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"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
THE DAILY ASTRONOMER
Friday, January 21, 2022
Quiz # 16: 1938 Quiz Book*
Let's propel ourselves back to the year 1938 and open a quiz book! After all, quizzes were as popular then as they are now. Heavens above, quizzes have been in vogue since the first cell division, as humans have always been so curiously curious about anything and everything. Despite the time lapse, give this quiz a try. Hey, if World War II trivia is a weakness,this quiz will be right up your alley!
Enjoy!
1. Who smothered Desdemona?
a. Victor Frankenstein
b. Othello
c. Lady MacBeth
d. Gaius Caligula
2. If you practice hagiolatry, what are you worshipping?
a. old women
b. the Sun
c. saints
d. numbers
3. Who is credited with having named the Pacific Ocean?
a. Magellan
b. Captain Cook
c. Ponce de Leon
d. It is a Native American name of unknown origin
4. MacBeth was ______________________.
a. actually a king of Scotland who died in 1057
b. actually a king of Ireland who died in 714
c. a fictional character based on nobody
d. actually a queen of France who died in 1291
5. Who was considered the father of human anatomy?
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Vesalius
c. Gottfried Mendel
d. Valentia Tereskhova
6. In mythology, Aeolus' six sons and six daughters represented what?
a. the twelve signs of the zodiac
b. the twelve months
c. the twelve shades of darkness
d. the twelve humours
7. Shelley's "Adonais" was an elegy on the death of what poet?
a. Alexander Pope
b. Keats
c. Shakespeare
d. Milton
8. In what kind of triangle are none of the sides equal in length?
a. equilateral
b. isosceles
c. scalene
d. right
9. Who was the first wife of King Henry VIII?
a. Anne of Cleves
b. Anne Boleyn
c. Catherine Howard
d. Catharine of Aragon
10. If each edge of a cube measures 1 cm, what is the volume of the cube expressed in cubic centimeters?
a. 1
b. 4
c. 8
d. 16
11. Which of his books did Charles Dickens considered to be his best?
a. "Oliver Twist."
b. "The Pickwick Papers"
c. "David Copperfield"
d. "Great Expectations."
12. What was the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?
a. Delaware
b. Virginia
c. Pennsylvania
d. Massachusetts
13. King Midas' touch even turned his daughter into gold. What was her name?
a. Marigold
b. Dahlia
c. Cenderella (the spelling of the name at the time)
d. Messalina
14. A black flag depicting a Skull and crossbones is traditionally known as a what?
a. Captain Death Head
b. Jolly Roger
c. Blackamoor
d. USM budget agreement
15. (Still redeeming myself). What year is written MCMXL in Roman Numerals?
a. 1915
b. 1940
c. 1955
d. 1815
16. Which philosopher asserted facetiously that motion was impossible?
a. Socrates
b. Zeno of Elea
c. Thales of Miletus
d. Sappho
17. Mary Wollstonecraft, author of "Vindication of the Rights of Woman," was the mother of another famous author who created which immortal character?
a. Count Dracula
b. Miss Marple
c. Victor Frankenstein
d. Don Juan Tenorio
18. Monte Cristo, made famous by the book "The Count of Monte Cristo," is an island off the coast of which country?
a. Italy
b. Spain
c. Portugal
d. It isn't real actually. Monte Cristo is imaginary
19. What does the lowercase "i" stand for in mathematics?
a. an imaginary number, or the square root of a negative number
b. an imaginary number, or the sum of two negative numbers
c. an imaginary number, which is only a number in five or more dimensions
d. an imaginary number, which refers to the numbers that follow infinity
20. Who is the President? (Hint: remember when this book was published.)
a. Woodrow Wilson
b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
c. Herbert Hoover
d. Calvin Coolidge
1. b. Othello
2. c. saints
3. a. Magellan
4. a. actually a king of Scotland who died in 1057
5. b. Vesalius
6. b. the twelve months
7. b. Keats
8. c. scalene
9. d. Catharine of Aragon
10. a. 1
11. c. "David Copperfield"
12. a. Delaware
13. a. Marigold
14. b. Jolly Roger
15. b. 1940
16. b. Zeno of Elea
17. c. Victor Frankenstein (Author was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
18. a. Italy
19. a. an imaginary number, or the square root of a negative number
20. b. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
*Authors: Rosejeanne Slifer and Louise Crittenden
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