Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...easy for Yale University's shrewd biology students. As their instructor read out his weekly yes-&-no quiz all they had to do was wait to hear their blind classmate's answer. Since he was brilliant and assiduous, they were sure of good marks if they just translated "yes" for his three clicks...
...limits of the yes and no exam. This is, of course, no reflection on the sons of Eli in their non-academic capacity, but refers to the scientific racket recently exposed at Yale. Fortunate in the possession of a blind scholar, equipped with the necessary intelligence, when the weekly quiz came around the sly Yale boys just counted the taps on his typewriter and with rapid manipulation of their fingers were able to decipher the opinion of the blind Homer on the subject at hand. The resulting standard of infallibility was, of course, of short duration for the authorities took...
...factual part of the test proved quite difficult, the identification questions causing more trouble than usual. Such, names as Gates W. McGarrah, Amy Johnson, and "Enterprise", were wrongly identified by a majority of the contestants. In the second and more important section of the quiz, short essays between 250 and 600 words in length, the Wickersham Report, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the Conflict between Mr. Hoover and Congress were the most popular of the subjects offered. In commenting on the contest, Mr. Wright said that the papers were of an unusually high standard and displayed evidence of intensive...
...cards get in condition now by visiting the pool occasionally, as the test is by no means an easy one. The four release methods have to be demonstrated in one session, as do also the four carrying methods, and clothing has to be worn in certain events. An oral quiz is also required...
...important events of the preceding year; while the second will be made up of a number of fact questions. Short essays on such topics as exploration in the Antarctic, the aftermath of the stock market crash, and dictatorship in European policies were asked for last year: in the fact quiz, the candidates had to identify and bring out the part played in current news of such figures as Mme. Curie, Leon Daudet, and Ortiz Rubio as well as to answer briefly such questions as, "Who won the Pulitzer Novel Prize for 1928-29?" and "Who is governor-general...