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    Question 1: The melody of which 1951 pop song was written by a politician who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
    A. All in the Game
    B. Lets Fall in Love
    C. Rock Around the Clock
    D. I Cant Help Falling in Love With You
    Question 2: The famous Japanese cherry trees were planted in Washington, D.C., around the Tidal Basin at the request of which US First Lady?
    A. Betty Ford
    B. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
    C. Helen Taft
    D. Lou Henry Hoover
    Question 3: What does the Latin proverb, Dum spiro, spero, mean in English?
    A. Do to others the same as you do to yourself.
    B. I know that I dont know anything.
    C. Dont look a gift horse in the mouth.
    D. While I breath, I hope
    Question 4: You are given a bag with 10 marbles, four red marbles and six blue marbles. You select one at random. What is the probability that the marble you select is either blue or green?
    A. 6 out of ten
    B. 0
    C. 4 out of ten
    D. 2 out of ten
    Question 5: This French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, author of the Lettres provinciales, stated the following: There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other.
    A. Blaise Pascal
    B. Democritus
    C. Francis Mayron
    D. Rene Descartes
    Question 6: This Irish playwright, novelist and poet wrote the following line in his famous play Waiting for Godot: We are all born mad. Some remain so.
    A. Samuel Beckett
    B. Thomas Hardy
    C. Marcel Proust
    D. Bernard Shaw
    Question 7: The standing long jump and the standing high jump were once Olympic sports.
    A. True
    B. False
    Question 8: This soul singer and songwriter, often called Silky Smooth because of his rich baritone, is famous for his hits Rainy Night in Georgia, Fools Rush In, This Time of the Year.
    A. Jackie Wilson
    B. David Ruffin
    C. Brook Benton
    D. Sam Cook
    Question 9: This city, known also as Anvil City, is situated in Northwest Alaska.
    A. Stockton
    B. Palmer
    C. Barrow
    D. Nome
    Question 10: Easter Island, an island in the south Pacific Ocean, is a territory of which country?
    A. The United States
    B. Peru
    C. Ecuador
    D. Chile
    Question 11: The Walden Pond, made famous by writer, naturalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, is located in which US state?
    A. Alaska
    B. Washington
    C. North Carolina
    D. Massachusetts
    Question 12: The dialectic of this philosopher is most often characterized as a three-step process of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. According to his concept, a thesis would cause the creation of its antithesis and this would eventually result in a synthesis.
    A. Marx
    B. Nietzsche
    C. Kant
    D. Hegel
    Question 13: In Freuds psychoanalytic theory, the defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites is defined by which term?
    A. Hysteria
    B. Positivism
    C. Reaction formation
    D. Transference
    Question 14: Bloomsday is a secular holiday, which commemorates the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the fictitious events in his novel Ulysses. Bloomsday is celebrated annually, on what date?
    A. October 19
    B. December 24
    C. June 16
    D. July 3
    Question 15: What does the Latin phrase ceteris paribus mean?
    A. All other things being equal
    B. Let the seller beware
    C. Let the buyer beware
    D. The case can not stand