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Space limitations regrettably prevent quoting in full his "Twelve Compliments That Will Bring You More Dinner Invitations" or the chapter "Art Becomes More Fascinating When You Know These Eight Famous Styles." Pretty risky to pass up his art quiz, however...
Minnesota's victories were not won in a stadium but on a radio show called College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC), where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher can be associated with a whale? 3) In ancient Greece, who could call Xanthippus "Dad" and Zeno "Teacher"? 4) Nellie Bly was the "other woman" in a famous triangle-name the couple she broke...
...winning school gets $500 each week (donated by Good Housekeeping magazine), and Minnesota has already amassed $6,000 this year, all used for scholarships. The losers get wristwatches. To Co-Producer John Moses the biggest surprise of the two-year history of Quiz Bowl is the continuing dominance of Minnesota ("You'd never expect a Midwestern school to keep knocking off these Eastern colleges"). Last season the Gophers won eight straight before being upset by Brown-Pembroke. This year, after tying their first match with Georgetown, and winning by a narrow margin the second time they met, the Minnesotans...
...eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they get bigger steaks than those given the football team. But the chief gain, as ex-Coach Buchta sees it, is that "on this program we can finally show our brains instead of our muscles. What's more, the College Quiz Bowl has caused a campus revolution-it's making the bright student as popular and well known as the athlete...
...College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC). Tulane v. Minnesota...