The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time.

When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.

The two upper steps were made of eight shorter but similarly shaped stones, and on top was an octagonal block about three feet high with a cross fixed upon it.

The first classification has only seven top level classes, and only eight classes in all.

Cooper cracked open his briefcase long enough for her to glimpse eight red cylinders (" four on top of four ") attached to wires coated with red insulation, and a large cylindrical battery.

In a ranking of the best films produced in Asia by Sight & Sound, Japan made up eight of the top twelve, with Tokyo Story ranked number one.

When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.

Early depictions of the staff it show it as a baton stick topped by a golden way that resembled the number eight, though sometimes with its top truncated and open.

All eight Ivy League institutions place within the top sixteen of the U. S. News & World Report college and university rankings, including the top four schools and five of the top nine.

Competitions involving large numbers of athletes sometimes use a " cut ": all competitors compete in the first three rounds, but only athletes who are currently among the top eight or have achieved some minimum distances are permitted to attempt to improve on their distance in additional rounds ( typically three ).

Denise can also lay up to eight 16 pixel wide sprites per scan line ( in automatic mode ) on top, underneath, or between playfields, and detect collisions between sprites and the playfields or between sprites.

Performing eight perfect faro shuffles in a row restores the order of the deck to the original order only if there are 52 cards in the deck and if the original top and bottom cards remain in their positions ( 1st and 52nd ) during the eight shuffles.

The song became Robyn's first number one hit in Sweden, and her fourth top ten hit in both the UK and the US, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart and at number three on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

The Rice Owls baseball team was ranked # 1 in the nation for the first time in that year ( 1999 ), holding the top spot for eight weeks.

He continues to offer all eight models of the Rickenbacker flat top guitar line, each instrument being built to order.

In addition, the magazine ranked UCSF in the top 10 in seven of the eight medical school specialty programs assessed, including first in AIDS medical care, second in women's health, and third in internal medicine.

Crandell Addington is the only player to place in the top ten of the World Series of Poker Main Event eight times, albeit in earlier years with small fields compared to modern times.

To facilitate the extra 80 kB of RAM the designers used bank switching so that the new memory would be available as eight pages of 16 kB at the top of the address space.

Prior to 2005, after the top two cars were set, the top 14 cars in the qualifying races advanced to the field, and then between six ( 1998 – 2003 ), eight ( 1995 – 97, 2004 ), or ten ( until 1994 ) fastest cars which did not advance from the qualifying race were added, and, since 1976, between one and seven cars were added by previous year's points performance and or championship, except for 1985, when no such car was eligible for a provisional starting spot, the only time that happened in the Daytona 500 from when the provisional was added in 1976 through 2004.

The Mycenaean Greeks used two types of shields: the " figure eight " or " fiddle " shield, and a rectangular type, the " tower " shield, curved on the top.

Wins against, the ( by a record margin of 139 points ), and in the first eight rounds saw the Bombers in the top four by round eight, but a draw against, losses to and, and a five-game losing streak halfway through the season would prove costly.

Four other hits from the album made the Pop top 20: " Every Heartbeat " ( No. 2 ), " That's What Love Is For " ( No. 7 ), " Good For Me " ( No. 8 ), and " I Will Remember You " ( No. 20 ).

The game lasted 13 innings, and although the Padres got two runs off of a Scott Hairston home run in the top of the 13th inning to break a 6 – 6 tie, the Rockies came back in the bottom of the 13th by scoring three runs off of closer Trevor Hoffman to win 9 – 8.

The top two teams from each group move forward to the Super 8 round.

The top four teams from the " Super 8 " round advance to the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals play in the final.

With an A Score ( or D score ) being the difficulty score, which as of 2009 is based on the top 8 high scoring elements in a routine ( excluding Vault ).

An interlaced image is divided from top to bottom into strips 8 pixels high, and the rows of the image are presented in the following order:

The IAEA classifies safety as one of its top three priorities, yet is spending only 8. 9 percent of its 352 million-euro ($ 469 million ) regular budget in 2011 on making plants secure from accidents.

This is then reduced to the top 8, then the top 4 and then the fastest two.

His top auction price was $ 20. 8 million which was set by his 1915 still life titled, Livre, pipe et verres, until Christie's Imp / Mod sale in November 2010, when " Violon et guitare " sold for $ 28. 6 million.

Subsequent top 10 hits included " Drag City " (# 10, 1964 ), the eerily portentious " Dead Man's Curve " (# 8, 1964 ), and " The Little Old Lady from Pasadena " (# 3, 1964 ).

The Kansas City Repertory Theatre, the metropolitan area's top professional theatre company and the Starlight Theatre, 8, 105-seat outdoor theatre designed by Edward Delk are a popular theatre company and theatre respectively.

The height of a full-grown, full-size llama is 1. 7 to 1. 8 m ( 5. 5 to 6. 0 ft ) tall at the top of the head, and can weigh between 130 to 200 kilograms ( 280 to 450 lb ).

Maxim has Lemmy at number 8 on its top ten " Living Sex Legends " list, as they claim that he has slept with around 1, 200 women.

A 116. 8 cm diameter high-gain parabolic antenna was mounted at the top of the frame as well.

Though ranked as 15th in production at ( mbpd ), the top 3 producers Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States produce ( 11. 8 %), ( 12. 0 %), and ( 11. 1 %) respectively, collectively accounting for ( 44 %) of the world's total production. To put oil revenues in perspective: at an estimated export rate of, with a projected sales price of $ 65 per barrel in 2011, Nigeria's anticipated revenue from petroleum is about $ 52. 2 billion.

In Dual Playfield mode, instead of acting as a single screen, two " playfields " of 8 colours each ( 3 bitplanes each ) are drawn on top of each other.

The league consists of the 18 first-class county teams divided into three divisions of six teams each, followed by a knockout stage containing the top 8 teams.

A storage tray for 8 fanfold paper tapes is attached to the top panel.

Split two pairs Kings with 3 ’ s or better, Q ’ s with 5 ’ s or better, and Jacks or 10 ’ s with 9 ’ s or 8 ’ s with an ace-low top.

Straight or flush with Ace-face or pair for the top: Always play as straight or flush with an ace-face or pair top, except if two pairs Aces with 8 ’ s or better can be played, and when the straight or flush does not have a pair.

9 ’ s and 8 ’ s: keep together with any King-face top or better, else split.

The two consecutive tours in support of Snakes & Arrows in 2007 and 2008 accrued $ 21 million and $ 18. 3 million, respectively, earning Rush the number 6 and 8 spots among the top ten summer rock concerts.

An alternative recording method not requiring a grid is also in use, where positions on a board are labeled left to right by letters a through h and top to bottom ( far-to-near ) by digits 1 through 8 ( Note that this is the opposite of the chess standard, with numerals running upward away from the side ( White ) that has a through h left to right, and also that the perspective may be that of either player ( with no fixed standard )), so that the very first move of a game may be ( based upon standard starting set-up ) d3, c4, f5 or e6.