Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marshall pursued better jobs: delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cooking in a local restaurant. All the while he maintained a 3.8 average in Savannah's newly desegregated schools, eventually earning the scholarships that would take him to Emory. There were triumphs--and put-downs. One year Marshall's middle-school Quiz Bowl team won a contest focusing on drugs and alcohol. Says he: "After we won--and believe me, it was sort of amazing we won--some city-council member made a snide remark that we should have won because we knew more about drugs than anyone. It was an attempt...
HOSPITALIZED. CHARLES VAN DOREN, 69, charismatic academic felled by the 1950s TV scandal recounted in the 1994 film Quiz Show; in stable condition after collapsing from an undisclosed illness; in Hartford, Connecticut...
...Atlantic City, she sued the state and national pageants. Dershowitz, who took time out from jogging beside the O.J. limo to advise Yueh, waxes apoplectic at the injustice: "The Miss America contest should not turn into the World Wrestling Federation. We don't want Miss America to become the Quiz Show of the 1990s." A New Jersey judge ruled that Yueh could not take part in the pageant but might still recover damages...
...quiz consists of 10 questions about etiquette that can be answered by common sense, such as, are you allowed to look at someone else's account, the UA said...
Only when the user passes the quiz will he or she be allowed to access his or her e-mail account...