(upbeat show band music)
(audience applauds)
- This summer's television
looks like it's going to be
just about the same as it
always is in the summertime.
A lot of reruns, and every
now and then a new show
that might make it in the fall.
Also, reruns of old
ideas like quiz shows,
and here's one we think
that you might go for.
We call it, "Name Your Bracket."
And our first contestant
is just being shoved
out here into view.
Right over here,
sir; right over here.
(audience applauds)
Hello, sir; step right
up to "Name Your Bracket"
and cameras and
microphones and tell us
where do you come from?
What do you do for a living?
- I am from Battle
Creek, Michigan,
and I sell insurance there.
- Wonderful; well,
we're going to get
right into our
quiz show tonight.
- We have a new policy
that's going very well.
- Well, we don't want to talk
about your private business.
We want to get right
into our quiz show.
- Costs 3.45 a year.
$3.45 a year.
- Oh, that sounds
very reasonable.
- Pays $640,000.
- Wonderful.
We...
Pays what?
- $640,000.
- And costs $3.45?
- $3.45 a year.
- That's pretty
reasonable all right.
- Sure is, yes.
- What do you have
to do to collect?
- Well, you have to be
downtown Battle Creek
and be carried off by an eagle
(laughing)
- Yeah, I see.
- at noon on a Thursday
- Yes.
- Are you selling a lot of this?
- with a nail in your shoe.
- (chuckles) Hiccupping.
Do you well much
of this insurance?
- Haven't sold one yet, no.
- I see.
Well, you'd like to
increase your bracket
by winning some money
on this show tonight.
- Yes, I am; yes, sir.
- Do you know how
to play the game?
- Not altogether, no.
- What part don't
you understand?
- How do you play?
- Oh, well, it's
really kind of simple.
I tell you what; I'll explain
it to you as we go along.
- All right.
- Of course,
you're gonna try and answer
at least one question.
- Right.
- The first question's
worth $500.
- 500!
- Now don't be nervous.
I'm going to make
sure that you get
at least one question right.
- Right.
- And I know
that you'll answer
these questions
without too much
trouble, won't you?
- Thank you.
- All right, first
of all, you see this-
- I happened to be
studying for years.
I've studied seven years.
- What have you been studying?
- The Encycloedupedia
Bratticana-
- The Britannica.
- That's the one;
that's the one.
- An encyclopedia.
You mean you've read
it from time to time.
- I memorized all 32 volumes.
- You have memorized the entire-
- From cover to cover.
- Well, you're just-
- A, Abernathy,
Accalac, Abernathy.
- No, no, no, it won't be-
We don't want you to recite it,
but I'm sure you won't have
it any trouble with this quiz.
I wanted to ask you if
you could see the screen
all right on your left.
- Yes, it's a screen on my left.
Is that the first question?
No, no, I just wanted to know
if you could see it all right.
- Yes, sir.
(audience laughs)
- (chuckles) The questions
are going to be flashed
on that screen.
I'll read the questions
aloud so the folks at home
will know what
the questions are.
- Fine.
- That suit you?
- (chuckles) Fine.
- Okay, here we go with
the first question.
It's about Australia,
- Australia, A S T R I B L A K.
- Are you spelling?
- Yeah.
- No, no, that isn't
what the question is.
The question is about Australia.
- Oh, yes.
- Now in Australia,
there is an animal
closely associated with-
- The shark!
- Wait til I ask the question.
The animal's name
begins with a K.
- It's a kark!
- It's called a roo.
- It's a rookark!
- No, no it's called a-
- It's a karkroo!
It carries its young in a pouch.
- It's a mailman!
(audience laughs)
- No; it has a big fat tail;
sits around on its tail.
- It's a wife!
- No! It begins with a K!
- It's a kife!
- Think of the Ks in the book!
- The kabble, kecker,
kerrel, kangaroo, kake!
- Kangaroo!
- I got it!
By golly, these
questions are easy!
- Well, you didn't have
any trouble with that one.
(audience laughs)
All right, do you
want to try for more?
Now, you understand if you
go for the next question,
you miss it, you
lose everything.
- Right, I'll go for it.
These are easy.
- You get this one
right, you've won $5,000.
- $5,000, boy (laughs).
- Now then, you're ready
for the second question?
- Ready, ready, ready.
- Okay, you're on
that second plateau.
- Plateau, P-X-L-A-T-U!
(audience laughs)
- Second question's
about finance.
- Finance, P-H-Y-N-C!
- No, no, we don't ask you
to spell something.
- Something, Z-U-M-P-I-N-G!
- No!
- Something question.
Whose picture's on the $1 bill?
- Right!
- No, I say, "Who's picture?"
- Oh; it's a bill
and it's green.
Bill Green!
- No.
(audience laughs)
- He's a famous man.
He crossed the Delaware
River in a boat.
- George Raft!
(audience laughs)
- You're half right.
- George Half Raft!
No (hands clap, feet stomp).
Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?
- George Washington!
I got it!
- George Washington!
- Boy, these get
easier and easier.
- Oh, yeah, you're
really rolling.
I think it might be a
good idea if you quit now.
- No, I'm going to go all away.
- Next question's worth $50,000.
- 50,000 big ones
(laughs heartily).
- If you get it right.
- But if you miss it,
(squeals)
you don't win a quarter.
- (whoops) I'm hot now.
- You have 5,500 now.
- No, I'm gonna go all the way.
- Okay, boy, you
got a lot of nerve.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Nerve, N-Y-R-V!
(audience laughs)
- The third question-
- Right.
is a musical question.
- Oh, good, good, good, good!
- You're good at music?
- Very good.
- All right, now I want you
to listen carefully to the band
while they play
this next number.
Gentlemen, please.
(abrupt instrumental notes)
Tell me what is the
name of that song?
(audience laughs loudly)
You have 58 seconds to
give me a full answer.
I want you to tell me
the name of the song-
- I have a feeling you don't
want me to win the money.
- Oh, no, that's the-
- Can I hear it again?
- Well, play it once more.
- Thank you.
(abrupt instrument notes)
- Now, five facts and the title.
Five facts about the song.
- Oh, that is "Love Takes a Dip,
and it's from the picture
"Romance in the Closet."
It was starred Lyle
Talbot and Toby Wing.
It was released at the
Capitol Theater in 1937.
It was written by Leonard
Hacker and Murray Janowski.
It was produced by
Morton Goldapper
and directed by Cary Martin.
- By golly,
- Thank you.
you know, I think in the
long history of this show,
I have never heard
anything quite like that.
- Thank you very much.
- That is just amazing.
(chuckling)
Do you realize you didn't
get the one answer right?
- What?
(abrupt instrumental note)
(audience applauds)
