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: AMERICANA ‘P’

Each answer begins with ‘P.’ (e.g., What the ‘P’ in ‘PTA’ means. Answer: Parent.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Last name of pitcher nicknamed ‘Satchel.’ 2. Golfer whose fans were known as Arnie’s Army. 3. It was attacked on Dec 7, 1941. 4. His adventures took place in the timeless Never Never Land. 5. Last name of comic strip boxer named Joe.

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. A five-sided building in Arlington, Virginia. 7. Author of The Power of Positive Thinking. 8. General nicknamed ‘Old Blood and Guts.’ 9. In 1955 she refused to surrender her bus seat to a white man. 10. Electronic game in which a character eats its way through a maze.

PHD LEVEL

1. He produced Common Sense. 12. She wrote, Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. 13. It once was called a calumet. 14. To determine a project’s feasibility, one asks, “How will it play in ___?” 15. Captain Ahab’s ship.

ANSWERS FOR FRI, NOV 3:

1. Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). 2. Roman Catholics. 3. Jehovah’s Witnesses. 4. Seventh-day Adventists. 5. Quakers. 6. Christian Science. 7. Eastern Orthodox. 8. Amish. 9. Unitarian.

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?