Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Question: You are a miner. The Government has ordered you to attend a safety clinic, but has not paid your $500 in travel expenses. You are asked to take a multiple-choice quiz designed to relax the group. But it turns out that questions are based on off-color jokes. Given these facts...
...Refuse to take the quiz and walk out of the room...
...Labor, which incorporates the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Answered Assistant Labor Secretary Robert Lagather: "This test is not part of the instructor course. I was as shocked and disturbed as you were." Lagather recommended a 30-day suspension without pay for the instructor who had used the quiz. Just for good measure, however, Wallop had the exam read into the Congressional Record, where presumably its vulgarity will serve as a good example of a bad joke on the taxpayers...
...following are the answers to Michelle D. Healy's baseball quiz that appeared in Monday's Crimson. If you answered between 100 and 108 questions correctly, you have wasted your life; 80-100, quit school and do play-by-play; 60-80, do stats for the Red Sox; 40-60, write for Sport magazine; below 40, a gerbil...
...violence. And nepotism. Cowan's father was president of CBS--forced to resign in the midst of the Quiz Show scandals in the fall of 1959. "When home from Choate on vacation," Cowan tells us, "I would wear one of Dad's ties, with a design composed of dozens of CBS eyes...