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Weekly Trivia Contest

OK, so now it is 40 years since you walked down to Tiny's for your favorite mag, grabbed a Za from Bills, or packed up for a beerball game in the arb.

Each week we will post a trivia question here challenging you to come up with the first email answer to that question. It could be a photo or a statement about Carleton, the Class, Northfield or whatever gets you remembering those days 40 years ago.

First email postmark to Bob White will be posted as the winner. Also please send in your trivia questions or photos and we just might use them, with attribution of course.


Trivia Question #4 - Submitted by Bob Scarlett

This One is So Go it has it's Own Page here. Bet you cannot figure this one out.

David Paul figured out the answer! - Congratulations David.


Trivia Question #3 - Submitted by Lawrie Cherniack

What was the name of the microphone technician everyone relied on?

It was Mike Baich, the super technician who knew how everything audiovisual worked.


Trivia Question #2 - Submitted by Tom Merritt

What major event occurred on Oct 9, 1962?

  • Clue 1: Who was the speaker at that year's first Challenge Program in the Chapel?
  • Clue 2: Free Speech goes two ways.
  • Clue 3: access the Carletonian online (http://www.arcasearch.com/carleton) and find out. Search for the Oct 3, 1962 edition.

Answered by Bruce Hanna, (excellent Bruce, did you know it or did you look it up on the full archives of the Carletonian?):

George Lincoln Rockwell (March 20, 2006 12:17:53 PM CST)


To kick off the festivities, trivia question #1!

What was the strange style of wrestling our classmate created?

Who created it?

If you have a photo, there will be extra credit!

Answered by Dick Porter - Way to Go Dick, but no extra credit, you have to send the photos.

Spider wrestling. I think both Gary Reiter and Denny Inouye created it. (3rd Musser, in any case). There are photos in the Algol for our freshman year. Dick Porter (March 17, 2006 1:46:33 PM CST)