Wallypalooza
Questions with Answers:
1. In Jules Verne’s novel, From the
Earth to the Moon, retired American artillerymen build a giant cannon to
shoot a projectile to the moon. In what
state do they build it?
A. Montana
D. Texas
2. Stendhal’s The Red and The Black
was inspired in part by a murder which occurred in a church in the French town
of Bagneres. In what year did this
real-life crime take place?
A. 1953
D. 1989
3. “La Femme de Trent Ans” by Balzac describes
the life of a woman of thirty (surprise, surprise). What is her first name?
A. Anissa
B. Katherine
D. Yvonne
4. Rembrandt’s painting “Bellona” shows a
female warrior holding a shield. What
is the design on the shield?
A. Medusa’s head (or any Gorgon’s head)
B. Dragon’s Head
C. Flowered Medallion
D. There is no design
5. A frieze representing the marriage of Poseidon and Amphitrite is one of the masterpieces of surviving Roman sculpture. Who dedicated the temple which this frieze originally graced?
B. Augustus
C. Constantine
D. Marcus Aurelius
6. What is the name of the The Girl
Behind the Hedge in Mickey Spillane’s tale of vengeance?
B. Trudy Smith
C. Sasha Hill
D. Norma Miller
7. In March 1933, Henry Miller wrote a letter to Anais Nin in which he described the work of one particular American writer as “putrid, tame, feeble”. Who was he criticizing?
C. Fred Exley
D. Stephen King
8. Cyanogens are toxic chemicals containing cyanide. Bamboo shoots contain many cyanogens. Roughly how much cyanide is found in 100 grams of bamboo shoot tips?
A. approximately 800 mg.
B. approximately 600 mg.
C. approximately 400 mg.
D. trace amounts
9. Name the Shakespeare play that is the subject of an article by RIT’s Provost, Stanley D. McKenzie, which was published in 1986 in a Shakespearean journal.
A. King Lear
B. Coriolanus
C. Henry IV, Part II
D. Pericles
10. In her sonnet “In An Artist’s Studio,”
Christina Rossetti writes about an artist’s model. What is the name of the this woman and what is her relationship
to Christina Rossetti?
B. Mary Shelley and she is Christina
Rossetti’s friend
C. Nicole Sedden and she is Chrstina
Rosetti’s cousin
D. Dorothy Stuart and she is Christina
Rosetti’s mother
11. I spent my final years alone in
Cincinnati, waiting for a husband who did not come. Despite the kind works of others, I died, alone, in 1914, well
before “the Spanish Lady” spread throughout the world. When my body was found, they took me to the
doctors in Washington and kept me there for 75 years. And after I died, the world would never by the same again.
My
name is _______________.
A. Ruth
B. Kiri
C. Eleanor
D. Martha - the last passenger pigeon, died 9/1/1914, Cincinnati Zoo.
12. The Freedom of Information Act means:
A. anyone can get any piece of information,
free
B. Ben Franklin’s pre-Revolutionary War
urging for such a ruling paid off
C. reporters must write a formal request
to access government information –
D. everyone’s personal credit reports can
be accessed through the FOIA
13. Rochester used to have competing daily
newspapers in the 1980’s. What were their names?
A.
Post
Standard and Times Union
B.
Daily
Messenger and Post Standard
C.
Messenger
and Democrat and Chronicle
D.
Times Union and the Democrat
and Chronicle
14. What two newspaper moguls are linked to
the practice of tainted, flamboyant and often exaggerated, even untrue, reporting
in the early 1900’s?
A.
Elijah
and Nathaniel Stone
B.
Joseph Pulitzer and William
Randolph Hearst
C.
James
Keeley and John McCutchen
D.
E.W.
Scripps and William McRae
15. Which famous person would be most
associated with the term “tribology”?
A. Margaret Mead
B. Chester Carlson
C. Richard Leaky
D. Thomas Edison
16. Between Norway and Greenland, some 3,000
meters below the ocean’s surface, just north of the Voring Underwater Plateau,
lies the _________________Abyssal
Plain.
A.
Greenland
B.
Dumshaf
C. Boreas
D.
Bjornoya
17. In the film “Lethal Weapon”, Riggs says
to Murtaugh: “Happy Birthday, man.
Maybe we’ll stay alive long enough for ______________________”.
A. “me to buy you a present.”
B. “you to buy me a present.”
C. “us to see retirement.”
D. “you to enjoy your birthday cake.”
18. The author of the adaptation of “Star
Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones”
is R.A. Salvatore. What is his wife’s
name?
19. Just south of the Kara Kum Desert runs a portion of the route traveled by caravans in the Middle Ages to carry silk from China to Europe. What city lies at the junction of the Silk Road and the Hari-Rud River?
B. Sistan
C. Balish
D. Ghur
20. What is the probability density of t, the
non-central t-statistic, for 5 degrees of freedom, at the value t/Öf = 7.00, and p=0.2500?
A. 0.0017
D. 0.0005
21. At what time does the sun rise on February 5, as seen from Springfield, Massachusetts?
A. 6:53 a.m.
B. 7:02 a.m.
C. 6:59 a.m.
D. 6:37 a.m.
22. The town of Honeoye Falls lies a few
miles south of RIT. What is the name of
the cemetery in the southwestern corner of the town?
A. St. Paul’s Cemetery
B. St. Peter’s Cemetery
C. Philip Neri Cemetery
D. St. Pius Cemetery
23. In 1849, Armand Fizeau used a rapidly
rotating gear to interrupt a light beam and measure the speed of light. How many teeth did his gear contain?
A.
450
B.
975
C. 720
24. Which ancient scientist said: “It is even said that many ebbings and risings of the sea always come round with the moon and upon certain fixed days.”?
A. Posidonius
B. Aristotle
C. Pythagoras
D. Achimedes
25. G.K. Chesterton tells of an adventure he
had with some friends: they dressed up
as cowboys for a film produced by Sir James Barrie (author of Peter Pan). Which of the following was not included in
this adventure?
A.
Lord
Howard deWalden
B.
William
Archer
C.
D.H. Lawrence
D. George Bernard Shaw
26. Herman Melville’s novel Typee is
set in what group of islands?
A.
Marshall
B.
Marquesas
C.
Cook
D.
Cayman
27. Samuel Clemens wrote a biography of Joan
of Arc, told from the point of view of a fictional French soldier. What is the soldier’s name?
A.
Jean-Andoche
Junot
B.
Lazare
Carnot
C.
Louis de Conte
D.
Jean
Moreau
28. According to Robinson Crusoe’s man Friday, who made the sea, the ground, the hills and the woods?
A.
Daniel
Defoe
B.
Benamuckee
C.
Xury
D.
Babamik
29. How many
members of the House of Representatives are women?
A.
0-25
B.
25-50
D.
76-100
A. Securing America’s Future Energy Act
B. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Bill
C. Energy Policy Act
D.
None of the above
31. Between 1990 and 2000, greenhouse gases
emissions in the United States increased:
A.
14.2%
B.
1.3%
C.
12.5%
D.
3.4%
32. The Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission is the son of Secretary of State General Colin
Powell.
A.
True
33. The words to the song “Happy Birthday to
You”, by Patty Smith Hill, were written
in:
A.
1789
B.
1827
D.
1913
34. The book When Corporations Rule the
World by David Korten is
B.
a
“how to” book for corporate leaders to develop more powerful corporations
C.
a
mystery set in the year 2029
D.
a
review of critical essays in post-modern theory
35. Which of these U.S. national parks lack
volcanic or thermal activity or traces?
A.
Yellowstone
National Park
B.
Lake
Clark National Park and PRE
D.
Crater
Lake National Park
36. How many national parks will you find in
the U.S.?
A.
53
D.
52
37. Which of the following is not listed as
an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act?
A.
Hawaiian
Monk Seal
B.
Cheetah
D.
Blue
Whale
38. In the Fog Index readability formula, two
things are considered. One is the average
number of words per sentence. What is
the other?
A. Type
size and font
B. Number
of syllables per hundred words
C. Average
number of words per paragraph
39. If the temperature ranged from 60-63 on a particular day, how would the Associated Press report it?
B. temperatures
in the low 60’s
C. temperatures
in the low ‘60s
D. temperatures
in the low 60s’
40. What famous Shakespearean character says,
near the end of Act III, “For ‘tis the sport to have the engineer/hoist with
his own petar”?
A. Macbeth
C. Benedick
D. Othello
41. Who co-created the TCP/IP internet
protocols, is often called “The Father of the Internet” and is hard of hearing?
B. Steve
Crocker
C. Vincent
Cerf
D. Robert
Metcalfe
42. The “Order of the Purple Heart for Military Merit”, commonly
referred to as the “Purple Heart” was the first military award made available
to a common soldier. Who created this
award?
A. John Adams
B. George Washington
C. Abraham
Lincoln
D. Thomas
Jefferson
43. Who is the “Mother of De’VIA” (Deaf
Visual Image Art) ?
C. Ann Silver
D. Susan
Dupor
44. Moral Point of View Theories (MPVT) were much discussed
during the last half of the twentieth century.
Who was a key player in these philosophical discussions?
A. Immanual
Kant
B. John
Stuart Mill
C. Stephen
Toulmin
D. William
James
45. What was the name of the deaf person
who worked at the Harvard Observatory, classifying thousands of stars and is
named after a moon’s crater?
B. Olaf
Hassel
C. John
Goodricke
46. 97. The Federal Emergency Management Agency was
created by:
A. proclamation
B. executive order
C. act
of congress
47. Abraham’s first wife was Sarah, what was
the name of his third wife?
A. Rebekah
B. Hagar
48. Which country has the
world’s second largest proven crude oil reserve with more than
112 million barrels?
A.
Iran
B.
Libya
C.
Iraq
D.
Kuwait
49. Who
was the first deaf blind person to be educated in the U.S.?
B. Laura Bridgman
C. Mae
Brown
D. Michele
Smithdas
50. Most of the people on Martha's Vineyard were
bilingual at one time. What languages
did they use?
A. English and Dutch
C. English and German
51. The following was stated in a 1991 commencement speech “as
female students today, your challenge will come not so much in breaking new
paths – as your mothers, grandmothers and I have done – but in deciding which
to choose among the many paths now open to you, and in knowing how you should
travel along them….”. Who made this
statement?
A. Barbara
Jordan
B. Sandra Day O’Connor
C. Jill Long
D. Ann Richards
52. The first time a U.S. president used the new medium of
television to speak to the American public was:
A. January 7,
1952
B. December
29, 1953
C. October 5, 1947
D. June 3,
1946
53.
This well known American novelist
worked almost two years as a technical document writer for the Boeing
Company. His short stories and novels
often contain scientific metaphors and technical language.
A.
John
Updike
C.
Brett Easton Ellis
D.
Richard Ford
54. Who was the first deaf president of a
college?
B. Robert
Davila
C. Robert
Panara
D. Frederick Barnard
55. Who is the only US president to be sworn
in by his own father?
A. Calvin
Coolidge
B. Millard Fillmore
C. John Quincy Adams
D. Chester Arthur
56. Early tabulating machines used keypunched
cards. Who invented this tabulating machine and the code it used?
A.
Charles Babbage
B.
Thomas J. Watson
D.
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar
57. In the 1960's a memory medium that was
interchangeable (like a tape)
and
provided fast access (like a drum) was called a:
A.
CRAM Deck
B.
CRT Pack
C.
Memory Pack
D.
CollinsDisk
58. A disk drive whose design was based on
the work of a Swiss scientist's
research
into aerodynamic lift/fluid dynamics principles is the:
A.
Commodore 64
C. The Ada-Aptor
D.
Swiss Mocha
59. What digital publishing application is
this?
* It was called the "Quark Killer"
* Please don't call it desktop publishing
* It introduced the extraordinary multi-line
composer
* It is available in a 2.0 version
B. Adobe
PageMaker
C. Adobe
Illustrator
D. Adobe
Photoshop
60. Who is Alan Greenspan's, Chairman of the
Fedreal Researve, main squeeze?
B. Andrea
Walters
C. Gloria
Steinem
D. Kay
Bayley Hutchison
61. What is the term that for the phenomena
that occurs when the moon, sun and
earth
are arrayed in a straight line?
A. vernal
meridian
C. counter
tidal
D. gyroscopic inversion
62. In hypothesis tests using statistical
methods (like a t-Test), once the
decision
has been made and the null hypothesis is rejected, there is the
possibility
of:
A. A
Type II Error
B. No
error
C. The
alpha risk
D. A
Type I Error
63. The professor wants a two page essay. How can I stretch this? “Text Expansion” is terminology used to indicate that when text is translated from one language (source) to another (target), the space required may change significantly. This becomes important as documents and web pages look to global audiences. When information is translated from English to Polish, the space required to accommodate the new target text will change approximately:
A. +40%
B. 0%
D. -5%
64. Name the deaf astronomer who corresponded
with William Herschel regarding the discovery of binary stars by studying
Algol, the demon star.
B. John Goodricke
C. Annie Jump Cannon
D. Konstantin
Tsidkovsky
65. Sigmund Freud used cocaine.
A. True
B. False
66. All of the following are true about the
Scopes "monkey" trial EXCEPT
which
one?
A. It
took place in Tennessee
B. It involved Clarence Darrow as the
defense attorney
C. Its
verdict was later overturned on a technicality
D. It
overturned the law forbidding the teaching of evolution in public
schools
67. The author of The Origin of Species
began by writing, "Although much
remains
obscure. I can entertain no doubt that the view which most naturalists
entertain is erroneous." To which
view does the author refer?
B) natural selection
C) artificial selection
D) Mendelian genetics
68. Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist
and short-story writer
Gabriel
Garcia Marquez is most well known for his use of a particular literary
style
he invented:
A.
Dadaism
B.
Surrealism
D. the
Boom
69. Argentine
writer Jorge Luis Borges is known for his interest in and
use
of:
A. the
circle
C. deja-vu
D. flashbacks
70. To convert gallons (U.S. liquid) to bushels
(U.S), multiply by:
A. 5
B. 0.10742088
C. 0.023809524
D. 5.5
71. The Mexican president who was a contemporary
of Abraham Lincoln and who had a very similar background was:
B.
Porfirio Diaz
C.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
D.
Lazaro Cardenas
72. Popocatepetl is a:
A. Mayan
language
C. mountain
peak in Ecuador
D. town
in Guatemala
73. An
indigenous tribe in Chile that never gave in to the Spanish
conquest
were the:
A. Aztec
B. Maya
D. Guarani
74. Who was the Nobel Peace Prize winning
Guatemalan indigenous human rights
advocate:
A. Frida
Kahlo
B. Gabriela
Mistral
C.
Tania Libertad
75. George Washington was born on February
11, 1731 according to which calendar?
A. Muslim
B. Gregorian
C. Julian
D. Chinese
76. From which prestigious school was Edgar
Allen Poe expelled?
A. U.S. Military Academy
B. U.S.
Naval Academy
C. University
of Rochester
D. University
of Virginia
77. Who is not a trickster figure?
A. Hermes
B. Loki
C. Mayi
D. Venus
78. Given the argument form: (P כ Q) Λ (R כ S)
(P ν R), what is the correct conclusion?
A. P
ν R
B. Q
ν S
C. -
(Q ν S)
D. -
P ν -R
79. What is New Criticism?
A. a “close reading” of poetry
B. a concern for the unity of the literary work
C. stresses the importance of the written work as opposed
to biographical and historical studies
D. all of the above
80. In the seventeenth century, a ship that
was on its maiden voyage sunk off
the
coast of Western Australia. Its
recovered and reconstructed remains are
housed
in a museum in Western Australia.
Recently a full-sized replica was made of
the
ship in western Europe and the finished vessel was displayed in the Sydney
harbor
during the 2000 Olympics. What was the
name of that ship?
A. Batavia
B. Vergulde
Draeck
C. Tryal
D. Mary
Rose
81. Which
author has the most entries in the library catalog?
A. Bronte Sisters
B. Charles Dickens
C. Plato
82. Where is the sculpture entitled, Piano
Piece by Nam June Paik located?
A. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
B. Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California
83. How many TV monitors are used in the
“Piano Piece” sculpture by Nam June Paik?
A. 11
B. 12
D. 14
84. Which of the following is true about the
book "Set Phasers on Stun: and
Other
True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error"?
A. The
title refers to an accident in which a patient received a huge
overdose of radiation due to
a machine malfunction
B. Topic
of the book is non-lethal weaponry
C. It
was written by a NYPD detective
D. It is
a book about robot safety.
85. How many women are found exercising in
the photograph of RIT’s 1st “aerobic” class? (Hint: photograph is
from 1916.)
A. 10
B. 15
D. 26
86. In the years of its early development,
which of the following was NOT a course offered at the Mechanic’s Institute?
A. How
to kindle a fire
B. How
to concost fancy desserts and plain dishes
C. How to manage your factory workforce
D. How
to nurse the sick and wounded and half drowned
87. What singer performed in concert at RIT
in 1976?
A. Patti La Belle
B. Bat McGrath
C. Harry Chapin
D. Commander Cody
88. When was James Hall Nasmyth’s
woodburytype “Back of Hand and Wrinkled Apple” created?
A. 1815
B. 1834
D. 1901
89. What colors are used in the four-color
printing process?
A. red,
green, blue and black
B. cyan,
red, yellow and black
D. blue,
red, green and black
90. What do these products have in
common: ARTS Duplex, checkup,
Crackerjack, FixFont, JAWS, Batchprint, Mapsoft MediaSizer?
A. They
are Adobe Acrobat products
B. They
all work with Adobe Acrobat Readers
C. They are all third-party Acrobat products
D. They
won’t work on MAC OS 8.6
91. Swiss women got the vote in:
A. 1960
B. 1971
C. 1914
D. 1928
92. In 2001, what corporation gave $15,000 to
the non-profit group Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness?
A. LL
Bean
B. REI
C. Patagonia
D. Eddie
Bauer
93. What impact did Charlie Soderstrom have on UPS?
A. He
founded the company
B. He
chose the color brown for all their trucks
C. He
designed the uniforms for the drivers
D. He
took the company public
94. What was the first bubble gum brand name?
A. Flibber
Flubber
B. Blibber Blubber
C. Blobber
Bloober
D. Flobber
Floobel
95. How many females under 15 were arrested
in 2001 for forcible rape?
A. 6
B. 10
D. 40
96. Isaac had two sons named Esau and
Jacob. Who is their mother?
A. Rachel
C. Mary
D. Rebekah
97. Charles F. Wallace, of Wallace Memorial
Library fame, is noted for:
B. founder
and an original trustee of the Mechanics Institute
C. sculptor
of the "Split Cube" at the main entrance to the NTID
Building
D. sixth
president of the Institute, 1969-1978
98. Forced compliance is a term associated
with what psychological concept
A. intergroup
conflict
C. trance
induction
d. "voluntarist"
school of psychology
99. Which best describes the pattern of stripes on the Plains
Zebra?
A. The
forequarter stripes are narrow. Stripes
form a “gridiron” pattern over the rump and tail.
B. Stripes
are concentric on rump area and there are two white stripes along the spine.
C. Broad,
vertical stripes on body and down center of face. Stripes become almost horizontal on sides of face and legs.
D. There
is no particular pattern. Each animal
has its own unique pattern.
100. Which of
the following is not a raw material used in manufacturing duct tape?
A. polyethylene
coating
B. cotton
mesh
C. steel
filament thread
D. adhesive
compound