Magellan's Log: Kulchur Kwotient 799 ANSWERS

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See No. 5 below.

ANSWERS are in red:

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. Music. You know that three seconds of music you hear 8 times a day when you re-boot? Who wrote the "Windows" theme?
a. Brian Eno. b. Yoko Ono. c. U-2. d. David Bowie.

2. Animals. A female fox is called a vixen. What's a male fox called?
a. vix. b. vixol. c. dog fox. d. no special term.

3. Biology. When scientists talk about "somatic cell nuclear transfer," what's the common expression?
a. abortion. b. cloning. c. transplant. d. plastic surgery.

4. Words. Your significant other makes a date to meet you in front of the fane on Main Street. What kind of building do you look for?
a. school. b. bank. c. hospital. d. church.

5. Architecture. The picture above is of one of the most famous houses in America. Who was the architect?
a. Benjamin Franklin. b. Eli Whitney.
c. Josiah Singer. d. Thomas Jefferson (Montecello).

6. Editing. In editing, the symbol " ^ " is used to indicate a point of insertion for a correction. What's the symbol called?
a. bullet. b. arrow. c. dingbat. d. caret.

7. Literature. Conrad : English literature = ______ : American literature.
a. Dreiser. b. Kosinski. c. Twain. d. Hemingway.
They both wrote in English though their native language was Polish.

8. Geography. Washington : USA = Ulaanbaatar : ______.
a. Mongolia. b. Zimbabwe. c. Uzbekistan. d. Mayanmar.

9. Demography. What's the second largest city in France?
a. Biarritz. b. Marseilles. c. Lyons. d. Le Havre.

10. Geometry. Everybody knows that " p " is pi, 3.1416... and represents the ratio between the diameter and the circumference of a circle. What is the approximate value of " f " ?
a. 1.62 (the Golden Mean). b. 1.41. c. -1. d. Any prime number.

11. Stumper (2 points). In which state is the house in the photo?
a. Virginia. b. Massachusetts. c. Rhode Island. d. New York.

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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