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Each year, The Crimson challenges its readers to take a baseball quiz at the start of the season. Well, the Red Sox open on Monday, so it must be time for the 1986 edition of the Sports Cube's Baseball Trivia Quiz. Each question below is worth a total of 10 points...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: 1986 Sports Cube Baseball Trivia Quiz | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

...pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook, and he is too easily seducible by beautiful employees. Under the ministrations of expert torturers, he learns to babble meaninglessly about sports and domestic trivia, conquers the undesirable speech defects of Humblepause and Gropesounds and refuses to submit to uncorporate diversions like recreational sex. But mere electric shocks, drills and whippings are not the end of his training. As the humor turns from the disparaging to the sinister, he is given a final loyalty test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Pleasures and Promises | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

This week's trivia question comes from Harvard Sports Information Director Ed Markey, who asks, "What do the members of the Harvard basketball team and our soldiers in Viet Nam have in common?" Answer below...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Curse of the Big Green First Halves | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

Fusco (209 points) is number one. Trivia question: who are two, three, four and five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Reflects on a 'Pot of Misery | 2/6/1986 | See Source »

This week's trivia question: Which Crimson player is presently seventh on Harvard's all-time scoring list and will probably wind up in the top five, though she has never led the team in scoring in a single season? (Answer below...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: The Big Test Is After Finals | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

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