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    Question 1: The work of Thomas Bowdler gave rise to the verb to bowdlerize. What is bowdlerization?
    A. Editing a book, film or play to make it suitable for children or people who are easily offended
    B. Making an instrument sterile, by boiling or heating, so that it can be used in a medical procedure
    C. The neutering of stray cats and dogs to keep their numbers down
    D. Treating yarn or thread so that when it is dyed the colour will be fixed and not wash out or fade
    Question 2: If a mathematician has an Erdős number of 2, what does it mean?
    A. The mathematician was a student of a student of Paul Erdős.
    B. The mathematician was a student of Paul Erdős.
    C. The mathematician has written a paper with someone who has written an academic paper with Paul Erdős.
    D. The mathematician has written an academic paper with Paul Erdős.
    Question 3: Banting is what William Banting became well-known for doing. What is it?
    A. Dieting to lose weight
    B. Plagiarising by translating and adapting foreign language publications
    C. Counterfeiting small coins
    D. Suing people for pleasure or spite, with little regard for the costs
    Question 4: Emedeo Avogadro has both a physical law and a physical constant (a number) named after him.
    A. False
    B. True
    Question 5: Which is the odd one out of the following?
    A. (Giuseppe) Garibaldi
    B. (Abraham) Lincoln
    C. (General Ambrose) Burnside
    D. (Anthony) Van Dyke
    Question 6: What are the islets of Langerhans, named for Paul Langerhans?
    A. Parts of the human retina where (intensity-sensitive) rod cells cluster among the (colour-sensitive) cone cells
    B. A region of partly submerged reefs off the southern coast of Java
    C. A cluster of relatively stable dark spots on Jupiter
    D. Regions of the pancreas containing cells that produce hormones
    Question 7: The word nasty originally referred to Thomas Nast who was a 19th century caricaturist with a particularly merciless, biting wit.
    A. True
    B. False
    Question 8: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Which president said it?
    A. Jimmy Carter
    B. John F. Kennedy
    C. Barack Obama
    D. Harry Truman
    Question 9: What president said, There is absolutely no circumstance whatever under which I would accept that spot. Even if they tied and gagged me, I would find a way to signal by wiggling my ears.?
    A. Ronald Reagan
    B. George W. Bush
    C. Barack Obama
    D. George H.W. Bush
    Question 10: Who does this quote belong to: It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.?
    A. Lyndon Johnson
    B. John F. Kennedy
    C. Richard Nixon
    D. Jimmy Carter
    Question 11: Which president made this declaration: A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
    A. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    B. Bill Clinton
    C. Jimmy Carter
    D. Harry Truman
    Question 12: Who said, If I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. Thats a good-looking mummy.?
    A. Jimmy Carter
    B. Bill Clinton
    C. Franklin D. Roosevelt
    D. Ronald Reagan
    Question 13: Who made the statement, There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.?
    A. Richard Nixon
    B. Dwight Eisenhower
    C. Gerald Ford
    D. Jimmy Carter
    Question 14: Which president made this remark: I heard theres rumors on the Internets that were going to have a draft.?
    A. Barack Obama
    B. Bill Clinton
    C. Jimmy Carter
    D. George W. Bush
    Question 15: He was elected president after this remark: Ive now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go.
    A. George W. Bush
    B. Gerald Ford
    C. Barack Obama
    D. Bill Clinton