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1. When was the play quot;Macbethquot; written?

a. 1723
b. 1628
c. !1606
d. 1605

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

3. What was George Bizet039;s last opera?


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

4. In Shakespeare039;s play Julius Caesar, Caesar039;s last words were...


a. !Et tu, Brute?
b. Aegri somnia vana.
c. Vidi, vini, vici.
d. Iacta alea est!

5. What play is the quote quot;Hell is other peoplequot; from?


a. The Condemned of Altona
b. The Devil and the Good Lord
c. The Flies
d. !No Exit

6. Who wrote the lyrics for Leonard Bernstein039;s 1957 Brodway musical West Side
Story?
a. !Stephen Sondheim
b. Himself
c. Richard Rodgers
d. Oscar Hammerstein

7. After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present day country than
in any other.
a. United States
b. !Italy
c. Greece
d. France

8. Which Shakespeare play features the stage direction quot;Enter a messenger, with
two heads and a handquot;?
a. Othello
b. !Titus Andronicus
c. Macbeth
d. King Lear

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

10. Who played Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway
run of Hamilton?
a. !Daveed Diggs
b. Wayne Brady
c. LinManuel Miranda
d. Javier Muntilde;oz

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


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

1. The term quot;batteryquot; to describe an electrical storage device was coined


by?
a. Luigi Galvani
b. !Benjamin Franklin
c. Alessandro Volta
d. Nikola Tesla

2. The Western Electric Model 500 telephone uses tone dialing to dial phone
numbers.
a. True
b. !False

3. Which buzzword did Apple Inc. use to describe their removal of the headphone
jack?
a. !Courage
b. Revolution
c. Innovation
d. Bravery

4. Which of the following is the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency?


a. 90 Hz
b. 70 Hz
c. !80 Hz
d. 100 Hz

5. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?


a. 1972
b. !1982
c. 1962
d. 1992
6. When was the iPhone released?
a. 2006
b. !2007
c. 2005
d. 2004

7. Who built the first laser?


a. Jack Kilby
b. Nikola Tesla
c. !Theodore Harold Maiman
d. Edith Clarke

8. Which of the following cellular device companies is NOT headquartered in Asia?


a. Samsung
b. HTC
c. !Nokia
d. LG Electronics

9. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?


a. 7.62x51mm
b. .308
c. !.3006
d. 7.62

10. Out of all of the NASA Space Shuttles, which 2 have been destroyed in
disasters?
a. Discovery and Endeavour
b. Enterprise and Atlantis
c. None of the Above
d. !Challenger and Columbia

1. Arcade Fire039;s 039;The Suburbs039; won the Album of the Year award in the 2011
Grammys.
a. False
b. !True

2. The music video to The Buggle039;s quot;Video Killed the Radio Starquot; was the
first music video to broadcast on MTV.
a. False
b. !True

3. Norwegian producer Kygo released a remix of the song quot;Sexual Healingquot; by


Marvin Gaye.
a. !True
b. False

4. Which song by Swedish electronic musician Avicii samples the song


quot;Something039;s Got A Hold On Mequot; by Etta James?
a. Fade Into Darkness
b. Silhouettes
c. !Levels
d. Seek Bromance

5. Which one of these Pink Floyd albums were also a movie?


a. The Dark Side of the Moon
b. Animals
c. Wish You Were Here
d. !The Wall

6. According to a song by Belinda Carlisle, Heaven is a place on what?


a. Venus
b. Uranus
c. !Earth
d. Mars

7. When did The Beatles release the LP quot;Please Please Mequot;?


a. 1969
b. !1963
c. 1970
d. 1960

8. For his performance at ComplexCon 2016 in Long Beach, California, Skrillex


revived his quot;Mothershipquot; set piece for one night only.
a. !True
b. False

9. Which classical composer wrote the quot;Moonlight Sonataquot;?


a. Johannes Brahms
b. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
c. Chief Keef
d. !Ludvig Van Beethoven

10. Who was the lead singer and frontman of rock band R.E.M?
a. George Michael
b. Chris Martin
c. !Michael Stipe
d. Thom Yorke

11. Where was Nicki Minaj born?


a. Haiti
b. Saint Lucia
c. !Trinidad and Tobago
d. Grenada

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