1.

In which Shakespeare play does the character Marcellus say, quot;Something is

rotten in the state of Denmarkquot;?
a. Twelfth Night
b. !Hamlet
c. Macbeth
d. King Lear

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

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

4. What was George Bizet039;s last opera?

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

5. In Les Miseacute;rables, who is Prison Code 24601?

a. Javert
b. Jean Claude Van Damme
c. Marius Pontmercy
d. !Jean Valjean

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

7. The musical quot;Dirty Rotten Scoundrelsquot; is set in what country?

a. USA
b. Germany
c. !France
d. Sweden

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

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

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

11. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical quot;Catsquot; is based off a book of poems
written by which author?
a. Robert Frost
b. Andrew Lloyd Webber
c. Emily Dickenson
d. !T.S. Elliot

12. What is Jean ValJean039;s first prisoner number?

a. 9430
b. 32769
c. !24601
d. 1729

1. How many zeros are there in a googol?

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

2. What is the area of a circle with a diameter of 20 inches if pi; 3.1415?

a. 380.1215 Inches
b. 1256.6 Inches
c. !314.15 Inches
d. 3141.5 Inches

3. A universal set, or a set that contains all sets, exists.

a. True
b. !False

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

5. L039;Hocirc;pital was the mathematician who created the homonymous rule that
uses derivatives to evaluate limits with indeterminations.
 a. !False
b. True

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

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

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

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

a. !True
b. False

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

a. False
b. !True

10. The notion of a quot;set that contains all sets which do not contain
themselvesquot; is a paradoxical idea attributed to which English philospher?
a. !Bertrand Russel
b. John Locke
c. Francis Bacon
d. Alfred North Whitehead

11. Which mathematician refused the Fields Medal?

a. Edward Witten
b. Andrew Wiles
c. !Grigori Perelman
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. !1729
c. 91
d. 561

13. What is the fourth digit of pi;?

a. 3
b. 2
c. 4
d. !1
1. Which one of these was not a beach landing site in the Invasion of Normandy?
a. Sword
b. Gold
c. Juno
d. !Silver

2. In what year did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon?
a. 1966
b. 1965
c. !1969
d. 1973

3. How many manned moon landings have there been?

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

4. Which of the following ancient peoples was NOT classified as Hellenic Greek?
a. !Illyrians
b. Achaeans
c. Ionians
d. Dorians

5. Which famous world leader is famed for the saying, quot;Let them eat cakequot;,
yet is rumored that heshe never said it at all?
a. Czar Nicholas II
b. Elizabeth I
c. !Marie Antoinette
d. Henry VIII

6. When was Adolf Hitler appointed as Chancellor of Germany?

a. February 27, 1933
b. October 6, 1939
c. !January 30, 1933
d. September 1, 1939

7. Which of the following countries was not an axis power during World War II?
a. Germany
b. Italy
c. ! Soviet Union
d. Japan

8. What year did Australia become a federation?

a. 1911
b. 1910
c. 1899
d. !1901
9. Which Louis was known as 039;The Sun King of France039;?
a. Louis XVI
b. !Louis XIV
c. Louis XIII
d. Louis XV

10. Abolitionist John Brown raided the arsenal in which Virginia Town?
a. Harrisonburg
b. !Harper039;s Ferry
c. Richmond
d. Martinsburg

11. The Thirty Years War ended with which treaty?

a. Treaty of Versailles
b. Treaty of Paris
c. Peace of Prague
d. !Peace of Westphalia

12. Which of these facilities was not present on the Titanic?

a. Squash court
b. Turkish bath
c. Kennel
d. !Fainting room