See No. 2.

Answers are marked in red.

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. Death. Which of the following is not buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris?
    a. Frederic Chopin.  b. Karl Marx.  c. Jim Morrison.  d. Oscar Wilde.

2. Space. The surface of which planet is visible in the photo above?
    a. Mars.  b. Venus.  c. Mercury.  d. Jupiter.

3. Yachting. Which was the first country other than the United States to win the America's Cup?
    a. New Zealand.  b. France.  c. South Africa.  d. Australia.

4. Sports. Where was Tiger Woods' mother born?
    a. Texas.  b. Thailand.  c. Hungary.  d. Senegal.

5. Geography. Everybody knows Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. What is the second tallest?
    a. Fujiyama.  b. Mount Rainier.  c. Mont Blanc.   d. Annapurna.

6. Music. How many strings does a violin have?
    a. 2.  b. 4.  c. 6.  d. 8.

7. Food. The sturgeon in which river supposedly produce the best caviar?
    a. Danube.  b. Rhine.  c. Seine.  d. Volga.

8. Journalism. Which newspaper started the op-ed page?
    a. New York Times.  b. Washington Post.  c. Los Angeles Times.  d. Times of London.

9. Cars. Who designed the original Volkswagen?
    a. Raymond Loewy.  b. Philip Johnson.  c. Ferdinand Porsche.  d. Mies van der Rohe.

10. Sci-fi. Who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land?
    a. Robert Heinlein.  b. L. Ron Hubbard.  c. Isaac Asimov.  d. Jules Verne.

11. Stumper. The symbol "#" has several names. Which of the following is not a name for that symbol?
    a. Dingie.  b. Pound.  c. Number.  d. Octomorph.

Scoring
9-12: Ph.D.
7-8: M.A.
5-6: B.A.
< 5: You're still probably smarter than Regis Philbin.

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