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Each year The Crimson challenges its readers to take a Baseball quiz at the start of the major league season...
This year's edition of the quiz appears below. Each question is worth a total of 10 points...
Readers who are perplexed by this quiz can thank the stars if they are no longer in school. For these samples come from standard texts and other reading used by millions of American youngsters in elementary and secondary grades. Bonnie Armbruster, a researcher at the University of Illinois Center for the Study of Reading, last month ran an experiment in which she gave a group of adults 20 paragraphs from sixth-grade texts. "Their instructions," says Armbruster, "were to underline the main idea-if they could find it-and if they couldn't, then to write one of their...
...their secret." Television reaches its climax in the so-called great debates. For forgotten reasons these debates, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, wander like a traveling road show from city to city. They are vital as a display of contending personalities, but they have degenerated into quiz shows where candidates, stuffed with facts like geese with fat gobbets, try to outdo each other with encyclopedic tidbits-and gain extra points for well-prepared quips...
...Worth claims, because he wrote them. Last week in Los Angeles federal court Worth slapped the Canadian creators of the game with a $300 million lawsuit, charging copyright infringement. A former air-traffic controller, Worth is the author of nine books on trivia and currently writes for the ABC quiz show Trivia Trap...