Truth or Consequences
Honesty-or-penalty parlor game
Truth or Consequences is a city in New Mexico named after the popular mid-20th-century radio and television game show.
The show's format involved contestants answering trivia questions or facing humorous stunts as "consequences" for wrong answers.
In 1950, the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico, changed its name to Truth or Consequences as a publicity stunt when the show offered to broadcast from any town that would adopt its name.
The phrase itself suggests accountability: actions or answers have outcomes.
American television network
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- contestantsCompetition participants
- triviaUnimportant miscellaneous facts
- stuntsDangerous performed feats
prizes · audience · broadcast · studio · emcee · 1950 · publicity stunt · quiz show
Heated groundwater emerging naturally
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- desertTo leave behind completely
- SouthwestArid American expanse
- healing watersSprings thought to cure
spa town · White Sands · historic · tourism · Main Street · art galleries · small town · local culture
Conforming to moral principles
- moralityRight and wrong principles
- quandaryState of perplexity
- choiceAct of selecting
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
predicament · paradox · honesty · integrity · conflict · compromise · judgment · ambiguity
Punishment for wrongdoing
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
- sentenceComplete thought, grammatically
accountability · justice · atonement · repercussion · reckoning · comeuppance · deterrence · reform
NBC
American television network
- radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
- contestantsCompetition participants
- triviaUnimportant miscellaneous facts
stunts · prizes · audience · broadcast · studio · emcee · 1950 · publicity stunt · quiz show · challenges
hot springs
Heated groundwater emerging naturally
- Rio GrandeMajor southwestern waterway
- desertTo leave behind completely
- SouthwestArid American expanse
healing waters · spa town · White Sands · historic · tourism · Main Street · art galleries · small town · local culture · retirement community
ethical
Conforming to moral principles
conundrum · predicament · paradox · honesty · integrity · conflict · compromise · judgment · ambiguity · uncertainty
penalty
Punishment for wrongdoing
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- sanctionApproval or punitive measure
- disciplineTrained self-control or specialty
sentence · accountability · justice · atonement · repercussion · reckoning · comeuppance · deterrence · reform · correction
Truth or ConsequencesJeopardy!
Quiz show, reversed format
Mastermind · Brain Games · The Chase · Wheel of Fortune · Trivial Pursuit
Truth or ConsequencesSanta Fe
New Mexico's seat of government
Albuquerque · Taos · Española · Los Alamos · San Antonio
Truth or Consequencesimpunity
Freedom from consequences
plausible deniability · unaccountability · getting away with it · cover-up · evasion
truth, consequence, consequences, true, truly, trueness, untrue, untruth, truthful