Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...QUBE subscriber can voice his opinions in local political debates, conduct garage sales and bid for objets d'art in a charity auction. QUBE is the first major system in which the viewer can talk back to the tube. By pressing a button, Joe or Jane Columbus can quiz a politician, or turn electronic thumbs down or up on a local amateur talent program, à la Gong Show. QUBE supplies specialized programs for doctors and lawyers; the local newspaper asks viewers to evaluate its features; advertisers pretest commercials for audience reaction. Columbus' multifaceted QUBE also comparison-shops the local supermarkets...
...cramped rooms of a warehouse. Some strikers are performing the same tasks for the Connection as they did for its rivals, but one of the paper's star ad salesmen is a former feature writer, the production chief was an art critic and the author of the trivia quiz a political reporter...
...well do you remember the events of 1977 as reported in The Harvard Crimson? This ten-question quiz should jog your memory!! (Reading time: 6 minutes, 38 seconds) Answer-sequences that mirror the rhyme scheme of Milton's "Paradise Lost" will be considered for a a special prize. Fill in the answer sheet below, do not leave any stray marks, and return immediately to the Educational Testing Service, Box 000, Princeton, New Jersey, with a $30 non-refundable fee and three proof-of-purchase receipts from Coop sidewalk sales...
...Senators sitting in judgment in front of him: Abraham Ribicoff. Democratic chairman of the committee, and. more scathingly, Charles Percy, the ranking Republican. As reported in a Labor Day weekend story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Lance noted, the Senators had sent three committee investigators to quiz Billy Lee Campbell, a former vice president of the Calhoun First National Bank, who was serving an eight-year prison term for embezzling nearly $1 million from the bank, mostly during the time that Lance was its president. Campbell had claimed that Lance was "part of the embezzlement. Then Ribicoff and Percy...
...1920s and went on to hilarious movies, such as Horse Feathers (1932) and A Night at the Opera (1935), that still enjoy a huge cult following and invariably feature Groucho as an appealing rogue capable of fast-talking his way out of any difficulty. On his radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life, he was able to deploy all his famous trademarks: the loping gait, arched eyebrows, lecherous leer and emotive cigar. He was, above all, the master of the rapid-fire wisecrack. Examples: While accepting a medal from France, he quipped, "Can it be hocked?" When asked...