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- Student and Faculty Contestants from "Beat the Professor" Game Show, School Principal with Trophy, October 24, 1963 - <EM>Beat the Professor</EM> was the cooperative venture between The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Wayne County Schools, Wayne State University and WTVS, Detroit's educational television station. The history quiz show debuted in 1963 and pitted two eighth-grade students against two of their teachers. Students beat their teachers in the first show. The winners received a pottery jug for their accomplishment.
- October 24, 1963
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Student and Faculty Contestants from "Beat the Professor" Game Show, School Principal with Trophy, October 24, 1963
Beat the Professor was the cooperative venture between The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Wayne County Schools, Wayne State University and WTVS, Detroit's educational television station. The history quiz show debuted in 1963 and pitted two eighth-grade students against two of their teachers. Students beat their teachers in the first show. The winners received a pottery jug for their accomplishment.