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1. Which one of these was not a beach landing site in the Invasion of Normandy?

a. Juno
b. Gold
c. !Silver
d. Sword

2. When did the French Revolution begin?


a. !1789
b. 1756
c. 1799
d. 1823

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


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

4. quot;I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say itquot; is a quote from French philosopher Voltaire.
a. !False
b. True

5. Which infamous European traitor was known as quot;the last person to enter
Parliament with honest intentionsquot;?
a. Robert Catesby
b. Everard Digby
c. !Guy Fawkes
d. Francis Tresham

6. When did Norway get its constitution?


a. 1932
b. 1905
c. 1854
d. !1814

7. In what year did the First World War end?


a. 1912
b. 1914
c. 1916
d. !1918

8. When was the People039;s Republic of China founded?


a. May 7, 1945
b. !October 1, 1949
c. April 3, 1947
d. December 6, 1950

9. Which day did World War I begin?


a. April 28
b. June 28
c. January 28
d. !July 28

10. Before the American colonies switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1752, on
what date did their new year start?
a. September 25th
b. June 1st
c. !March 25th
d. December 1st

11. Which King of England was faced with the Peasants039; Revolt in 1381?
a. !Richard II
b. Henry IV
c. Edward III
d. Edward II

12. In what year did Texas secede from Mexico?


a. 1844
b. !1836
c. 1838
d. 1845

13. Who rode on horseback to warn the Minutemen that the British were coming during
the U.S. Revolutionary War?
a. Henry Longfellow
b. Nathan Hale
c. !Paul Revere
d. Thomas Paine

1. Painter Piet Mondrian 1872 1944 was a part of what movement?


a. Precisionism
b. Cubism
c. Impressionism
d. !Neoplasticism

2. Leonardo da Vinci039;s Mona Lisa does not have eyebrows.


a. !True
b. False

3. Vincent van Gogh cut off one of his ears.


a. False
b. !True

4. Which artist039;s style was to use small different colored dots to create a
picture?
a. Henri Rousseau
b. Vincent Van Gogh
c. !Georges Seurat
d. Paul Ceacute;zanne
5. Which of these is not an additional variation of the color purple?
a. Byzantium
b. Pomp and Power
c. Palatinate
d. !Kobicha

6. Who designed the Chupa Chups logo?


a. Andy Warhol
b. !Salvador Dali
c. Pablo Picasso
d. Vincent van Gogh

7. Which painting was not made by Vincent Van Gogh?


a. Cafeacute; Terrace at Night
b. Bedroom In Arles
c. !The Ninth Wave
d. Starry Night

8. The Statue of Liberty039;s official name is ldquo;Liberty Enlightening the


Worldrdquo;.
a. !True
b. False

9. Who painted the epic mural Guernica?


a. Henri Matisse
b. !Pablo Picasso
c. Francisco Goya
d. Leonardo da Vinci

1. In Roman Numerals, what does XL equate to?


a. 90
b. 60
c. !40
d. 15

2. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 12,345,678,987,654,321


a. False
b. !True

3. What prime number comes next after 19?


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

4. E MC3
a. !False
b. True
5. The metric prefix quot;attoquot; makes a measurement how much smaller than the
base unit?
a. One Septillionth
b. !One Quintillionth
c. One Billionth
d. One Quadrillionth

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


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

7. An isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length as opposed to three.


a. !True
b. False

8. An equilateral triangle always has every angle measuring 60deg;.


a. False
b. !True

9. Which greek mathematician ran through the streets of Syracuse naked while
shouting quot;Eurekaquot; after discovering the principle of displacement?
a. Euclid
b. Homer
c. !Archimedes
d. Eratosthenes

10. Which of the following famous mathematicians died in a duel at the age of 20?
a. Euler
b. Abel
c. Gauss
d. !Galois

11. What is the fourth digit of pi;?


a. 4
b. !1
c. 2
d. 3

12. In the complex plane, multiplying a given function by i rotates it


anticlockwise by how many degrees?
a. 270
b. !90
c. 0
d. 180
13. What type of function is xsup2;+2x+1?
a. Exponential
b. Linear
c. !Quadratic
d. Rational

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