Sonny Fox on
the "secret" questions
Okay, at the beginning of either both "[The $64,000] Question" and "[The $64,000] Challenge" we introduced the Vice President of Chase Manhattan, who came on bearing the questions for the day which had been kept in the vaults of the Chase Manhattan Bank all that week, thereby protecting, of course, the honesty of the show. However, we didn't say it was the only set of questions that was in that vault. And indeed there was a set of questions in the vault and indeed the Vice President brought them on. But indeed I had another set of questions in my dressing room before the show, of necessity, because I had to go over certain pronunciations of some arcane names or words, and some of the questions were awfully complex, and we had to kind of track them so that I wouldn't be seeing them for the first time on the air. So there were, of course, duplicate sets of questions. A fact which I'm sure was not unknown to the members of the network staff and others who worked around the show. Nevertheless, to the American public, that presence of the Vice President of Chase Manhattan was sort of a reassuring note about the virtuous honesty of these shows.
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