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Peter Sagal

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Appearances Over Time

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

We're going to ask you three questions about these JV Oscars.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Answer two correctly and we win our prize, one of our listeners.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Rhymefest, who is Bob Costas playing for?

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Bob is playing for Matt Johnson of Houston, Texas.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

All right.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Ready to play?

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Here is your first question.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Where does the name Emmy for the award come from?

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Is it A, it's the initials M.E.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

for Mamie Eisenhower, who presided at the first awards?

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Is it B, strangely, it is named after our own panelist, Emmy Blotnick,

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Or C, it was named for the image-orthogon tube, an important bit of early TV technology.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

I'm going with C. You're gonna go with C, and you are right.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

The image-orthogon tube was known as IMI.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Huge advance, TV technology, so much so that Emmy was named for it.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

Here's your next question.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

The whole point of the Emmys, of course, as you know, is to promote TV, but at the 2015 Emmys, Andy Samberg went above and beyond to encourage people to watch the HBO show Game of Thrones.

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

How did he do it?

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WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

A, by wearing a handmade 15-foot-long dragon costume on stage.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
WWDTM: Carissa Moore, Bob Costas, and Jim Rice

B, by giving out to the live international audience his actual HBO login and password.