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...mind is responsible for exams coinciding with the month of January. One of my roommates, a West Coast innocent, once asked plaintively, "Doesn't it ever stop raining here?" If the weather is getting you down, cheer up. Here is what must pass for the annual Crimson sports trivia quiz...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Flanders Fields | 1/24/1975 | See Source »

Traditionally, The Crimson has provided a reading period Oldies Quiz. As an austerity measure, this service was cut back this year. We can only apologize, cite the rising price of vinyl, and ask for our readers' understanding...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Guess-What's-Just-Around-the-Corner Quiz | 1/22/1975 | See Source »

...Department of S*******. I came across this course when I was going through a Great Name stage, when I was a Boswell looking for his Johnson, a neophyte looking to sit at the feet of some guru. I found my big name, but the course became more of a quiz show than an investigation of the sociological foundation of literature, and the professor better fit the role of a Bert Parks than a George Kitteridge...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Portrait of the Artist as a Naive Student | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

Died. Patricia Cutts, 47, blonde, British-born actress who scored with U.S. audiences as a regular panelist on the 1950s TV quiz show Down You Go, and three months ago joined the cast of the long-run British soap opera Coronation Street; of barbiturate poisoning; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...games is an anxious, sweaty thing-like the fever dream of a dull-witted materialist. As an experience, it is far less resonant than watching those former targets of cheap-shot cultural critics, the soap operas. At least the soaps deal with a few emotions other than greed. The quiz shows, one cannot help concluding, are just one more thing from which the American woman deserves to be liberated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

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