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. Geography. What's the oldest city in the United States?
    a. Santa Fe.  b. San Luis Obispo.  c. St. Augustine.  d. New Orleans.

2. Pop Culture. When was Diet Coke first marketed?
   a. 1952.   b. 1962.    c. 1972.   d. 1982.

3. Art. Which is the world's largest art museum?
   a. The Hermitage (St. Petersburg).   b. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).   c. The Louvre (Paris).   d. The Prado (Madrid).

4. TV. When did MTV begin broadcasting?
   a. 1976.   b. 1981.   c. 1986.   d. 1991.

5. Zoology. Which of the following has a sense of smell as good as that of a dog?
    a. human.   b. cat.   c. elephant.   d. ant.

6. Nomenclature. The "infinity" symbol (a figure eight on its side) has a name. What it is?
   a. lemniscate.  b. infinimorph.  c. striate.    d. metaglyph.

7. Philology. The word "nerd" was coined by:
   a. Douglas Adams.   b. Neal Stephenson.   c. Wired Magazine.   d. Dr. Seuss (in If I Ran the Zoo).

8. Demographics. Which was the first city to have a population of 1,000,000?
   a. New York.   b. Rome (in 133 BCE).   c. Shanghai.   d. Cairo.

9. Anatomy. What is the largest organ in the human body?
   a. brain.   b. lungs.   c. heart.   d. None of the above (the skin is the largest organ).

10. Travel. Which American state has the most national parks?
   a. Alaska (10 national parks).   b. California. c. Texas.   d. Washington.

11. Stumper. The photo above is of the Alamo, in San Antonio. In what year was the Batlle of the Alamo?
   a. 1821.   b. 1836.   c. 1845.   d. 1857.

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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