ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

this Super Quiz to a PhD. one point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, two points on the Graduate Level and three points on the PhD Level.

SUBJECT: HISTORY

(e.g., Who authored A Brief History of Time? Answer: Stephen Hawking.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Which country’s history includes the Great Leap Forward?

2. Which country’s history includes the Great Purge?

3. Which country’s history involved the Great Trek?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. Christopher Marlowe authored The Tragical History of the Life

and Death of Doctor ____.

5. ‘Reconstruction’ refers to the period in US history following what?

6. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to do what?

PHD LEVEL

7. Who was the first democratically elected head of state in Egyptian history?

8. Who led the only effective slave revolt in US history?

9. Who was the longest-serving British prime minister in history? ANSWERS FOR TUES, AUGUST 6:

1. Tom Sawyer. 2. Baggins. 3. Heidi. 4. Ernest Hemingway. 5. Lord Byron. 6.Allan Quatermain.

7. Hiawatha. 8. ‘Tess of the d’Urbervilles.’ 9. Robinson Crusoe. 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?