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1. Joseph Smith was the founder of what religion?

a. Buddhism
b. Christianity
c. !Mormonism
d. Hinduism

2. Which of the following African countries was most successful in resisting


colonization?
a. Namibia
b. Congo
c. Cocirc;te drsquo;Ivoire
d. !Ethiopia

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. Which one of these rulers did not belong to the Habsburg dynasty?
a. Charles V
b. Philip II
c. Francis Joseph
d. !Philip V

5. Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year.
a. False
b. !True

6. What was the name of the German offensive operation in October 1941 to take
Moscow before winter?
a. Case Blue
b. Operation Barbarossa
c. !Operation Typhoon
d. Operation Sunflower

7. On what street did the 1666 Great Fire of London start?


a. St Paul039;s Cathedral
b. Houses of Parliament
c. Baker Street
d. !Pudding Lane

8. The coat of arms of the King of Spain contains the arms from the monarchs of
Castille, Leon, Aragon and which other former Iberian kingdom?
a. Galicia
b. Granada
c. Catalonia
d. !Navarre

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


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

2. How many zeros are there in a googol?


a. 1,000
b. 10
c. !100
d. 1,000,000

3. How many zeptometres are inside one femtometre?


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

4. What prime number comes next after 19?


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

5. Zero factorial is equal to zero.


a. !False
b. True

6. The French mathematician Eacute;variste Galois is primarily known for his work
in which?
a. Galois039; Continued Fractions
b. Galois039; Method for PDE039;s
c. Abelian Integration
d. !Galois Theory

7. A scalene triangle has two sides of equal length.


a. !False
b. True

8. How many sides does a trapezium have?


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

9. Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an
army standard Enigma Machine?
a. 1.58 x 1022
b. 1.58 x 1024
c. 1.58 x 1018
d. !1.58 x 1020
10. Which greek mathematician ran through the streets of Syracuse naked while
shouting quot;Eurekaquot; after discovering the principle of displacement?
a. Homer
b. Eratosthenes
c. !Archimedes
d. Euclid

11. Which mathematician refused the Fields Medal?


a. !Grigori Perelman
b. Andrew Wiles
c. Edward Witten
d. Terence Tao

12. What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two positive
cubes in two different ways?
a. 4104
b. 561
c. 91
d. !1729

13. What is the fourth digit of pi;?


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

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


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

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


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

3. Which of these musicals won the Tony Award for Best Musical?
a. Newsies
b. !Rent
c. American Idiot
d. The Color Purple

4. Who is the musical director for the award winning musical quot;Hamiltonquot;?
a. Leslie Odom Jr.
b. !Alex Lacamoire
c. LinManuel Miranda
d. Renee EliseGoldberry
5. In Shakespeare039;s play Julius Caesar, Caesar039;s last words were...
a. Aegri somnia vana.
b. !Et tu, Brute?
c. Vidi, vini, vici.
d. Iacta alea est!

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

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. Who played quot;Charlie Pricequot; in the musical quot;Kinky Bootsquot; on


Broadway in New York from May 26th Aug 6th 2017?
a. Dallon Weekes
b. !Brendon Urie
c. Tom Cruise
d. Ed Sheeren

9. The World Chess Championship in Chess, Act 1 is set in which Italian city?
a. Rome
b. !Merano
c. Milan
d. Venice

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

11. 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

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