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...quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire isn't exactly College Bowl. (Sample question: Where did Monica buy her blue dress?) Perhaps because of this, the 13-episode ABC program is enthralling viewers, but occasionally it dismays geography fans. On a show last week, host Regis Philbin asked which of the Great Lakes, excluding Superior, has the largest area. Contestant David Honea suggested Lake Huron. Philbin's TelePrompTer suggested Lake Michigan, and the voluble host sent Honea packing. After the show, Honea politely asked producers to double-check. Guess who was right? ABC has invited Honea back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 30, 1999 | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...passed away, and his best friend just committed suicide. The girl he loves wants him as a friend; a girl he does not love wants him as a lover. His 18-year-old sister is pregnant. The LSD he took is not sitting well. And he has a math quiz looming. Charlie is the high school freshman protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, a 29-year-old screenwriter. Published by MTV, it is one of a new generation of novels geared toward teenagers, for whom such subjects are increasingly just part of growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reads Like Teen Spirit | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...wrap up the legislative session in Austin and make his first campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire. Frustrated by Bush's dominance of the race, some rival campaigns have dispatched operatives to Texas to scour newspaper clippings and state budget reports, pick over old speeches and offhand remarks, quiz Bush enemies and even some old friends, all in search of information they can use to diminish Bush's aura of invincibility. The goal: to use Bush's record and his status as the chosen candidate of the G.O.P. establishment against him. Warns an operative working for another candidate: "From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Ready To Parry | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Here's a fun quiz for all you armchair oncologists. A 50-year-old man gets a blood test that measures his PSA (prostate-specific antigen)--a substance that is produced only by the prostate. His results edge just past normal, which probably means he has an enlarged prostate. No big deal. Or he could have prostate cancer. "This must be our unlucky day," says his wife, also 50, when he tells her. "I just found out that my mammogram is positive." Which spouse is more likely to have cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Predicting Cancer | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

When Kristofer M. Helgen '01 and David M. Kallin '01 were forwarded a quiz via e-mail about urinal behavior--complete with stick figures for illustration--taken from Barry's Complete Guide to Guys, they set out to the Lamont men's restroom to see if he was right...

Author: By William P. Bohlen and Mary C. Cardinale, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pupils or Primates? | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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