ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PhD. Score one point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, two points on the Graduate Level and three points on the PhD Level.

SUBJECT: SIGNIFICANT TREATIES

(e.g., The NAFTA agreement involves which three countries? Answer: Canada, Mexico and the US)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles ended this war. 2. The Camp David Accords led to a peace treaty between these two countries. 3. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo made the Rio Grande the boundary between these two countries.

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. The 1898 Treaty of Paris ended this war and gave Puerto Rico to the US. 5. The Lateran Treaty (1929) created this independent country. 6. The Treaty of Ghent (1814) ended this fruitless war.

PHD LEVEL

7. The Treaty of Tordesillas enabled this country to colonise Brazil. 8. The Treaty(ies) of Utrecht gave this strategic Spanish location to Britain. 9. The Treaty of Portsmouth ended the war between Russia and ____.

ANSWERS FOR SAT, SEPT 9:

1. Airliners crash into the Twin Towers. 2. The Berlin Wall. 3. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. 4. Tehran. 5. Apple. 6. President Richard Nixon. 7. First to walk on the moon. 8. First successful heart transplant. 9. First man in space. 10. Fidel Castro. 11. Gamal Abdel Nasser. 12. Roger Bannister. 13. Israel. 14. The United Nations. 15. Atomic bomb (New Mexico).

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honours 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?