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.

NURSERY RHYMES

The first line is given. Provide the second line. (e.g., Bye, baby Bunting. Answer: Daddy’s gone a-hunting.)

FRESHMAN level

1. As I was going to St. Ives. 2. Cock a doodle do! 3. Diddle, diddle, dumpling, my son John.

Graduate level

4. A-tisket a-tasket. 5. Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea. 6. Little Tommy Tucker.

PH.D. level

7. Lucy Locket lost her pocket. 8. Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold. 9. Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross.

ANSWERS:

1. I met a man with seven wives. 2. My dame has lost her shoe. 3. Went to bed with his trousers on. 4. A green and yellow basket. 5. Silver buckles at his knee. 6. Sings for his supper. 7. Kitty Fisher found it. 8. Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old. 9. To see a fine lady upon a white horse.

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?