How to Be a TV Quiz Show Millionaire [Paperback]

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Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Consumer Guide (February 23, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785340467
• ISBN-13: 978-0785340461
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,397,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #43 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Puzzles & Games > Reference
  • #70 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Television

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Way to Play "Millionaire" at Home, March 10, 2000

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Elaine Clay (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Be a TV Quiz Show Millionaire (Paperback)

I ordered this book because I think maybe I could get on a game show and win a lot of money. It has great information about "Millionaire", "Greed", "Hollywood Squares", "Jeopardy", "Twenty One", "Wheel of Fortune", "Win Ben Stein's Money", and "The $64,000 Question". It is a pretty book with lots of pictures, and it is very well edited.

But the best thing about the book is the 37 sets of "Millionaire"-style trivia questions. My family has had a blast taking turns being in the "Hot Seat", trying to making it to $1,000,000! These questions are Great! They are right on target with the kinds of questions that you actually watch on the show. Plus, they are very funny with some of the absurd answers that are given as possible choices. I definitely give this little book a "thumbs up" and say order this fun treat for your family.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Little Book for Trivia Buffs, September 4, 2004

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Mary Gorman "peregrine" (Amherst,, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be a TV Quiz Show Millionaire (Paperback)

I picked up this book at a book fair more for the trivia practise questions than because I had any aspirations to be on a game show. On a whim, I took the book to cafeteria duty during my job as an elementary school teacher and at the end of the lunch period, began to ask the kids questions from the book. It set the tone for the days to follow - the kids would ask when I arrived if I had "The Game Show Book" - if I did, they ate quickly and focussed on me when we organized our own after-lunch game show. Because the questions are arranged from easy to hard, it was easy to quite difficult, making it easy to adjust them to the grades that were present. The more difficult questions were quite difficult; of the 37 practise games in the book, I only got all the way to the hardest questions myself once.

Not all of the Quiz shows referred to in the book are still on, but the questions and tips given - which letters are the best to pick for "Wheel of Fortune," for example - make it a very worthwhile book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It Really Could Happen!, March 17, 2005

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Zana E. Holley (Gainesville, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Be a TV Quiz Show Millionaire (Paperback)

My husband, Michael Dupee, and myself co-authored this book 5 years ago, and now we really could be TV Game Show Millionaires by following our own advice -- found in this book. My husband, Michael Dupee, is participating in the Jeopardy Ultimate Tournament of Champions which has a top prize of $2,000,000. What's more, by quizzing my husband at home to help him prepare to compete on the show, I have become really good at the trivia needed to win on Jeopardy, so maybe I will audition to go on Jeopardy after Michael completes his current tournament. Who knows? Maybe I can have a 75-game winning streak and win $2.5 million like Ken Jennings did.