Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait for Godot. But where Beckett's dialogue almost expires in pauses of resignation, Stoppard's lines pant with inner panic. Delivered with comic ardor at machine-gun speed, R. and G.'s interchanges combine mental verve with spiritual desolation. It is as if the quiz kids of Wittenberg U. found themselves desperate at flunking in life. R.: What's the matter with you today? G.: When? R.: What? G.: Are you deaf? R.: Am I dead? G.: Yes or no? R.: Is there a choice? G.: Is there a God? R.: Foul! No non sequiturs...
Perhaps the most pertinent question was posed by radio station KQRS in Minneapolis, which, to meet the competition of two local TV polls, started its own. After running the quiz for a few weeks, the station asked its listeners if they thought such telephone surveys were valid. When 82% voted no, KQRS ditched the poll...
Last year's quiz contest was a humiliating 98-62 defeat for the Harvard team (The contest is modeled after the General Electric College Bowl television program...
Returns from Monday's CRIMSON rock 'n' roll quiz reveal the pressing urgency of a course in this important subject. Harvard has always been considered a barren field for this corn, but each succeeding year that it is allowed to lie fallow the prospects of a respectable harvest will diminish. At one time and in proper places almost all the songs referred to in the quiz were commonly played, and often prayed to. But with the trend toward younger generations, a whole culture may soon be lost...
...next day. Thus was Johnny rewarded at 29 with his own variety network TV show. He thrashed through image changes, seven writers, eight directors and 39 weeks before CBS replaced him with The Arthur Murray Show, ABC then tried him on a daytime show, Who Do You Trust? The quiz part of the program was downplayed just as in Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, and Johnny proved himself so droll at japing with his outlandish guests that he was soon pinch-hitting for Jack Paar on Tonight. When "King" Jack decided to quit, he anointed Carson...