ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

1973: Jamaica’s three reigning beauties having a chat with Eddie Lai (left), wife of the chairman of Caymanas Park Limited, on August 11. From left are: Miss Jamaica (Patsy Yuen), Miss Festival (Loi Monroe) and Miss Independence, (Lennox Ann Black). They were greatly admired by race fans. 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: MONTHLY BEGINNINGS

The first three letters of each seven-letter answer are also the first three letters of a name of a month. (e.g., A pole with streamers that those celebrating hold while dancing. Answer: Maypole.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. A cocktail made with gin and vermouth. 2. A sea animal with eight arms. 3. A unit for measuring the loudness of a sound.

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. To increase the size, amount or value of something. 5. Someone employed to clean and maintain a building. 6. Something new and unusual.

PHD LEVEL

7. A soft fruit with an orangeyellow skin. 8. A bush or tree with aromatic, bluish-gray, berry-like seedbearing cones. 9. Hari-kari.

ANSWERS FOR WED, AUG 10:

1. Arthur Conan Doyle. 2. Edgar Allan Poe. 3. Louisa May Alcott. 4. Robert Louis Stevenson. 5. Laura Ingalls Wilder. 6. Hans Christian Andersen. 7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 8. Edgar Rice Burroughs. 9. Henry David Thoreau.

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?