See No. 5.

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. Music. Who developed the first electronic synthesizer?
   a. Robert Moog.   b. Ray Kurzweil.   c. Wendy Carlos.    d. Raymond Scott.

2. Literature. Which one of the following novels is NOT by Neal Stephenson?
   a. Imperial Earth.   b. Snow Crash.    c. The Big U.   d. The Diamond Age.

3. Physics. In the equation, f = ma, what does "f" stand for?
   a. farads.   b. fascicle.   c. farradays.   d. force.

4. Oceanography. In which ocean is the deepest spot on earth?
   a. Atlantic.   b. Indian.   c. Pacific.   d. Gulf of Mexico.

5. Space. How many manned lunar landings have there been?
    a. 4.   b. 5.   c. 6.   d. 7.

6. Architecture. Which architect said "God is in the details"?
   a. Walter Gropius.  b. Mies can der Rohe.  c. Philip Johnson.    d. Michelangelo.

7. Lepidoptery. Where do monarch butterflies spend the winter?
   a. In cocoons.   b. Mexico.   c. Texas.   d. South America.

8. Art. Which artist added to his fame with his autobiography?
   a. Picasso.   b. Van Gogh.   c. Whistler.   d. Cellini.

9. Movies. Who directed Mission to Mars?
   a. George Lucas.   b. Brian de Palma.   c. Oliver Stone.    d. Quintin Tarantino.

10. Disasters. In which North American natural disaster did the most people die?
   a. San Francisco earthquake.   b. Unnamed Galveston hurricane (1900).
   c. Hurricane Andrew.   d. Johnstown flood.

11. Stumper. We've come up with such a neat stumper, we're abandoning the multiple-choice format just this once: What is the longest word that can be made with the letters in the top row of the keyboard (qwertyuiop). Hint: You can use a given letter more than once.

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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