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Does a turtle have teeth? What state
is bordered by eight other states? The
answers to questions like these are the
main course for the "Knowledge is
Good" trivia contest that takes place
Tuesday nights at The Sidetrack, Seven
th and P-streets.
"Knowledge is Good " was started
two and a half years ago by Joyce
Durand, who owns The Sidetrack. The
title for the contest came from Faber
College in the movie, Animal House,
said Darrin Durand, one of Joyce's
sons who helps run the contest. In the
film, the base of the statue of the dean
of Faber College, is the saying, "Know
ledge is Good."
The contest attracts many regulars,
but everybody can enter, Joyce Durand
said. Contestants and spectators in
clude college students, lawyers, para
legal secretaries and government work
ers, she said.
All it takes to enter the trivia contest
is a team of five members. People often
come to the contest with only three
people and want to play. They usually
can pick up two exam players at the
bar, she said.
Each round of the contest consists
of conference questions and buzzer
questions. Conference questions are
directed to the entire team. The team
discusses them, and a spokesman
answers.
Conference questions keep the game
from being a matter of who has the
fastest hand. However, the conference
questions are usually harder because
there are five heads working on one
question, Durand said.
Buzzer questions are asked openly
to the two teams. Whoever buzzes in
first gets a crack at answering the
question. If the team that buzzes first
does not correctly answer the ques
tion, it goes to any individual on the
opposing team.
After two sets of conference ques
tions and two sets of buzzer questions,
one round of the tournament has been
completed. The team which answered
the most questions wins. The tourna
ment runs like any other tournament.
A team begins with a qualifying round;
it wins the round, it continues to quar
terfinals, semifinals and then a final
round.
If a team wins four rounds, it wins
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the tournament.
The tournament champions win a
party at which they and their friends
can run up a $ 100 tab at the expense of
The Sidetrack.
There has been little problem with
discrepancies over questions and when
there is, the question is thrown out,
Durand said. The biggest problem is
with professors who think they know it
all, she said.
She spends eight to ten hours a week
preparing the questions wrhich she
takes from dictionaries, encyclopedias,
quiz books, old Jeopardy games and
from old television quiz shows. She
says she always keeps a pad and pencil
with her in case she thinks of a ques
tion. The questions, cover sports, history,
geography, current events and music,
including the least-answered questions
those about grand opera. The music
questions are frequently posed in a
Nairn lzt Tune format, with Durand
playing some notes on a piano and the
participants guessing what the song is.
The Durand3 are going to try out
some new audiovisual questions, such
as taping a video game and asking
what game makes that noise, Durand
said.
This type of ingenuity results in an
evening of spontaneity, holding some
intrigue for everyone. The crowd loves
it and frequently interjects answers,
after, and occasionally before, the
teams make their guesses. Durand esti
mated that half the crowd that gath
ers to watch xi made up of trivia night
regulars.
Because many teams come often,
some teams have adopted a traditional
response to questions they dont know
the answers to, such as, "Rose Ken
nedy" "Sid Vicious," and "Frankfort,
Kentucky."
All the questions Durand has, asked
are indexed, and she has repeated
some: of them over the past year. But
she is careful about which teams re
ceive them because a couple of teams
have been playing for two and a half
years and complain when they recog
nize an old question, she said.
Judging from the enthusiastic crowd
last Tuesday night, the "Knowledge is
Good" contest will endure and grow.
Joyce Durand obviously enjoys the
teams and becomes attached to them.
In fact, she said she wondered whether
college kids who have had the nerve to
graduate had their priorities straight.
Television
City News, this week's offering on PBS'
American Playhouse, is a humorous, off-beat
look at an underground newspaper, the people
involved with it and its attempts to survive. The
play airs at 9 p.m. on Channel 12.
If last year was the year of the child, this may
very well be the year of the religious mini-series. A
number of biographical looks at past and present
religious figures have graced the airwaves over
the last few nights. The latest is a two part mini
series on CBS called Peter and Paul about the two
apostles. It begins at 8 p.m. on Channels 6 and 10.
Uc&io
The Nebraska Chamber Orchestra will be
featured in the Lincoln in Concert series at 8 p.m.
on KUCV, 90.9 FM. Cellist Jerry Grossman is the
guest soloist.
At the Sheldon
Peter Davis' Hearts and Minds will be screen
ed in the Film Theatre today at 3:30, 7 and 9:15
. p.m. The documentary won an Oscar for its
brilliant indictment of America's involvment in
the Vietnam War. Admission is by donation.
An exhibition featuring art by graduate and
undergraduate art students and undergraduates
in textiles, clothing and design will continue in
the Art Gallery through May 6. Gallery hours are
from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today, Wednesday through
Saturday from 10 am. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 2 to 5
p.m.
- Two films starring Eddie Murphy 48HRS
and Trading Places will show at various
locales around campus, beginning tonight. 48
HRS,1 which co-stars Nick Nolte, was the film
which changed Murphy from a television star to a
motion picture commodity. Trading Places,
Murphys second film, stars another Saturday
Night Live alumnus, Dan Akroyd. The films will be
presented at 7 p.m. in Harper Hall, 1150 N. 14th
. street. There is no admission charge. The films are
being sponsored by UPC.
Around Town
x There will be a recital, sponsored by the Zeta
Mu chapter of Delta Omicron, the international
music honorary, at Engel Hall, on the campus of
Union College, 48th and Bancroft streets. The
concert will feature Mary White, and four UNL
alumni: Becky Craft, Judy Kulla Pearson, Diane
Butherus and Joe Allen. Featured will be ccm-
, positions by Kibbe, Telemann, Caropra, Verdi,
Bellini, Beethoven, Schubert and Ravel The con
cert is get to begin at 7:30 p.m. There is no
: admission charge.
The Rumbles, one':, of Lincoln's most cc!
.l brated : ban&s,- wEl' be playir.g- 'at: Judges, 2CC0
Cornhusker Highway, tonight through Saturday,
The cover charge is., $2, which also includes
admission to Little Bo's. There, Puppet holds the
stage through Saturday. -
Other local bands putting in night club
appearances tonight include The Table Rockers
at the Zoo Bar, 138 N. 14th St.; Takers at the
Drumstick, 547 N, 4Sth St.; and MX at the Eoyal
Grove, 340 V; Cornhusker Highway. '
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Review uneducated
As a senior art student I would like to reply to the
Daily Nebraskan's Thursday review of the student
art show at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. In this
review, uneducated reference was made to the "lack
of detail and direction . . . reflective of most of the
abstracts at the show." This and other comments
ignore crucial issues involved in viewing student
work.
The show displays work of students at many levels
of artistic competence and experience. Freshmen
through seniors are represented. When loolin-; at
student work it is important to look for premiss.
Finish - proof of the integrated whole is oniyone
smsJ aspect. Beautiful elements exist ki all work. -
Learning to make -art b a process which takes a
Lfetime. Studying art for four years ves no s-a-
toTTT Mu?Jof '.fearaS m is a mental
and motor mastery of design, Intellectual procees
and technical procees. Student work must be locked
at as a stags towaxcb this and not as an end.
This year we fortunate to have a number efverka
by mature ad'snce students such as Con-5' r-
TimDittmer, Mark Hendricks, Lcsl Hak" iQ
Witherwax and Deanna Bailey, to name a Sw. The
this space to thank the director and staff of Sheldon
. Rebecca Jane Eoss