Radio: Twelve Straight

By half-time last week the powerful Minnesota team had rolled up an overwhelming lead over plucky but outmanned Rutgers. The Gophers displayed the same superb timing and lightning attack that had already humbled such foes as Georgia, Northwestern, Washington and Lee, Colorado, Tulane, Illinois and Smith.

Minnesota's victories were not won in a stadium but on a radio show called College Quiz Bowl (Sat. 7:30 p.m., NBC), where four-player teams from competing schools try to beat each other to the punch in answering such questions as: 1) Who was the head of state that the Roundheads beheaded? 2) What 17th century philosopher...

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