* 1945 – Patti Deutsch, American actress and Match Game panelist

which began in 1964 and the original version of The Match Game first aired in 1962.

The Match Game became " Big Money " Match Game 73, which proved popular enough to prompt a spin-off, Family Feud, on ABC in 1976.

Early in his term, Major presided over British participation in the Gulf War in March 1991 and negotiated " Game, Set and Match for Britain " at the Maastricht Treaty in December 1991.

* August 5 – 14 – The King's Men perform Thomas Middleton's satire A Game at Chess at the Globe Theatre, London, until it is suppressed in view of its allusions to the Spanish Match.

* December 22 – Gene Rayburn, American television personality ( Match Game ) ( d. 1999 )

Hollywood Squares was the final touch to a short-lived game show powerhouse on NBC which also included Concentration, Jeopardy !, You Don't Say !, Let's Make a Deal, The Match Game and others.

From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.

The day's winner from the Match Game segment faced the show's returning champion in the Hollywood Squares segment, and played until time ran out, with the winner playing the " Super Match " bonus from Match Game.

The only regular panelist was Match Game host Gene Rayburn, who occupied the lower-left square ; Bauman, in turn, filled that seat during Match Game.

Game show hosts Bob Eubanks, Wink Martindale, and Chuck Woolery served on the panel, as did frequent 1970s game show panelist Jimmie Walker, and Match Game regulars Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly shared a square for the week.

He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades.

Feud was said to be based on Dawson's expertise on Match Games " Super-Match ".

The winner of the Match Game segment played the returning champion in the Hollywood Squares segment with the eventual winner of Squares playing the Super-Match.

If no match was made in the Audience Match portion of the Super-Match, the contestant played for $ 500 in the Head-To-Head Match.

The format was that of Match Game PM, except that in the Super-Match the Head-To-Head Match was played for 50 times the amount won in the two Audience Matches ($ 50, 000 ), which was won.

* A " Panel Poll " took the place of the Head-To-Head Match in the Super-Match.

Match tie-breaks are used in the Hopman Cup and the 2012 Olympic Games for mixed doubles, on the ATP and WTA tours for doubles and as a player's choice in USTA league play.

On Match Game PM ( or on the syndicated daytime show if time was running short ), a time-saving variant of the tie-breaker was used that reversed the game play.

On Friday episodes which ran short, in order to fill time, audience members played a question similar to those used in the Super Match for a small cash prize.

On June 28, 1978 the " pick a star " format used in the Head-to-Head Match was replaced with the " Star Wheel ".

( An alternate attachment was used for Match Game PM.

The play used the conceit of a chess game to present and satirise the recent intrigues surrounding the Spanish Match.

At one time, the Blue Diamond Match Company in Akron used three million board feet ( 7, 000 m³ ) of white pine lumber per year for the manufacture of its matches.

This system is currently being used only in Test Match cricket.

The song “ Soul Limbo ”, featuring marimba by Terry Manning, was a big hit ( later used by the BBC as their theme for cricket coverage on both TV and, latterly, radio's “ Test Match Special ”), as was their version of “ Hang ' em High ”.

Blind Lemon Jefferson used the term " Booga Rooga " to refer to a guitar bass figure that he used in " Match Box Blues ".

Carter's name was occasionally used as a gag answer for a Washington, D. C. trouble-maker on 1970s episodes of The Match Game.

The centre ’ s only opening window is in the broadcasting box used by Test Match Special.

Additionally, when " Come on _______ " was used as a question in the " Super Match " portion of an episode of Match Game ' 78 ( with then Price host Bob Barker serving as a panelist ), host Gene Rayburn called Olson to center stage to read the top answer (" Come on down!

In Germany, Match Game was known as Schnick Schnack ( loosely translated, " something, anything " and used as a counterpart for the word " blank ", for which there is no direct word in German ).

* The 1998 Match Game revival used the Mark Goodson Productions name and logo, but used an alternate announcement: " This has been a Mark Goodson Television Production for ...", followed by the Pearson logo.

Trueman was nevertheless respected for his unsurpassed knowledge of the mechanics of fast bowling, and many feel he should have been used as a bowling coach for England's under-achieving teams of the 1980s and 1990s, a point once emphasised by his fellow-summariser Trevor Bailey on Test Match Special.

It is used at sites such as Match. com.

His many guest appearances included Davy Crockett, Meet McGraw, Hey, Jeannie !, The Donna Reed Show, The Ray Milland Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Monkees, I Love Lucy ( where he played English tutor Percy Livermore and used furniture merchant Dan Jenkins ), The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mister Ed, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Lost in Space, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Gilligan's Island ( as Wrongway Feldman ), Have Gun – Will Travel, Love, American Style, Kolchak, Alice, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Hogan's Heroes, Match Game, Maverick, What's It For, Fantasy Island, and Quark ( as the voice of " The Source ").

From 1971 to 1975, another, little-remembered tune was used, composed by Barry Stoller who also composed the Match Of The Day theme tune ).

On 19 January 2012 Test Match Special used an iPad and Skype to broadcast the 1st Pakistan versus England Test match from Dubai due to technical problems with all other Radio broadcasting equipment.

In multi-player mode two players can simultaneously take part in the cups or can race against each other one-on-one in Match Race mode.

Match Race involves the two players going head to head without any computer characters on a track of their choosing.

Another constructive heuristic, Match Twice and Stitch ( MTS ) ( Kahng, Reda 2004 ), performs two sequential matchings, where the second matching is executed after deleting all the edges of the first matching, to yield a set of cycles.

The Match Game consistently won its time slot from 1963 – 1966 and again from April 1967-July 1968, with its ratings allowing it to finish third among all network daytime games for the 1963 – 1964 and 1967 – 1968 seasons ( in the latter, the top two games were NBC's own, both of which would also enjoy long runs and multiple revivals: Jeopardy!

The main game was played in two rounds ( three on Match Game PM after the first season ).

Gene Rayburn greets two contestants and home viewers on Match Game 75.

Episodes of Match Game PM were self-contained, with two new contestants appearing each week.

The front game was originally played the same way as the daytime Match Game with two rounds of questions, but in the second season, a third round of questioning was added to fill time in the half-hour.

For its last two seasons, the show's affiliate count went down significantly due in large part to a daily syndicated version that debuted in September 1979 ( although some markets, like New York, kept both shows on the air as WABC-TV continued to air episodes of Match Game PM into its final season ).

The maximum payout for a contestant was $ 21, 000 ( two $ 500 Audience Matches and two $ 10, 000 Head-To-Head Match wins ), the same its syndicated sister series Match Game PM was offering during this time.

Each match during the two Match Game rounds was worth $ 50.

This was a rapid-fire series of Super Match-style questions, each having two possible answer choices, and the round was played similar to the Head-to-Head Match.

The Star Wheel round was slightly modified for this Match Game series instead of spinning the wheel itself, the contestant spun a green arrow, and instead of three stars underneath each panelist's name there were two red dots.

On June 22, 2006 Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS ' month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields, and the second of two " semi-final " games in the tournament.

Scoring was different ( in the main game, matches in round one were worth 25 points and worth 50 points in round two ; the Match Up round matches were also worth 50 points ).

Each edition contained a game board with a plastic stand, two game booklets ( one with instructions ) with material for 92 complete games ( 368 Main Game Questions and 92 " Audience Match " and " Head-to-Head Match " questions ), two magic slates and styli ( only of the Head-to-Head portion ), and play money.