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: POETRY

Provide the next word of the line of poetry. (eg, “Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or ____.” Answer: Die.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ____.”

2. “A thing of beauty is a joy _____.” 3. “A little learning is a dangerous ____.”

4. “I think that I shall never see. A poem as lovely as a ____.” 5. “Hope springs eternal in the human ____.”

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to _____.”

7. “They also serve who only stand and ____.”

8. “Isabel met an enormous ____.” 9. “I wandered lonely as a _____.” 10. “A narrow fellow in the ____.”

PHD LEVEL

11. “What happens to a dream _____?”

12. “The long brown path before me leading wherever I ____.” 13. “Look on my works, ye mighty and _____!”

14. “Things fall apart; the centre cannot ____.”

15. “Not with a bang but a _____.”

ANSWERS FOR FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19:

1. Robinson Crusoe. 2. Dragnet. 3. Casual Friday (Dress-down Friday). 4. Friday the 13th.” 5. Good Friday. 6. Friday Night Lights. 7. Northern Ireland. 8. Freaky Friday. 9. His Girl

Friday. SCORING:

24 to 30 points – congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points – honours graduate; 13 to 17 points – you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points – you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points – enrol in remedial courses immediately; 0 points – who reads the questions to you?