ISAAC ASIMOV’S SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a PhD. Score one point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, two points on the Graduate Level and three points on the PhD Level.

SUBJECT: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY

(e.g., The first city to be hit by an atomic bomb. Answer: Hiroshima.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. Julius Caesar famously crossed this river in 49 BC. 2. George Washington crossed this river in 1776. 3. Japan attacked this site in Oahu, Hawaii, in 1941. 4. Napoleon was exiled to this Atlantic Island. 5. This island is famous for its statues, called moai.

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. David Crockett died fighting at this site. 7. The mutineers from the HMS Bounty settled on these islands. 8. The Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx are located at this site. 9. Darwin studied the animals on this island group during his HMS Beagle voyage. 10. This city was the main site of the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

PHD LEVEL

11. What was the starting point of the Titanic on its tragic voyage? 12. The only part of the British territories occupied by the Nazis during World War II. 13. Henry Morton Stanley located David Livingstone in this town on the shores of Lake Tanganyika. 14. Major-General Charles Gordon was killed at this site in Africa. 15. The Treaty of Nanjing ceded this island to the United Kingdom.

ANSWERS FOR FRI, SEP 1:

1. Napoleon. 2. Robert (Bob) Cratchit. 3. Buck. 4. Scarlett O’Hara. 5. Shirley. 6. Cheshire Cat. 7. Scheherazade. 8. Phileas Fogg. 9. Messala.

SCORING:

24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honours graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enrol in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?