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...Technicians or Trivia Buffs...You Decide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 4/30/1993 | See Source »

...talky French movies, some of Bourre's sentences probably read better in the original. "The mouth," he notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food For Thought | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

...team raised a $500 entrance fee for the regional tournament by organizing an intramural trivia game and by charging a participation...

Author: By Ann M. Imes, | Title: College Bowl Will Visit L.A. | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

Harvard's College Bowl Team qualified Sunday for a national competition in Los Angeles this spring by placing first in a regional trivia tournament...

Author: By Ann M. Imes, | Title: College Bowl Will Visit L.A. | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

...victory places the HArvard team among the top three college trivia teams in the country and will earn it a top seeding at a regional tournament in two weeks, Evans said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Harvard Team Takes 1st In Trivia Competition | 2/16/1993 | See Source »

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