1. Which company did Gabe Newell work at before founding Valve Corporation?

a. Apple
b. !Microsoft
c. Google
d. Yahoo

2. What was the code name for the quot;Nintendo Gamecubequot;?

a. Atlantis
b. Revolution
c. Nitro
d. !Dolphin

3. Super Mario Bros. was released in 1990.

a. True
b. !False

4. Who is the main character of quot;Metal Gear Solid 3quot;?

a. Solid Snake
b. Venom Snake
c. !Naked Snake
d. Liquid Snake

5. When was Minecraft first released to the public?

a. October 7th, 2011
b. September 17th, 2009
c. !May 17th, 2009
d. November 18th, 2011

6. Which of these is NOT a playable character in quot;Left 4 Deadquot;?

a. !Nick
b. Zoey
c. Bill
d. Louis

7. What video game sparked controversy because of its hidden quot;Hot Coffeequot;
minigame?
a. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
b. Hitman: Blood Money
c. Cooking Mama
d. !Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

8. In the game Battleblock Theater, what was the name of the voice actor who voiced
the narrator?
a. Richard Epcar
b. Steve Blum
c. Yuri Lowenthal
d. !Will Stamper

9. In which year did the first Monster Hunter game get released?
a. 2006
b. !2004
 c. 2005
d. 2002

10. Who is the main protagonist in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair?

a. !Hajime Hinata
b. Nagito Komaeda
c. Makoto Naegi
d. Junko Enoshima

11. In the quot;Portalquot; series, who was Cave Johnson039;s personal assistant?
a. Jane
b. Heather
c. !Caroline
d. Melissa

12. During the events of HalfLife: Opposing Force, what is the age of Adrian
Shephard, the protagonist?
a. 24
b. 21
c. !22
d. 23

1. Which Shakespeare play inspired the musical 039;West Side Story039;?

a. Macbeth
b. !Romeo amp; Juliet
c. Othello
d. Hamlet

2. In which Shakespeare play does the character Marcellus say, quot;Something is

rotten in the state of Denmarkquot;?
a. Macbeth
b. !Hamlet
c. King Lear
d. Twelfth Night

3. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father due to jealousy in loving his
mother.
a. True
b. !False

4. What was George Bizet039;s last opera?

a. Griseacute;lidis
b. Les pecirc;cheurs de perles
c. Don Rodrigue
d. !Carmen

5. In Les Miseacute;rables, who is Prison Code 24601?

a. !Jean Valjean
b. Jean Claude Van Damme
 c. Marius Pontmercy
d. Javert

6. In Macbeth, the eyes of what animals were used in the Witches039; cauldron?
a. Squids
b. !Newts
c. Sharks
d. Humans

7. Which of the following is not a piece from the 1950039;s musical West Side
Story?
a. Mambo
b. Tonight
c. Maria
d. !The Back Alley

8. quot;Doctor Whoquot; star David Tennant performed in a rendition of which

Shakespearean play?
a. The Taming of the Shrew
b. Othello
c. The Tempest
d. !Hamlet

9. Who serves as the speaker of the prologue in Shakespeare039;s Romeo and Juliet?
a. !Chorus
b. Montague
c. Capulet
d. Refrain

10. The musical quot;Dirty Rotten Scoundrelsquot; is set in what country?

a. Germany
b. !France
c. Sweden
d. USA

11. Which of these plays was famously first performed posthumously after the
playwright committed suicide?
a. Hamilton
b. The Birthday Party
c. !4.48 Psychosis
d. Much Ado About Nothing

12. What is Jean ValJean039;s first prisoner number?

a. 9430
b. 1729
c. !24601
d. 32769

13. The protagonist039;s names in 039;Who039;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf039;, George

and Martha, were derived from George Washington and his wife.
a. !True
 b. False

1. What Russian automatic gasoperated assault rifle was developed in the Soviet
Union in 1947, and is still popularly used today?
a. !AK47
b. M16
c. RPK
d. MG 42

2. Assyrian king Sennacherib039;s destruction of Babylon in 689 BCE was viewed as a

triumph by other Assyrian citizens.
a. True
b. !False

3. Which of the following ancient peoples was NOT classified as Hellenic Greek?
a. Achaeans
b. !Illyrians
c. Ionians
d. Dorians

4. Where and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?
a. United States, 1817
b. !England, 1817
c. England, 1917
d. United States, 1917

5. Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President to be born outside the borders of
the thirteen original states.
a. False
b. !True

6. What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near
Richmond, London?
a. Coughton Court
b. Buckingham Palace
c. St James039;s Palace
d. !Hampton Court

7. In what year did the Great Northern War, between Russia and Sweden, end?
a. 1724
b. 1726
c. 1727
d. !1721

8. Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold?
a. Warden of the Royal Mint
b. Professor of Mathematics
c. !Surveyor to the City of London
d. Member of Parliament