Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...certain student ably upheld Harvard's scholastic tradition on the radio at the Hayden Planetarium this last weekend. Asked what the common ingredients of glass were, he replied. "Silicon Dioxide!" The radio-interviewer in the quiz was so impressed with this sign of crudition that he awarded the Harvard man the prize, although the correct answer was and soda, and time...
...Judges of the $250,000 Movie Quiz Contest, announced last week: New York's Representative Bruce Barton, Boy Scout Leader James E. West, Tennist Helen Wills Moody, Author Hendrik Willem van Loon, Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune...
...Jefferson City, Mo. Attorney General Roy McKittrick ruled that the famed MPAYBE "Movie Quiz" was a lottery, advised Missouri theatre owners who wished to avoid the chance of going to prison for from two to five years to avoid participating...
Much on the lines of the scholastic aptitude test most students take before entering college in their Freshman year, the quiz covers in addition non-technical subjects such as literature and fine arts, physics and chemistry, biological sciences, social studies, verbal aptitude and mathematics...
This is a modification of a previous rule which required an oral examination for all Honors above the cum mark, and was put into effect because it was felt that it was "a waste of both the student's and examiners' time" to have the oral quiz when the record of the student already indicated that he was sure of a magna...