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: STUPID

(e.g., The James Bond film title “____” is British for a stupid person or simpleton. Answer:

Moonraker) FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. What four-letter word can mean an illegal drug or a stupid person?

2. Walt Disney described this dwarf as “nice, but sort of silly.”

3. In what 1994 film is the line, “Stupid is as stupid does”?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. Complete the lyrics: “And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like _____.”

5. One regular feature of the Late Night With David Letterman TV show was ‘Stupid ____ Tricks’.

6. What fictional character said, “It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!”?

PHD LEVEL

7. James Carville is often quoted as having said, “It’s the ____, stupid.”

8. In which film did Peter Lorre say, “You bloated idiot! You stupid fat-head!”?

9. The name of this seabird is said to be derived from its stupidity in being easily caught.

ANSWERS FOR THURSDAY, NOV 19:

1. Solution 2. Motion 3. Eruption

4. Friction 5. Evolution 6. Attraction

7. Sublimation 8. Mutation

9. Gestation

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?