1.

Assyrian king Sennacherib039;s destruction of Babylon in 689 BCE was viewed as a

triumph by other Assyrian citizens.
a. True
b. !False

2. When was quot;The Gadgetquot;, the first nuclear device to be detonated, tested?
a. April 5, 1945
b. June 22, 1945
c. !July 16, 1945
d. August 6, 1945

3. What is the name of the US Navy spy ship which was attacked and captured by
North Korean forces in 1968?
a. !USS Pueblo
b. USS Constitution
c. USS Indianapolis
d. USS North Carolina

4. Where and when was the first cardboard box made for industrial use?
a. England, 1917
b. United States, 1917
c. United States, 1817
d. !England, 1817

5. Who was the first prime minister of Canada?

a. Robert Borden
b. !John Macdonald
c. John Abbott
d. Alexander Mackenzie

6. Who was the leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ?

a. !Josip Broz Tito
b. Karadjordje Petrovic
c. Aleskandar Petrovic
d. Milos Obilic

7. What year did the Vietnam War end?

a. 1978
b. !1975
c. 1969
d. 1967

8. John Moses Browning, the designer of the M1918 BAR Browning Automatic Rifle was
a part of which religion?
a. !Mormon
b. Atheist
c. Catholic
d. Jewish
1. How many zeros are there in a googol?
a. 1,000,000
b. 10
c. 1,000
d. !100

2. The Pythagorean theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the
product of the squares of the other two sides.
a. !False
b. True

3. What is the first Mersenne prime exponent over 1000?

a. 1069
b. 2203
c. !1279
d. 1009

4. The proof for the Chinese Remainder Theorem used in Number Theory was NOT
developed by its first publisher, Sun Tzu.
a. False
b. !True

5. The binary number quot;101001101quot; is equivalent to the Decimal number

quot;334quot;
a. True
b. !False

6. If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, its039; thickness will be
34th the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
a. False
b. !True

7. The sum of any two odd integers is odd.

a. True
b. !False

8. What is the correct order of operations for solving equations?

a. !Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition,
Subtraction
b. The order in which the operations are written.
c. Addition, Multiplication, Division, Subtraction, Addition,
Parentheses
d. Parentheses, Exponents, Addition, Substraction, Multiplication,
Division

9. A scalene triangle has two sides of equal length.

a. True
b. !False

10. How many sides does a trapezium have?

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

11. Which of these numbers is closest to the total number of possible states for an
army standard Enigma Machine?
a. 1.58 x 1024
b. 1.58 x 1018
c. 1.58 x 1022
d. !1.58 x 1020

12. How many books are in Euclid039;s Elements of Geometry?

a. !13
b. 17
c. 8
d. 10

13. What is the fourth digit of pi;?

a. !1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

1. The communication protocol NFC stands for NearField Control.

a. !False
b. True

2. The Western Electric Model 500 telephone uses tone dialing to dial phone
numbers.
a. True
b. !False

3. Which of the following is the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency?

a. !80 Hz
b. 90 Hz
c. 70 Hz
d. 100 Hz

4. Microphones can be used not only to pick up sound, but also to project sound
similar to a speaker.
a. !True
b. False

5. In what year was the Oculus Rift revealed to the public through a Kickstarter
campaign?
a. 2010
b. 2013
c. !2012
 d. 2011

6. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?

a. 1972
b. 1962
c. 1992
d. !1982

7. Which of the following cellular device companies is NOT headquartered in Asia?

a. Samsung
b. !Nokia
c. LG Electronics
d. HTC

8. Mobile hardware and software company quot;Blackberry Limitedquot; was founded in

which country?
a. United States of America
b. Norway
c. United Kingdom
d. !Canada

9. What round is a classic AK47 chambered in?

a. !7.62x39mm
b. 5.45x39mm
c. 7.62x51mm
d. 5.56x45mm

10. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?

a. 7.62
b. 7.62x51mm
c. .308
d. !.3006

11. What is the quot;Mitsubishi Wakamaruquot;?

a. An motorcycle
b. A pickup truck
c. !A robot
d. A motorboat