PHYS262 Problem Spring 2020 4

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1. In which city, is the Big Nickel located in Canada?

a. Calgary, Alberta
b. !Sudbury, Ontario
c. Halifax, Nova Scotia
d. Victoria, British Columbia

2. What is the largest city and commercial capital of Sri Lanka?


a. Kandy
b. !Colombo
c. Moratuwa
d. Negombo

3. Which of these island countries is located in the Caribbean?


a. Seychelles
b. !Barbados
c. Maldives
d. Fiji

4. What is the right way to spell the capital of Hungary?


a. Budapast
b. !Budapest
c. Boodapest
d. Bhudapest

5. Bridgetown is the capital of which island country in the Carribean?


a. Dominica
b. Cuba
c. Jamaicalrm;
d. !Barbados

6. Frankenmuth, a US city nicknamed quot;Little Bavariaquot;, is located in what


state?
a. Kentucky
b. !Michigan
c. Virginia
d. Pennsylvania

7. What is the capital of Greenland?


a. Maniitsoq
b. Narsaq
c. Sisimiut
d. !Nuuk

8. Only one country in the world starts with the letter Q.


a. False
b. !True

9. What island in the Canary Islands was the scene of one of the worst air
disasters in history with the collision of two jumbo jets?
a. Maui
b. Gran Canaria
c. !Tenerife
d. Fuerteventura

1. The Japanese district Akihabara is also known by what nickname?


a. Big Eyes
b. Otaku Central
c. !Electric Town
d. Moon Walk River

2. The World Health Organization headquarters is located in which European country?


a. Belgium
b. United Kingdom
c. France
d. !Switzerland

3. How many countries are larger than Australia?


a. !5
b. 3
c. 4
d. 6

4. The capital of the US State Ohio is the city of Chillicothe.


a. !False
b. True

5. Which country is the home of the largest Japanese population outside of Japan?
a. Russia
b. !Brazil
c. The United States
d. China

6. Which country was NOT part of the Soviet Union?


a. !Romania
b. Belarus
c. Turkmenistan
d. Tajikistan

7. How many states are in Australia?


a. 5
b. 8
c. 7
d. !6

8. Where is Hadrian039;s Wall located?


a. Rome, Italy
b. Dublin, Ireland
c. Alexandria, Egypt
d. !Carlisle, England
9. Which of the following is not a megadiverse country one that harbors a high
number of the earth039;s endemic species?
a. !Thailand
b. South Africa
c. Mexico
d. Peru

1. Which of the following authors was not born in England?


a. H G Wells
b. !Arthur Conan Doyle
c. Arthur C Clarke
d. Graham Greene

2. Who wrote the quot;A Song of Ice And Firequot; fantasy novel series?
a. George Lucas
b. George Orwell
c. George Eliot
d. !George R. R. Martin

3. Which famous book is subtitled 039;The Modern Prometheus039;?


a. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
b. !Frankenstein
c. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
d. Dracula

4. What is Ron Weasley039;s middle name?


a. Arthur
b. !Bilius
c. Dominic
d. John

5. What was the pen name of novelist, Mary Ann Evans?


a. !George Eliot
b. George Saunders
c. George Orwell
d. George Bernard Shaw

6. In the quot;The Hobbitquot;, who kills Smaug?


a. Bilbo Baggins
b. !Bard
c. Frodo
d. Gandalf the Grey

7. Under what pseudonym did Stephen King publish five novels between 1977 and 1984?
a. Lewis Carroll
b. !Richard Bachman
c. J. D. Robb
d. Mark Twain
8. J.K. Rowling completed quot;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsquot; in which
hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland?
a. !The Balmoral
b. Hotel Novotel
c. Sheraton Grand Hotel amp; Spa
d. The Dunstane Hotel

9. According to The Hitchhiker039;s Guide to the Galaxy book, the answer to life,
the universe and everything else is...
a. Death
b. Chocolate
c. !42
d. Loving everyone around you

10. The Harry Potter series of books, combined, are over 1,000,000 words in length.
a. False
b. !True

11. Who is the author of the series quot;Malazan Book of the Fallenquot;?
a. Ian Cameron Esslemont
b. George R. R. Martin
c. J. R. R. Tolkien
d. !Steven Erikson

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