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President Galo Plaza Lasso of Ecuador has sent us his answer sheet for the last TIME News Quiz, which ran in the July 4 issue. He answered 91 of the 105 questions correctly, and is inclined to think that is quite a good mark. It is, in fact, considerably above average, and President Galo Plaza Lasso should be proud...
...Else, a New York psychiatrist whose attractions were heightened by a familiarity with Bartlett's Familiar Quotations that was almost as inclusive as his own. In spite of verbal protestations of physical and emotional fireworks on both sides, their affair never climbed above the level of a quiz contest...
From the beginning he ruled out lecturing-a spoon-feeding system of teaching, he thought, which "was probably the worst scheme ever devised for imparting knowledge." The "quiz or recitation system," thought Holt, was little better. His own prescription: instead of ordinary classes, constant informal conferences, at which teachers and students could think and talk together...
When you first go on a quiz show, "you feel smart, impeccable, confident," declared Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), describing the queasy sensations of a television guest star. But "after 15 minutes of being asked the simplest questions to which you cannot give the simplest answers [your fellow contestants] aren't your friends, they're your mortal enemies -exposing your ignorance, shaming you by their faultless haberdashery . . . and their air of slightly nauseated pity...
...Angeles barflies were intrigued by a new diversion: automatic quiz machines. For 5? ginmill intellectuals could try to answer five questions of 6,000 printed on a motion-picture reel...