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''Twenty One'' is an American game show which aired in the late 1950s. While it included the most popular contestant of the quiz show era, it became notorious for being a rigged quiz show which nearly caused the demise of the entire genre in the wake of United States Senate investigations. The 1994 movie ''Quiz Show'' is based on these events. A new version aired in 2000 with Maury Povich hosting, lasting about five months on NBC. ==Gameplay== Two contestants, typically a returning champion and a challenger, entered separate isolation booths and donned pairs of headphones. Due to the arrangement of the booths and the studio lighting, the contestants could not see or hear each other or the audience. At any given moment during the game, one booth would be "open," meaning that the occupant could hear Barry in the headphones and be heard by him through the booth's microphone. The other booth would be "closed," with its microphone disabled and the headphones playing music so that the occupant could not hear the game. The game was played in rounds, with Barry announcing the category for each round as it was dispensed from a machine on his podium; there were over 100 possible categories. The challenger played first in each round, with his/her booth open and the champion's closed, and selected the point value (1 to 11) he/she wanted to attempt. Higher-value questions were more difficult, and questions often had several parts. If the challenger answered correctly, the points were added to his/her score; a miss subtracted the points, but the score could never go below zero. The challenger's booth was then closed and the champion's opened so he/she could take a turn. Barry did not tell either contestant about the other's score or performance. The goal was to earn a total of 21 points. If the challenger reached this score first, his/her booth was left open to hear the champion's turn, but he/she was cautioned not to speak or give away any information. Barry did not tell the champion that the challenger had already reached 21. If the champion failed to match that score, the challenger won. The champion won by reaching 21 first on his/her own turn. If a round ended in a 21–21 tie, the scores were erased and a new game was played. Contestants were given extra time to think on any question that would bring them up to 21. After two rounds, both booths were opened and the contestants were given a chance to stop the game. If either of them asked to do so, the contestant in the lead was declared the winner. The game was automatically stopped after five rounds. The winner of the game received $500 per point in the margin of victory (e.g. a 21–15 win paid $3,000). Whenever a game ended in a tie, the stakes were raised by $500 per point. If the champion won, he/she could choose to leave the show with all winnings intact or play again, basing this decision on a small amount of information about the next challenger. However, if the challenger won, his/her winnings for that game were paid out of the defeated champion's total. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Twenty One (game show)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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