Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019)[1] was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the U.S. Congress that he had been given the correct answers by the producers of the NBC quiz show Twenty-One. Terminated by NBC, he joined Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1959, becoming a vice-president and writing and editing many books before retiring in 1982.
^ abMcFadden, Robert D. (April 10, 2019). "Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn't, Dies at 93". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 14, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
Charles Lincoln VanDoren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in...
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than a year, before being surpassed by CharlesVanDoren on January 21, 1957, who was playing Twenty One. VanDoren, who won $129,000 total, was almost immediately...
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