Are you informed?

We all gather information and store it away in the dusty drawers in the back of our head every day. Some of it is useful and some of it is just accumulated debris. Let's rummage through those drawers and see what we find.

This test is extremely difficult and will perhaps humiliate a few who decide to challenge it. There are no trick questions. Please don't cheat by Googling the answers. See how well informed you really are.

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. Who was appointed in 2006 to the US Supreme Court?
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Antonin Scalia
John G. Roberts
Samuel A. Alito
Stephen G. Breyer
Sandra Day O'Connor
4. How many states in the US have the death penalty as an option for major crimes?
6
13
25
38
41
50
5. Chevrolet made a compact, rear engine, economy car in the 1960's. What was it called?
Pinto
Camaro
Falcon
Shrew
Corvair
Impala
6. Most of the electricity generated in the US is generated with what resource?
Nuclear
Coal
Natural gas
Wind
Solar
Biogas
7. The production cost of a gallon of crude oil is what?
$.05
$1.72
$12
$17
$31
$48
8. In 1658, what was a capital crime in Boston, Massachussetts?
Livestock theft
Spousal abuse
Religious intolerance
Adultery
Puritanism
Quakerism
9. The Gulf of Tonkin incident:
Occurred in the Sea of Japan
Resulted in the capture of a US intelligence ship
Was a failed invasion sponsored by the CIA
Never really happened
Occurred in 1957
Resulted in the sinking of a US gunboat
10. Who is the CEO of Apple Computer Corporation?
Bill Gates
Larry Ellison
Steve Ballmer
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Steve Miller
11. Who wrote "Mere Christianity"?
Pope John Paul II
Billy Graham
George Fox
William Shakespeare
C. S. Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
12. Who wrote "The Godfather"?
Studds Turkel
Tom Wolf
Virginia Wolf
Tom Swift
Mario Puzo
Mario Lanza
13. In which of Shakeseare' plays was a birth by cesarean section a major element in the outcome?
King Lear
Macbeth
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
A Midsummer Night's Dream
All's Well That Ends Well
14. At exactly 3:15 PM, the angle between the minute hand and the hour hand on a clock is how many degrees?
0
2.5
90
12
7.5
5
15. Which part was NOT played by Robert Duvall?
Lt. Colonel Kilgore
Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Gus McCrae
Colonel Bull Meechum
Ned Pepper
Tom Hagen
16. Betsy Ross was a(n):
Catholic
Methodist
Agnostic
Puritan
Anglican
Quaker
17. Puerto Rico is:
An independent nation
Part of the UK
A US territory
Part of the Dominican Republic
One of the 50 states
A member of the former Soviet Union
18. What happened in America on September 10, 1752
Nothing
The Boston Tea Party
The first European entered Kentucky
The first European crossed the Mississippi River
The Whiskey Rebellion began
Thomas Jefferson was born
19. What US state was a kingdom prior to becoming a state?
Florida
Texas
Virginia
Georgia
Alaska
Hawaii
20. What islands did the US win in the Spanish-American War?
Hawaii
Cuba
The Canary Islands
The Phillipines
The New Hebrides
The Florida Keys
21. What book begins with the quote, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Gulliver's Travels
A Tale of Two Cities
Gone With the Wind
Catch-22
Canterbury Tales
Lord of the Rings
22. Who wrote "The Faerie Queene"?
Edmund Spenser
Thomas Wolfe
Willam Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jonathan Swift
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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