O.U. Faculty Quiz team downs

Drake four in radio session

From the Oct. 3, 1944 The Alumni Gateway

 

By Barbara Muir

Does an elephant drink with his trunk? Men in the Arctic don't stand up rapidly because (a) their clothing would crack, (b) they would fall down, (c) polar bears would see them? If a doctor gives a patient some pills to take every half hour, how long would it take the patient to take three pills?

 

Of course you don't know the answers to these questions, but Omaha U's "Quiz Kids," Kaho, Lord, Garlough and Fore, proved that they did when they won the Nebraska-Iowa radio quiz Sunday, September 24.

 

The radio show featured four members of the University of Omaha faculty vs. four faculty members from Drake university, with Omaha winning, 160-140.

 

Miss Ellen Lord, librarian, modestly gives Harry Fore, the English department, all the credit for winning the $97 jackpot question, "Name five defeated presidential candidates still living."

 

Mr. Fore is reported to have popped up with the last name when there were only three seconds left in which to answer. Miss Lord and Miss Elizabeth Kaho of the music department each supplied two names.

 

The Omaha contestants viewed the radio show in different lights. Miss Lord laughingly admitted she had a "terrible case of mike fright," while Dr. Garlough, head of the science department, declared he was "never so scared in his life." Miss Kaho said she enjoyed it very much after she got there, although she was a little nervous about it before the broadcast.

 

Miss Kaho took away in prize money $34.25 and Dr. Garlough $31.25, which he plans to spend for a war bond and a book. Mr. Fore also won $34.25 and Miss Lord, $24.25.