Throwback Thursday: The Quiz Master
These days, if someone tells you that they’re a quiz master you might think they host a pub trivia game, or perhaps like to play along from home with the contestants on Jeopardy. Not so 100 years ago.
![Courtesy of the Baylor College of Medicine Archives](https://blogs.bcm.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/quiz.png?w=551)
As we see from the 1913 Baylor University Round Up yearbook, courtesy of the Baylor College of Medicine Archives, the term “quiz master” is a title for a certain class of medical instructor from that time period who tested students on their knowledge.
Remember that one for your next game of Trivial Pursuit.
By Andy Phifer