See No. 10 below.

What's your culture quotient? Give yourself 1 point for each of the first ten questions. For No. 11, the really hard one, make it 2 points.
Answers are at the bottom of the page.

1. Tourism. How many people visit Venice each year?
    a. 190,000.  b. 1,900.000.  c. 19,000,000.  d. 190,000,000.

2. Astronomy. 75% of the sun consists of which element?
    a. Hydrogen.  b. Oxygen.  c. Nitrogen.  d. Magnesium.
    Bonus (1 point): What does the other 25% consist of? ___________

3. Media. How many beeps in the BBC World Service hourly time signal?
    a. 3.  b. 4.  c. 5.  d. 6.

4. Demographics. Which country has only 47 women for every 100 men?
    a. China.  b. India.  c. United Arab Emirates.  d. Sweden.

5. Applied Physics. How much did it cost to build the first atomic bomb?
    a. $2 billion.  b. $20 billion.  c. $200 billion.  d. $2 trillion.

6. Wisdom. Who said, "The wiser you are, the more you believe in equality, because the difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to all that is unknown."
    a. Einstein.  b. Billy Graham.  c. Sojourner Truth.  d. Henry David Thoreau.

7. Language. Which word is most frequently misspelled?
    a. receive.  b. argument.  c. embarrass.  d.occurrence)

8. Geography. How far is it, by highway, from Key West to Seattle?
    a. 1938 miles. b. 2838 miles.  c. 3838 miles.  d. 4848 miles.

9. Games. Only one day of the week has an anagram. Which day is it?
    a. Sunday.  b. Monday.  c. Tuesday.  d. Friday.
    Bonus (1 point): What is the anagram? ___________

10. Medicine. In which century was aspirin first sold?
    a. 17th.  b. 18th.  c. 19th.  d. 20th.

Bonus Question (2 points):
Western civilization didn’t discover aluminum until 1827. Which civilization was using it as early as 300?
    a. India.  b. Mayan.  c. Japan.  d. China.

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          Answers:
             1. c.
             2. a. Bonus: helium.
             3. d.
             4. c.
             5. b.
             6. a.
             7. a.
             8. c.
             9. b. Bonus: dynamo.
             10. c (1899).
             Bonus Question: d.