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.

Subject: FAMOUS SCOTS

(e.g., Queen who was beheaded. Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. The inventor of the telephone. Answer________

2. He created Sherlock Holmes. Answer________

3. Poet who wrote “Auld Lang Syne.” Answer________

4. The first actor to play James Bond in film. Answer________

5. The author of “Treasure Island.”

Answer________

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. Henry Morton Stanley located him in Africa. Answer________

7. King of Scots who led Scotland during the First War of Scottish independence. Answer________

8. The discoverer of penicillin. Answer________

9. He demonstrated the first live working television system. Answer________

10. Prime minister of the U.K. from 1997 to 2007. Answer________

PH.D. LEVEL

11. Enlightenment philosopher who wrote “A Treatise of Human Nature.” Answer________

12. Mel Gibson played him in the 1995 film “Braveheart.” Answer________

13. Author of “The Wind in the Willows.” Answer________

14. Author of “Ivanhoe” and “Rob Roy.” Answer________

15. His improved steam engine helped to create the Industrial Revolution. Answer________

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?