The Chase is an American television quiz show based on the British program of the same name. It premiered on August 6, 2013, on the Game Show Network, hosted by Brooke Burns and featuring Mark Labbett as a quiz show genius called the "chaser". The American version of the show follows the same general format as the original UK version, but with teams of three contestants instead of four. Each player who stays ahead of the chaser on the gameboard retains the winnings for that round. Successful contestants advance to the Final Chase, in which they answer questions as a team playing for an equal share of the prize fund accumulated during the episode. The Chase earned positive reviews, as did Burns and Labbett individually, and the pacing of the game was mentioned favorably. At the 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards, the series was nominated for Outstanding Game Show, and Burns was nominated two years later for Outstanding Game Show Host.

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1506:

Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved one of the greatest Lithuanian victories against the Tatars in the Battle of Kletsk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kletsk

1890:

At Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, U.S., William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in an electric chair. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_chair

1945:

World War II: The U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb named "Little Boy" on Hiroshima, Japan, killing as many as 140,000 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy

1991:

British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee first posted files describing his ideas for a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessible via the Internet, to be called a "World Wide Web". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

2008:

Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi was ousted from power by a group of high-ranking generals that he had dismissed from office several hours earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mauritanian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

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O purblind race of miserable men How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ourselves, By taking true for false, or false for true; Here, through the feeble twilight of this world Groping, how many, until we pass and reach That other, where we see as we are seen!   --Idylls of the King https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Idylls_of_the_King