Game Show Appearances
Prior to 1951, Cerf was an occasional panelist on the NBC game show, Who Said That?, in which celebrities try to determine the speaker of quotations taken from recent news reports. In 1951 he began appearing weekly on What's My Line? and continued until the show ended its run on CBS in 1967. Until his death, Cerf continued to appear occasionally on the Viacom syndicated version of What's My Line?, along with Arlene Francis. Cerf was known as "Bennett Snerf" in a Sesame Street puppet parody of What's My Line?. During his time on What's My Line?, Cerf received an honorary degree from the University of Puget Sound.
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