Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Chicago's dignified Art Institute tweaked the wits of visitors with a small baby-blue booklet entitled Art Quiz. Helen Parker, chic, quick-witted head of the Institute's department of education, got it up and it was good. In ten sections of ten questions each were such factual stumpers as "Who painted the girl serving chocolate on a well-known brand of cocoa?"; such models of test technique as "Pick your painter: a) Linsey-Woolsey, b) 'Lippo Lippi, c) Boro Budur, d) Sancho Panza, e) Michelozzo Michelozzi"; and queries Jike...
Your recent quiz was excellent [TIME, Feb. 27]. My score was 27 wrong out of the 105 questions. I will graduate from high school this June and I would like to know if my score is very good for a high-school TIME reader...
...story of how a female movie quiz contest winner from the sticks lures a rebellious male star onto the lot for three harried Hollywood producers will unfold when the new Pi Eta Club musical comedy, "Give, Baby, Give!" is presented Friday and Saturday evenings, March 24, and 25, at the club-houses off Bolyston Street. A formal dance, open to those attending the show, will follow the performance Friday night...
Portraying the rustic Cinderella who comes to Hollywood via the movie quiz route is D. Gordon Halstead '40. James H. Legendre '40 plays the erring matinee idol, and Philip C. Starr '40 takes the part of his leading lady. The three producers are Richard E. Lewis '40, William, D. Collins '40 and James T. Devine '40; James G. Walsh '39 plays the manager of the box office team...
Hartford-Empire was therefore the pièce de résistance of last week's monopoly quiz and on the spot was its little known President Francis Goodwin Smith, whose mustache and bald head are in the best Peter Arno tradition. A soft-spoken New Englander of 57, President Smith is a self-made man who became general manager of Hartford-Empire's predecessor, Hartford-Fairmont Co., in 1915. He owns only a small block of stock in Hartford-Empire; most of it belongs to the Houghton family (Corning Glass Co.) and Beech-Nut Packing Co. Beech...