GEO198 Public Speaking Fall 2019 2

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1. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

a. !Leonardo da Vinci
b. Pablo Picasso
c. Vincent van Gogh
d. Claude Monet

2. Who painted the Sistine Chapel?


a. Raphael
b. !Michelangelo
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Pablo Picasso

3. What French sculptor designed the Statue of Liberty?


a. Henri Matisse
b. Auguste Rodin
c. !Freacute;deacute;ric Auguste Bartholdi
d. JeanLeacute;on Geacute;rocirc;me

4. Which artistrsquo;s studio was known as 039;The Factory039;?


a. !Andy Warhol
b. Peter Blake
c. David Hockney
d. Roy Lichtenstein

5. Which one of these paintings is not by Caspar David Friedrich?


a. Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
b. The Monk by the Sea
c. The Sea of Ice
d. !The Black Sea

6. Leonardo da Vinci was not the creator of the Mona Lisa.


a. True
b. !False

7. How many paint and pastel versions of quot;The Screamquot; is Norwegian painter
Edvard Munch believed to have produced?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. !4

8. Who painted the epic mural Guernica?


a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. !Pablo Picasso
c. Henri Matisse
d. Francisco Goya

1. What is the derivative of Acceleration with respect to time?


a. !Jerk
b. Bump
c. Slide
d. Shift

2. How many zeros are there in a googol?


a. !100
b. 10
c. 1,000
d. 1,000,000

3. What are the first 6 digits of the number quot;Piquot;?


a. 3.14169
b. !3.14159
c. 3.12423
d. 3.25812

4. In Roman Numerals, what does XL equate to?


a. 60
b. !40
c. 15
d. 90

5. What is the Roman numeral for 500?


a. X
b. L
c. C
d. !D

6. The 039;Squaring the Circle039; problem is solvable.


a. !False
b. True

7. E MC3
a. !False
b. True

8. An isosceles triangle has two sides of equal length as opposed to three.


a. !True
b. False

9. Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an
army standard Enigma Machine?
a. 1.58 x 1018
b. 1.58 x 1024
c. !1.58 x 1020
d. 1.58 x 1022

10. Which of the following dice is not a platonic solid?


a. 8sided die
b. 20sided die
c. 12sided die
d. !10sided die

11. What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two positive
cubes in two different ways?
a. 91
b. 4104
c. !1729
d. 561

1. What are the base station trackers used for the HTC Vive called?
a. Trackers
b. Constellation
c. !Lighthouse
d. Motion

2. The term quot;batteryquot; to describe an electrical storage device was coined


by?
a. Luigi Galvani
b. !Benjamin Franklin
c. Nikola Tesla
d. Alessandro Volta

3. Microphones can be used not only to pick up sound, but also to project sound
similar to a speaker.
a. !True
b. False

4. When was the DVD invented?


a. 1990
b. !1995
c. 1980
d. 2000

5. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?


a. 1962
b. 1972
c. 1992
d. !1982

6. When was the iPhone released?


a. 2004
b. 2006
c. !2007
d. 2005

7. Which company developed the Hololens?


a. !Microsoft
b. HTC
c. Tobii
d. Oculus

8. Which of the following cellular device companies is NOT headquartered in Asia?


a. HTC
b. !Nokia
c. Samsung
d. LG Electronics

9. Mobile hardware and software company quot;Blackberry Limitedquot; was founded in


which country?
a. !Canada
b. Norway
c. United Kingdom
d. United States of America

10. What is the quot;Mitsubishi Wakamaruquot;?


a. A motorboat
b. !A robot
c. A pickup truck
d. An motorcycle

11. Out of all of the NASA Space Shuttles, which 2 have been destroyed in
disasters?
a. !Challenger and Columbia
b. None of the Above
c. Discovery and Endeavour
d. Enterprise and Atlantis

12. What is the most significant side venture the popular firearms company,
Remington, has pursued?
a. !Typewriters
b. Blenders
c. Door Knobs
d. Ceiling Fans

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