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HARVE FISCHMAN Quiz Kid, age 12 Chicago...
Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...
Last year, in a non-broadcast contest, the Kids roundly trounced five University of Chicago professors. Score: 140-to-275, in favor of the Kids. Smarting from this rout, the professors boned up for a year, recently challenged the Kids again. Score: professors, 110; Kids, 105. The Quiz Kids' alibi: they had stayed up the night before to watch the eclipse of the moon...
...Army Enlisted Reserve, and then told to go back home and study for four more years must feel a little impatient. Even though he may understand the value of a college education as officer training, there will be times like the night before a History 1 quiz when he finds it difficult to see the connection between learning the boundaries of the Roman Empire and winning...
...case as he is in print five days a week, but something interesting always happens. Last week Ben Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...