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2* "This week on ''Twenty-One'', watch Herbert Stempel be fed to the Columbia Lion! Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal on ''Twenty-One''!"
3* During a montage of answers about what happened to Henry VIII's various wives: "Well, they ''all'' died."[[note]](This was actually said by Stempel during his actual match against Van Doren.)[[/note]]
4* "Excuse me, do you think he might see me before the peacock molts."
5* "They gave you all that money to answer questions they knew you knew -- now that's inflation!"
6* [[SarcasmMode "Mercy. What a grueling line of inquiry."]]
7* "You want to be worshipped? Go to India and moo."
8* "For seventy grand, Herb, you can afford to be humiliated."
9* When Enright and Freedman first suggest cheating to Charlie, he wonders what Kant would say about it. Freedman, who obviously has ''no clue'', says "I don't think he'd have a problem with it."
10* Stempel making ''very'' sure during the inquisition that people know he actually did know ''Marty'' won Best Picture.

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