1. What event marked the start of World War II?

a. !Invasion of Poland 1939

b. Invasion of Russia 1942
c. Battle of Britain 1940
d. Invasion of Normandy 1944

2. What year did the Battle of Agincourt take place?

a. 1463
b. 1422
c. !1415
d. 1401

3. In what year was the video game company Electronic Arts founded?
a. 1981
b. !1982
c. 2005
d. 1999

4. What was Genghis Khan039;s real name?

a. !Temuuml;jin
b. Temuuml;r
c. Mouml;ngke
d. Ouml;gedei

5. To what political party did Abraham Lincoln belong when elected POTUS?
a. Independent
b. Democrat
c. !Republican
d. Whig

6. What did the abbreviation quot;RMSquot; stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?
a. Royal Majesty Service
b. !Royal Mail Ship
c. Regulated Maelstrom Sensor
d. Regular Maritime Schedule

7. What is the historical name of Sri Lanka?

a. !Ceylon
b. Myanmar
c. Badulla
d. Colombo

8. The Panama Canal was finished under the administration of which U.S. president?
a. !Woodrow Wilson
b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
c. Herbert Hoover
d. Theodore Roosevelt

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

2. What039;s the square root of 49?

a. !7
b. 4
c. 12
d. 9

3. What prime number comes next after 19?

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

4. The decimal number 31 in hexadecimal would be what?

a. 1B
b. !1F
c. 2E
d. 3D

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

a. False
b. !True

6. How many sides does a trapezium have?

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

7. Which of the following dice is not a platonic solid?

a. 20sided die
b. 12sided die
c. !10sided die
d. 8sided die

8. 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. John Locke
b. !Bertrand Russel
c. Francis Bacon
d. Alfred North Whitehead

1. The moons, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon orbit which planet?
a. Neptune
b. Jupiter
c. !Uranus
 d. Venus

2. What was the first living creature in space?

a. Monkey
b. Dog
c. !Fruit Flies
d. Mouse

3. On the Beaufort Scale of wind force, what wind name is given to number 8?
a. Storm
b. Breeze
c. Hurricane
d. !Gale

4. How many officially recognized dwarf planets in the solar system are named after
Polynesian deities?
a. 5
b. !2
c. 0
d. 1

5. What does the yellow diamond on the NFPA 704 fire diamond represent?
a. !Reactivity
b. Radioactivity
c. Flammability
d. Health

6. What is the molecular formula of Ozone?

a. SO4
b. !O3
c. C6H2O6
d. N2O

7. What do you study if you are studying entomology?

a. !Insects
b. Fish
c. Humans
d. the Brain

8. A plant that has a life cycle for more than a year is known as an annual.
a. !False
b. True

9. What is Hypernatremia?
a. Increase in blood glucose
b. Decrease in blood iron
c. Decrease in blood potassium
d. !Increase in blood sodium

10. What is the molecular formula of the active component of chili

peppersCapsaicin?
a. C21H23NO3
b. !C18H27NO3
c. C6H4Cl2
d. C13H25NO4