See No. 11.

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. Language. Here are 4 words: month, orange, silver, purple. For how many of those 4 words are there no words which rhyme in English?
    a. 1.  b. 2.  c. 3.  d. 4.

2. Haptics. Most golf balls have 336 dimples. How many ridges around the edge of a dime?
   a. 71.   b. 88.    c. 105.   d. 118.

3. Bad Ideas. Who first came up with the idea of Daylight Saving Time?
   a. Benjamin Franklin.   b. Thomas Edison.   c. Theodore Roosevelt.   d. Charlie Chaplin.

4. Geology. The largest delta in the world is formed by which river?
   a. Nile.   b. Mississippi.   c. Ganges.   d. Amazon.

5. Nomenclature. How many American state names have only one syllable?
    a. 1.   b. 2.   c. 3.   d. 4.

6. Music. If they were all alive today, which of the following composers would be the oldest?
   a. Wagner.  b. Beethoven.  c. Chopin.    d. Schubert.

7. Aviation. Why did the Wright brothers go to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina to test the first airplane?
   a. Privacy.   b. Wind.   c. Relative owned land there.   d. The federal government forced them to.

8. Intellectual History. Who said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth"?
   a. Van Gogh.   b. Dali.   c. Dorothy Parker.   d. Picasso.

9. Measurement. What do you measure with a sphymomanometer?
   a. dew-point.   b. wind shear.   c. fault stress in the earth's crust.   d. blood pressure.

10. Metallurgy. What is the most common metal in the earth's crust?
   a. Iron.   b. Aluminum. c. Copper.   d. Nickel.

11. Stumper. In which country was the photo above taken?
   a. Scotland.   b. England.   c. Wales.   d. Ireland.

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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