1. Which of the following authors was not born in England?

a. !Arthur Conan Doyle

b. H G Wells
c. Graham Greene
d. Arthur C Clarke

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

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

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

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

4. In Michael Crichton039;s novel quot;Jurassic Parkquot;, John Hammond meets his

demise at the claws of which dinosaur?
a. !Procompsognathus
b. Tyrannosaurus Rex
c. Velociraptor
d. Dilophosaurus

5. Which of the following is NOT a work done by Shakespeare?

a. Cymbeline
b. Measure For Measure
c. !Trial of Temperance
d. Titus Andronicus

6. What was the last message of the Dolphins in quot;The Hitchhiker039;s Guide to
the Galaxyquot;?
a. quot;Goodbye cruel world!quot;
b. quot;Land of the brave.quot;
c. !quot;So long, and thanks for all the fish.quot;
d. quot;The answer is 42.quot;

7. In the Magic: The Gathering universe, the Fallen Empires expansion takes place
on which continent?
a. Shiv
b. Terisiare
c. !Sarpadia
d. Otaria

8. Which author cowrote quot;The Communist Manifestoquot; alongside Karl Marx?

a. Alexander Kerensky
b. Paul Lafargue
c. !Friedrich Engels
d. Robert Owen
1. In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?
a. 1965
b. 1973
c. !1969
d. 1966

2. How many manned moon landings have there been?

a. 3
b. !6
c. 7
d. 1

3. Which of the following is NOT classified as a Semetic language?

a. Mandaic
b. Maltese
c. Akkadian
d. !Sumerian

4. What year were the Marian Reforms instituted in the Roman Republic?
a. !107 BCE
b. 42 BCE
c. 102 CE
d. 264 BCE

5. Who invented the quot;Flying Shuttlequot; in 1738; one of the key developments
in the industrialization of weaving?
a. Richard Arkwright
b. !John Kay
c. James Hargreaves
d. John Deere

6. The Hagia Sophia was commissioned by which emperor of the Byzantine Empire?
a. Constantine IV
b. !Justinian I
c. Theodosius the Great
d. Arcadius

7. The minigun was designed in 1960 by which manufacturer.

a. Colt Firearms
b. !General Electric
c. Sig Sauer
d. Heckler amp; Koch

8. Which modern country is known as quot;The Graveyard of Empiresquot;?

a. China
b. !Afghanistan
c. Iraq
d. Russia
9. Who was the only US President to be elected four times?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. !Franklin Roosevelt
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. George Washington

10. Who was the first man to travel into outer space twice?
a. Vladimir Komarov
b. Charles Conrad
c. Yuri Gagarin
d. !Gus Grissom

11. In what year did Texas secede from Mexico?

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

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

1. The quot;Pepequot; meme originated from a comic drawn by Matt Furie called
quot;Boy039;s Clubquot;?
a. !True
b. False

2. Which issue of the quot;Sonic the Hedgehogquot; comic did Scourge the Hedgehog
make his first appearance?
a. Sonic the Hedgehog 161
b. !Sonic the Hedgehog 11
c. Sonic Universe 32
d. Sonic the Hedgehog 47

3. Who wrote the Batman comic series quot;The Killing Jokequot;?

a. Bill Finger
b. Jerry Siegel
c. !Alan Moore
d. Frank Miller

4. When was the Garfield comic first published?

a. !1978
b. 1973
c. 1988
d. 1982

5. What is the designation given to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

 a. Earth10005
b. Earth2008
c. !Earth199999
d. Earth616

6. Who created Ultron of Earth616?

a. Tony Stark
b. Amadeus Cho
c. !Henry Pym
d. Reed Richards

7. What is the full first name of the babysitter in Calvin and Hobbes?
a. Rachel
b. Ruby
c. !Rosalyn
d. Rose

8. The stuffed tiger in Calvin and Hobbes is named after what philosopher?
a. John Hobbes
b. !Thomas Hobbes
c. Nathaniel Hobbes
d. David Hobbes

9. Who was the inspiration for Cuthbert Calculus in the Tintin series?
a. Jacques Piccard
b. !Auguste Picard
c. Will Morris
d. J. Cecil Maby

10. What are the Three Virtues of Bionicle?

a. Build, Play, Change
b. Forge, Build, Fight
c. Work, Play, Live
d. !Unity, Duty, Destiny

11. In the Hellboy universe, what was Abe Sapien039;s birth name?
a. Sir Edward Grey
b. Lord Baltimore
c. Landis Pope
d. !Langdon Everett Caul