Super Quiz

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

Subject: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY (e.g., The first city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Answer: Hiroshima.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Julius Caesar famously crossed this river in 49 B.C. Answer________

2. George Washington crossed this river in 1776. Answer________

3. Japan attacked this site in Oahu, Hawaii, in 1941. Answer________

4. Napoleon was exiled to this Atlantic Island. Answer________

5. This island is famous for its statues, called moai.

Answer________

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. David Crockett died fighting at this site. Answer________

7. The mutineers from the HMS Bounty settled on these islands. Answer________

8. The Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx are located at this site. Answer________

9. Darwin studied the animals on this island group during his HMS Beagle voyage. Answer________

10. This city was the main site of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

11. What was the starting point of the Titanic on its tragic voyage? Answer________

12. The only part of the British territories occupied by the Nazis during World War II. Answer________

13. Henry Morton Stanley located David Livingstone in this town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. Answer________

14. Major-General Charles Gordon was killed at this site in Africa. Answer________

15. The Treaty of Nanjing ceded this island to the United Kingdom. Answer________ ANSWERS:

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors 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 — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?