Win Ben Stein's Money

Win Ben Stein's Money was an American television game show that ran from 1997 to 2003 on Comedy Central. It featured three contestants who competed in a general knowledge trivia contest to win the grand prize of $5,000 from the show's host, Ben Stein. In late 2004, GSN, formerly known as Game Show Network, began broadcasting repeats of the show.

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American - Television - Game show - 1997 - 2003 - Comedy Central - Trivia - Ben Stein - 2004 - GSN

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Stein always had a co-host to exchange jokes with and to ask some of the questions in the game. Jimmy Kimmel was the co-host for the first three years of the show's run, but he left the show in 2000 (even though he made occasional guest appearances after that). Nancy Pimental replaced Kimmel and co-hosted the show through 2001. Sal Iacono, who took over the role in 2002, was the show's last co-host. The show won seven Emmy awards.

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Jimmy Kimmel - 2000 - Nancy Pimental - 2001 - Sal Iacono - 2002 - Emmy

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Various pieces of classical music were used as the themes. The opening theme was the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Ode To Joy, which was repeated to begin the second round. The closing theme was Ride of the Valkyries, from the second opera of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung. Other classical music pieces used on the show included:

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Classical music - Beethoven's Ninth Symphony - Ode To Joy - Ride of the Valkyries - Richard Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung

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• Water Music by George Frederick Handel (leading to first commercial break).
• Spring from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi (Coming out of the first commercial break).
• Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (leading into the second commercial break).
• Trepiak (a/k/a "The Russian Dance") from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (used to segue to the final commercial break).
• Night on Bald Mountain (leading to the final round) by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (coming out of the final commercial break and cuing to the final round).
 
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