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Answer all of the questions on the quiz, then select the Score button to grade the quiz.

There are 15 Questions total.

1. How far will the space tourist spacecrafts carry passengers into the atmosphere?

100 miles above the earth
80 miles above the earth
1,000 miles above the earth
60 miles above the earth

2. How old was the boy who put the gum on the $1.5 million painting?

10
11
12
13

3. What team in the Sweet Sixteen for the NCAA basketball tournament beat the overall number one seed, ending their undefeated streak?

Boston College
Georgetown
Villanova
LSU

4. Professor Richard K. Root was killed in Africa when a crocodile pulled him from a canoe. Why was he in Africa?

To study the eating habits of crocodiles
To lead a group of college students on a river trip
To train healthcare workers to deal with AIDS
To study dangerous hippos in the Limpopo River

5. How did an Oregon family become stranded in their RV for two weeks?

They were caught in a landslide
They were drifting on an ice floe
They were snowbound in the mountains
They were covered by an avalanche

6. Where do coyotes live?

New York
Kansas
Alaska
All of the above

7. Where is the International Festival being hosted this summer?

Germany
United States
England
Edinburgh

8. Who scored the only goal for the USA in their soccer game against Germany on Wednesday?

Freedy Adu
Michael Ballack
Steve Cherundolo
Pele

9. Who is the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam?

John Bolton
Kofi Annan
Michael Bolton
Michael Marine

10. Which American orchestra will have a Stradivari violin returned to them 21 years after it went missing?

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra

11. What is a labor union?

A company picnic
A group restricted with teachers as its only members
An organization that represents the interests of employees
A strike

12. The Iowa Senate recently voted to prohibit the private ownership of:

wild animals
feral cats
diary cattle
miniature ponies

13. On May 17, the Teletubbies will promote what type of activity?

shopping
writing
exercise
cooking

14. Who was recently given an Awareness Award from the WWF?

The Queen of England
The Prince of Wales
The President of the United States
The British Prime Minister

15. What test was found to have been wrongly scored?

ACT
SAT
LSAT
GRE

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