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: PORTS AND HARBOURS

(e.g., This natural harbour is at the mouth of the Hudson River. Answer: New York Harbour.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. This harbour on Oahu is a US naval base.

2. What is the busiest cruise port in the US?

3. This harbour is famous for the Tea Party incident.

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. This Chinese port is the world’s busiest container port.

5. England’s busiest passenger port is also its nearest port to France.

6. What was the registered home port of the Titanic?

PHD LEVEL

7. It has served as the port of Athens since ancient times.

8. The port of this city-state is the world’s busiest trans-shipment port.

9. Ostia Antica was the location of the harbour city of ancient ___.

ANSWERS FOR MONDAY, JUNE 4:

1. Berlin Wall. Ronald Reagan.

2. The Philippines (Corregidor Island). Gen Douglas MacArthur.

3. On the moon. Neil Armstrong.

4. The Royal Air Force crews. Winston Churchill. 5. The (desk of the) US president. Harry S. Truman. 6. Planet Earth. Galileo Galilei. 7. Kingdom of Pontus. Julius Caesar. 8. The life of man without society. Thomas Hobbes.

9. The Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia). Adolf Hitler.

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?