Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...familiar is the Vacation Review Quiz, giving students 52 questions as an entertaining way to review the news of the summer. The quiz is a little brother of the famous Current Affairs Test, which millions of students have taken over the past 2 7 years, during which time high scorers in the quiz have won some 150,000 globes and books...
...mystery guest was ensconced in his isolation booth, and the panelists on NBC's noonday quiz show Your First Impression tried to guess his identity from his spur-of-the-moment responses to a series of unfinished questions...
...news conference, Democrat Symington indicated he had far bigger game in sight. He said he might quiz Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary George Humphrey about limited-risk contracts that the Truman Administration signed, just four days before it went out of office, with Hanna Nickel Smelting Co. Humphrey headed the nickel company's parent firm, M.A. Hanna Co., before he joined the Government, and he retained his Hanna stock while Treasury Secretary. All of these facts had been disclosed long ago, but Symington said he wanted to know if Humphrey's companies made unjustified profits...
...musical background later stood him in good stead. In 1957, teamed with ten-year-old Star Eddie Hodges of The Music Man, he won $12,500 on a TV quiz show called Name That Tune. *President Kennedy was confused about this flight last week in praising Glenn. Said Kennedy: "Some years ago, as a Marine pilot, he raced the sun across this country?and lost." Glenn could not have raced the sun even if he had wanted to, since he flew from west to east...
Sarnoff's testimony was a ringing endorsement of the status quo. The quiz scandals, he said, "were unfortunate, but they are unlikely ever to happen again." The only practical alternative to the sponsor support system that now prevails, he told the commissioners, is outright government subsidy and government control-and that is what the commission had been claiming it did not want. "I do not believe regulation can remove the thorns without serious risk of nipping the roses...