(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD LATE OCTOBER 1951 TO MID-FEBRUARY 1952)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1952 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, make no marks at all opposite questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet.
FIVE CHOICES
For each of the 105 test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. Russia's boss is:
1. Kerensky. 3. Stalin.
2. Lenin. 4. Trotsky. 5. Stakhanov.
Stalin, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3 -- standing for Stalin -- has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
The President and Congress
1. John Q. Public clutched indignantly at his thinner-after-November wallet. Delaware's Senator John James Williams had prodded into public view:
1. An Administration decision to tax savings accounts.
2. The figures on the President's traveling expenses.
3. Corruption among Internal Revenue collectors.
4. Evidence on widespread counterfeiting activities.
5. A plan to increase the salaries of the already well-paid public schoolteachers.
2. Another handle for critics of the Administration: Flo Bratten, secretary to the "Veep," had apparently:
1. Cornered the bourbon market.
2. Helped get an RFC loan for a Miami Beach hotel.
3. Received a free trip to Korea.
4. Helped a Texas oilman make a deal with the Navy.
5. Switched her brand to chinchilla.
3. Garrulous Theron Lamar Caudle, the influence peddlers' buddy, went down the drain, but the President left unchanged the status of his boss:
1. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder.
2. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath.
3. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin.
4. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer.
5. Postmaster General Jesse Donaldson.
4. Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers of:
1. Jet aircraft.
2. Rifles.
3. Submarines.
4. Bazookas.
5. Winter clothing for the troops.
5. Some of the President's appointments ran into snags. For instance, Judge Thomas Murphy played an unwilling Hercules to Truman's Augeas. He first accepted, then rejected, the job of:
1. RFC chairman.
2. Supreme Court Justice.
3. Expunger of corruption in the Federal Government.
4. Roving European troubleshooter.
5. Semi-anonymous White House assistant.
6. Although Truman subsequently gave him an interim appointment, a Senate subcommittee, mulling over Philip Jessup's part in Administration foreign policy, refused to confirm him as:
1. Senator from Wisconsin.
2. Ambassador to Red China.
3. Secretary of Defense.
4. Delegate to the U.N. General Assembly.
5. Delegate to NATO.
7. A successful diplomatic appointee was Chester Bowles whose democratic friendliness made a tremendous hit in:
1. Eire.
2. The Marquesas.
3. India.
4. Japan.
5. Iran.
8. Appointed in January as supreme civilian spokesman for the U.S. in Europe was longtime troubleshooter:
1. William Boyle.
2. William H. Draper Jr.
3. John Foster Dulles.
4. Senator Homer E. Capehart of Indiana.
5. William Remington.
9. On Capitol Hill an old friend of the U.S. startled Congress by his request for:
1. A $20 billion loan to Great Britain.
2. Union now.
3. U.S. adoption of British-type jet aircraft.
4. U.S. economic aid to Canada.
5. U.S. troops as a token force in the Suez.
10. President Truman startled no one with his State-of-the-Union message to Congress which urged all but one of these:
1. Stop Korean truce talks because they are getting nowhere.
2. Act on the Japanese Peace Treaty.
3 Help integrate the German Federal Republic into the defense scheme of Western Europe.
4. Complete a network of Pacific security pacts.
5. Provide economic aid to friends in Europe and Asia.
11. In his economic message to the same body, the President asked for a measure sure to bring opposition from both parties:
1. A special appropriation to send troops to the Suez.
2. A $6 billion appropriation for a coast-to-coast defense highway.
3. An appropriation to build a new wing for the Pentagon.
4. A $5 billion tax increase.
5. A $4 billion grant for Southern colleges.
12. "Good, good, good!" exclaimed Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy when he heard that John Stewart Service had been:
1. Named Ambassador to Moscow.
2. Named to succeed Pat McCarran as Senator from Nevada.
3. Chosen by Colonel "Bertie" McCormick as editor of the Chicago Tribune.
4. Dismissed from the RFC.
5. Fired by the State Department.
Political Notes
13. The first to avow his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, Robert Taft soon bolstered his position with a book on:
1. Labor policy in the U.S.
2. How to avoid the presidential "bug."
3. His life with father, onetime President William Howard Taft.
4. A foreign policy for Americans.
5. The inner workings of the Republican Party.
14. With the stage well set by Senator Lodge, Ike in January finally broke his silence, said all but one of the following:
1. He is a Republican.
2. He will not make a pre-convention campaign for the G.O.P. nomination.
3. Indicated he might answer a clear-cut call to political duty.
4. He would not ask for relief from his NATO assignment to seek nomination.
5. He would leave his NATO post if replaced by someone like General Marshall.
15. Two other Republicans who announced willingness to be their party's nominee were California's Governor Earl Warren and a college president:
1. A. Whitney Griswold.
2. James B. Conant.
3. Harold E. Stassen.
4. Milton S. Eisenhower.
5. Harold W. Dodds.
16. Despite the internecine hassle among the candidates' backers, the G.O.P. did agree on one thing. Republican senators quietly elected a new floor leader:
1. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
2. Leverett Saltonstall.
3. Styles Bridges.
4. Robert A. Taft.
5. James P. Kem.
17. In the matter of presidential candidates the Democratic mirror was still fairly dark. But one person who publicly announced he would run was:
1. Senator Estes Kefauver.
2. Justice William O. Douglas.
3. Senator Paul H. Douglas.
4. Senator James W. Fulbright.
5. William Boyle.
18. One of the blips on the political radar screen was the election in New York City of a vice crusader, Rudolph Halley, as:
1. President of the city council.
2. Mayor.
3. City tax collector.
4. Bookie supervisor.
5. Police Commissioner.
Business & Finance
19. It looked like the biggest binge since Repeal when thousands of customers rushed the nation's liquor stores to:
1. Buy ingredients for a new drink called "Four for the Road."
2. Vote for Miss Rheingold.
3. Stock up on no-longer-to-be-imported Scotch whisky.
4. Beat the new Nov. 1 federal excise tax.
5. Play Carrie Nation.
20. The aroma of scandal eddying around the Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation arises from irregularities in:
1. The farm subsidy program.
2. The stockpiling of kohlrabi.
3. Grain storage.
4. Ploughing under shoats.
5. Its legal department.
21. Hoping for a fast buck, enterprising Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy signed a contract in Paris which gave him:
1. A partnership in the Follies Bergere.
2. A "lien" on a 51% interest in the National Petroleum Co. of Egypt.
3. 51% interest in the Citroen auto works.
4. Control of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.
5. Control of Aramco.
22. In his fourth quarterly report Mobilization Boss Charlie Wilson announced a significant change in the arms program. Peak year will not be 1953 as planned but:
1. 1952.
2. 1954.
3. 1955.
4. 1957.
5. 1958.
23. Chicago's Henry R. Crown closed the biggest building transaction in history when he helped to finance the recent purchase of:
1. The Brooklyn Bridge
2. The Empire State Building
3. The Merchandise Mart
4. Westminster Abbey
5. Four city blocks in midtown Los Angeles.
A Quick Glance Around
24. The Bureau of Internal Revenue politely jolted many of the nation's bookies out of business (at least temporarily) by putting in effect the new law:
1. Raising taxes on their patrons' incomes.
2. Requiring them to apply for a tax stamp.
3. Fingerprinting each one.
4. Getting a Supreme Court injunction against gambling.
5. Taxing horse racing to a standstill.
25. Union bosses could do nothing when New York, the world's greatest seaport, lay 90% idle for 25 days during a strike of:
1. Harbor pilots.
2. Barnacle cleaners.
3. Truck drivers.
4. Ship repair crews.
5. Longshoremen.
26. In contrast Phil Murray's terse telegram "Stay on the job" called off a threatened disastrous strike of:
1. Transcontinental truck drivers.
2. Policemen in ten big cities.
3. Coal miners.
4. Petroleum workers.
5. Steelworkers.
27. A long and highly articulate career ended with death in Washington of "the Old Curmudgeon," once F.D.R.'s:
1. Secretary of the Treasury.
2. Attorney General.
3. Secretary of War.
4. Secretary of the Interior.
5. Secretary of Agriculture.
28. Late in October Las Vegas was spilling over with reporters and photographers as the AEC conducted:
1. Racing car tests.
2. Chemical warfare maneuvers.
3. Tests on the effect of bacteriological warfare.
4. New atomic tests on Frenchman's Flat
5. Green fireball launchings.
29. At the same time Las Vegas also witnessed Marion Davies' marriage to her Hearst-while friend:
1. Horace Gates Brown.
2. Walter Wanger.
3. Samuel Goldwyn.
4. James Roosevelt.
5. Amadeo Giannini.
30. The nation was startled and confused when Colonel James Hanley and General Matthew Ridgway released some widely differing:
1. Evidence on Army food consumption by Korean civilians.
2. Reports on plane losses.
3. Statements on how long the Korean war would last.
4. Communist atrocity figures.
5. Evidence on typhus among captured enemy soldiers.
31. Millions cheered stubbornly courageous Henrik Kurt Carlsen for his valiant but losing battle to:
1. Tame a shrewish woman.
2. Expose dockside racketeering in New York.
3. Bring his gale-battered ship to port.
4. Smuggle himself inside Kremlin walls for a heart-to-heart peace talk with Stalin.
5. Discover a cancer cure before he himself was taken by the disease.
32. Just before Christmas, rescue workers brought only bad news to the surface at West Frankfort, Ill. Reason: a tragic loss of life in:
1. A freak ice-skating accident.
2. A tugboat accident on the Frankfort River.
3. A. mine explosion.
4. A landslide in a gravel pit.
5. A limestone-cave accident.
33. A crash which killed former Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and 28 other persons was the second of three air disasters to occur in:
1. Aiken, N.C.
2. Elizabeth, N.J.
3. Philadelphia, Pa.
4. Princeton, N.J.
5. Washington, D.C.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN
Korean Stalemate
34. When Korean peace talks were finally renewed at Panmunjom, first tangible result was the agreement reached late in November:
1. That all troops be withdrawn as soon after the first of the year as possible.
2. On a cease-fire line at the 38th parallel.
3. On a tentative cease-fire line based on the current battlefront.
4. To admit Red China to the U.N.
5. To hold general elections in all Korea.
35. Another big step seemed to have been taken when Communists finally agreed that any armistice must be accompanied by:
1. Immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea.
2. Withdrawal of the Soviet air force from Manchuria.
3. Behind-the-lines inspection and control to see that neither side increased troops and supplies.
4. Formal U.N. Assembly ratification.
5. Free elections throughout Korea.
36. When discussion of prisoners of war brought an exchange of lists, perhaps the most famous name turned over by the Reds was that of Congressional Medal of Honor winner:
1. Major General William F. Dean.
2. Sergeant John A. Pittman.
3. Major General William J. Donovan.
4. Colonel Philip Cochran.
5. General Harry H. Vaughn.
37. All during the negotiations the Reds stalled and their stalling intensified when Russia's Vishinsky threw a wrench into the truce machine by:
1. Charging that the U.S. had already used atomic artillery against the Chinese forces.
2. Demanding that Russia be represented at the meetings.
3. Suggesting that Stalin and Truman mediate all points still in dispute.
4. Admitting that Russia was dictating the strategy of the Red negotiators.
5. Recommending that the U.N. Security Council take a hand in the armistice negotiations.
The Nations at Work
38. In Paris at the U.N. Assembly, a real propaganda blooper was Vishinsky's report that he could do nothing but laugh after hearing Dean Acheson propose:
1. A world disarmament plan.
2. That Russia loosen her grip on her satellites.
3. That Picasso's peace dove become the U.N. symbol.
4. That Russia pay the U.S. for wartime lend-lease aid.
5. A Truman-Stalin meeting.
39. Over strong Soviet opposition, the U.S. and nine other nations, by a simple declaration, annulled 29 restrictive clauses of the 1947 peace treaty with:
1. Italy.
2. Yugoslavia.
3. Bulgaria.
4. Japan.
5. Germany.
40. At a top-brass Pentagon conference in January, delegates of the Big Three Western powers, including France's General Alphonse-Pierre Juin, conferred about the sword of Damocles hanging over Indo-China:
1. Ho Chi Minh's lack of adequate war materiel.
2. Inadequate replacements for captured Indo-Chinese loyalists.
3. The threat of Chinese Communist invasion.
4. The rumored revolt of French troops.
5. The possible collapse of the Korean truce talks.
Western Europe
41. The victory of Churchill's Conservatives brought back to his old post as Foreign Secretary:
1. R.A.Butler.
2. Ernest Bevin.
3. Aneurin Bevan.
4. Anthony Eden.
5. David Eccles.
42. In France, a Communist-fighting labor leader, Leon Jouhaux, was surprisingly awarded:
1. The 1951 Nobel Peace Prize.
2. The Prix de Rome.
3. A Fulbright scholarship.
4. The Croix de Guerre.
5. A British baronetcy.
43. At the heart of Europe's sickness as the new year opened, underlying its dollar deficiencies and its chronic sweat and tears, was a shortage of one grubby product:
1. Coal.
2. Potatoes.
3. Sulphur.
4. Fertilizer.
5. Potash.
44. Franco-German relations took a real nose dive when the French named:
1. A new High Commissioner for Germany.
2. General de Gaulle as Minister of Defense.
3. An Ambassador to the Saar.
4. General Juin to head French forces in Germany.
5. An ex-Nazi as Judge Advocate in the Ruhr.
Behind the Curtain
45. After the East Germans called for a united Germany, Chancellor Adenauer asked for a U.N. investigation to determine:
1. The population of each sector.
2. Whether free elections are possible.
3. Whether the German people want to join the Western powers or Russia.
4. Whether the German people want to rearm.
5. Whether the German people want to join the U.N.
46. Death came to this Old Bolshevik long since ousted from his post of Soviet Foreign Commissar:
1. Andrei Gromyko.
2. Leon Trotsky.
3. Alexei Tolstoy.
4. Jacob Malik.
5. Maxim Litvinoff.
47. To rescue four U.S. airmen downed and imprisoned in Red Hungary, the U.S. swallowed its pride, agreed to:
1. Permit reopening of Hungarian consulates in Miami and San Francisco.
2. Pay $120,000 "ransom."
3. Turn over to Hungary the Crown of St. Stephen.
4. Grant Hungary most-favored-nation tariff concessions.
5. Try them as spies after their return to the U.S.
The Middle and Far East
48. Unrest and violence characterized most of the Middle East. A small, thin professional soldier, Colonel Adib Shishekly, remained his country's strong man by dissolving parliament, arresting the cabinet and tossing out the President. The country:
1. Egypt.
2. Iraq.
3. Saudi Arabia.
4. Jordan.
5. Syria.
49. As blood continued to flow in the Suez area, a sign of dissatisfaction with the course of Egypt's controversy with Britain was King Farouk's:
1. Dismissal of Wafdist Premier Nahas Pasha.
2. Siring of an heir to the throne.
3. Apologetic letter to Downing Street.
4. Visit to King Talal of British-controlled Jordan.
5. Intervention to speed the peace treaty with Israel.
50. As successor to Sir Henry Gurney, the British High Commissioner slain by the Communists in Malaya, Britain appointed a scrappy fighter and tough administrator:
1. Oliver Lyttelton.
2. Lord Ismay.
3. Lord Charwell.
4. Sir Gerald Templer.
5. Nye Bevan.
51. Militant nationalism, smoldering for 50 years, burst suddenly into open flame when the French jailed political leader Habib Bourguiba in:
1. Morocco.
2. French Equatorial Africa
3. The Cameroons.
4. Pondicherry.
5. Tunisia.
52. Despite his wartime record of collaboration with the Japs, Jose Laurel's Nacionalista party won sweeping victories in democratic elections in:
1. Formosa.
2. The Philippines.
3. Indonesia.
4. New Caledonia.
5. Thailand.
53. Japan's House of Representatives overwhelmingly ratified the peace treaty that will end World War II, less enthusiastically endorsed the companion treaty which:
1. Permits U.S. bases and garrisons in Japan.
2. Provides for 50 years of reparations.
3. Gives Japan a subordinate role in the U.N.
4. Gives the U.S. complete economic control of Japan.
5. Gives Formosa to Chiang Kaishek.
The Hemisphere
54. With his election victory safely tucked away, Juan Peron moved to square his account with the army, largely because this faction had:
1. Caused his wife Evita to withdraw from the vice-presidential race.
2. "Conspired with foreigners."
3. Attempted to suppress freedom of the press.
4. Attempted to recruit a "Free Argentina" force in Brazil.
5. Captured control of Patagonia.
55. After Churchill named Viscount Alexander of Tunis as British Minister of Defense, the post of Canada's Governor General was filled by a famous actor's brother:
1. Zeppo Marx.
2. Clyde Olivier.
3. George Lunt.
4. Percival Gable.
5. Vincent Massey.
56. Loudest cheers voiced over the resignation of RFC Chairman Symington came from Bolivians, bitter because he had slashed the prices for Bolivia's main source of income:
1. Rubber.
2. Nitrates.
3. Lumber.
4. Copper.
5. Tin.
57. Rampaging floods ruined thousands of acres of farmland, cost more than 150 lives and 30,000 cattle.
58. Despite Britain's objections to treaty-breaking, Farouk I styled himself King of this region.
59. Nationalist mobs broke up French-called elections for Consultative Chambers of Commerce and Agriculture.
60. The death of her father brought to the throne a 25-year-old queen.
61. As a gesture toward Arab unity, Jordan's King journeyed here to make a bond with his father's ancient enemy.
62. George F. Kennan, the State Department's "Mr. X," was named new U.S. Ambassador to this country.
63. Need for Western assistance caused the conditional release of Archbishop Stepinac.
64. Edgar Faure managed to form (at least temporarily) a new cabinet.
65. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest king, Idris I.
66. Despite Russia's violent opposition, this country was elected to a seat on the Security Council.
OTHER EVENTS
Art & Entertainment
67. Back conducting the NBC Symphony this season despite his 84 years was the white-maned perfectionist:
1. Leopold Stokowski.
2. Arturo Toscanini
3. Dimitri Mitropoulos.
4. Charles Munch.
5. Sir Thomas Beecham
68. The first opera to be commissioned by TV--and a much-applauded Christmas Eve production--was Amahl and the Night Visitors by:
1. Gian-Carlo Menotti
2. Igor Stravinsky.
3. Eric Coates.
4. Roy Harris.
5. Darius Milhaud.
69. Largely responsible for the brilliant style of the Met's light and elegant Cos`i Fan Tutte was the painstaking care of its director:
1. Cecil B. DeMille.
2. Alfred Lunt.
3. Arturo Toscanini.
4. Alfred Hitchcock.
5. John Ford.
70. Back in Rudolph Bing's good graces after nine ignominious months of exile from the Met was singer:
1. Robert Merrill.
2. Hilde Gueden.
3. Frankie Laine.
4. Kirsten Flagstad.
5. Lauritz Melchior.
71. C. W. Ceram's Gods, Graves & Scholars makes popular a somewhat dusty subject:
1. Religion.
2. Archeology.
3. Psychology.
4. Journalism.
5. Harvard.
72. A tale of Marxist revolutionaries and FBI counter-espionage is told in "I Led Three Lives," by:
1. Whittaker Chambers.
2. Joseph Barnes.
3. Bertrand Russell.
4. Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr.
5. Herbert Philbrick.
73. The 1951 Nobel Prize for literature went to a writer little known outside his native Sweden:
1. August Strindberg.
2. Bjoern Bjoernson.
3. Emil Ludwig.
4. Paer Lagerkvist.
5. Hans Christian Andersen.
74. Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, as the First Drama Quartette, have let the country hear some much-neglected dialectical fireworks--the hell scene in:
1. Hamlet.
2. Paradise Lost.
3. The Aeneid.
4. Man and Superman.
5. Job.
75. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh set some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time when they opened in the two plays:
1. The Cocktail Party and Richard III.
2. Pygmalion and The Lady's Not For Burning.
3. Lysistrata and Seventh Heaven.
4. Desire Under The Elms and Macbeth.
5. Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra.
76. Although the reviews were mixed, it was strictly thumbs up with London audiences when this poodle-haired actress opened there in her Broadway success:
1. Oklahoma!
2. Three Men on a Horse.
3. Carousel.
4. South Pacific.
5. Call Me Madam.
77. Still a delightfully fresh musical eleven years after it first opened on Broadway is the revival which stars Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang in:
1. As Thousands Cheer.
2. The Desert Song.
3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
4. Pal Joey.
5. Red Hot and Blue.
78. Hollywood embodies its belief that nothing succeeds like excess in the costliest movie ever made:
1. David and Bathsheba.
2. The Greatest Show on Earth.
3. The Browning Version
4. Across the Wide Missouri.
5. Quo Vadis.
79. Bulging with barbaric force--and insight into human frailty--Rashomon, grand prizewinner at the Venice Film Festival, is a product of:
1. Japan.
2. J. Arthur Rank.
3. France.
4. MGM.
5. Italy.
80. Honored by Boston with a big retrospective show of his architecture including a model of his Bauhaus was:
1. Frank Lloyd Wright.
2. Marcel Breuer.
3. Walter Gropius.
4. Wallace K.Harrison.
5. Le Corbusier.
81. Death came in January to this bearded sculptor of celebrities:
1. Jacob Epstein.
2. Cecil Howard.
3. Auguste Rodin.
4. Jo Davidson.
5. Henry Moore.
Radio & Television
82. One of TV's most literate offerings is "See It Now," presented by the veteran CBS commentator:
1. John Cameron Swayze.
2. Fulton Lewis Jr.
3. Edward R. Murrow.
4. H. V. Kaltenborn.
5. Raymond Gram Swing.
83. Gloom settled thicker in the Loop. NBC axed 15 minutes off another "Chicago" TV show, the intelligent fantasy:
1. Space Cadet.
2. Tales of Tomorrow.
3. Howdy Doody.
4. Kukla, Fran & Ollie.
5. Texaco Star Theater.
84. The clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich pervades her new ABC radio show:
1. Blue Angel.
2. John's Other Wife's Other Husband.
3. Suspense.
4. Cafe Istanbul.
5. Algiers.
Science and Medicine
85. Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario houses the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against :
1. Female baldness.
2. The common cold.
3. Cancer.
4. Arthritis.
5. Deafness.
86. Just behind the front lines in Korea, U.S. soldiers diligently hunted rabbits, rats and mice in an attempt to run down a virus or near-virus which has killed at least 25 of their buddies and made hundreds ill since June with:
1. Epidemic heartburn.
2. fever.
3. Skin infection
4. Postnasal tetanus
5. Tularemia
87. Stoutly denied by U.S. anthropologists were the charges published in the Communist Chinese press that American forces had stolen:
1. Sacred idols from the summer palace of the emperors
2. Priceless 12th Century manuscripts from the presidental library in Seoul
3. 500,000-year-old bones, the last remains of Peking Man.
4. Bones of the largest mastodon ever foudn in Siberia.
5. Relics of a lost Tibetan civilization.
88. The annoyance of Dr. Charles Allen Thomas over the poor land on his farm led to the discovery by Monsanto Chemical Co. of a new soil conditioner:
1. Soilax.
2. Polyurion.
3. Sulfur
4. Worms.
5. Krilium.
Religion and Education
89. Fulton Oursler's The Greatest Book Ever Written is a popularization of:
1. The Old Testament.
2. The New Testament.
3. Book of Job.
4. The whole Bible.
5. Genesis.
90. Without waiting for the state supreme court to decide on constitutionality, the regents of the University of California voted to scrap:
1. Football.
2. Special loyalty oaths for faculty and other employees.
3. The athletic stadium.
4. Rose Bowl contests.
5. The university's articles of incorporation.
Press
91. With the Bratten-Shaver case, Jack Steele of the New York Herald Tribune adds to his record as:
1. One of New York's top crime reporters.
2. A big cog in the uncovering of dope smugglers.
3. A tracker of corruption in the Administration.
4. The capital's best labor reporter.
5. A sucker for a false tip.
92. Back on the stands, but under a completely Peronized management was Argentina's famed:
1. La Nacion
2. Democracia.
3. El Heraldo.
4. O Globo
5. La Prensa.
93. Before he died in Decemoer, his amazing sensitivity for words, pouncing eye for the phony, and rigorous taste had made a whopping success of his magazine:
1. Harper's.
2. Atlantic Monthly.
3. The American Mercury.
4. The New Yorker.
5. Coronet.
94. When several of the authors objected, Simon & Schuster called off publication in book form of the controversial Collier's Magazine issue which:
1. Exposed the number of U.S. Communists.
2. Previewed World War III.
3. Analyzed British Socialism.
4. Lambasted the U.N.
5. Forecast the conquest of the world by Russian insects.
Sports
95. Generally hailed as one of the top football players of the year was Princeton's great triple-threat back:
1. Chris Cagle.
2. Johnny Bright
3. Dick Kazmaier
4. Jack Slagle
5. Bob Mathias
96. Both Drake and Bradley withdrew from the Missouri Valley Conference shortly after the football game between Drake and Oklahoma A. & M. in which:
1. Oklahoma made ten field goals.
2. A star Drake halfback was slugged.
3. Open betting went on among the players.
4. An Oklahoma fullback was killed.
5. Two girl cheerleaders were rudely treated.
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2 16 30 39
3 17 31 40
4 18 32 41
5 19 33 42
6 20 INTERNATIONAL
7 21 43
8 22 44
9 23 & 45
10 24 FOREIGN 46
11 25 34 47
12 26 35 48
13 27 36 49
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2 16 30 39
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5 19 33 42
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10 24 FOREIGN 46
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2 16 30 39
3 17 31 40
4 18 32 41
5 19 33 42
6 20 INTERNATIONAL
7 21 43
8 22 44
9 23 & 45
10 24 FOREIGN 46
11 25 34 47
12 26 35 48
13 27 36 49
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0 3
NATIONAL AFFAIRS 14 28 37
1 15 29 38
2 16 30 39
3 17 31 40
4 18 32 41
5 19 33 42
6 20 INTERNATIONAL
7 21 43
8 22 44
9 23 & 45
10 24 FOREIGN 46
11 25 34 47
12 26 35 48
13 27 36 49
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CONTINUED
50 65 78 93
51 66 79 94
52 OTHER 80 95
53 EVENTS 81 96
54 67 82 97
55 68 83 98
56 69 84 99
57 70 85 100
58 71 86 COVER
59 72 87 QUIZ
60 73 88 101
61 74 89 102
62 75 90 103
63 76 91 104
64 77 92 105
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CONTINUED
50 65 78 93
51 66 79 94
52 OTHER 80 95
53 EVENTS 81 96
54 67 82 97
55 68 83 98
56 69 84 99
57 70 85 100
58 71 86 COVER
59 72 87 QUIZ
60 73 88 101
61 74 89 102
62 75 90 103
63 76 91 104
64 77 92 105
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CONTINUED
50 65 78 93
51 66 79 94
52 OTHER 80 95
53 EVENTS 81 96
54 67 82 97
55 68 83 98
56 69 84 99
57 70 85 100
58 71 86 COVER
59 72 87 QUIZ
60 73 88 101
61 74 89 102
62 75 90 103
63 76 91 104
64 77 92 105
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CONTINUED
50 65 78 93
51 66 79 94
52 OTHER 80 95
53 EVENTS 81 96
54 67 82 97
55 68 83 98
56 69 84 99
57 70 85 100
58 71 86 COVER
59 72 87 QUIZ
60 73 88 101
61 74 89 102
62 75 90 103
63 76 91 104
64 77 92 105
97. The New Orleans Sugar Bowl game saw the defeat of top-ranking Tennessee by:
1. Maryland.
2. Illinois.
3. Kentucky.
4. Northwestern.
5. Yale.
98. The defeat of the U.S. Davis Cup team by Australia was mainly due to the resounding all-court game of:
1. Jack Bromwich.
2. Harry Hopman.
3. Frank Sedgman.
4. Mervyn Rose.
5. Jack Kramer.
99. Charlie Burr joined an exclusive fraternity late in 1951 when he became the seventh:
1. U.S. jockey ever to ride 300 winners in a year.
2. Man to bowl two successive 300's.
3. American to become a top bullfighter.
4. Player ever to break 60 on an 18-hole golf course.
5. Man on America's curling team.
100. At Bad Gastein Andy Mead twisted and turned through the 42-gate course to win handsomely the:
1. Swiss downhill championship.
2. Bad Gastein steeplechase.
3. Austrian international giant slalom.
4. European crosscountry title.
5. Austrian downhill championship.
TIME COVER QUIZ
Eleven men and four women have appeared on the covers of TIME since October. How many can you identify by these excerpts from the TIME stories about them?
101. "Unsquelchable effrontery has always been his chief stock in trade . . . A good deal of this disdainful effrontery he employs in private life, at least in his casual dealings with his fellow men . . . but those who know him best insist that beneath his brash exterior lies a shy, thoughtful and kindhearted man."
1. Mohammed Mossadegh.
2. Anthony Eden.
3. Groucho Marx.
4. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
5. Gordon Dean.
102. "A man of relaxed charm, he works hard at being modest, and never refers in public to his ancestry. 'That sort of thing is so un-American,' he protests, adding with disarming candor--'what is worse for me, it's bad politically.' "
1. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
2. Groucho Marx.
3. DeWitt Wallace.
4. Winston Churchill.
5. Ben Fairless.
103. "He put Scheherezade in the petroleum business and oiled the wheels of chaos. His acid tears dissolved one of the remaining pillars of a once-great empire."
1. Ramon Magsaysay.
2. Winston Churchill.
3. Groucho Marx.
4. Mohammed Mossadegh.
5. Clarence Decatur Howe.
104. "One night, after working in a Montana hayfield, he was trying to sleep in a bunkhouse when the great idea came to him. Why not 'a general digest of the best magazine articles.' "
1. Gordon Dean.
2. Ramon Magsaysay.
3. DeWitt Wallace.
4. Ben Fairless.
5. Adlai Stevenson.
105. ". . . With his newly respectable and respected 40,000-man army, and some 10,000 reinforcements from the R.O.T.C. and reserves, he underwrote an election which, for all the bloodshed, gave free voice to the popular will."
1. Anthony Eden.
2. Mohammed Mossadegh.
3. DeWitt Wallace.
4. Adlai Stevenson.
5. Ramon Magsaysay.
ANSWERS & SCORES
The correct answers to the 105 questions in the News Quiz are printed below. You can rate yourself by comparing your score with the scale:
Below 50 --Poorly informed
51-65 --Not well-informed
66-80 --Somewhat well-informed
81-95 --Well-informed
96-105 --Very well-informed
Highest score reported after the last test was a whopping 103.
National 36 1 70 1
Affairs 37 5 71 2
1 3 38 1 72 5
2 2 39 1 73 4
3 2 40 3 74 4
4 1 41 4 75 5
5 3 42 1 76 4
7 3 43 1 77 4
8 2 44 1 78 5
9 5 45 2 79 1
10 1 46 5 80 3
11 4 47 2 81 4
12 5 48 5 82 3
13 4 49 1 83 4
14 5 50 4 84 4
15 3 51 5 85 3
16 3 52 2 86 2
17 1 53 1 87 3
18 1 54 1 88 5
19 4 55 5 89 1
20 3 56 5 90 2
21 2 57 8 91 2
22 3 58 19 92 5
23 2 58 19 93 4
24 2 59 14 94 2
25 5 60 5 95 3
26 5 61 18 96 2
27 4 62 3 97 1
28 4 63 9 98 3
29 1 64 7 99 1
30 4 65 17 100 3
31 3 66 12 COVER QUIZ
32 3 COVER QUIZ
33 2
OTHER 101 3
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS 102 1
& FOREIGN 67 2 103 4
34 3 68 1 104 3
35 3 69 2 105 5
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