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.

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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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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

___________________________ 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