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: ALL ABOUT ERRORS (e.g., What sport keeps a record of errors made by players? Answer: Baseball.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Shakespeare title containing “Errors.”

2. Alexander Pope: “To err is human, to ____ divine.”

3. What three-word phrase means to experiment until a solution is found?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. To locate and correct errors in a computer programme. (five letters)

5. ‘The cat drank it’s milk.’ What is the error in this sentence?

6. What nine-letter adjective means wrong or incorrect?

PHD LEVEL

7. Compound word meaning to gloss over failings and errors.

8. For what do the letters stand in E&O insurance?

9. What is meant by an ‘erratum’?

AUGUST 18 ANSWERS:

1. Stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche).

2. Stop (Confucius). 3. Hell (Winston Churchill). 4. Smile (Dr Seuss and others). 5. Right (Mae West). 6. Unexamined (Socrates).

7. Dream (Malcolm Forbes). 8. Work (Thomas Edison). 9. Consent (Eleanor Roosevelt). 10. Luck (Thomas Jefferson). 11. Time (Steve Jobs). 12. Started (Mark Twain). 13. Life (John Lennon and others). 14. Knowledge (Albert Einstein). 15. Dreams (Walt Disney).

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors 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 — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?