1. What CPTC'er not only is a doctor in real life but played one on TV?
    (a) Randall Ehrlich
    (b) Dan Hamner
    (c) Kathryn Collins
    (d) John Sargent

2. Which of these CPTC women have not yet tried a triathlon?
    (a) Aubin Sullivan
    (b) Julie Denney
    (c) Stacy Creamer
    (d) Stephanie Gould

3. Which one of the following people were NOT part of the winning Masters 4x400 team at the 1998 Chase Millrose Games?
    (a) Walter Brown
    (b) Errol Lee
    (c) Clement Easton
    (d) Keith Royster

4. Which of these CPTC'ers is NOT a guitar player?
    (a) Seth Okrend
    (b) Tim Robinson
    (c) Kenn Lowy
    (d) Dan Hamner

5. What does the E in E. Stacy Creamer stand for?
    (a) Erica
    (b) Elizabeth
    (c) Evelyn
    (d) Eudora

6. Which one of these former CPTC club presidents was the oldest when he/she was the overall winner of a race?
    (a) Michael Blake
    (b) Frank Handelman
    (c) Betty Marolla
    (d) Ed Coplon

7. Which one of these people were the exception to the slogan "Nobody Beats the Wiz" because they have beaten George Wizniewski?
    (a) Marty Liquori
    (b) Brian Kivlan
    (c) Byron Dyce
    (d) Grete Waitz

8. What CPTC'er made his media debut as tiny cute baby in a 1956 issue of National Geographic?
     (a) Fritz Mueller
     (b) Fred Kolthay
     (c) Fred Lebow
     (d) Frank Handelman

9. In which foreign country did a CPTC'er have a number one hit on the pop chart?
      (a) Canada
      (b) Chile
      (c) Czech Republic
      (d) Cyprus

10. A rule change was instituted at the 1987 Corporate Challenge specifically to 'get' a CPTC star?  Which company/agency did that person run for?
      (a) Manufacturers Hanover, which was the sponsor
      (b) Citibank, which was the major business competitor of the sponsor
      (c) Spy Magazine, which published sarcastic stories about people and events
      (d) The New York City Parks Department, which issued race permits

ANSWERS

1. (b) Dan Hamner, MD, was a former daytime soap opera star.

2. None of the above, as all of them have won hardware in triathlons, including the self-professed non-triathlete ("I can't swim and I can't bike") Ms. Creamer.

3. None of the above, as the actual team consisted of Frank Schiro, Jesse Norman, Tom Hartshone and Ed Gonera.  This shows the depth and strength of the track team.

4. (d) Dan Hamner plays the harmonica.

5. None of the above, since the correct answer is the Editor Stacy Creamer (d'après Peter Gambaccini)

6. (a) The CPTC Newsletter of early 1997 reported the following story: "12/27/96 Cat Cay, Bahamas --- 46-year-old Mike Blake won the Cat Cay 19th Olympic Games Marathon.  Having ran this 1.6 mile race before, he knew the course well.  But not having raced or run much in the past year, he was praying for divine intervention.  Halfway through the race and wondering where all the oxygen went and what a bear was doing in the Bahamas and on his back, Lady Luck appeared and directed the lead golf cart along with the two 18-year-old leaders off-course.  Mike claimed that he tried to signal but no one heard.   Mike went on to win the race.  Protests from the irate mothers went to the deaf ears of the blind judges.  The eventual 3rd place finisher claimed that he could beat Mike Blake any time.  His mother claimed the same.  But Mike claimed the bragging rights and is wondering how he is going to pull it off next year."

7. All of the above, although George is most bitter about that Norwegian woman (and her motorcycle police escorts)

8. (b) Fred Kolthay appeared in an article about the Hungarian Revolution.  He would become addicted to media exposure in later life, as evidenced by how closely he stuck to Grete Waitz in the many New York City Marathons.

9. (a) Kenn Lowy, using the pseudonym Wrinklemuzik, hit number one on the charts in Hamilton, Ontario in 1980 with "A Move to the Right", a wisely anti-Reagan ditty.
(Note: it is rumored that Karel Matousek hit the number one spot on the Turkish side of Cyprus, but this is strictly unconfirmed and the status of the nation is under dispute)

10. (c) Spy Magazine Publisher (and Gap model) Tom Phillips was far and away the fastest CEO in the history of the Corporate Challenge.  After Phillips twice won the Challenge's CEO category by a zillion yards in 1986, the sponsor Manufacturers Hanover (R.I.P.) raised the minimum annual revenues a company had to gross for its CEO to qualify.  Phillips' one-word reaction: "Bastards!"  Spy Magazine also fielded a good co-ed team, since CPTC'ers Candace ("The Franchise") Strobach and Rachel King worked there.

(August 1998)