The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952

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QUIZ

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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.

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