
See No. 5 below.
What's your culture quotient? Give yourself 1 point
for each of the first ten questions. For No. 11, the really hard one, make it 2 points.
1. Astrology. Eleven of the symbols used in the zodiac
have symbols of animate objects. One is inanimate. Which is it?
a. Libra. b. Aquarius. c. Pisces.
d. Aries.
2. Vocabulary. What's a funambulist?
a. Ambulance-chaser. b. Tight-rope
walker. c. Pleasure walker. d. Magician.
3. Literature I. Two famous writers died on the same day. Which
two?
a. Dickens and George Eliot. b. Fitzgerald and
Hemingway.
c. Coleridge and Goethe. d. Shakespeare and Cervantes.
4. Literature II. Which of the following epics is the longest?
a. Divine Comedy. b. Paradise Lost.
c. Iliad-Odyssey. d. Mahabhrata.
5. Art. Before Leonardo painted her, La Giocanda made a physical
change in her facial appearance, which is immediately visible in the painting. What was
it?
a. Removed her eyebrows. b. Rouged her cheeks.
c. Tinted her lips. d. Pierced her ears.
6. Sports. What is the approximate distance from the pitcher's mound
to homeplate in baseball?
a. 40 feet. b. 60 feet. c. 80
feet. d. 100 feet.
7. Digestion. Americans annually eat 11 billion of a certain fruit,
making it the most consumed in America. Which is it?
a. Apples. b. Oranges. c. Bananas.
d. Strawberries.
8. Digestion II. In which country were fortune cookies invented?
a. China. b. Taiwan. c.
Singapore. d. USA.
9. Analogy. Macintosh : apple = Morgan : ______?
a. Wine. b. Car. c. Candle.
d. Fountain pen.
10. Cuisine. If a restaurant has "spats" on its menu, what
will you be eating if you order some?
a. Truffles. b. oysters. c. Sweet
potatoes. d. Wheat germ.
11. Stumper (2 points). What is the nationality of the artist who
painted the picture above?
a. Spanish. b. French. c. American.
d. British.
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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