Among the most notable female contestants was Gail Trimble, who disrupted the blokishness in 2009 with a mastery of general knowledge that led to her being dubbed the "human Google".
The scarcity of women in the field, and their absence from the big-year contestants, is notable and a bit puzzling.
Just as wonderfully, Salvador Dali and his notable facial hair confused contestants on "What's My Line".
The second episode of "The Bachelor" saw the dismissal of two contestants with notable hair -- one good and one very bad.
Most of the episodes in season eight (from the "Million Dollar Tournament of Ten" onward) featured special "Celebrity Questions" that were mid-level in monetary value, and were provided by notable individuals whose identities were not revealed until the contestant reached their special questions.
Each contestant, either a housewife or widow, told a story notable for how awful her life circumstances had become.
The first of these "all-time best" tournaments, Super Jeopardy!, aired in the summer of 1990 on ABC, and featured 37 top contestants from the previous seasons of the Trebek version and one notable champion from the original Jeopardy! series competing for a top prize of $250,000.
This is satire at its most superficial, filled with meanness unredeemed by compassion, notable for its lack of heart and its catty superiority toward hapless characters jerked around and mocked like contestants on a Japanese game show.
The other two finalists, Beverly McClellan and Vicci Martinez, are openly gay; this is notable because of how silent the "Idol" universe has been about the sexual orientation of that show's contestants.
Business got a big boost last year after Mr. Wilson appeared as one of the first contestants on "Shark Tank," the ABC reality show that features fledgling entrepreneurs looking for capital investment from a panel of judges composed of notable businesspeople.
