour episode (original commercials included) of this NBC quiz show from March 1966, but cut into three 10 minute installments because of You Tube time limits. Copyrights have been allowed to expire.

Part 1 is YouTube MQ_6WzOnwDk
Part 2 is YouTube tCltVhgBTRU

From a network reference tape.

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[asia1015]

By the way, tell me someone, where is Agnes Scott College? In what State is it located?

[hmmmmmmmmm2]

Georgia. Decatur, Georgia. Decatur is outside of Atlanta.

[pynchonfan]

Do you (or anybody) have any of the three weeks that followed this show? My late father coached the Marietta College team when they went up against Agnes Scott, and were on the show two more times. Please let me know if this is available; the clip you showed is a week before Marietta's appearance.

[hmmmmmmmmm2]

I'm really sorry. This is the only episode of this show that I have. It was transferred to the 3/4" U-Matic original that I acquired some time in the 1970's -- years after it's airing. Therefore, the masters must have existed at least about a decade after airing. I don't know the the locale of the storage of this 2" videoape master in the 70's. I wish that I could help you. Perhaps contact Marietta's historical archives, NBC archives, or General Electric (same company now).

[646guy]

@azgregw Truly the MVP of their team....

[irish89055]

those guys must have had to hide for a while on campus..

[azgregw]

Katherine Bell's clutch buzz-in at 4:19 is world class. Trailing with 70 seconds to go, she correctly answers the question after, "This body has sat as a court only 12 times in 170..." She had another one in part 1 with her answer "Hemophilia." No wonder this show became legendary. Thanks for posting this.

[KNZMl]

@SamuelRiv The ability to maintain higher density is the result of elasticity. I would at least prompt on density since it implies the correct answer in any normal theoretical situation. Also, I think it was excusable to check Boadicea since it is a long name and some syllables may not have been perfectly clear. Maybe the host was unsure. It certainly would not have been acceptable to take an incorrect name, however debatable the particular pronunciation may be.

[SamuelRiv]

@TeganX7 Elasticity isn't a very precise way to describe the difference in the speed of sound in materials, but saying "density" misses the point. I'd say the questions and scoring were 100% fair, though it kinda annoyed me when the host picked a beef with the pronunciation of Boadicea since that's an anglicization of a latinization of ancient isolated speech.

[SamuelRiv]

Questions then were validated by World Book Encyclopedia. Nowadays, when we write QuizBowl questions, we validate them through Wikipedia.

[TheMarching110fan]

thanks for the great video's . Brings back fond memories of my childhood.

[Curas1]

OMG a Oriental! Hahahahaha

[altfactor]

In one of her books, Betty White (widow of original "College Bowl" emcee Allen Ludden) wrote that when Ludden left "College Bowl", the producers made successor Robert Earle (seen in this clip) wear glasses so he'd look like Ludden.

White wrote about someone meeting her and Ludden shortly after Earle took over and telling Ludden "Who is that new guy they poured into your glasses?".

[ftsjr]

I used to watch this show each Sunday, even though I wasn't even a teen, and I couldn't answer any of the questions. Even now, over 40 years later, I only answered five of the questions correctly. Thanks for the posting. It's a great memory.