Citizen Kane (1941).

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. Food. Approximately how many seeds does an avocado have?
    a. 1.  b. 4-10.  c. A few dozen. d. Several hundred.

2. History. The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 occurred in:
    a. South Africa.  b. Malaysia.  c. China.  d. Russia.

3. Movies. Most critics rank Citizen Kane as the greatest American movie. Which real-life person is the main character, Charles Kane, based on?
    a. John D. Rockefeller.  b. William Randolph Hearst.  c. J. Pierpont Morgan.
    d. Henry Ford.

4. Technology. First was the telegraph. Then the telephone. On a time-line, which of the following was next?
    a. Movies.  b. Radio.  c. 78 r.p.m. records.  d. The electric car starter.

5. Travel. The largest country in the world in land area is Russia. What's Number 2?
    a. China.  b. USA.  c. Brazil.  d. Canada.

6. Science. A friend takes her first trip in an airplane and sends you the following e-mail: "Bernoulli was right!" What was she referring to?
    a. Giacamo Bernoulli gave the Wright Brothers critical design suggestions.
    b. Bernoulli's Principle.
    c. Bernoulli's development of the first jet engine.
    d. Bernoulli's statement after his first flight, "Faster is better."

7. Art. Probably the most famous painting in Holland is The Night Watch. Who did it?
    a. Van Gogh.  b. Rembrandt.  c. Magritte.  d. Turner.

8. Books. Homer and Milton have two things in common. One, they both wrote epic poems. They were also both:
    a. Blind.  b. Of Greek ancestry.  c. Left-handed.  d. Bald.

9. Sociology. According to a Gallup Poll, the second most respected profession in America is public school teaching. What's Number 1?
    a. Doctors.  b. Priests, preachers, etc.  c. Nurses.  d. Librarians.

10. Sports. In which city were the first modern Olympics held?
    a. Berlin.  b. Paris.  c. Athens.  d. Los Angeles.

11. Stumper. You're taking a test and come to a question which asks you to explain the statement, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." What's the subject of the class?
    a. Morphology.  b. Hydrostatics.  c. Geophysics.  d. Histology.

Scoring
9-12: Ph.D.
7-8: M.A.
5-6: B.A.
< 5: You need to re-do Kindergarten.

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