SOC212 Synthesis Paper Spring 2019 5

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

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

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


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

3. What is Ron Weasley039;s middle name?


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

4. What was the name of the Mysterious Island, in Jules Verne039;s quot;The
Mysterious Islandquot;?
a. Prometheus Island
b. !Lincoln Island
c. Vulcania Island
d. Neptune Island

5. quot;Elementary, my dear Watsonquot; is a phrase that is never truly said within


the Conan Doyle books of Sherlock Holmes.
a. False
b. !True

6. What is the name of the protagonist of J.D. Salinger039;s novel Catcher in the
Rye?
a. !Holden Caulfield
b. Fletcher Christian
c. Jay Gatsby
d. Randall Flagg

7. What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes book by Arthur Conan Doyle?
a. !A Study in Scarlet
b. The Sign of the Four
c. The Doings of Raffles Haw
d. A Case of Identity

8. Where does the book quot;The Silence of the Lambsquot; get its title from?
a. The relation it has with killing the innocents
b. The voice of innocent people being shut by the powerful
c. The villain039;s favourite meal
d. !The main character039;s trauma in childhood

9. In the Magic: The Gathering universe, the Antiquities, Ice Age, and Alliances
expansions take place on which continent?
a. !Terisiare
b. Shiv
c. Aerona
d. Jamuraa

10. What is the name of Eragon039;s dragon in quot;Eragonquot;?


a. Arya
b. Glaedr
c. !Saphira
d. Thorn

1. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his father due to jealousy in loving his
mother.
a. !False
b. True

2. Who wrote the award winning musical quot;In The Heightsquot;?


a. Francis Scott Key
b. !LinManuel Miranda
c. Steven Sondheim
d. John Phillips Sousa

3. What is the name of Broadway039;s first quot;longrunquot; musical?


a. The Book of Mormon
b. !The Elves
c. Wicked
d. Hamilton

4. In Jeff Wayne039;s Musical Version of War of the Worlds, the chances of anything
coming from Mars are...
a. A trillion to one
b. A hundred to one
c. A billion to one
d. !A million to one

5. How many plays is Shakespeare generally considered to have written?


a. !37
b. 25
c. 54
d. 18

6. Who played quot;Charlie Pricequot; in the musical quot;Kinky Bootsquot; on


Broadway in New York from May 26th Aug 6th 2017?
a. Ed Sheeren
b. !Brendon Urie
c. Dallon Weekes
d. Tom Cruise

7. Who played Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the original Broadway
run of Hamilton?
a. !Daveed Diggs
b. Javier Muntilde;oz
c. Wayne Brady
d. LinManuel Miranda

8. The protagonist039;s names in 039;Who039;s Afraid of Virginia Woolf039;, George


and Martha, were derived from George Washington and his wife.
a. !True
b. False

1. What disease crippled President Franklin D. Roosevelt and led him to help the
nation find a cure?
a. Cancer
b. !Polio
c. Meningitis
d. HIV

2. In relation to the British Occupation in Ireland, what does the IRA stand for.
a. !Irish Republican Army
b. Irish Rebel Alliance
c. IrishRoyal Alliance
d. Irish Reformation Army

3. Which one of these tanks was designed and operated by the United Kingdom?
a. T34
b. Tiger H1
c. !Tog II
d. M4 Sherman

4. Which of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?
a. Jane Seymour
b. Anne Boleyn
c. !Catherine of Aragon
d. Catherine Parr

5. When did Jamaica recieve its independence from England?


a. 1963
b. 1987
c. !1962
d. 1492

6. What was the real name of the Albanian national leader Skanderbeg?
a. Mirash Krasniki
b. Diturak Zhulati
c. !Gjergj Kastrioti
d. Iskander Bejko

7. Which American civilization is the source of the belief that the world would end
or drastically change on December 21st, 2012?
a. !The Mayans
b. The Navajos
c. The Aztecs
d. The Incas

8. What was the name of one of the surviving palaces of Henry VIII located near
Richmond, London?
a. Coughton Court
b. St James039;s Palace
c. !Hampton Court
d. Buckingham Palace

9. What year did World War I begin?


a. 1905
b. !1914
c. 1919
d. 1925

10. During World War I, which nation039;s monarchs were blood related?
a. Serbia, Russia, Croatia
b. !England, Germany, Russia
c. France, Russia, Germany
d. Germany, Spain, Austria

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