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: LITERATURE

(e.g., Who or what was Charley in Travels With Charley? Answer: Dog.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. What is the source of “Second to the right and straight on till morning”?

2. What breed of dog was Cujo?

3. For what do the initials stand in W.B. Yeats?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. In which of Shakespeare’s plays do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern appear?

5. What is the profession of the title character named Jean Brodie?

6. Who authored The Satanic

Verses?

PHD LEVEL

7. Which author related the tragic story of Bigger Thomas?

8. Henry David Thoreau wrote “The mass of men lead lives of _____.”

9. Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for what novel?

ANSWERS FOR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14:

1. Big bad wolf. 2. Three blind mice. 3. Dog gone. 4. Your garden grow. 5. Any wool. 6. Shall I wander. 7. The sheep. 8. Her in.

9. Lives in Drury Lane.

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?