| 1 | !Charles Van Doren |
| 2 | --> '''Played by''' Creator/RalphFiennes |
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| 4 | * AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Charles starts out as a pleasant, unassuming English instructor, but as soon as he gets famous he starts timing his arrivals at the university so as to coincide with the students coming out. Eventually it wears off, as he starts to regret his involvement in the fix. |
| 5 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: He is involved in the center of the game show scandals. |
| 6 | * HollywoodNewEngland: Of the immensely cultured, Ivy League variety. The Van Dorens lived in Connecticut. |
| 7 | * WhiteAngloSaxonProtestant: So very, very much. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | !Herbie Stempel |
| 10 | --> '''Played by''' Creator/JohnTurturro |
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| 12 | * EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Inverted. One of Herb's teeth is actually brown, and at one point he asks his wife if she thinks he should get them capped. Definitely a factor in why the sponsors decide they've had enough of him. |
| 13 | * HistoricalDomainCharacter: Is suing the game 21 for his poor treatment. |
| 14 | * JewishAndNerdy: ''So very, very much'' - a quiz-show champion with Yiddish patois-peppered parlance. |
| 15 | * YiddishAsASecondLanguage: When he is not wolfing down ''rugulach'', he is ''schvitzing'' off his ''tuchis''. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | !Dick Goodwin |
| 18 | --> '''Played by''' Creator/RobMorrow |
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| 20 | * HollywoodNewEngland: Dick's thick Boston accent has rather a lot of this. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | !Mark Van Doren |
| 23 | --> '''Played by''' Creator/PaulScofield |
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