Remember This?

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Remember This? was a College Bowl/It's Academic-type weekend game show that tested contestants' knowledge of facts behind the NBC News headlines.

Contents 1 Broadcast History 2 Personnel 3 Premise 4 Rounds 1 & 2 4.1 Scoring & Number of Headlines 5 Lightning Round 6 Winning and losing

[edit] Broadcast History

The show aired on MSNBC on Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays for one season from October 25, 1996 through October 5, 1997.

[edit] Personnel

The show was hosted by Today Show weatherman Al Roker, and executive produced by Bob Stewart's son Sande Stewart.

[edit] Premise

Two teams of three players who were all college and university students were shown news footage from the NBC News archives and they answered a series of questions about those headlines to win scholarship money for their schools.

[edit] Rounds 1 & 2

In the first two rounds, teams were shown a news headline from the past, and then a toss-up question about the headline was asked. A correct answer scored points plus a chance to earn more points by answering another question in which the only players who didn't buzz-in could answer. A right answer there earned the right to answer one last question in which only the player who hadn't answered yet could answer. By the way an incorrect answer from the buzz-in player on the first two questions gave the opposing team a chance to steal the points and control of the next question by answering the same question, and if both teams miss, the next question becomes a toss-up for the remaining players.

[edit] Scoring & Number of Headlines

Each round has a point value for all questions and played a certain number of headlines (one of them took a commercial break midway into the round).

Rounds	Questions	Headlines
Round 1	10	3
Round 2	20	4

[edit] Lightning Round

The game ends with the "Lightning Round" where all questions were worth 30 points but no headlines were played. Correct answers were worth 30 points, but an incorrect answer deducted 30 points. The team with the most points when time ran out in the round won the game.

[edit] Winning and losing

Winning teams from Friday & Saturday shows faced each other on Sunday in which the winner won a $1,000 scholarship and advancement to the playoffs at the end of the season for a chance to win a $20,000 scholarship. Fordham University was the ultimate "Remember This?" champion.

Losing teams stayed on the show until they lost two games, at which point they retired from the show but received a Remember This? hat.