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: SCIENCE

(e.g., If the sun is not a planet, what is it? Answer: A star.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. What part of your computer system has the name of a rodent?

2. The belief that eating this taproot improves vision is a myth.

3. What organ extracts dissolved oxygen from water?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. What makes flamingos pink?

5. Alopecia causes the loss of what?

6. This major spiral galaxy is the closest to the Milky Way.

PHD LEVEL

7. What is Sir Frank Whittle credited with inventing?

8. You may use VOIP to make a call. For what do the letters stand?

9. What is produced by the Haber process?

1. Lebanon, Albania. 2. Armenia.

3. Estonia. 4. Romania. 5. Croatia.

6. Burundi. 7. Lesotho. 8. Morocco. 9. Namibia.

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?