Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarkable feat of hubris, this month's Dartmouth Alumni Magazine published a mini quiz titled, "Is Harvard Becoming More Like Dartmouth?" The magazine urges readers to "Test your ability to discriminate!" (exclamation point theirs). The quiz lists 46 facts, and asks readers to identify which apply to Harvard, which apply to Dartmouth and which apply to both. Here's a sampling...
...practice may have begun at a private school in Washington on Jan. 18, when a group of tenth-graders did poorly on a math test. When the results came back, the class asked the teacher for a makeup exam, explaining how unfair it was to quiz them on the morning after the first missile attack of the war. They had lost too much sleep watching CNN the night before...
...tape: a CD can be copied without even fractional loss of sound quality onto a DAT tape. But the equipment will prevent that copy, even though it can be duplicated on conventional analog cassettes innumerable times, from being copied on another digital tape. Got that? There will be a quiz Monday morning...
...hottest, the richest, the worst. We look at a Mars bar with new respect knowing that the Mars family is No. 3 in the billionaire rankings. Where would we be if someone did not locate us on a scale of the 250 most desirable or pestilential cities? The symptoms quiz -- Are you overdue for a heart attack? Are you an ordinary boozehound or a helpless alcoholic? -- is a variant of listomania. And what should attract more attention than a list of the symptoms displayed by an unfaithful spouse...
None of the quiz questions amounted to a revelation, and most had been collated by pop psychologists before. Does your spouse or significant other talk confidently about a subject on which he or she previously showed ignorance, or even hostility? Is Sally Jesse Raphael being quoted around the house a lot? Do you find yourself involved in foot races to answer the telephone...