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1. Vatican City is a country.

a. !True
b. False

2. How many countries are larger than Australia?


a. !5
b. 6
c. 4
d. 3

3. Vietnam is the only country in the world that starts with V.


a. !False
b. True

4. quot;Mongoliaquot; was a part of the now nonexistent U.S.S.R.


a. True
b. !False

5. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in South East Asia are controlled by which
country?
a. Indonesia
b. Thailand
c. Vietnam
d. !India

6. What is the capital of Mauritius?


a. Port Vila
b. !Port Louis
c. PortauPrince
d. Port Moresby

7. Which small country is located between the borders of France and Spain?
a. San Marino
b. Vatican City
c. Lichtenstein
d. !Andorra

8. The title of the 1969 film quot;Krakatoa, Eastof Javaquot; is incorrect, as


Krakatoa is in fact west of Java.
a. False
b. !True

9. Frankenmuth, a US city nicknamed quot;Little Bavariaquot;, is located in what


state?
a. !Michigan
b. Virginia
c. Pennsylvania
d. Kentucky

10. The longest shared border in the world can be found between which two nations?
a. Russia and China
b. India and Pakistan
c. !Canada and the United States
d. Chile and Argentina

11. Which of these countries is not a United Nations member state?


a. !Niue
b. South Sudan
c. Montenegro
d. Tuvalu

1. What is the derivative of Acceleration with respect to time?


a. Shift
b. !Jerk
c. Slide
d. Bump

2. What are the first 6 digits of the number quot;Piquot;?


a. 3.12423
b. 3.14169
c. !3.14159
d. 3.25812

3. How many zeptometres are inside one femtometre?


a. 1,000,000,000
b. 1000
c. !1,000,000
d. 10

4. The proof for the Chinese Remainder Theorem used in Number Theory was NOT
developed by its first publisher, Sun Tzu.
a. False
b. !True

5. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 12,345,678,987,654,321


a. False
b. !True

6. What prime number comes next after 19?


a. 21
b. 25
c. 27
d. !23

7. What is the plane curve proposed by Descartes to challenge Fermat039;s


extremumfinding techniques called?
a. Cartesian Coordinates
b. Elliptic Paraboloid of Descartes
c. Descarte039;s Helicoid
d. !Folium of Descartes

8. L039;Hocirc;pital was the mathematician who created the homonymous rule that
uses derivatives to evaluate limits with indeterminations.
a. !False
b. True

9. The sum of any two odd integers is odd.


a. True
b. !False

10. What is the correct order of operations for solving equations?


a. !Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition,
Subtraction
b. The order in which the operations are written.
c. Addition, Multiplication, Division, Subtraction, Addition,
Parentheses
d. Parentheses, Exponents, Addition, Substraction, Multiplication,
Division

11. Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an
army standard Enigma Machine?
a. !1.58 x 1020
b. 1.58 x 1024
c. 1.58 x 1018
d. 1.58 x 1022

12. The notion of a quot;set that contains all sets which do not contain
themselvesquot; is a paradoxical idea attributed to which English philospher?
a. Alfred North Whitehead
b. Francis Bacon
c. John Locke
d. !Bertrand Russel

1. Which author and poet famously wrote the line, quot;The female of the species is
more deadly than the malequot;?
a. !Rudyard Kipling
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. William Shakespeare
d. William Wordsworth

2. How many books are in the Chronicles of Narnia series?


a. 6
b. 8
c. 5
d. !7

3. Who wrote the novel 039;Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas039;?


a. !Hunter S. Thompson
b. Henry Miller
c. F. Scott Fitzgerald
d. William S. Burroughs

4. Abel Magwitch is a character from which Charles Dickens novel?


a. !Great Expectations
b. Nicholas Nickleby
c. Oliver Twist
d. The Pickwick Papers

5. What was the pen name of novelist, Mary Ann Evans?


a. George Saunders
b. George Bernard Shaw
c. !George Eliot
d. George Orwell

6. Who wrote the children039;s story quot;The Little Match Girlquot;?


a. Charles Dickens
b. Oscar Wilde
c. !Hans Christian Andersen
d. Lewis Carroll

7. The book 1984 was published in 1949.


a. !True
b. False

8. Under what pseudonym did Stephen King publish five novels between 1977 and 1984?
a. Lewis Carroll
b. Mark Twain
c. J. D. Robb
d. !Richard Bachman

9. The novel quot;Of Mice And Menquot; was written by what author?
a. Harper Lee
b. George Orwell
c. !John Steinbeck
d. Mark Twain

10. What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes book by Arthur Conan Doyle?
a. !A Study in Scarlet
b. The Sign of the Four
c. A Case of Identity
d. The Doings of Raffles Haw

11. According to The Hitchhiker039;s Guide to the Galaxy book, the answer to life,
the universe and everything else is...
a. !42
b. Death
c. Chocolate
d. Loving everyone around you
12. What was the last message of the Dolphins in quot;The Hitchhiker039;s Guide to
the Galaxyquot;?
a. !quot;So long, and thanks for all the fish.quot;
b. quot;Goodbye cruel world!quot;
c. quot;Land of the brave.quot;
d. quot;The answer is 42.quot;

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