Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among other things, the page features a trivia quiz, complete with film stills, on the movie "A Room With a View," which was filmed in Greece...
...Television (HRTV), which will insure the continuation of the spellbinding, deep and meaningful series "Ivory Tower"--what would Harvard undergraduate life be without the soap opera? But the money will also allow HRTV to produce a variety of other shows, including "Crimson Edition" (a news show), "Survey Says" (a quiz show on Harvard lore), "The Common Room" (a comedy talk-show, like a cross between "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Show"), "Great Performances" (a rebroadcast of various student performances) and "Yard Tales" (animated cartoons...
...College and the Student, "The student goes to a lecture and hears from his professor that the course in question is exciting. Much independent thought will be demanded. He is urged to think about the subject, reflect on what he reads, and develop a habit of skepticism. The first quiz, in the student's eyes, calls for the playback of a large number of discrete facts. The message some students hear is that reflection or original thought is for the birds, and memorization will get the 'A.'" Possible student responses to such dissonance "include alienation, cynicism about the academic enterprise...
...wanted to be Harvard-centered in some way, and we also wanted to be a good time," Pinch said. "We didn't want it to compete with things like quiz bowl--didn't want it to be too serious, like academically-oriented...
Strike It Rich was arguably the creepiest nonpublic-access program in TV history. A quiz show, it featured contestants who were chosen for their desperate need of money: families who were about to lose their homes, the unemployed, the crippled, people with sick parents (this was before Medicare even existed, let alone needed to be "fixed"). If a Strike It Rich contestant came up empty-handed, all was not lost: the host would urge viewers to call in on the "Heart Line" and pledge money and/or medical equipment. Despite this innovative, Roman circus-like approach to charity, the New York...