Toward the end of each year, teachers dress up (this year: punk), write questions based on every course taught during the year, and host a 90- minute, year-in-review, “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned at Berkshire Waldorf High School Quiz Show.” If you want to test your knowledge, ten questions from this year’s quiz are below, followed by answers.
QUESTIONS:
- Which philosopher believes “it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”?
- What is the Law of Sines?
- What is the name of the main character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe?
- What invention has been manufactured in the greatest number of all things ever invented?
- Which European city is the only one know to have had four defenestrations?
- The USSR and the USA took over administration of Korea in 1945 replacing which former war-time occupier?
- In Dante’s Inferno, from what is the frozen lake at the lowest point of Hell created?
- What is the slope of the line tangent to the parabola y = x squared and passing through the point (2,4)?
- How long did Henry David Thoreau live in the woods?
- Name a sex-linked trait.
ANSWERS:
- William Clifford
- a/sin A = b/sin B = c/sin C
- Okonkwo
- The transistor
- Prague
- Japan
- Satan’s tears
- 4
- Two years, two months, two days
- Color-blindness, hemophilia, others possible