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: BRITISH
Each answer contains ‘British’. (e.g., Airline that is the flag carrier of the UK. Answer: British Airways.)
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. A Canadian province.
2. For what does the £ symbol stand?
3. For what is BTU an abbreviation?
GRADUATE LEVEL
4. This company was at the centre of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
5. The former name of Belize. 6. What was the subject of the phrase ‘on which the sun never sets’?
PH.D. LEVEL
7. Until 1949, citizens of Canada were denoted by this term.
8. For what does MBE stand?
9. Bermuda and Gibraltar are classified as BOTs. What is that?
ANSWERS FOR MAY 12:
1. Richard M. Nixon. 2. Franklin D. Roosevelt. 3. Gen. Douglas MacArthur. 4. Donald Trump. 5. Bill Clinton. 6. Harry S. Truman. 7. Theodore Roosevelt. 8. George H.W. Bush. 9. Ronald Reagan. 10. Abraham Lincoln. 11. Lloyd Bentsen. 12. Hillary Clinton. 13. Al Gore. 14. Barack Obama. 15. Kellyanne Conway.