"Is That Your Final Answer?" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Richard Dawson

"Family Feud" has been on the air in one incarnation or another in the USA since 1976. Since the original "Family Feud" (1976-85), the phrase has become corrupted slightly to "Survey says!" In fact, "Survey says!" has become a cultural meme, with a life of its own, used even in newspaper headlines (such as, "Survey says: Americans felt more secure in jobs in 2012").

Born Colin Lionel Emm in Gosport, Hampshire, England, Dawson became famous in the States playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71). Whilst as a panelist on "Match Game" from 1973 to 1978, Richard Dawson was the contestants' favorite celebrity. He returned to "Family Feud" in 1994-95, and he starred as a parody of himself in "The Running Man" (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He died of esophageal cancer in 2012.

Answer: Gene Wood

Eugene Edward "Gene" Wood (1925-2004) began his career writing for "Captain Kangaroo". His first announcing job was on "Supermarket Sweep" in 1966. In the early 1970s he served as game show host for "Beat the Clock" and for "Anything You Can Do". By the 1976, he was announcing for most of the Goodson-Todman game shows on American TV. On the original "Card Sharks" (1978-81), he would begin each program by reading a verse, which would inevitably end with the words "...on Card Sharks". On "Family Feud" Wood would warm up the audience, and emcee Richard Dawson would often use him as a straight man for his jokes, which would give Wood considerable screen time.

The chemistry between the two of them was apparent, and Gene Wood would sometimes act like a lackey for laughs. Gene Wood died of lung cancer on 21 May 2004.

Answer: Johnny Olson

John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (1910-1985) was born in Minnesota and worked most of his life in radio and television. He had announced a great many Goodson-Todman productions before he appeared on the revival of "The Price is Right"-- including "Name That Tune", "To Tell the Truth", and "Match Game". "The Price Is Right", however, catapulted Olson to fame, and in fact "Come on down!" was his creation. He worked on "The Price Is Right" from its inception in 1972 until his death in 1985, and he had more camera-time that most announcers did at that time. He also warmed up the audience before taping, and sometimes he would appear in the Showcases in the final game of the show. His death from a cerebral hemorrhage was unexpected, and taped episodes with his appearance continued to air for a month after his death.

All of the other gentlemen listed as answer choices were also announcers for "The Price Is Right": Rod Roddy from 1986 to 2003, Rich Fields from 2004 to 2010, and George Gray since 2011.

Answer: Johnny Gilbert

Virginia-born John L. "Johnny" Gilbert III (b. 1924) started out singing in nightclubs, but he began announcing for gameshows in New York back in the 1950s. Gilbert has done the voice-overs for "Jeopardy!" since the show debuted in 1984. His announcing credits are numerous: "The $25,000 Pyramid", "The $100,000 Pyramid", "Tic-Tac-Dough", "Win, Lose, or Draw", and "Circus of the Stars" to name but a few.

He has also guest-announced on "Jeopardy!'s" sister show, "Wheel of Fortune" and served as its interim announcer following the unexpected death of Charlie O'Donnell in 2010.

Answer: Don Pardo

Dominick George "Don" Pardo graced the Earth in 1918 in Westfield, Massachusetts and held a long career in broadcasting. In radio, he began announcing at WJAR-AM in Providence, Rhode Island in 1938. During World War II he was a war reporter for NBC Radio.

In 1956 he became the first announcer for the original incarnation of "The Price is Right", until ABC took over in 1963. He began announcing for "Saturday Night Live" on its 1975 debut, and has held the job ever since, save for 1981-82. Although he retired to Tucson, Arizona, he flew in to New York once a week to do the show, until 2009, when he resumed pre-recording announcements (he briefly did so in 2006 as well). Don Pardo passed away on 28 August 2014, after a seven-decade career as an announcer.

Answer: Allen Ludden

All of the men listed served as host one time or another for "Password Plus", but Allen Ludden did it first, and he is the man who will forever be associated with that game. The Goodson-Todman production "Password" aired daily from 1961 to 1967 and was revived briefly from 1971 to 1975, will Allen Ludden as the host all that time. In 1979, "Password Plus" brought a new twist to the "Password" game -- a bonus round called Alphabetics, in which contestants had sixty seconds to guess ten passwords in alphabetical order. While Ludden had surgery in 1980, Bill Cullen substituted. Ludden returned briefly, but illness forced him to leave again, and he died in 1981.

Tom Kennedy took the reins after that. One day on the show, Kennedy's brother Jack Narz, himself a gameshow host, appeared as a celebrity guest, and on a lark offered to be master of ceremonies for the day. Kennedy agreed and the men switched places. A contestant objected and was later brought back for a second chance after she lost the game.

Answer: Hugh Downs on "Concentration"

"Concentration" appeared in many iterations on NBC and was hosted by a number of well-known emcees, including Jack Barry, Ed McMahon, Jack Narz, and Alex Trebek. But during the original "Concentration" (1958-1969), Hugh Downs was the master of ceremonies. As in the children's memory game, contestants had to find matching cards on a board. Matches would be removed to reveal portions of a rebus, which the contestants would solve to win the game. When a contestant picked two cards that were not identical, Downs would say, "Not a match; the board goes back," as the cards flipped over again.

Born on St. Valentine's Day in Akron, Ohio in 1921, Hugh Downs presented not only game shows but also the news! He anchored "20/20", an ABC news-magazine program, from 1978 to 1999. In fact, his first job was reading the news on WBKB-TV (now WBBM-TV) in Chicago.

Answer: Jay Stewart

Born Jay Fix in 1918 in Summitville, Indiana, Jay Stewart got his first announcing jobs at radio stations WBOW in Terre Haute, Indiana, and WLW Radio in Chicago. On "Let's Make a Deal", Jay Stewart appeared on stage carrying prizes and props, and often modeled the Zonk prizes. (Announcer Jonathan Magnum carried on this tradition in the 21st-century "Deal" revival.) Monty Hall called Jay Stewart "the best second banana you ever found in your life," and reported "a very, very good feeling between us." Stewart announced for the pilot of Alex Trebek's "Jeopardy!" in 1983, but Johnny Gilbert won the gig.

In 1981 Jay Stewart's daughter Jamie took her own life. Afterward, Stewart was "born again" and appeared on "The 700 Club", and consequently found work doing voice-overs for Pat Roberston's Christian Broadcasting Network (now ABC Family). Stewart's newfound faith could not conquer the pain of his daughter's loss, however, and he likewise committed suicide in 1989.

Answer: Jack Barry

Jack Barry was born Jack Barasch in Lindenhurst, New York. He not only hosted "The Joker's Wild" but also created it. In 1958, Jack Barry and his partner Dan Enright were discovered feeding answers to contestants in their quiz show "Twenty-One", and producer Howard Felsher did likewise in another Barry-Enright creation, "Tic-Tac-Dough". "The Joker's Wild" was Barry's first successful production nationwide since the scandals. (Howard Felsher also recovered from the scandal to produce "Family Feud"). Because of "Joker's" success, Barry also revived "Tic-Tac-Dough", hosted by Wink Martindale.

Bill Cullen took over hosting duties after Jack Barry died of a heart attack in 1984. Pat Finn became the show's emcee in a short-lived revival (1990-91).

Answer: "I'd like to solve the puzzle."

Johnny Olson would trumpet, "Get ready to match the stars!" as part of his opening narration. During one of the games that involved a sliding panel to reveal a word provided by the audience, Gene would often give the cue, "Slide it, Earl!" He was speaking to an African-American stagehand named Earl, whom Gene Rayburn once brought center stage for his fifteen minutes of fame. If contestants scored 0-0 during the first round of play, Rayburn would remark, "My, we have a real pitcher's duel going on here!" (In baseball, a pitcher's duel is a low-scoring game in which the pitchers allow very few runs, if any at all.)

And here is where game shows collide. On one episode of "Match Game", a contestant had to fill-in-the-blank for "COME ON _____". Johnny Olson was also the announcer for "The Price is Right", so Rayburn brought Olson on stage and had him read, "Come on down!" to wild cheers and applause.

"I'd like to solve the puzzle" is a catchphrase said by contestants in "Wheel of Fortune" and later, "Classic Concentration".