The town centre is home to a number of high street multiples, including: Greggs, Argos, Specsavers, Wilkinson's, Shoe Zone, Superdrug, Costa Coffee, JJB Sports, Cash Generator, GAME, Poundland, Timpson, Althams Travel, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Claire's, Grainger Games, Post Office, Thomas Cook, Thomson, Burton, Holland & Barrett, Dorothy Perkins, Blockbuster, WHSmith, H Samuel, Iceland, Phones 4U, Boots Opticians, Card Factory, Boots, Store Twenty One, Poundworld, Peacocks, B & M Bargains, Wetherspoons and a mix of other shops.

During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty One and The $ 64, 000 Question began a rapid rise in popularity.

* 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

Bukharin was tried in the Trial of the Twenty One on 2 – 13 March 1938 during the Great Purges, along with ex-premier Alexei Rykov, Christian Rakovsky, Nikolai Krestinsky, Genrikh Yagoda, and 16 other defendants alleged to belong to the so-called " Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites ".

* Twenty One ( 1994 )

Adapted by Paul Attanasio from Richard Goodwin's memoir Remembering America, the film is based upon the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.

From a secure bank vault, the answers to Twenty One, a popular primetime quiz television show, are sent into a television studio as studio producers Dan Enright ( David Paymer ) and Albert Freedman ( Hank Azaria ) watch from the control booth.

Stempel and Van Doren face each other in Twenty One, where the match comes down to a predetermined question regarding Marty, the 1955 winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Visiting a number of contestants, including Stempel and Van Doren, he begins to suspect Twenty One is indeed a fixed operation.

One of the largest and most notable interiors of the first floor is the Hall of Twenty Columns, divided into three parts by two rows of grey monolithic columns of Serdobol granite, intended for the display of Graeco-Etruscan vases.

Clothes shop Store Twenty One replaced Woolworths.

* British indie rock band Mystery Jets released an album entitled Twenty One in 2008.

* Herb Stempel, the man Van Doren defeated on Twenty One, continued working for New York City, and considered the profession of the man who beat him which was a social studies teacher in the New York school system.

One of his few strengths is his ability to program, and create artificial intelligences, and he eventually created programs Twenty and Thirty-programs so real that conversations with them are indistinguishable from conversation with normal girls.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen repeatedly declared that the Twenty One Demands were a put-up job, invited and even drafted by Yuan Shikai himself ; the price Yuan was willing to pay Japan for recognizing him as Emperor.

The Twenty One Demands were grouped into five groups:

Tesco acquired the Safeway store, Wilkinson took over the former Somerfield store and the former Co-op superstore was subdivided into a number of units which provided the town with a new main post office, Morrisons supermarket and Store Twenty One clothing store.

In 1959 he confessed before the United States Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the show Twenty One.

Twenty One was not Van Doren's first interest.

Van Doren eventually revealed — five decades after his Twenty One championship and fame, in a surprise article for The New Yorker — that he did not even own a television set, but had met Freedman through a mutual friend, with Freedman initiating the idea of Van Doren going on television by way of asking what he thought of Tic-Tac-Dough.

Enright and Freedman were impressed by Van Doren's polite style and telegenic appearance, thinking the youthful Columbia teacher would be the man to defeat their incumbent Twenty One champion, Herb Stempel, and boost the show's slowing ratings as Stempel's reign continued.

His Twenty One run ended on March 11, when he lost to Vivienne Nearing, a lawyer whose husband Van Doren had previously beaten.

* 2010-Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer

Her book on her captivity, Rachael Plummer's Narrative of Twenty One Months Servitude as a Prisoner Among the Comanchee Indians, was issued in Houston in 1838.

He appeared in three television series that aimed to bring archaeology to the public: ' Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ' ( 1952 – 60 ), which was a quiz game, an archaeological variant of Twenty Questions, ' Buried Treasure ' ( 1954 – 59 ), and ' Chronicle ' ( 1966 ), and was named British ' TV Personality of the Year ' in 1954.

* Nance, TV host and former Twenty 4 Seven vocalist ( born )

* Jack Smight ( 1925 – 2003 ), a director of numerous TV episodes, made-for-TV movies and theatrical films, helmed four Twilight Zone episodes, including three of the six videotaped ones, the other two being " The Lateness of the Hour " and " Twenty Two ".

The Dubai One TV show Twenty Something also contains a live performance segment showcasing local acts.

Harry Twenty, for example, was an escape story set on a maximum-security prison orbiting the earth, and had clear echoes of The Prisoner TV series, starring Patrick McGoohan ( according to Finley-Day, he used to joke with his fellow creators that if McGoohan appeared at the reception of the IPC building, he was not to be let upstairs ).

* Twenty Good Years ( 2006 ) ( TV series ) as Stella

This event is presented in Robert Redford's 1994 film Quiz Show, where Derounian is shown harshly criticizing Charles Van Doren, after he admits to cheating on the TV game show Twenty One.

Sourcemaker developed the first sodium vapor lighting balloon for director of photography Ross Berryman on the TV Pilot " Twenty Questions ," shooting in Baltimore and Washington D. C. in 2006.

While at Princeton, McPhee went to New York once or twice a week to appear as the juvenile panelist on the radio and television quiz program Twenty Questions.

Three days after Twenty-One contestant, Richard Jackman, a writer from Oneonta, NY, told Stone that he too had been coached in advance of his appearance on October 3, Twenty One was canceled, and the investigation of the quiz show scandal began in earnest.

When Quiz Show was released, Stempel embraced the renewed public interest in him, giving interviews on radio and television ( notably appearing on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, taped in the same NBC studio Twenty One once occupied ), as well as lecturing at some colleges about the quiz scandals. Every time ' Quiz Show ' is shown on television, invariably the phone rings and some character at the other end says, ' What picture won the Academy Award in 1955?

In the 1940s the game became a popular radio panel quiz show, Twenty Questions, first broadcast at 8pm, Saturday, February 2, 1946, on the Mutual Broadcasting System from New York's Longacre Theatre on West 48th Street.

As a result of the 1950s quiz scandals, the network purchased the rights to Concentration and three other games ( Twenty One, Dough Re Mi and Tic-Tac-Dough ) from producers Barry and Enright.

In 1959, allegations that the quiz shows were rigged, due to the Charles Van Doren controversy on the quiz show Twenty One, began to surface and stirred controversy.

" And in the 1994 film Quiz Show, chronicling the infamous quiz show scandal of the late 1950s, actor Ralph Fiennes as Twenty One champion Charles Van Doren — shown being offered a regular job on Today — shyly asks the Dave Garroway character, " You're not going to fire the chimp, are you?

He held the record for the largest single win in United States game show history, until it was broken by Rahim Oberholtzer who won $ 1. 12 million on another U. S. quiz show, Twenty One.

Capitalizing on the success of the 1950s big-money quiz The $ 64, 000 Question on CBS, Barry and Enright developed their flagship show, Twenty One, a quiz which had a scoring system based loosely on Blackjack.

As the press was publishing allegations by former contestants of quiz rigging, NBC purchased from Barry and Enright the shows Twenty One and Tic Tac Dough, along with two new daytime entries, Concentration and a musical quiz Dough Re Mi, all of which aired on NBC, for $ 1 million.

After clerking for United States Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter in 1958, Goodwin came to Senator John F. Kennedy's attention in 1959 while working as special counsel to the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee of the U. S. House of Representatives, where Goodwin was involved in investigating the Twenty One quiz show scandal ( which provided the story for the 1994 movie Quiz Show in which he is portrayed by actor Rob Morrow ).

Elder illustrated Kurtzman's satire of television's rigged Twenty One quiz show, and Davis spoofed the Elia Kazan film of Tennessee Williams ' Baby Doll ( 1956 ).

The Dotto revelations prompted the New York Journal-American, at last, to take seriously the previously-presented accusations by deposed Twenty One champion Herb Stempel that the popular nighttime quiz had been rigged, and the quiz show scandals were on in earnest.

Jackson was the master of ceremonies of the panel quiz show Twenty Questions when it aired on the ABC Television Network starting in early 1953 and ending in May 1955.