Greed is an American television game show that aired on Fox for one
season. Chuck Woolery (pictured) was the show's host while Mark Thompson
was its announcer. The series featured a team of contestants who
answered up to eight multiple-choice questions for a prize of up to
$2,000,000. Dick Clark and Bob Boden of Dick Clark Productions created
it in response to the success of ABC's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
Production was rushed so as to launch the show before Millionaire's new
season, and the show premiered on November 4, 1999. While its Nielsen
ratings were not quite as successful as Millionaire's, Greed still
improved on Fox's performance year-to-year in its timeslots. Critical
reception was mixed; some saw it as a clone of Millionaire, while others
believed Greed was the more intriguing and dramatic of the two. The
final episode aired July 14, 2000. Only one contestant advanced to the
eighth question, but he failed to win the top prize.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed_%28game_show%29>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1859:
The Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in
U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Slave_Auction>
1919:
Communist, revolutionary-socialist, and syndicalist delegates
met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Comintern>
1962:
Led by General Ne Win, the Burmese military seized power in a
coup d'état.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_Burmese_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat>
1978:
As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot
Vladimír Remek became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or
the United States to go into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Remek>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
conversely:
1. (often conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.
2. (conjunctive, loosely) From another point of view; on the other hand.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conversely>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We have proven our strength. We have proven that at a minimum, we
are exactly the same as you are. So do prove that you are with us. Do
prove that you will not let us go. Do prove that you indeed are
Europeans. And then life will win over death and light will win over
darkness. Glory be to Ukraine.
--Volodymyr Zelenskyy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy>