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Maiquel Alejo
Maiquel Alejo ( Suarez) was a television game show hostess best known as the co-hostess of the California Lottery's first game show ''The Big Spin'' from 1993 to 2009. She was joined by various hosts including Geoff Edwards, Larry Anderson (actor), Larry Anderson, Jack Gallagher (comedian), Jack Gallagher and Pat Finn (game show host), Pat Finn during her 16 years until the show ended its run on January 10, 2009. In addition to her hosting duties on ''The Big Spin'', she helped contestants who spoke only Spanish during interviews with her co-hosts when an interpreter was needed as she is fluent in Spanish. She was married in 1997 and, away from the show, she spends time with her husband and her four children. She is also an actress. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American game show hosts {{US-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California Lottery
The California State Lottery is the state lottery of California, which began in October 1985 after voters authorized it in Proposition 37, the California State Lottery Act of 1984. It offers a range of games including number draws, scratchcards and a mock horse race. The earnings provide supplementary funding for public education. Lottery Act The Lottery Act was intended to provide more money to schools without imposing extra taxes. Accordingly, the Lottery was required to provide at least 34% of its revenues to public education, supplementing (not replacing) other funds provided by California. Another 50% of its revenues must be paid to the public in the form of prizes, making a mandated minimum of 84% of all funds that must be given back to the public in the form of prizes or funds for public education. The remainder, a maximum of 16%, was to be spent on administration, such as salaries and running the games. On April 8, 2010, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into laAsse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Spin
''The Big Spin'' is the California Lottery's first television game show. It ended with a fixed top prize of $3 million and a minimum guaranteed cash prize of $1,750. The total cash and prizes given in 2007 came out to $17,872,500, the most money given away in a game show that year, therefore being "the biggest money game show on Earth" as its introduction stated. Originally, the show was taped in Hollywood, California at Hollywood Center Studios. From 1986 to 1998, the show was taped in Sacramento; Mike Side hosted a short time when the show was done at the KTXL studios in Sacramento, the state capital as well as headquarters of the lottery. From 1999 until the end of its run, the show was taped in Hollywood at KCET Studios. ''The Big Spin'' ended as the second longest-running lottery game show on January 10, 2009, over 23 years since its first broadcast in October 1985; it was replaced with '' Make Me a Millionaire'' on January 17. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Edwards
Geoffrey Bruce Owen Edwards (February 13, 1931 – March 5, 2014) was an American television actor, game show host, and radio personality. Starting in the early 2000s, he was also a writer and broadcaster on the subject of travel. Background Prior to his media career, Edwards was an accomplished musician, playing drums in a number of jazz bands. Edwards began his career while attending Duke University, working for a radio station in Albany, New York. In 1959, Edwards got his first job at KFMB-AM in San Diego, hosting an evening show and co-hosting the ''Don Ross/Geoff Edwards Show''. As a news reporter for KHJ-AM radio, Edwards was present in the basement of Dallas police headquarters when Jack Ruby shot suspected John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963. Edwards was one of the witnesses interviewed by NBC television correspondent Tom Pettit on the scene. In its 11th annual radio selections for the Best of 1967 column, ''The Los Angeles Times'' sele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Anderson (actor)
Larry Anderson (born September 22, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Early work He originally started as an assistant to magician Mark Wilson in 1973, and was immediately put to work on the set of '' The Magician'' (starring Bill Bixby), assisting Wilson as the show's magic coordinator. He has since appeared in several television series and films, and is also known for his uncredited role as Michael Long (renamed Michael Knight later in the episode) in the pilot episode of the 1980s hit TV series '' Knight Rider''. His voice was overdubbed by David Hasselhoff who, when the character was shot in the face and given plastic surgery, took over the role for the remainder of the series. Career Anderson's other TV roles include ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Charlie's Angels'', and ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' (all in 1977); the short lived 1979 TV series '' Brothers and Sisters''; and the soap opera, ''Days of Our Lives'' in 1987, appearing as James Dixon. He also hosted th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Gallagher (comedian)
Jack Gallagher (born August 15, 1953) is an American comedian, actor, and writer with a recurring role on the HBO sitcom ''Curb Your Enthusiasm''. As a television host, he has won Emmy Awards for his work on the Public Broadcasting Service, PBS series ''Money Moves'', ''Off-Limits'', and ''Kids, Cash and Common Sense.'' He was the host of the California State Lottery, California Lottery's ''The Big Spin'' game show from 1996 to 1998. Not to be confused with the comedian who goes by the single name Leo Gallagher, Gallagher, nor the Dave Chappelle Gallagher parody character, Black Gallagher, Jack Gallagher does not use props in his comedy. He is the author and performer of eight critically acclaimed one-man shows: ''Letters to Declan'' (1993), ''Just the Guy'' (2002), ''What He Left'' (2006), ''A Different Kind of Cool'' (2010), ''Complete and Unfinished'' (2013) "5 Songs" (2015, "Concussed: Four Days In The Dark" (2017) and "A Stand-up Guy" (2019) Gallagher became a regular at the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Finn (game Show Host)
''Shop 'til You Drop'' is an American game show that was on the air intermittently between 1991 and 2005. Four different series were produced during that time, with the first premiering on Lifetime on July 8, 1991, and the fourth series airing its final episode on May 27, 2005, on PAX. Pat Finn hosted the first three editions of ''Shop 'til You Drop'', beginning in 1991 and ending in 2002. The announcers for those series were Mark L. Walberg, who announced from 1991 to 1994 and served as an on-air assistant, Jason Grant Smith, who was the original announcer for the second series in 1996 and 1997, and Dee Bradley Baker, who announced and co-hosted from 1997 to 1998 and again from 2000 until 2002. The fourth series, which saw the show undergo a significant overhaul and format switch, was hosted by JD Roberto with Don Priess announcing. Gameplay Original series The backdrop of game play was a two-story shopping mall containing 14 stores. Two teams each consisting of two people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years. The term 'year' is also used to indicate other periods of roughly similar duration, such as the lunar year (a roughly 354-day cycle of twelve of the Moon's phasessee lunar calendar), as well as periods loosely associated with the calendar or astronomical year, such as the seasonal year, the fiscal year, the academic year, etc. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by changes in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
