News Quiz, Jun. 28, 1954

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4. Arthur Godfrey.

2. John Reed King. 5. Martha Raye.

3. Groucho Marx.

Science and Medicine

95. The "Mouse," which Maryland Physics Professor Fred S. Singer hopes the U.S. will be the first to achieve, is:

1. An interplanetary bomb.

2. A squeaky radio signal which drowns out undesired broadcasts.

3. A space rocket capable of transporting 100 persons to the moon.

4. An unmanned satellite on an earth-circling orbit.

5. An atomic power plant for commercial purposes.

96. Far more efficient than other photoelectric devices is the new battery demonstrated in the Bell Telephone Laboratories which directly converts electrical energy from:

1. Uranium. 4. Cobalt.

2. The sun. 5. Radio waves.

3. Salt water.

97. The strange, monstrous "bevatron" slowly coming to life on Charter Hill above Berkeley, Calif, is the world's greatest:

1. Telescope. 4. Magnet.

2. Microscope. 5. Weather-predicting instrument.

3. Camera.

98. Chief reason why the once-broad stream of foreign scientists bringing their ideas and knowledge to the U.S. has almost run dry is:

1. U.S. Government no longer employs them.

2. Higher salaries for scientists abroad.

3. The fact that all of them are Communists.

4. The fact that Russia is attracting most of those who wish to move.

5. The McCarran Act.

99. In his readable and frightening book, The Challenge of Man's Future, Geochemist Harrison Brown states that the chief barrier to population control in the world is:

1. Fear of the hydrogen bomb.

2. Higher standards of living.

3. Political dictatorships that depend upon high birthrates.

4. The Roman Catholic Church and its doctrines against contraception.

5. The enormous increase of mental disease.

Religion

100. For weeks this spring thousands of Britons flocked into a London arena to be converted by U.S. Evangelist:

1. Father Divine. 3. Billy Sunday.

2. Norman Vincent Peale. 4. Ralph Sockman.

5. Billy Graham.

101. Although it lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther, a new 77-minute semi-documentary tells the story for another denomination in the life of:

1. Pope Pius I. 2. John Calvin.

3. John Wesley. 4. Roger Williams.

5. Mary Baker Eddy.

Sports

102. Shy, gangling British Medical Student Roger Bannister achieved an "unattainable" record long dreamed of by runners, the:

1. Four-minute mile.

2. One hundred meter dash.

3. Eight-second hundred yard dash.

4. Sixty-second quarter mile.

5. Two-minute half mile.

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