STAT310: Demonstration

1. Greenland is almost as big as Africa.

a. !False
b. True
2. Which country is completely landlocked by South Africa?
a. Swaziland
b. Botswana
c. Zimbabwe
d. !Lesotho
3. What is the name of the peninsula containing Spain and Portugal?
a. Scandinavian Peninsula
b. European Peninsula
c. Peloponnesian Peninsula
d. !Iberian Peninsula
4. Which country has the abbreviation quot;CHquot;?
a. !Switzerland
b. Canada
c. No Country
d. China
5. Harvard University is located in which city?
a. Washington D.C.
b. New York
c. Providence
d. !Cambridge
6. What North American tourist attraction is served by the quot;Maid of the Mistquot; tour
company?
a. !Niagara Falls
b. Disney World
c. Whistler, British Columbia
d. Yosemite National Park
7. Which one of these countries borders with Poland?
a. France
b. !Lithuania
c. Norway
d. Netherlands
8. What is the capital city of New Zealand?
a. Christchurch
b. Melbourne
c. !Wellington
d. Auckland
9. New Haven is the capital city of the state of Connecticut in the United States.
a. !False
b. True
10. What national museum will you find in Cooperstown, New York?
a. National Toy Hall of Fame
b. Museum of Modern Art
c. !National Baseball Hall of Fame
d. Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1. Which team won the 201516 English Premier League?
a. !Leicester City
b. Manchester United
c. Liverpool
d. Cheslea
2. The Rio 2016 Summer Olympics held it039;s closing ceremony on what date?
a. August 19
b. !August 21
c. August 23
d. August 17
3. Which soccer team won the Copa Ameacute;rica 2015 Championship ?
a. Argentina
b. Paraguay
c. Brazil
d. !Chile
4. In 2016, who won the Formula 1 World Constructor039;s Championship for the third
time in a row?
a. Red Bull Racing Renault
b. Scuderia Ferrari
c. McLaren Honda
d. !MercedesAMG Petronas
5. What is the oldest team in the NFL?
a. New York Giants
b. !Arizona Cardinals
c. Green Bay Packers
d. Chicago Bears
6. What is the most common type of pitch thrown by pitchers in baseball?
a. !Fastball
b. Palmball
c. Screwball
d. Slowball
7. Which player holds the NHL record of 2,857 points?
a. Mario Lemieux
b. Gordie Howe
c. !Wayne Gretzky
d. Sidney Crosby
8. Who won the premier league title in the 20152016 season following a fairy tale run?
a. Tottenham Hotspur
b. !Leicester City
c. Watford
d. Stoke City
9. There are a total of 20 races in Formula One 2016 season.
a. True
b. !False
10. Which year did Jenson Button won his first ever Formula One World Drivers039;
Championship?
a. 2007
b. 2010
c. 2006
d. !2009

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1. What is the only country in the world with a flag that doesn039;t have four right angles?
a. Angola
b. Panama
c. !Nepal
d. Egypt
2. The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation off the coast of what
country?
a. Argentina
b. !The United Kingdom
c. Japan
d. Austrailia
3. Which of these is NOT a city in Saudi Arabia?
a. Medina
b. !Dubai
c. Mecca
d. Riyadh
4. Which of the following Inuit languages was the FIRST to use a unique writing system
not based on the Latin alphabet?
a. Greenlandic
b. !Inuktitut
c. Inupiat
d. Inuinnaqtun
5. In 2012 the Germanspeaking microstate quot;Liechtensteinquot; in Central Europe had
a population of how many inhabitants?
a. 323,400
b. !36,600
c. 2,400
d. 90,000
6. How many countries border Kyrgyzstan?
a. 6
b. 3
c. 1
d. !4
7. What is the largest Muslim country in the world?
a. !Indonesia
b. Pakistan
c. Saudi Arabia
d. Iran
8. The Alps are a mountain range on which continent?
a. Asia
b. Africa
c. !Europe
d. North America
9. The Pyrenees mountains are located on the border of which two countries?
a. Italy and Switzerland
b. Russia and Ukraine
c. Norway and Sweden
d. !France and Spain
10. What island in the Canary Islands was the scene of one of the worst air disasters in

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history with the collision of two jumbo jets?
a. !Tenerife
b. Gran Canaria
c. Maui
d. Fuerteventura

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