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2 IfeH^CSl^BaneShop Hay 1979 2 Math Test For Literature Majors 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21, 22. 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Trivia Triviorum Who is Gil Bias? What learning disorder did W. B. Yeats suffer from? What was the name of the robot in the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still? What was the name of John Wayne’s first movie? To which poem do these lines belong: “Adam, Adam, where art thou?/ Heah Marse Lord, Ise a-comin’ now./ Stole my apples, I believe?/ No, Marse Lord, but I spec’ it wuz Eve?” ‘ What literary character uttered these lines: “Rosa Coldfield, Rosa Coldfield, Henry’s done shot that French feller. Kilt him dead as a beef?" Who wrote. Goldilocks and the Tree Bears? Who wrote, Bartholomew and the Oobleck? Where was Goliath from? Which Biblical figure had sex with his daughters? What famous composer invented the “two-manual harpsichord?” Name the first balloon team to cross the Atlantic, The Egyptian god, Ra, had a line of sons named by what title? What was the first broadcasting network? Who invented basketball? What is the word for “fear of slime?” How many bones can be found in the human body? Which ear did Van Gogh mutilate? Name the five varieties of twins. . What is the 4-6pm shift on a ship called? . Which nation invented macaroni? , What are the seven basic symbols of Roman numerology? Who invented the term “Booboosie” in describing the bour geoisie? . What is the name of the nearest star, other than the sun? , What was the year of the Edsel? . What does the idiom, “I’esprit de I’escalier” describe? . What singer of the 50’s cried as part of his act? , What TV actor is k-ing of a Figi island? . What was the Indian princess’s name on Howdy Doodyl . What literary characters name is made up of three names for the buttocks? . Who was lampooned as MacFlecknoe in the poem by the same name? . What does the metaphor “low spark of high-heeled boys” stand for? . What line followed, “Here’s lookin’ at you sweetheart,” in the movie Casablanca? . Who first advanced the theory that the world is round? . Who was the first effective discoverer of the refracting telescope? . What is the word for the study of sin? . Name Marilyn Monroe’s first husband. . What is “dogwood winter?” . Which important American car manufacturer is family owned? . What was the original title of Look Honieward.AngeP. . What did Jonathan Swift propose in, “A Modest Proposal?” . Where is the National Weather Center located? . What Italian poet died with his face in a book of Ovid? . What sociologist coined the v^'ork “anomie” to describe a modern social malai.se? . W'hat is a “three dog night?” BONUS SECTION . Name three illnesses .which plague Alexander Pope. . What is the natural habitat of the Sopwith Camel? . What is the principle ingredient in “bird’s nest soup? . Why N .C. “first in freedom?” Translate: ^-J _ fi Last Montlfs Answers: 1 Salmon P. Chase 2 Caligula 3 The White Rose of Memphis 4 Albert Einstein 5 Lucretia 6 Oscar‘Wilde 7 Sally Henderson 8 Simonetta Vespucci 9 mapmaker 10 Eric Clapton 11 The Isley Brothers 12 Com mitted hari kari 13 faro 14 Bob Zimmerman 15 Sir Waller Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth 16 Andrew Tangman 17 Ralph and Alice Cramden and Ed and Trixi Norton 18 Soupy Sales 19 Ronnie Milsap 20 Maxwell House Coffee 21 Tiberius 22 Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Secretariat 23 Alhos, Porthos, Aramis, D’Artagnan 24 nothing 25 Arizona 26 Sam Thompson, in 1894 27 Senate and People of Rome 28 Malcolm Little 29 Columbia University 30 7; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 31 Nellie Belle 32 Continfias, Passepartout 33 Tiberius and Craius 34 Gregor Mendel 35 Dmitri Mendeleev 36 James Warner 37 Rafael Sabatini 38 Dr. John Gorz 39 Harriet Monroe 40 Dean Moriarty, Neal 1. The Cumaean Sibyl offered to sell nine books of oracles to King Tarquin. The King sent her away, so she burned three books and came back offering the rest for the same price as nine. The King turned her away again, so she burned three more books and returned-to offer the last three for the original nine- book asking price. The King then superstitiously caved in and bought the books. What percen tage was the mark-up? 2. Antonio weighed 167 pounds. If Shylock had carried out his revenge, how much would Antonio have weighed then? 3. Polyphemus ate two of Ulys ses’ companions for supper. The next morning Polyphemus ate two more of Ulysses’ compan ions for breakfast. That evening Polyphemus again ate two of Ulysses’ companions for supper. How many of Ulysses’ compan ions survived? 4. In Boccaccio’s Decameron, ten people tell one tale apiece each day for ten days. How many tales are told by men and how many by women? 5. Gulliver is twelve times as tall as a Lilliputian. He is twelve times shorter than a Brobding- nagian. How many Lilliputians does, it take to fill a Brobding- nagian boot? 6. If the Twelve Dancing Prin cesses appear on three consec utive nights, what is the proba bility that they will all become engaged in successful marri ages? 7. If a two flued harpoon, a one flued harpoon, a one flued toggle harpoon, a toggle har poon, and a lance harpoon are all stuck in Maby Dick’s back, how many flues have the har- pooners let fly? 8. Guy de Maupassant wrote three hundred short stories in ten years. How many stories should he be now have written if he were still alive? 9. If three men each pick ten great books to be shipwrecked with on a desert island, and if they do not consult to avoid the more obvious duplications, then how many different titles will their collection comprise? IQ. According to Dante, Hell has nine circles. In the ninth circle are four concentric regions. The eighth circle is composed of ten bowges. The seventh circle has three rigns. Knowing that each circle, each region, each bowge and each ring has 360 degrees, can you compute how many degrees there are in hell altogether? a EDITOR Deirdre Morro ASSISTANT EDITOR Bill Porter ARTS EDITOR Katherine Kremer SPORTS Robert Koenig STAFF Kristi Leatherwood, Lowery McLendon Bob Korns, Mark West, Peggy Gardner ART & LAYOUT Deirdre Morro, Bill Porter, Katherine Kremer, Copyright ® The Rag and Bone Shop, March 1979 The Rag and Bone Shop c/o The Ridgerunner The University of North Carolina-Asheville Asheville, North Carolina 28804 704 258-0200, ext. 343
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