GEO331 HW Winter 2021 3
GEO331 HW Winter 2021 3
GEO331 HW Winter 2021 3
a. !Judy Garland
b. Marilyn Monroe
c. Julie Andrews
d. Doris Day
3. Which famous New York Yankees outfielder did Marilyn Monroe marry?
a. !Joe DiMaggio
b. Babe Ruth
c. Tino Martinez
d. Mason Williams
5. In which of these TV shows did the chef Gordon Ramsay not appear?
a. !Auction Hunters
b. Ramsay039;s Kitchen Nightmares
c. Hell039;s Kitchen
d. Hotel Hell
8. What caused Jake Lloyd who played Anakin Skywalker in The Phantom Menace to quit
acting?
a. Criminal Record
b. !Bullying
c. Racism
d. Nomination for Worst Actor
9. What was James Coburn039;s last film role before his death?
a. Texas Rangers
b. Snow Dogs
c. Monsters Inc
d. !American Gun
2. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its039; thickness will be
34th the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
a. False
b. !True
4. The metric prefix quot;attoquot; makes a measurement how much smaller than the
base unit?
a. !One Quintillionth
b. One Quadrillionth
c. One Septillionth
d. One Billionth
10. Which of the following mathematicians made major contributions to game theory?
a. Stefan Banach
b. Leonhard Euler
c. Carl Friedrich Gauss
d. !John Von Neumann
11. The notion of a quot;set that contains all sets which do not contain
themselvesquot; is a paradoxical idea attributed to which English philospher?
a. !Bertrand Russel
b. Alfred North Whitehead
c. John Locke
d. Francis Bacon
1. The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, had a yield of 50
megatons but theoretically had a maximum yield of how much?
a. 200 Megatons
b. !100 Megatons
c. 150 Megatons
d. 75 Megatons
3. One of the deadliest pandemics, the quot;Spanish Fluquot;, killed off what
percentage of the human world population at the time?
a. 1 to 3 percent
b. !3 to 6 percent
c. 6 to 10 percent
d. less than 1 percent
7. When did the United States formally declare war on Japan, entering World War II?
a. June 22, 1941
b. September 1, 1939
c. !December 8, 1941
d. June 6, 1944
9. What was the name of the German offensive operation in October 1941 to take
Moscow before winter?
a. !Operation Typhoon
b. Case Blue
c. Operation Barbarossa
d. Operation Sunflower
10. The ancient city of Chicheacute;n Itzaacute; was built by which civilization?
a. Incas
b. !Mayans
c. Aztecs
d. Toltecs
11. Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not
hold?
a. Professor of Mathematics
b. !Surveyor to the City of London
c. Member of Parliament
d. Warden of the Royal Mint