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. Computers. A "teraflop" is 1,000,000,000,000 calculations per second. IBM is working on a supercomputer that'll do 1,000,000,000,000,000 per second. What's the word?
   a. petaflop (the next thousand will be the "exaflop").   b. hexaflop.   c. tetraflop.   d. megaflop.

2. Art. In the 1940s and 1950s, which cartoonist was the driving force behind the Warner Brothers characters depicted above?
   a. Fritz Freleng.   b. Walter Lantz.    c. Chuck Jones.   d. Al Capp.

3. Movies. Which of the following movies is NOT one of the top ten all-time moneymakers?
   a. Jaws (it's only No. 23).   b. E.T..   c. Jurassic Park.   d. Independence Day.

4. Model Railroads. Which of the following is NOT a standard gauge in model railroading?
   a. HO.   b. TT.   c. S.   d. G.

5. Architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the first Guggenheim Museum (in New York City). Who designed the second one (in Balboa, Spain)?
    a. Philip Johnson.   b. I.M. Pei.   c. Denise Scott Brown.   d. Frank Gehrey.

6. Cars. Which of the following companies does Ford NOT own a share in?
   a. Jaguar.  b. Volvo.  c. Saab (General Motors has a piece of Saab).    d. Mazda.

7. Journalism. Which magazine did Henry Luce found?
   a. Newsweek.   b. Time.   c. U.S. News & World Report.   d. The New Yorker.

8. Intellectual History. Who said, "Biology is destiny"?
   a. Freud.   b. Darwin.   c. Einstein.   d. Descartes.

9. Linguistics. Which pair of languages are related?
   a. Russian-Thai.   b. Chinese-Urdu.   c. Hungarian-Romany.    d. English-Cambodian (they are both in the Indo-european family).

10. Warfare. Europe was a mess from 1638-1648, in the Thirty Years' War. Who were the primary opponents?
   a. England-France.   b. Catholics-Protestants. c. Germany-France.   d. Italy-Spain.

11. Stumper. In the picture above, what's the cat's name (third character from the left)?
   a. Tom.   b. Sylvester.   c. Pepe le Pew.   d. Marvin.

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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