Sophie Altman Dies
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Television producer Sophie Altman, who created the long-running quiz show "It's Academic," pitting teams of high school students against each other, has died. She was 95.
Altman died of heart disease Saturday at Georgetown University Medical Center, said her daughter, Nancy Altman of Bethesda, Md.
Altman was already a seasoned TV producer in 1961 when she started "It's Academic" in the Washington area. The quiz show is entering its 48th season in Washington and there are local versions in several other cities; at one point more than 20 cities had their own versions.
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Among the competitors the show attracted were future Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer; astronaut Timothy Creamer; Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Michael Chabon; and ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, according to Altman's family and the show's Web site.
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