What was “Life” like 50 years ago? Life magazine’s Oct. 7, 1957, issue had an article on 14-year-old “Robert” Fischer, who had just won the U.S. Open Chess Championship. Fifteen years later, Bobby Fischer would win the World Chess Championship in Iceland, defeating the defending champ Boris Spassky.

In the early days of 19th-century baseball, before home plate umpires crouched behind the catcher, they viewed incoming pitches:

A) From the first row of the grandstand

B) Standing atop a ladder

C) Seated in padded rocking chairs

D) From a dugout, using binoculars

Answer Monday.

Thursday’s answer: Poet/essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with coining the phrase “Do your own thing.”