ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PhD Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the PhD Level. Subject: AMERICANA (e.g., Arlo Guthrie was his son. Answer: Woody Guthrie.) FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. The most popular TV Western of all time. 2. Title of a musical (1950) and a film (1955): ‘Guys and ____.’ 3. What or who was Rin Tin Tin? 4. What colour is the 8 ball? 5. What kind of a doctor was ‘Doc Holliday’? GRADUATE LEVEL 6. Baseball manager who broke the colour barrier by signing Jackie Robinson. 7. Civil War nurse called ‘The Angel of the Battlefield.’ 8. Which poet wrote’“The Cremation of Sam McGee’? 9. What was the code name for the 1991 Gulf War? 10. In what song are the words ‘Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack’? PHD LEVEL 11. The name of this Hudson River community was eventually changed to Ossining. 12. These Native Americans were divided into three groups: Lakota, Dakota and Nakota. 13. Name America’s first commercially successful steamboat. 14. Term for dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage. 15. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is Walt Whitman’s famous elegy to_. ANSWERS FOR FRI, AUG 11: 1. The dish. 2. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men. 3. When the boys came out to play. 4. ‘Hickory Dickory Dock.’ 5. They lost their mittens. 6. Simple Simon. 7. A little nut tree. 8. ‘Polly Wolly Doodle.’ 9. Itsy Bitsy Spider. SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enrol in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?