Charles Lincoln Van Doren ( born February 12, 1926 ) is an American intellectual, writer, and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s.

A sports quiz show A Game Of Two Halves hosted by Trevor Welsh ran for 13 episodes in 1999 ; in 2005 they produced The Offside Show, presented by Dermot Whelan, that lasted 12 episodes.

– The April 12, 2010, episode of the quiz show Jeopardy!

A trial version of the application appeared prior to the first quiz night, featuring 12 questions on a number of topics, including the Birmingham Six, the former occupants of the Grafton Street site now occupied by Brown Thomas, and which Irish alcohol company Toto Schillaci advertised for.

The day the Minstrel arrives, the Queen is testing Princess # 12 with an unfair quiz.

Eggheads is a BBC quiz show created by 12 Yard Productions, first broadcast in 2003, and co-presented by Dermot Murnaghan and Jeremy Vine.

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.

Until 2005 he hosted Genius on Rete 4, an afternoon quiz show aimed at 12 to 14 year-olds.

He then hosted the nighttime version of the popular quiz show Tic Tac Dough from its debut on September 12, 1957 through September 1958, yielding that job to Win Elliot for the remaining 13 weeks of the show's nighttime run ( September 1957-December 1958 ).

In addition, Ampère used his access to the latest mathematical books to begin teaching himself advanced mathematics at age 12.

Also notable is the work of British zoologist and cryptozoologist Karl Shuker, who has published 12 books and countless articles on numerous cryptozoological subjects since the mid-1980s.

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Earlier Berkeley studies estimated that by the end of 1999, the sum of human-produced information ( including all audio, video recordings and text / books ) was about 12 exabytes of data.

There is no evidence that her books ' popularity ever suffered: her response to criticism is said to be that she was not interested in the views of critics aged over 12 .< ref >

Keller wrote a total of 12 published books and several articles.

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits ( October 1, 1949 – August 12, 2010 ) was an influential American Druid who published a number of books on the subject of Neopaganism and magic.

Suite for piano with 12 pieces in 4 books (" quaderns "):

Louis also ordered, at the urging of Pope Gregory IX, the burning in Paris in 1243 of some 12, 000 manuscript copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.

The twenty-four books are also mentioned in the Midrash Koheleth 12: 12.

Most versions of the Christian Old Testament count Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah as two books each, and the " Twelve Prophets " ( or the minor prophets ) as 12 books, giving rise to a count of 39 books for the Old Testament.

The epic poem consists of 12 books in hexameter verse which describe the journey of Aeneas, a prince fleeing the sack of Troy, to Italy, his battle with the Italian prince Turnus, and the foundation of a city from which Rome would emerge.

* Emperor Marcus Aurelius writes in Sirmium ( Pannonia ) his first of 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek.

* July 12 – Fray Diego de Landa, acting Bishop of Yucatan, burns the sacred books of the Maya.

On 12 August 2008, Variety reported that Universal Pictures had optioned the rights to produce feature film adaptations of The Wheel of Time books.

At the age of 12, he was sent by his father to work in a bookshop and lending library, a popular type of institution in Japanese cities, where reading books made from wood-cut blocks was a popular entertainment of the middle and upper classes.

This holds some 12, 500 books as well as a documentary archive, a photo archive, audio-visual materials and various artefacts.

In 1993, the computer catalog listed 8400 books and 12, 315 yearly bound books of 2485 periodicals.

** Longer chapter books, appropriate for children ages 9 – 12.

At the time of writing these books Schott was only aware of approximately 900 species that he subsequently classified into 12 tribes.

-- In studying the liquid phase thermal reaction, some 70 tubes from 12 different manifold fillings were prepared and analyzed.

A flow rate of 72 Af was used and 12 ml fractions were collected.

For preparative ultracentrifugation, fractions from the column were concentrated by negative pressure dialysis to volumes of 1 ml or less, transferred to cellulose tubes and diluted to 12 ml with isotonic saline.

Guilford-Martin ) were filled out by 12 of the Kohnstamm-positive subjects and 19 of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects.

One study, which involved 1,524 pupils in grades one to six, found that 12 percent of the pupils were seriously maladjusted and that 23 percent were reading a year below capacity.

Wavy lines, feather-like patterns, rosettes of indefinitely floral nature, birds either singly or in stylized rows, animals in solemn frieze bands ( see Plates 11 - 12 ) -- all these turned up in the more developed fabrics as preliminary signs that the potters were broadening their gaze.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of August 12, they were in doubt no longer.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

As a result, the road's net revenues in the 12 months ending March 31 were 186 per cent of the annual interest payments on the turnpike bonds.

Operating revenues were off in the first three months of 1961, but up for the 12 months ending in March.

The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

* In 1990 12 soldiers were sent to Trinidad after a failed coup attempt by radical Black Muslims against the constitutionally elected government headed by Prime Minister A. N. R.

The original signatories were the 12 countries active in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year ( IGY ) of 1957 – 58.

About it were 12 kingdoms and 12 chiefs.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.

Six million more were planted in November the same year, and another 12, 5 million trees in 2009.

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

The turrets carried four. 50 inch ( 12. 7 mm ) machine guns, which were designed to be adjusted to converge at the single point where enemy aircraft were expected to appear at low altitude in conduction of strafing runs directed at large infantry and field artillery units.

Both these charges were later found to be considerably lacking in evidence ; nevertheless Pike, facing arrest, escaped into the hills of Arkansas, sending his resignation from the Confederate Army on July 12.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.