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Tuesday
The name Tuesday derives from the Old English Tiwesdæg and literally means "Tiw's Day".
Tiw is the Old English form of the Proto-Germanic god *Tîwaz, or Týr in Old Norse.
Tîwaz derives from the Proto-Indo-European base *dei-, *deyā-, *dīdyā-, meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".

Tizwas
Tiswas [/ˈtɪzwɒz/; an acronym of "Today Is Saturday: Watch And Smile"]was a British children's television series that originally aired on Saturday (not Tuesday) mornings from 5 January 1974 to 3 April 1982, and was produced for the ITV network by ATV.

Chris Tarrant
Tarrant the anchor host of TISWAS later went on to host the hugely successful quiz show “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?” Which ran for decades in the UK and was franchised to dozens of counties.

Charles William Ingram
In 2001 Charles William Ingram won a £ million on the show but was later denied the winnings when it was proven in court that he had cheated with his wife who was in the audience sending signals to him by coughing a specific intervals to indicate which was the correct answer.

Tuesday
Charles William Ingram was born on 6 August 1963 which by strange coincidence…. is a Tuesday!

Torunn

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@divegeester
"Charles William Ingram
In 2001 Charles William Ingram won a £ million on the show but was later denied the winnings when it was proven in court that he had cheated with his wife who was in the audience sending signals to him by coughing a specific intervals to indicate which was the correct answer."
I watched a program about him a few years ago, and I remember it very well. The questions in the competition had four options, A-D. His wife in the audience searched the information with her mobile phone, and when he repeated the options, she - as you said - coughed giving the right choice. Fascinating.

Drewnogal
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@torunn said
@divegeester
"Charles William Ingram
In 2001 Charles William Ingram won a £ million on the show but was later denied the winnings when it was proven in court that he had cheated with his wife who was in the audience sending signals to him by coughing a specific intervals to indicate which was the correct answer."
I watched a program about him a few years ago, and I remember ...[text shortened]... and when he repeated the options, she - as you said - coughed giving the right choice. Fascinating.
Another incident that befell Ingram was when he dramatically sliced off three of his toes in a garden lawnmower accident.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/millionaire-cheat-major-charles-ingram-21862964

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