Quiz

Question 1
Who was the wife of Odysseus who faithfully waited 20 years for his return from
Troy?

a. Helen
b. Penelope
c. Nausicaa
d. Calypso

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.

Question 2
Who was the daughter of King Minos who helped Theseus to escape from the
Labyrinth?

a. Arachne
b. Andromeda
c. Ariadne
d. Arethusa

You answered c.
This is the correct answer.

Question 3
What was the name of the Cyclops who imprisoned Odysseus and some of his
companions in his cave?

a. Polyphemus
b. Procrustes
c. Proteus
d. Prometheus

You answered a.
This is the correct answer.

Question 4
Who was the wife of Orpheus, whom he tried to rescue from the underworld?

a. Euterpe
b. Cassandra
c. Persephone
d. Eurydice

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.
Question 5
Which Greek heroine refused to marry any man who could not beat her in a foot-
race, those who lost being killed?

a. Alcestis
b. Andomache
c. Ariadne
d. Atalanta

You answered a.
This is incorrect.

Question 6
Who was the King of Thebes accidentally slain by his son Oedipus?

a. Laius
b. Atreus
c. Nestor
d. Pentheus

You answered a.
This is the correct answer.

Question 7
Who was the nymph changed by Hera into a she-bear and by Zeus into the
constellation Ursa Major?

a. Alcyone
b. Electra
c. Callisto
d. Iphigeneia

You failed to answer.

Question 8
Who were the band of warriors from Thessaly who went to the Trojan War with
Achilles?

a. Argonauts
b. Myrmidons
c. Arcadians
d. Lapiths

You answered c.
This is incorrect.

Question 9
Who was the Greek shepherd on Mt. Latmos who was loved by the moon-goddess
Selene?

a. Paris
b. Hyperion
c. Actaeon
d. Endymion

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.

Question 10
Midas, the king with 'the golden touch', was king of which country?

a. Sparta
b. Crete
c. Argos
d. Phrygia

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.

Question 1
Entomology is the branch of zoology dealing with ...

a. Lizards
b. Insects
c. Birds
d. Fish

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.

Question 2
Cryogenics is the study of ...

a. Materials at very low temperatures

b. Cell decay
c. Blood circulation
d. Codes and cyphers

You answered a.
This is the correct answer.

Question 3
Nosology is ...

a. Plastic surgery
b. The study of the respiratory system
c. The study of poisons
d. The systematic classification of diseases

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.

Question 4
Osteology is the study of ...

a. The ear
b. Bones
c. The heart
d. Defects of vision

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.

Question 5
Mycology is the study of ...

a. Fungi
b. Ants
c. Grasses
d. Penguins

You answered a.
This is the correct answer.

Question 6
Myology is the study of ...

a. Sleep
b. Memory defects
c. Muscles
d. Resistance to disease

You answered b.
This is incorrect.

Question 7
Rheology is the scientific study of ...

a. Electrical conductivity
b. Animal migration
c. Climatic abnormalities
d. Elasticity, viscosity and plasticity

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.

Question 8
Semiology is the branch of medical science concerned
with ...

a. The symptoms of disease

b. The placebo effect
c. Cell replication
d. Injuries to the brain

You answered c.
This is incorrect.

Question 9
Pedology is the scientic study of ...

a. Feet
b. Childhood ailments
c. Soil
d. Wave motion

You answered a.
This is incorrect.
Question 10
Balneology is the scientific study of ...

a. Growing crops
b. Coastal erosion
c. Baths and bathing
d. The effects of weightlessness

You answered b.
This is incorrect.

Lord Acton: (1834-1902; British historian, politician and

educator. Considered the most learned individual of his era,
unmatched in the breadth and depth of his knowledge.)

Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Question 1
Who first said or wrote: 'Ask not what your country can do
for you, but what you can for your country'?

a. Dwight D. Eisenhower
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Richard M. Nixon
d. George W. Bush

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.
Question 2
Who first said or wrote: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies,
damned lies, and statistics'?

a. Charles Dickens
b. Edgar Allen Poe
c. James McNeill Whistler
d. Mark Twain

You answered d.
This is the correct answer.

Question 3
Who first said or wrote: 'Give me liberty or give me death'?

a. Robespierre
b. Aristotle
c. Patrick Henry
d. Lord Byron

You answered a.
This is incorrect.

Question 4
Who first said or wrote: 'No man is an island'?

a. Daniel Defoe
b. Samuel Johnson
c. John Donne
d. William Blake

You answered c.
This is the correct answer.

Question 5
Who first said or wrote: 'In this world nothing can be said
to be certain, except death and taxes'?
a. Washington Irving
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Al Capone
d. Will Rogers

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.

Question 6
Who first said or wrote: 'Rose is a rose is a rose'?

a. Ernest Hemingway
b. James Joyce
c. Gertrude Stein
d. Noel Coward

You answered b.
This is incorrect.

Question 7
Who first said or wrote: 'They also serve who only stand
and wait'?

a. John Milton
b. Robert Browning
c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
d. Robert Service

You answered b.
This is incorrect.

Question 8
Who first said or wrote: 'The female of the species is more
deadly than the male'?

a. Ogden Nash
b. Dorothy Parker
c. Rudyard Kipling
d. Ezra Pound

You answered c.
This is the correct answer.

Question 9
Who first said or wrote: 'The mass of men lead lives of
quiet desperation'?

a. W. C. Fields
b. Henry David Thoreau
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Cornelius Vanderbilt

You answered b.
This is the correct answer.