What is Password?
A: Password is an American television game show.
Who created it?
A: Bob Stewart for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions.
Who was the host?
A: The host was Allen Ludden, who had previously been well known as the host
of the G.E. College Bowl.
How many teams are in the game?
A: Two.
Each team is composed of a contestant and who?
A: A Celebrity.
The team members attempt to convey mystery words to
each other using what?
A: Using only single-word clues, in order to win cash prizes.
Password originally aired for how many daytime
episodes?
A: 1,555.
Who were the shows announcers?
A: Jack Clark, Lee Vines and Bern Bennett on CBS and John Harlan on ABC.
What two revivals later aired on NBC?
A: Password Plus from 1979 to 1982, and Super Password from 1984 to 1989.
In 2013, where did TV Guide rank it in its list of the
60 greatest game shows ever?
A: #8.
The word to be conveyed (the "password") was given to
whom?
A: One player on each team.
On each team, the player who was given the password
gave a one-word clue from which their partner attempted to do what?
A: Guess the password.
What happens if the partner fails to guess the password
within the allotted five-second time limit?
A: Play is passed to the opposing team.
If the password was revealed by the clue-giver it was
what?
A: Thrown out.
The game continued until one of the players did what?
A: Guessed the password correctly, any form of the password was given as a
clue, or until ten clues had been given.
Scoring was based on what?
A: The number of clues given when the password was guessed.
On the ABC version, why was a limit of six clues
imposed?
A: To expedite game play, with the last clue worth five points.
In addition, teams were given what option?
A: The option of either playing or passing control of the first clue to the
opposing team.
On the CBS daytime edition, the first team to reach 25
points won that contestant what?
A: $100.
On the nighttime edition, the winner won how much?
A: $250.
The winning team earned a chance to win up to an
additional $250 by playing what?
A: The "Lightning Round", in which the civilian contestant on the prevailing
team tried to guess five passwords within 60 seconds from clues given by
his/her celebrity partner.
$50 was awarded for what?
A: For each correctly guessed password (increased to $100 from 1973 to
1974).
The Lightning Round was among the first bonus rounds on
a what?
A: On a television game (along with the scrambled phrase game on the
original Beat the Clock).
On the ABC version from 1971 to 1974, immediately after
completing the Lightning Round, the player was given a chance at what?
A: "The Betting Word," in which they could wager any amount of their
winnings on their celebrity partner's ability to guess it within 15 seconds.
In each episode from 1961 to 1975, Ludden would caution
the players about unacceptable clues by stating what?
A: "When you hear this sound (a buzzer would sound) it means your clue has
not been accepted by our authority, (name of word authority)."
Word authorities on the CBS version included whom?
A: New York University professor David H. Greene and World Book Encyclopedia
Dictionary editor Dr. Reason A. Goodwin.
Who served as word authorities during the ABC version?
A: Robert Stockwell from UCLA and Carolyn Duncan.