So...You Think You're Smart?
1. The Nobel Peace prize was named after the inventor of: (4 points)
a. Paraffin wax
b. Electric milking machine
c. Cotton gin
d. Dynamite
e. Goulashes
2. Our solar system lies within the: (4 points)
a. Milky Way Galaxy
b. Orion Belt
c. Andromeda Strain
d. Solar Plexus
e. Martian Causeway
3. Of the following, which is not a political party: (4 points)
a. Whig
b. Green
c. Populist
d. Libertarian
e. LaSalle
4. On the Richter Scale, a magnitude of 5 is: (4 points)
a. Five times greater than a magnitude of 1
b. Fifty times greater than a magnitude of 1
c. Ten times greater than a magnitude of 4
d. One hundred times greater than a 2
e. None of the above
5. Winter in
a. The tilt of the Earth
b. The rotation of the Earth
c. Earth's location in it's orbital path around the sun
d. A and C together
e. B and C together
6. A person that studies insects is called a/an : (4 points)
a. Cytogeneticist
b. Endocrinologist
c. Epidemiologist
d. Entomologist
e. Etymologist
7. Leguminous means: (4 points)
a. glows in the dark
b. relating to a seed or fruit bearing plant
c. phytoplankton rich water
d. to not bode well
e. French term for silly
8. The Scopes "Monkey" trial centered around the argument concerning: (4 points)
a. Using animals for laboratory testing
b. Darwinism vs. Creationism
c. Laborers in skilled trades
d. Legal battles concerning origination of the AIDS virus
e. The
9. The Beaufort scale measures: (4 points)
a. Sound wave intensity
b. Tartness
c. Guiltiness
d. Wind speed
e. Rain
10. Who said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."? (4 points)
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Franklin D. Roosevelt
d. Martin Luther King
e. Abraham Lincoln
11. A Black Hole…
(4 points)
a. Can bend light
b. Is inconceivably dense
c. Can't be seen with the naked eye
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
12. Cleopatra died from…
(4 points)
a. A gunshot wound to the head.
b. An arrow through the heart.
c. A snakebite.
d. Food poisoning.
e. Old age.
13. Complete the following series: ee, cc, hh, aa, 25, 9, 64, …
(4 points)
a. 16
b. 103
c. 1
d. 4
e. 0
14. A prairie schooner is a …
(4 points)
a. Large fixed sail boat
b. A covered wagon
c. A member of the meer cat family
d. A one room school
e. A short scruffy prairie flower
15. Everest is to
(4 points)
c. McKinley is to
d. Mickey is to Minnie
e. None of the above
16. You are walking along in a field in northwest Nebraska, when you look down and find a beautiful arrowhead fashioned from what appears to be a piece of very dark glass. You surmise...
(4 points)
a. You are walking in a moraine.
b. It probably originated in
c. Have found the product of a talented prankster.
d. It was made over 25,000 years ago.
e. Nothing since you're not very clever.
17. Which of the following contains a NON-nautical term: (4 points)
a. Stem, freeboard, bitter end, cleat
b. Windlass, bright work, windlestraw, forepeak
c. Gunnel, lee, rode, chine
d. Beam, scuppers, wake, tiller
e. Sea cock, keel, lazarette, fluke
18. Which phase of the moon is generally “seen” the longest during daylight hours? (4 points)
a. Waxing Crescent
b. Full
c. Gibbous Waning
d. New
e. Last Quarter
19. Everybody is familiar with "Eagle" the Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) and "
a. Yankee Clipper/Intrepid
b. Charlie Brown/Snoopy
c. Endeavor/Explorer
d. Gumdrop/Spider
e. Kitty Hawk/Antares
20. With the exception of the Apollo missions, man has always looked upon the same lunar terrain whenever the moon is visible. What prevents us from seeing the other side? (4 points)
a. The moon doesn’t rotate
b. The moon isn’t spherical
c. The other side of the moon can actually be seen from the other side of the earth
d. The sun’s gravitational pull coincides with the moon’s orbit
e. Nobody knows.
21. We all remember our cartoons, right? Match the character with their respective sidekick or foe. By the way, one of the characters has both a sidekick and foe listed and one character has no match at all. (1 point for each correct match, 12 points if you get them all PLUS find the character with two matches.)
a. Ba-Ba-Lou 1. Punkin’ Puss
b. Dingy 2.
c. Boo-Boo 3. Manfred the Wonder Dog
d. Beanie 4. Dishonest John
e. Mush Mouse 5. Lancelot Link
f. Mata Hari 6. Simon Bar Sinister
g.
h. Underdog 8. Horse
i. Muggsly 9. Yogi Bear
j. Tom Terrific 10. Hokey Wolf
k. Mighty Mouse 11. Quick Draw McGraw
22. What is a lunation? (4 points)
a. Resemblance of two items
b. Period of time
c. A proclamation
d. A spherical surface bounded by two great circles
e. Measure of darkness
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ANSWERS
1. d
2. a
3. e
4. c
5. d
6. d
7. b
8. a
9. d
10. c
11. d
12. c
13. c
14. b
15. c
16. b
17. b
18. d
19. c
20. a
21. a-11, b-10, c-9, d-4 & 7, e-1, f-5, g-8, h-6, i-2, j-3, k-none
22. b
0-16 points – You should run for president
17-40 – You don’t spend ‘nuff time in da lieberry
40-68 – You don’t watch enough TV
69-80 – You haven’t mastered Google yet
81-99 – Obviously you cheated
100 – You’re as smart as me!
Well, that sucked.
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I assume you were referring to your performance on the General Test. Keep in mind that packed tightly between all the useful knowledge in my brain, are thousands of packets of totally useless knowledge. For instance, the dog on Petticoat Junction had no name...according to some sources the Professor on Gilligan's Island was named Roy Hinkle...squirrels can hang upside down on tree trunks because their backfeet swivel 180 degrees...during liftoff the space shuttle develops power equivilent to twenty-five 747's at full throttle...Wilson Greatbatch invented the pacemaker..."A Christmas Story" and "Porky's" were both directed by Bob Clark...Genghis Khan's wife's name was Inez...(I'm not sure about that last one).
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Yes, I made a lousy score. (I need to go to the library.) But it's your fault because you left the real correct answer off some of the questions. For example:
#2. Our solar system lies between:
The correct answer is Arkansas and Alabama.
#6. A person that studies insects is called:
The Bug Man. And he comes with spray.
#7. Leguminous means:
Something's bad wrong with your legs. Maybe you got the flea-bitus.
#11. A black hole:
Means the tv has gone out.
#12. Cleopatra died from:
I really thought that Ben Hur ran over her with his chariot.
I got #13 right, nyah, nyah!
#17. Which is not a nautical term:
I was looking for "trolling motor, tackle box, ice chest, worms and spatula.
#18. Which phase of the moon is seen longest during the day?
I don't know, I could only see it from one side of the yard. (Inside joke, people.)
#20.What prevents us from seeing the other side of the moon?
"C" should read as follows: The other side of the moon can be seen from the other side of the yard." (same inside joke)
#22. What is a lunation?
A country full of crazy people.
See, if you would have provided the real answers to choose from, I would have done better.
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Point well made. But still, you got #2 wrong. You are confusing your universe and your solar system. I will accept the fact that your universe lies between Arkansas and Alabama.
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