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| - | Hit the headlines when Bernard Davies, a bit part actor, won a record £5,580. This is worth about £88,300 in today's money. | + | Hit the headlines when Bernard Davies, a bit part actor, won a record £5,580. This is worth about £88,300 in today's money. Davies went on to be a leading Sherlock Holmes scholar and founded the Dracula Society. His death at the age of 86 was reported in November 2010. |
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Revision as of 09:34, 17 November 2010
Synopsis
Game loosely based on the game of pontoon. Contestants were given a category and asked for questions ranging from 1 (easy) to 11 (hard).
The player who reached exactly 21, or was closest to it when the game ended, won the money. A "returning champion" system enabled good players to rack up serious money.
Chris Howland (centre) with contestantsKey moments
Hit the headlines when Bernard Davies, a bit part actor, won a record £5,580. This is worth about £88,300 in today's money. Davies went on to be a leading Sherlock Holmes scholar and founded the Dracula Society. His death at the age of 86 was reported in November 2010.
Trivia
Twenty One was the quiz show that caused the US television scandal of the decade, when Charles van Doren was found to have been rehearsed in the answers in advance. (This is is documented in the Robert Redford-directed film Quiz Show.) In addition, Twenty One was dropped by Granada when a contestant, Stanley Armstrong, claimed he had been given "definite leads" to the answers.
