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...before you graduate. New England's tallest building offers 100-mile views from its famed 60th floor windows--on a good day you can see New Hampshire's White Mountains. Visitors watch multimedia re-enactments of the American Revolution and play with "Funscopes." The Observatory's got great trivia games, too. Did you know the John Hancock building has precisely 10,344 windows? John Hancock Tower, Hancock Plaza and Copley Square. Ticket office: Trinity Place and St. James Ave. 572-6429. Open M-Sa 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Su 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. $4.25. T-stop: Copley...

Author: By Meredith L. Petrin, | Title: a boston childhood | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...Because I am from Illinois, and because I am a former high school basketball player, I figured I would enlighten everyone with a trivia tidbit about March Madness...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Why I Hate Dick Vitale, and Other Musings On March Madness | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...poorly lit dorm room. Sit around in the gloom for a couple of hours discussing what to do with the rest of the evening. At around 10 o'clock, after "Nash Bridges" is over, hit the Grille. Buy Dad a pitcher of Red Dog and maybe play a little trivia...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Don't Pull the Wool Over Mom's Eyes | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...keeping with the idea of the class as performance piece, Tatar keeps the lecture lighthearted and breaks up her lesson with intermission playtime. "At 'halftime' we have a trivia challenge-a two or three minute break usually centered on a theme. Once I had the Norman Bates trivia challenge about mothers. It breaks up the tedium...

Author: By Avra VAN Der zee and Vicky C. Hallett, S | Title: Beasts: Taming Harvard's Largest Lectures | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

Sometimes we know we're getting hit up for a homework assignment (we don't do homework); occasionally we find ourselves settling trivia questions. But, more often than not, requests reflect a genuine interest in something readers have seen in the magazine--and a confidence that we can come up with the right answer. Some recent examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amy Musher's Mailbag | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

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