Peter Sagal
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We're going to ask you three questions about these JV Oscars.
Answer two correctly and we win our prize, one of our listeners.
Rhymefest, who is Bob Costas playing for?
Bob is playing for Matt Johnson of Houston, Texas.
All right.
Ready to play?
Here is your first question.
Where does the name Emmy for the award come from?
Is it A, it's the initials M.E.
for Mamie Eisenhower, who presided at the first awards?
Is it B, strangely, it is named after our own panelist, Emmy Blotnick,
Or C, it was named for the image-orthogon tube, an important bit of early TV technology.
I'm going with C. You're gonna go with C, and you are right.
The image-orthogon tube was known as IMI.
Huge advance, TV technology, so much so that Emmy was named for it.
Here's your next question.
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.
How did he do it?
A, by wearing a handmade 15-foot-long dragon costume on stage.
B, by giving out to the live international audience his actual HBO login and password.