Card Sharks

Card Sharks was an American television game show in which contestants guessed whether a playing card was higher or lower than the card that preceded it.

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Card Sharks held many special tournament weeks over the years, including the famous 1980 "Game Show Hosts" week, a three-week tournament which pitted eight game show hosts against each other. Allen Ludden, Gene Rayburn, Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy, Alex Trebek, Jack Clark, Wink Martindale and Jim Lange participated in the tournament. Amusingly, on the first day of the tournament, in an opening very similar to that of What's My Line?, announcer Gene Wood introduced the first participant, Gene Rayburn, whom introduced the next host, and one by one, introducing the next entrant up to its host, Jim Perry. Trebek beat Cullen in the finals of the tournament and won $25,000 for his charity, the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect.

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Allen Ludden - Gene Rayburn - Bill Cullen - Tom Kennedy - Alex Trebek - Jack Clark - Wink Martindale - Jim Lange - What's My Line? - Gene Wood - Charity - Child Abuse

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