ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PHD Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the PHD Level.

SUBJECT: FOURLETTER BOOK TITLES

(eg, Toni Morrison’s second novel (1973). It begins with the construction of a golf course. Answer: Sula.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. About romantic misunderstandings, by Jane Austen (1815). The title character’s surname is Woodhouse.

2. A science-fiction novel by Frank Herbert (1965). Set in the distant future on the desert planet Arrakis.

3. A novel by Peter Benchley (1974). A story about a great white shark.

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. A historical novel by Toni Morrison (1992). The second part of a trilogy that began with Beloved.

5. A psychological horror novel by Stephen King (1981). About a rabid Saint Bernard.

6. Also known as The Sheeppig, by Dick King-smith (1995). A children’s book about a pig on a sheep farm.

PHD LEVEL

7. The 10th novel by Toni Morrison (2012). Concerning an African-american veteran of the Korean War.

8. A romance novel by Danielle Steel (1987). About a Russian countess escaping the Russian Revolution.

9. A horror novel by Stephen King (2006). Involves the effects of a broadcast over a global cell network.

ANSWERS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27:

1. The Underground. 2. Buckingham Palace. 3. 10 Downing Street. 4. Trafalgar Square. 5. Summer Olympic Games. 6. The London Eye. 7. Prime meridian (Greenwich meridian). 8. Moscow. 9. Tower of London.

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 point – who reads the questions to you?