Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aronson or myself had ever expected this kind of response to last week's record quiz, we would have both packed up all our Strawberry Alarm Clock records and headed to Guadaloupe. In a word, the response was amazing. Over forty people rationalized themselves into thinking that it would be good for their soul to take an hour or so off in the middle of exams to do this inane amalgamation of tune teasers...
Well, gang, your efforts have not gone by the boards. You thought the quiz was strange? Well, take a look at some of your answers! Tom and I were on the verge of calling McLeans Hospital and asking if they made house calls...
...same section freshman Tim Hanke revealed the kind of U.S. History they're teaching in high schools nowadays. Tim didn't seem to recall that Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and John and Bobby. Kennedy had all been assassinated, the only quiz contestant that could make that infamous claim...
...number five, Ned Bacon wasn't exactly huffing and puffing either. As did Scott Mead two positions down the ladder, Bacon relinquished 18 points in his victory, which occurred quicker than you can take a quiz...
Died. Louis G. Cowan, 66, former president of CBS-TV and oft-called "father of the quiz show"; and his wife Pauline Cowan, 63; following a flash fire in their apartment; in Manhattan. Cowan created radio's Quiz Kids in 1940 and television's phenomenally popular $64,000 Question in 1955. He resigned from CBS in 1959 and, among other things, went on to found Chilmark Press, book publishers, and become a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism...