Super quiz

Subject: HISTORY: “MAC”

Each answer begins with “Mac.” (e.g., Canada’s first prime minister. Answer: Macdonald, John A.)

Freshman level

1. General who formally accepted the Japanese surrender ( World War II). 2. His masterpiece was “Il Principe” (1532. “The Prince”). 3. Region ruled by Philip and his son Alexander the Great.

Graduate level

4. Region returned to Chinese control by Portugal in 1999. 5. He overthrew King Duncan in 1040. 6. English prime minister who suffered the setback of the Profumo Affair.

Ph.D. level

7. Scottish engineer who pioneered a type of road construction. 8. The name given to a family of Jewish patriots who headed a revolt. 9. Austrian physicist after whom the speed of sound in air is named.

Answers:

1. MacArthur, Douglas. 2. Machiavelli. 3. Macedon (Macedonia). 4. Macau. 5. Macbeth. 6. Macmillan, Harold. 7. Macadam, John. 8. Maccabees. 9. Mach, Ernst.