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...with teams from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Mount Holyoke and Barnard for the Second Annual Ivy League-Seven Sisters Trivia Contest-the closest thing to a world series that the game has spawned. On hand to officiate were Trivia's inventors, former Columbia Students Dan Carlinsky and Edwin Goodgold, whose two books on the subject, published by Dell, have sold 450,000 copies in the past year...
...have to get your basic training from the time you are six until perhaps twelve or 13," says Trivia Champ Tulenko. "After that you refine your ability." He credits his success entirely to "my garbage-filled mind." But for Inventor Goodgold, the essence of Trivia is not so much in the facts themselves as the nostalgic recognition they evoke. "Trivia is concerned with tugging at the heartstrings," says Goodgold. "It's enjoyed by those who have misspent their youth and don't want to let it go. It's the least common cultural denominator...
...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
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