Barbara Walters Tribute

Celebrate the life and legacy of one of television's pioneering journalists with our trivia game tribute to Barbara Walters.

15 questions · Published January 9, 2023

Trivia questions (5 of 15)

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1. Where was Barbara Jill Walters born on September 25, 1929?
Barbara Walters was born in 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Walters family moved to Miami Beach when Barbara was in the fifth grade.
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2. What children oriented show did Barbara Walter's first produce for the flagship NBC station in 1953?
Barbara Walters' produced a fifteen-minute children's interview show for WNBC in New York City called "Ask the Camera," her very first television production.
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3. In what year did the annual television special "Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People" debut?
"Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People" debuted on ABC television in 1993 and aired annually on the second Thursday of December until 2015.
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4. Which of these hosts was NOT on the original panel of Barbara Walters' women-centric chat show "The View"?
"The View" debuted in 1997 with a diverse panel of female hosts: Barbara Walters, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Meredith Vieria, and Debbie Matenopoulos. Elizabeth Hesselbeck joined the show in 2003 to replace the departing Lisa Ling, who had replaced Matenopoulos in 1999.
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5. For what women's magazine did Barbara Walters work as a publicist and writer in the late 1950s?
FUN FACT
Although primarily considered a women's magazine, Redbook (1903-2019) also published new fiction from male writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dashiell Hammett.

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