Herb Stempel Is A Fraudulent Nature Of Twenty One

In the year 1956, from October 17th to December 5th, Herbert Stempel participated in a high stakes quiz show, Twenty One, produced by Daniel Enright, having been promised thousands of dollars in winnings by Enright in exchange for taking part in a great deception. Stempel spent weeks being made to play the role of the groveling “nerd” on national television by Enright only to be cast aside unexpectedly. He had his only claim to fame and brilliance taken from him by Van Doren, whom Stempel felt the need to prove himself against. From then on, Herb Stempel embarked on a relentless crusade to expose the rigged nature of this quiz show. He was driven by an overwhelming need to save what little remained of his pride and to oust the men who had humiliated him, Daniel Enright and Charles Van Doren. Stempel ultimately unveiled the fraudulent nature of Twenty One as a rebalancing of the scales, bringing Enright, Doren, and himself onto an equal level in one

Suddenly when he walked down the street or walked into a restaurant...people were offering him free steaks...Everybody asked for his autograph. He was not the same person” (Karp). In the film Quiz Show, there’s a scene during which Stempel arrives home after appearing on an episode of Twenty One and is cheerfully greeted by his neighbors, who praise his performance that evening, to which he reflects, “I go out on the street, and everybody knows me. Me, Herb Stempel. And they love me for the same reason they used to hate me. Because I'm the guy who knows everything” (Quiz Show 00:13:27-00:14:57). During his time on Twenty One, Stempel received all the attention and praise he coveted. At last, Stempel was being recognized and rewarded, on a national scale even, for his intellect, but this dream fell apart when the producers decided that he no longer appealed to