So You Think You're a Geek? Quiz

Take this quiz to find out how geeky you really are! All work must be your own -- no help from other people, your computer, books, etc. So get out your number 2 pencil and write your name at the top of your paper. Wait, that's old fashioned. So whip out your keyboard and poise your fingers for action!

Check back tomorrow for the answers and to how figure out your score!

1. In the original Star Trek series, in the episode "City on the Edge of Forever," Captain Kirk falls in love with a woman who:
a. is played by Joan Collins
b. is a social activist
c. must die in order to preserve the timeline of history as we know it
d. all of the above

2. Name the noble gases.

3. Metatarsels are
a. fingers
b. toes
c. African bracelets

4. True or False Al Gore invented the internet.

5. In today's world, RAM means
a. Random Acrobatic Movement
b. Rednecked And Manly
c. a Dodge truck
d. Random Access Memory

6. Which Peter Jackson film won the Oscar for best picture?

7. In advanced mathematics, the number i is
a. "infinity"
b. the reciprocal of pi
c. "imaginary"
d. i is a letter, not a number

8. How many digits of pi do you know? pi = 3.???????????????

9. In the movie Back to the Future, Marty's mom thinks his name is Calvin because
a. he looks like Calvin & Hobbes
b. she has a crush on the famous theologian John Calvin
c. he wears Calvin Klein underwear
d. none of the above

10. In 2001 A Space Odyssey, the computer is named
a. HAL
b. BOB
c. SUZY
d. FRED

11. Identify these quotes (character who said it AND movie or book)

This party's over
You shall be called the fellowship of the ring
There is still good in you! The emperor hasn't driven it from you fully.
I am the ghost of Christmas Past
I love you, most ardently!
I am no man!
I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates.
Hasta la vista, baby!

12. In the Shakespearean tragedy Othello,
a. Othello is a Moor
b. Othello kills his wife
c. Othello kills himself
d. All of the above

13. Solve for x: 9x -21 = 2x +21 (extra points if you can do this in your head - sorry, Bonnie)

14. A catalyst is
a. a lazy cat
b. something added to scuba tanks to make the oxygen last longer
c. something added to a reaction to make the reaction proceed faster and/or more efficiently

15. True or False Force equals mass times acceleration.


Extra credit essay question (respond in my comment section):
Do you think Pluto is a planet? Why or why not?

REMEMBER-- COME BACK TOMORROW FOR ANSWERS AND SCORING

Thank you!