Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quiz...
...think your Quiz is a good stunt. I tried it and I am going to compliment myself, for I did much better than 20% ; I missed only one, and the Tiger Flowers question spoofed...
...section, Quiz, in my opinion easily doubles the value of TIME as a magazine of information. Many of us humans are too prone when reading to drift at random through a congeries of facts without relating them to matter already assimilated. Hence we forget what we read. The anticipation of a question upon what is read evokes just enough effort to effect such a relation or coordination, and the fact sticks−we have learned...
...There are a goodly percentage of TIME readers, naturally inclined to solve puzzles, rebuses, who would gloat over your Quiz. Another big percentage, denied sufficient time in their educational years to get what the Quiz practically supplies, would be able positively to lift themselves by their boot straps. Yet it seems to me (a three-score-and-ten-year man, generally placed in the all-round category) somehow out of place or not dovetailing in with your plan and scope...
Read every department of TIME except this Quiz. Then turn back to page 33. Quiz yourself. To do well, you must correctly answer at least 80% of the questions...