Miguel+V.

=**May 10, 2010 - Preliminary research**=

Please post the following items:


 * Working thesis statement:**

During the 1950s, many Americans who began to lack the intelligence in society were overtaken by a new phenomenon across the nation known as a Quiz show. Funded by the American government, a new form of learning pitted Americans against their wits by answering a variety of questions which would be broken down into subjects. The objective of the game was to know certain subjects for cash prizes or materials equivalent to the cash prize. Two quiz shows in particular, The $64,000 Question from CBS and Twenty-One from NBC, launched an investigation, and was found guilty by a grand jury, that revealed that a numerous of contestants had been given the questions to the show in advanced and were coached in every detail of the subjects.

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 * Working bibliography:**[]

> (article consists of 13 pages)
 * Intellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s
 * Richard S. Tedlow
 * American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 4 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 483-495
 * Published by: [|The Johns Hopkins University Press]
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