See Nos. 2 and 11 below.

What's your culture quotient? You get 1 point for each of the first ten questions. For No. 11, the really hard one, you get 2 points.

1. Sports. Juan Manuel Fangio was:
    a. a bullfighter.  b. a race-car driver.  c. a soccer star.   d. a tennis player.

2. History. The picture above relates to which revolution?
    a. French.  b. Russian.  c. Chinese.  d. German.

3. Geography. If you are born in São Paulo, which language do you learn?
    a. Spanish.  b. French.  c. Italian.  d. Portuguese.

4. Economics. Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?
    a. J.K. Galbraith.  b. Adam Smith.  c. Milton Friedman.   d. Motley Fool.

5. Media. In which decade was MTV started?
    a. 1950s.  b. 1960s.  c. 1970s.  d. 1980s.

6. Cars. Two famous cars had gull-wing doors. One was the ill-fated DeLorean. What was the other?
    a. Thunderbird.  b. Corvette.  c. Mercedes.  d. Citroën.

7. Movies. Before "M.A.S.H." became a sitcom, it was a movie. Who directed the movie?
    a. Robert Altman.  b. Woody Allen.  c. Mel Brooks.  d. Rob Reiner.

8. Feminism. In 1848 the first international women's rights meeting was held. In which city?
    a. London.  b. Paris.  c. Seneca Falls.  d. New York City.

9. Zoology. The tallest as well as the oldest trees in the world are found in the same American state. Which one?
    a. Texas.  b. California.  c. Colorado.  d. Florida.

10. Math. Every school child learns the Pythagorean Theorem. What was Pythagoras's native language?
    a. Latin.  b. Egyptian.  c. Arabic.  d. Greek.

11. Stumper. Who is depicted in the picture above?
    a. Jean Paul Marat.  b. Vladimir Lenin.  c. Nathan Hale.   d. Karl Marx.

Scoring
9-12: Ph.D.
7-8: M.A.
5-6: B.A.
< 5: OK, so you're smarter than Bill Gates. So what?

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