See No. 4.

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. Urbanology. Both Washington, D.C., and Paris, France, are examples of what kind of city?
   a. Linear.   b. Reticulated.   c. Radial.    d. Cellular.

2. Movies. Who was the director of Sleep, in which the camera remained focused on a person sleeping for several hours?
   a. Robert Altman.   b. Orson Welles.    c. Andy Warhol.   d. Federico Fellini.

3. Food. In which country did the food we know as pasta originate?
   a. China.   b. Italy.   c. Argentina.   d. Greece.

4. Mythology. In the illustration above, from a piece of Greek pottery, the winged creature is a sphinx. Who is the person talking to the sphinx?
   a. Oedipus.   b. Aknaton.   c. Apollo.   d. Tiresias.

5. Art. Which of the following artists was a contemporary of Van Gogh?
    a. Dali.   b. David.   c. Manet.   d. Rousseau.

6. Technology. Which company developed the first device for recording television on magnetic tape?
   a. Westinghouse.  b. Eastman Kodak.  c. 3-M.    d. RCA.

7. Education. At which university was the first standardized I.Q. test developed?
   a. Princeton.   b. Stanford.    c. Harvard.   d. Chicago.

8. Computers. You scan a large color photograph into your computer. When you save it, in which format will the image occupy the least disk space?
   a. gif.   b. jpg.   c. wmf.   d. bmp.

9. Language. If you want to eat a potato in France, you order a pomme de terre. What do you order if you want a potato in Germany?
   a. Kartoffel.   b. Schwanz.   c. Rühreier.    d. Halsband.

10. Couture. Which of the following is NOT a fashion designer?
   a. Raymond Loewy.   b. Karl Lagerfeld. c. Christian Dior.   d. Mary Quant.

11. Stumper. Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 is known for its difficulty. How many notes does the pianist strike when playing this work?
   a. 3,000.   b. 13,000.   c. 23,000.   d. 33,000.

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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