Lady with the Answers

The most familiar symbols of this TV season are a six-shooter and the grimacing face of the quizling as he gropes and rummages through his mental stuffings for lucrative answers. The most celebrated face of the moment belongs to Twenty One's crop-haired Elfrida von Nardroff, 32. Last week she screwed up her features, gazed characteristically at a top corner of her glass cage (to avoid seeing her own worried reflection), answered a stickler on 18th century English history.* With that, Elfrida reached 21 points, won the game, and 1) pushed her winnings to $146,000 to become the new alltime female quiz...

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