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May 27, 2021

Surprise Quiz: “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned at Berkshire Waldorf High School”

On Thursday, May 27, we held our 4th Annual Total Surprise Year-in-Review “Everything I Ever Needed to Know I Learned at Berkshire Waldorf High School” Quiz Show!

Some sample questions:

  1. Where does the Krebs Cycle take place?
  2. What is the formula for the quotient rule of derivatives?
  3. Who was the father of Polyphemous, the Cyclops?
  4. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, what kind of business does Walter Young want to open with the insurance money that his mother receives?
  5. What is the title of Rachel Carson’s book on the environmental effects of DDT?
  6. What is the name for the overland trade routes in the ancient world between the middle east and east Asia?
  7. What useful device comes in at least two forms, NPN and PNP?
  8. What country did the U.S. invade four weeks after 9/11?
  9. What is the value of i to the 6th power?
  10. Aristotle believed that tragic plays were essential to a functioning society because they allowed for the purification and purgation of emotions, a concept known as…

And the answers:

  1. The mitochondrial matrix
  2. (F’G – FG’)/G^2
  3. Poseidon
  4. A liquor store
  5. Silent Spring
  6. The Silk Road
  7. A transistor
  8. Afghanistan
  9. -1 (Negative one)
  10. Catharsis

Your Quiz-Masters, from left: Sarah Blexrud, Geneve Brossard, Samantha Stier (Class of 2006), Elizabeth Orenstein (Class of 2010), Susan Bilodeau, Ursula Wirth, Stephen Sagarin, Julia Nunez. Each year Core Faculty chooses a different theme for dress, and this year’s was the Waldorf and human rainbow…

And the final scoreboard. (Teams are traditionally named for the 4 cardinal virtues…)

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