Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the freshman level, 2 points on the graduate level and 3 points on the Ph.D. level.
(e.g., This country is the setting for the novel “The Prisoner of Zenda.” Answer: Ruritania.)
Freshman level
1. Dorothy and Toto landed in this magical land. 2. Plato said that this island in the Atlantic Ocean was swallowed by an earthquake. 3. A place of great wealth sought by Spanish explorers in South America.
Graduate level
4. This mystical land was featured in the novel “Lost Horizon” by James Hilton. 5. The title of a book by Thomas More and a word for a perfect society. 6. Gulliver found himself in this land where people are about six inches tall.
Ph.d. level
7. Florin and Guilder are the two main countries in this 1987 fantasy comedy film. 8. Freedonia was the country in this 1933 film featuring the Marx brothers. 9. In this 1949 novel, Great Britain has become a province of a super-state named Oceania.
Answers:
1. Land of Oz. 2. Atlantis. 3. El Dorado. 4. Shangri-La. 5. Utopia. 6. Lilliput. 7. “The Princess Bride.” 8. “Duck Soup.” 9. “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
Scoring:
18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?
