publication date: Monday, October 2, 2017 (part of Fall 2017)

category: Television

clue: Game show contestants came on down and pressed their luck at the instruction of this long-serving announcer.

explanation: Roddy worked for many years as an announcer for various game shows including The Price is Right and Press Your Luck. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Erik Bates, Aaron Shurtleff, and Elaine Beckland

Seeing Double: Is there an echo in here? These celebrities are so famous that people say their names twice. Hopefully each guess will be right both times. These goos with double names will appear throughout the Fall 2017 season.

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