(THIS TEST COVERS THE PERIOD MARCH THROUGH MID-JUNE 1953)
Prepared by The Editors of TIME in collaboration with Alvin C. Eurich and Elmo C. Wilson
(Copyright 1953 by TIME Inc.)
This test is to help TIME readers and their friends check their knowledge of current affairs. In recording answers, you needn't mark opposite the questions. Use one of the answer sheets printed with the test: sheets for four persons are provided. After taking the test, check your replies against the correct answers printed on the last page of the test, entering the number of right answers as your score on the answer sheet. This test has 103 questions, but a perfect score would add up to 105 because there is one question (No. 64) which counts 3 points. For most of the questions, several possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example:
0. The President of the U.S. is:
1. Taft
2. Nixon
3. Eisenhower
4. Truman
5. Stevenson
Eisenhower, of course, is the correct answer. Since this question is numbered 0, the number 3--standing for Eisenhower--has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Tooling Up
1. Ike named his cabinet, then asked Congress to create a new post, Secretary of the Department of:
1. Loyalty.
2. Health, Education & Welfare.
3. Industry.
4. Information & Culture.
5. Psychological Warfare.
2. When trouble came over confirmation of Charles ("Chip") Bohlen as Ambassador to Russia, Ike's choice was cleared by this investigating team:
1. Senators Humphrey & Jenner.
2. Senators Morse & McCarthy.
3. Malenkov & Churchill.
4. Governors Dewey & Lausche.
5. Senators Taft & Sparkman.
3. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President chose a man with whom he had once disagreed on relative Navy and Air strength:
1. Admiral Arthur William Radford.
2. General James Van Fleet.
3. Admiral Robert Carney.
4. General Douglas MacArthur.
5. General Matthew Ridgway.
Developing Foreign Policy
4. As the new Administration picked up speed, the President asked Congress to pass a resolution:
1. Calling on Russia to end the Korean War.
2. Giving him emergency powers to allocate strategic materials.
3. Flatly repudiating the Yalta and Potsdam agreements.
4. Substituting "trade" for "aid" in U.S. assistance to Europe.
5. Rejecting "perverted" interpretations of World War II international agreements.
5. In a major speech Ike challenged Russia to prove her peaceful intent by taking steps which included all but one of these:
1. Signing the long-stalemated Austrian peace treaty.
2. Ending attacks on Indo-China and Malaya.
3. Holding free elections in the U.S.S.R.
4. Contributing to an honorable armistice in Korea.
5. Agreeing to a free, equal and united Germany.
6. In the foreign-aid budget which Ike recommended, Asia received a share which was:
1. Higher than ever before.
2. The same as last year.
3. Lower than in Truman's budget.
7. At the first full-dress NATO meeting since the G.O.P. took over in Washington, Secretary Dulles expressed a change in U.S. policy by urging:
1. A speed-up in military preparations.
2. A stretch-out in military preparations.
3. Inclusion of Czechoslovakia in NATO.
4. Merger of NATO with U.N.
8. In the event of failure of Panmunjom peace.talks, Senator Robert A. Taft recommended that the U.S. should:
1. Call off the Bermuda conference.
2. Forget the U.N. in Korea.
3. "Bring our boys home."
A New Economic Policy
9. Ike proposed that Truman's 1954 budget be slashed by $8.5 billion, with the brunt of the cut to be borne by:
1. Battleship construction.
2. Future air strength.
3. Civilian Government agencies.
4. The radar defense network.
5. Foreign aid.
10. Included in the President's statement of his tax policy were all but one of these recommendations:
1. Extension of the excess profits tax until January.
2. A 10% reduction in personal income taxes as of January, 1954.
3. Postponement of an increase in Social Security tax rates.
4. Immediate reduction of the regular corporation income tax.
5. Continuation of present excise taxes.
11. A series of administrative decisions resulted in all but one of these:
1. The U.S. economy was freed of wage & price controls.
2. Interest rates on G.I. loans rose to 4 1/4%
3. New Government bond issues offered higher interest.
4. Price supports under butter were continued for another year.
5. The TVA was put up for sale.
Sand in the Gears
12. Recriminations flew within the G.O.P. family when an agreement to stop shipping to Red China was independently negotiated with Greek ship owners by:
1. Secretary of State Dulles.
2. President Eisenhower.
3. Mutual Security Administrator Stassen.
4. Senator Joseph McCarthy.
5. General Douglas MacArthur.
13. The heap of Korean war criticisms grew when General Van Fleet told Congress that his efforts had been crippled by:
1. Poorly trained and uncooperative ROK troops.
2. Shortages of ammunition.
3. U.S. Navy interference.
4. Rivalry between U.S. and British divisions.
5. Poor equipment for the individual G.I.
14. After the storm of protest when he fired Dr. Allen V. Astin as head of the National Bureau of Standards, Commerce Secretary Weeks decided to:
1. Ask Astin to stay on for a while.
2. Resign.
3. Leave the decision up to the FBI.
4. Take a vacation.
5. Appeal to the courts.
15. As part of an unsuccessful attempt to prevent passage of the tide-lands oil bill, one Senator talked for 2 22 1/3 uninterrupted hours. The record-breaking filibusterer was:
1. Wayne Morse.
2. Herbert Lehman.
3. Pat McCarran.
4. Everett Dirksen.
5. Homer Capehart.
White House Visitors
Pictured at the left are ten visitors to the White House during the first few months of Ike's Administration. From the 14 hints below, identify each of the ten and write the number on the answer sheet.
1. He received his fourth Distinguished Service Medal.
2. He came to roll Easter eggs on the lawn.
3. He expressed gratitude for U.S. flood relief.
4. This one came for tea and talk about Taiwan.
5. He lost his hat at lunch.
6. He sought increased aid for France in Indo-China.
7. This one came for guinea hen and a good-humored exchange of campaign reminiscences.
8. He pledged his Bonn government to the cause of Western freedom.
9. He accepted the G.O.P. national chairmanship.
10. He brought Ike a gold dagger.
11. He signed a Mutual Military Assistance Agreement with the U.S.
12. He discussed the St. Lawrence Seaway.
13. He treated the President's cold.
14. This one came "to see a baseball match."
Distress & Disaster 26. G.O.P. Chairman Wesley Roberts thought it wise to resign after being charged with:
1. Running the campaign of a Democratic Congressman.
2. Getting a cut from the sale of a building to the State of Kansas.
3. "Fixing" a large corporation's income-tax charge.
4. Handling a sale of surplus war goods.
5. Lobbying for a national real-estate group.
27. Accused of having accepted $60,000 for "fixing" a tax fraud case, Henry Grunewald insisted that the package he got contained:
1. A first edition of Hamlet.
2. A group of valuable autographs.
3. Some sturgeon.
4. Letters he wanted returned.
5. A tattersall waistcoat.
28. Charged with second-degree murder in the death of his five-year-old daughter, Russell Tongay maintained her injuries were sustained when she:
1. Fell down a flight of stairs.
2. Dived off a 33-ft. board.
3. Played football with her brother's friends.
29. Death and devastation came to Waco, Texas in May when the city was struck without warning by:
1. An earthquake.
2. A tornado.
3. A flood.
4. Fire caused by an explosion.
5. The crash of a four-engined transport.
Business
30. A first quarter checkup on the state of the nation's economic health revealed a rising curve for all but one of these:
1. National income.
2. Employment.
3. Consumer credit.
4. New construction.
5. The cost of living.
31. In the largest automobile merger since Chrysler took over Dodge in 1928, Kaiser bought:
1. Willys-Overland.
2. Packard.
3. Studebaker.
4. Nash.
5. Oldsmobile.
32. While some other prices dropped, an increase was announced by major producers in this bellwether industry:
1. Lumber.
2. Steel.
3. Wheat.
4. Chemicals.
5. Meatpacking.
INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN
Russia's New Rulers
33. With Malenkov taking over Stalin's duties as Premier, the top four deputy premiers included all but one of these:
1. Beria.
2. Molotov.
3. Bulganin.
4. Kaganovich.
5. Vishinsky.
34. "At his own request," Malenkov stepped out of one of the three jobs he inherited from Stalin, the post of:
1. Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
2. Commander in Chief of U.S.R.R. armies.
3. Chairman of the Soviet Presidium.
4. President of the Russian Red Cross.
5. Foreign Minister.
35. When two U.S. Thunderjets and a British Lincoln bomber flew over territory the Reds consider their own, Communist pilots:
1. Gave them an escort.
2. Opened fire.
3. Filed a polite but firm protest.
4. Looked the other way.
36. In a series of startling reversals, Malenkov et al. inaugurated all but one of these moves:
1. A general amnesty for petty offenders in Soviet jails.
2. Release of British and French civilians interned in North Korea.
3. Permission for East Germans to seek jobs or homes in West Germany.
4. An invitation to Allied air officers to confer on ways to prevent "regrettable incidents."
5. Release of nine doctors formerly found guilty of a terrorist plot.
The Shooting Wars
37. A few days before the Chinese made a surprise offer to settle the "one question alone" which prevented a Korean truce, their troops in Korea:
1. Evacuated their front-line positions.
2. Began to surrender in large numbers.
3. Launched the year's bloodiest attack, on Old Baldy.
4. Recaptured Seoul.
5. Opened their first gas attack.
38. The troops which Communist General Vo Nguyen Giap had held for six months at the border of Laos:
1. Moved in for an invasion.
2. Were massacred by Laotian guerrillas.
3. Mutinied.
39. Bitter criticism of French conduct of the Indo-China war led to the appointment of a new Commander in Chief, Resistance-trained:
1. General Charles de Gaulle.
2. Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny.
3. General Henri Eugene Navarre.
4. General Raoul Salan.
5. Marshal Alphonse Juin.
Diplomacy at Work
40. One month after General Mark Clark suggested an exchange of "seriously sick and seriously wounded" prisoners, the Communists in Korea:
1. Accepted his proposal as offered.
2. Made the counter, proposal that all prisoners be exchanged.
3. Offered to release South Korean prisoners only.
4. Agreed, provided the ratio of Americans to Koreans did not exceed one to ten.
5. Agreed, provided the prisoners' willingness to be repatriated was not a factor in their selection.
41. At the same time Premier Chou En-lai made a more important proposal abandoning his former insistence on:
1. A united Communist Korea.
2. Forced repatriation of all P.W.s.
3. Communist claims to Formosa.
4. The resignation of Syngman Rhee.
5. The 38th Parallel as a boundary.
42. Sir Winston Churchill gave Britain's answer to the Communist peace offensive. He proposed:
1. That the Russians substitute "stirring deeds" for "perplexing words."
2. An immediate East-West conference "on the highest level."
3. That the U.N. trade recognition of Red China for Russian acceptance of a United Germany.
4. A mutual assistance pact between England and Russia.
5. An increase in British armed forces. 4
3. Clement Attlee brought U.S.British relations to a new low with an attack implying all but one of these:
1. The American government is not master in its own house.
2. Some U.S. elements don't want peace.
3. There is little chance of peace until the U.N. recognizes Red China.
4. The American Constitution was framed for an isolationist state.
5. President Eisenhower.is anti-Europe.
The Hemisphere
44. While Peron's police looked the other way, Argentina's Jockey Club, world-famous citadel of wealth and culture, was:
1. Burned by a rioting Peronista mob.
2. Made headquarters for an anti-Peron putsch.
3. Closed down by the army.
4. Bombed.
5. Attacked by the underground free press.
45. Reflecting the intense personal interest of portly Minister Paul Martin, Canada's Health and Welfare Department has announced a nationwide survey in which:
1. The "Perfect Canadian" will be chosen.
2. 25,000 Canadians will be weighed and measured to determine new standards.
3. 5,000 volunteers will give up desserts for two weeks.
4. Prizes will be given for the most tempting low-calorie recipes.
46. In Guatemala, evidence of anti-U.S. feeling mounted when the government:
1. Denied the U.S. use of air bases from which to protect the Panama Canal.
2. Expropriated $11.5 million worth of United Fruit Co. land.
3. Sent an economic mission to Russia to study their production methods.
4. Imposed a curfew on all U.S. nationals.
5. Refused to permit U.S. companies to employ other than native executives.
47. To reaffirm friendly relations with the U.S., Brazil's Senate finally voted to:
1. Cut off shipments to Russia.
2. Repay a U.S. loan they had previously characterized as a "gift."
3. Abandon their recognition of Red China.
4. Sign the long-blocked Bilateral Military Assistance Pact.
5. Permit English to be taught in Brazilian schools.
48. To make a fact-finding tour of Latin American countries and report directly to him, President Eisenhower appointed:
1. Nelson Rockefeller.
2. Mildred McAfee Horton.
3. William Howard Taft III.
4. Angier Biddle Duke.
5. His brother Milton.
Around the Globe
49. The best economic tidings in years came to the people of Britain when Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler announced all but one of these moves:
1. A small reduction in income taxes.
2. A 2-oz. addition to the weekly sugar ration.
3. Removal of the tax on professional cricket matches.
4. No tax on profits from sales to Coronation tourists.
5. A cut in purchase taxes.
50. Anglo-Egyptian negotiations were broken off when the British refused to:
1. Pay damages caused by air raids.
2. Protect Egypt in case of war.
3. Evacuate the Suez Canal unconditionally.
4. Refer difficulties to the U.N.
5. Deal with General Naguib's emissaries.
51. Reelected to office after hotly contested campaigns in their respective countries were:
1. Premier Yoshida and Prime Minister Malan.
2. President Quirino and President Aleman.
3. Premier Zapotocky and Premier Salazar.
52. The first legislature of the six "Little Europe" nations to ratify the European Defense Community Treaty was:
1. The French Assembly.
2. The West German Bundestag.
3. The Italian Chamber of Deputies.
53. The Middle East looks hopefully to two young Hashemite Kings and cousins who were enthroned on the same day in:
1. Iraq and Iran.
2. Iran and Jordan.
3. Iraq and Jordan.
4. Egypt and Iraq.
5. Lebanon and Egypt.
FERMENT IN THE FAR EAST
Directions: the statements below describe recent news developments in seven of the 15 countries pinpointed on the map. Write on the answer sheet the map number which correctly locates the event described in each statement.
54. The U.N. unanimously decided General Li Mi's National Salvation Army had no right to be here.
55. Ramon Magsaysay is running against his former chief for the presidency of this country.
56. Here Red and U.N. sick and wounded prisoners were exchanged.
57. Here a treaty with Soviet Russia was formally abrogated.
58. A two-day riot provoked by Mullahs resulted in violence and bloodshed.
59. Here Vinoba Bhave is persuading those who have land to share it.
60. Sudden evidence of his unexpected popularity made the Shah change his mind about a "vacation."
OBIT
Within the last few months, death came to many noted men and women. For each question below two correct answers are possible. Write in either name.
61. Two of America's greatest champions died--an almost legendary all-around athlete, and a heavyweight boxer.
62. Royalty lost two of its members--one an ex-King, the other a beloved Queen.
63. The arts lost a great modern painter and a world-renowned Russian musician famous for his Peter and the Wolf.
64. And during the same period death came to a number of established institu tions. Score three points for correct answers to any three of the five parts in this question. Dead were:
A. An ancient & honorable but often questioned ceremony at Yale known as
B. As a European parliamentary party, the RPF, led by General
C. Publisher Gardner Cowles's fast-growing pocket-size weekly
D. Late in May, the 18th French government since World War II, led by Premier
E. The famous plan whereby students could get degrees after only two years at the University of
OTHER EVENTS
Arts and Entertainment
65. My Host the World: Persons and Places, Vol. Ill (posthumously published) concludes the autobiography of:
1. William James.
2. Alfred North Whitehead
3. George Santayana.
4. D. H. Lawrence.
5. Gertrude Stein.
66. In The World and the West, this author looks on the world and its worries with the long view of history:
1. Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
2. Nathan Pusey.
3. Reinhold Niebuhr.
4. Arnold Toynbee.
5. Barbara Ward.
67. This year's Pulitzer Prize for drama went to:
1. The Time of the Cuckoo.
2. The Crucible.
3. Picnic.
4. The Seven Year Itch.
5. The Love of Four Colonels.
68. In an ambitious cinemadaptation of Shakespeare, "brute" Marlon Brando is cast as:
1. Brutus.
2. Bottom.
3. Mark Antony.
4. Romeo.
5. lago.
69. Adding to her many other recent honors, this star was awarded the title of "World's Best Actress" at the Cannes Film Festival:
1. Rosalind Russell.
2. Shirley Booth.
3. Helen Hayes.
4. Anna Magnani
5. Vivien Leigh
70. Composer William Schuman combined his two major interests in this baseball opera which had its world premiere in Hartford:
1. The Artful Dodgers.
2. The Red Sox.
3. The Mighty Casey.
4. The Mantle of the Great.
5. The Bat Men.
71. Smashed by an infuriated spectator was British Sculptor Reg Butler's prizewinning entry in the $32,000 competition for a monument honoring:
1. Elizabeth II.
2. The R.A.F.
3. British workers.
4. Young Prince Charles.
5. The Unknown Political Prisoner.
72. Asked to design a ceiling for the ornate Salle Henri II at Paris' famed Palais du Louvre was spry 70-year-old French painter:
1. Fernand Leger.
2. Henri Matisse.
3. Pablo Picasso.
4. Georges Braque.
5. Maurice Utrillo.
Radio and TV
73. TV took a long stride forward with the debut of Maurice Evans and 80 tons of scenery in a two-hour production of:
1. Hamlet.
2-Pygmalion.
3. Macbeth.
4. Cyrano.
5. Dial M for Murder.
74. Massachusetts General Hospital broke a 142-year-old tradition to issue daily bulletins to the worried fans of its celebrated patient:
1. Bob Hope.
2. Lucille Ball.
3. Frank Sinatra.
4. Arthur Godfrey.
5. Perry Como.
SPELL IT OUT
The first letter of each correct answer below spells out a twelve-letter word that has recently come into the news. Only the last names of people are used. You get one point for each answer and one for the meaning of the word.
75. New Zealander who conquered the world's highest peak as a present to his Queen.
76. The official racial segregation policy of South Africa.
77. Where the Boston Braves went.
78. Replaced as U.S. Minister to Luxembourg.
79. Where the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia signed a mutual friendship pact.
80. New York pier boss indicted for misusing union funds.
81. A couple of London doctors claim kids are right to say the hell with this vegetable.
82. Sentenced to seven years' hard labor for "managing the Mau Mau Society."
83. No she, he.
84. Newspaperman released after two years of prison in Prague.
85. Chief U.S. representative to the U.N.
86. His suicide highlighted the corruption in his brother-in-law's regime in Argentina.
87. The word spelled out is:
1. A Danish household appliance.
2. Newly unearthed archeological treasure--a Swedish "High Seat."
3. New UN Secretary General.
Science and Medicine
88. Almost human in the way it spots its target is the Army's new radar-controlled antiaircraft gun, the:
1. Skysweeper.
2. Nike.
3. Cyclops.
4. Dark Star
5. Starfire
89. Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. performed a historic operation in which for 26 minutes a machine he invented replaced the human:
1. Eyes.
2. Heart and lungs.
3. Kidneys.
4. Parathyroid glands
5. Mouths
90. A use was finally found for Vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine). It turned out to be:
1. A quick antidote for too many drinks.
2. A better TB drug than isoniazid.
3. A cure for syphilis.
91. In a spring test in Nevada, the Atomic Energy Commission exploded:
1. The first atomic shell from a gun.
2. The first atomic hand grenade.
3. A bomb which wrecked a house 500 miles away.
92. SARAH is the name British scientists use for:
1. The physicists' Oscar.
2. A new transmitter-receiver for locating lost flyers.
3. The British version of the American X-3 jet.
93. Some amazingly rosy news from Russia appeared in U.S. papers after a Soviet decision to:
1. Stop all censorship of outgoing press cables.
2. Admit and escort a group of small-town U.S. journalists.
3. Issue daily handouts to the foreign press.
94. For the first time the Pulitzer Prize for public service went to two Southern weeklies instead of to a daily. Their joint achievement was:
1. Tracking down a kidnaper.
2. Exposing local corruption.
3. Attacking and helping to smash the local Ku Klux Klan.
4. A crusade for better teen-age recreation facilities.
5. An accurate forecast of the Presidential election.
95. New York Post Editor James Wechsler asked the American Society of Newspaper Editors to study what he regarded as an issue involving freedom of the press:
1. The rise of newspaper monopoly in many cities.
2. The proportion of Republican v. Democratic big-city dailies.
3. His paper's right to refuse to publish TV program listings.
4. Suppression of the Negro press in Mississippi.
5. Senator McCarthy's conduct of a hearing at which Wechsler testified.
96. The publishers of 65-year-old Collier's announced that their ailing weekly:
1. Will be withdrawn from circulation.
2. Will become a digest magazine.
3. Will become a fortnightly.
4. Had hired Arthur Krock as Washington editor.
5. Will publish science-fiction only.
Religion and Education
97. In a statement on the issue of Communists on college faculties, the Association of American Universities took the stand that:
1. Senator McCarthy's investigations should be encouraged.
2. Certain subjects should not be taught by Communists.
3. The universities should handle the matter themselves.
98. These two eminent churchmen were honored at testimonial dinners and presented with impressive contributions to their favorite causes:
1. Bishop Oxnam and Bishop Sheen.
2. Bishop Sheil and Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick.
3. Bishop Martin and Bishop Oxnam.
99. A "hot potato" question in Illinois educational circles was the objection of Mrs. Dorothy Larson to having to send her children to:
1. A public school she described as a "fire trap."
2. A public school staffed by nuns.
3. An "ultra-progressive" school.
100. Only the Babe himself may have hit one longer than the 565-foot homer knocked out of Griffith Stadium by:
1. Eddie Robinson.
2. Mickey Mantle.
3. Stan Musial.
4. Roy Campanella.
5. Johnny Mize.
101. Ben Hogan shot a record-breaking 274 to take one of golfdom's lushest prizes, the:
1. U.S. Open.
2. U.S. Amateur.
3. Masters'.
4. P.G.A.
5. Miami Open.
102. In the championship Marciano-Walcott fight:
1. Marciano came back from two knockdowns to win by a decision.
2. Marciano was knocked out in the 5th.
3. Walcott was counted out in the first round.
4. The referee stopped the fight, calling it too brutal.
5. Marciano won in the 8th by a TKO.
103. After one surprise upset, Native Dancer went on to win the:
1. Kentucky Derby.
2. Preakness.
3. Irish Sweepstakes.
4. Santa Anita Handicap.
This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.