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., Buck is the sled dog in this novel by Jack London. Answer: The Call of the Wild.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. What kind of creature is the title character in “Charlotte’s Web”?

2. Fagin taught young boys how to commit this type of theft.

3. H.G. Wells wrote a novella about what type of machine?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. This Truman Capote novel details the 1959 murders of the Clutter family.

5. The whaling ship in this novel is named Pequod.

6. This children’s picture book by Maurice Sendak was adapted into an opera.

PHD LEVEL

7. The first part of this poem by T.S. Eliot is titled The Burial of the Dead.

8. Which state provides the setting for A River Runs Through It?

9. This work, his last, took James Joyce 17 years to complete.

ANSWERS FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 2:

1. Core. 2. Cloud. 3. Cuspid (canine) tooth. 4. Light. 5. Pulley.

6. Fish. 7. Heredity (genetics).

8. Lithosphere. 9. Absolute zero.

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?