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Herb Stempel Dies: Quiz Show Whistleblower In The 1950s Was 93

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By Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-manager Herb Stempel, whose admission that television game shows were fixed led to a major scandal and congressional investigation, has died.

He passed at age 93 on April 7, but his death just recently came to light. No cause of death was given by his stepdaughter, Bobra Fyne.

Stempel was a contestant on the game show Twenty-One, and became a nerdy star for seemingly to know something about everything.

The only problem was that he was supplied with the answers in advance with the promise of winning $25,000. It later ballooned to just show of $50,000.

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