1. What disease crippled President Franklin D.

Roosevelt and led him to help the

nation find a cure?
a. Cancer
b. !Polio
c. Meningitis
d. HIV

2. In relation to the British Occupation in Ireland, what does the IRA stand for.
a. !Irish Republican Army
b. Irish Rebel Alliance
c. IrishRoyal Alliance
d. Irish Reformation Army

3. Which one of these tanks was designed and operated by the United Kingdom?
a. T34
b. Tiger H1
c. !Tog II
d. M4 Sherman

4. Which of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?
a. Jane Seymour
b. Anne Boleyn
c. !Catherine of Aragon
d. Catherine Parr

5. When did Jamaica recieve its independence from England?

a. 1963
b. 1987
c. !1962
d. 1492

6. What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
a. Mirash Krasniki
b. Diturak Zhulati
c. !Gjergj Kastrioti
d. Iskander Bejko

7. Which American civilization is the source of the belief that the world would end
or drastically change on December 21st, 2012?
a. !The Mayans
b. The Navajos
c. The Aztecs
d. The Incas

8. What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near
Richmond, London?
a. Coughton Court
b. St James039;s Palace
c. !Hampton Court
d. Buckingham Palace
9. What year did World War I begin?
a. 1905
b. !1914
c. 1919
d. 1925

10. During World War I, which nation039;s monarchs were blood related?
a. Serbia, Russia, Croatia
b. !England, Germany, Russia
c. France, Russia, Germany
d. Germany, Spain, Austria

1. In 1993 Swedish car manufacturer Saab experimented with replacing the steering
wheel with a joystick in a Saab 9000.
a. !True
b. False

2. What was the name of the first frontwheeldrive car produced by Datsun now
Nissan?
a. !Cherry
b. Sunny
c. Skyline
d. Bluebird

3. Which of the following collision avoidance systems helps airplanes avoid

colliding with each other?
a. OCAS
b. !TCAS
c. TAWS
d. GPWS

4. Which car brand does NOT belong to General Motors?

a. Cadillac
b. Chevrolet
c. Buick
d. !Ford

5. When BMW was established in 1916, it was producing automobiles.

a. True
b. !False

6. Volkswagen039;s legendary VR6 engine has cylinders positioned at what degree

angle?
a. !15 Degree
b. 45 Degree
c. 90 Degree
d. 30 Degree

7. When was Cadillac founded?

 a. 1898
b. 1985
c. !1902
d. 1964

8. What are the cylinderlike parts that pump up and down within the engine?
a. !Pistons
b. Radiators
c. ABS
d. Leaf Springs

9. The LS7 engine is how many cubic inches?

a. !427
b. 346
c. 376
d. 364

10. What year did the Chevrolet LUV mini truck make its debut?
a. !1972
b. 1975
c. 1982
d. 1973

11. The snowmobile was invented by Canadian JosephArmand Bombardier in 1937.

a. False
b. !True

12. What country was the Trabant 601 manufactured in?

a. Soviet Union
b. France
c. !East Germany
d. Hungary

1. In the hexadecimal system, what number comes after 9?

a. The Number 0
b. 10
c. 16
d. !The Letter A

2. The Pythagorean theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the
product of the squares of the other two sides.
a. True
b. !False

3. What is the first Mersenne prime exponent over 1000?

a. 1009
b. 1069
c. 2203
d. !1279
4. The proof for the Chinese Remainder Theorem used in Number Theory was NOT
developed by its first publisher, Sun Tzu.
a. !True
b. False

5. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its039; thickness will be
34th the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
a. False
b. !True

6. In Topology, the complement of an open set is a closed set.

a. False
b. !True

7. The set of all algebraic numbers is countable.

a. False
b. !True

8. You can square root a negative number with an imaginary number quot;iquot;.
a. !True
b. False

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

a. !False
b. True

10. Which mathematician refused the Fields Medal?

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

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

12. What type of function is xsup2;+2x+1?

a. Rational
b. Linear
c. !Quadratic
d. Exponential