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.

CULTURAL LITERACY

(e.g., Which country did President Trump visit first? Answer: Saudi Arabia.)

Freshman LEVEL

1. This island was the chief U.S. immigration station from 1892 to 1943. 2. FBI agents gunned down this robber outside a theater in Chicago. 3. Who was the central character in the Chappaquiddick incident? 4. The play “The Miracle Worker” dramatized this person’s life. 5. Suffrage is the right to ———.

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. Provide the last name: Ralph Waldo ——— .7. Who is credited with the remark, “I never met a man I didn’t like”? 8. Provide the next line: “Jesus loves me, this I know.” 9. John Bartlett is known for publishing what? 10. Who is arguably the best known American traitor?

Ph.d. LEVEL

11. Who wrote the words to “The Star-spangled Banner”? 12. Their works include “H.M.S. Pinafore.” 13. Quote the first line of the poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” 14. Who was the author of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? 15. In which play is this phrase used by the title character: “Every inch a king”?

Answers:

1. Ellis Island. 2. John Dillinger. 3. Edward Kennedy. 4. Helen Keller. 5. Vote. 6. Emerson. 7. Will Rogers. 8. For the Bible tells me so. 9. Quotations. 10. Benedict Arnold. 11. Francis Scott Key. 12. Gilbert and Sullivan. 13. “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.” 14. T.S. Eliot. 15. “King Lear.”

SCORING:

24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?