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Word: picus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object of vescorl" shot out Questioner James Minter, 25, a candidate at Columbia University for a Ph.D. in classics. Flashing lights signaled the correct answer: "The ablative." Sample sticklers: "What Italian myth figure changed into a woodpecker?" "What Latin emperor was transformed, in a satire, into a pumpkin?" Answers: Picus and Claudius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pueri et Puellae Certantes | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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