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HOMEWORK FOR GROWN UPS
EVERYTHING YOU LEARNED AT SCHOOL... BUT CAN YOU REMEMBER?
General Knowledge Quiz

Test Your Vocabulary

1. What in the world is at Zero Degrees Latitude and Zero Degrees Longitude:
North Pole, South Pole; NATO HQ; or A weather observation buoy?
2. The first most popular book of seven from CS Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia
(1950-56) is The Lion, The Witch and the: Table; Armchair; Bed; or Wardrobe?

“Obey your family. Do not disgrace us,” she said.
In this sentence, disgrace means to:
1. put in a dangerous position

3. Under normal Earth sea-level conditions water boils at how many degrees
centigrade: Zero; 32; 100; or 212?

2. provide a protective covering for

4.The term 'histrionics', referring to excessive emotion, is Latin 'histrion', meaning:
Historian; Politician; Acrobat; or Actor?

4. bring shame or dishonor upon

7. A spoken error, considered perhaps more truthful than the intended word(s), is
called a '(What?) slip': Jungian; Freudian; Dickensian; or Shakespearian?
8. Dr Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), author of 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'Green Eggs
and Ham', is most famous in what literary genre: Crime/thrillers; Chick lit; Horror; or
Children's?
9. Roughly what is the volume of a ball 10 inches wide (in cubic inches): 105; 162;
524; or 2,500?
10. The name of which famous island borough, also a cocktail and Woody Allen
film, derives from Lenape Native American Indian, land owners until Dutch settler
acquisition, 1626?
11. The popular informal term for a circus is The Big: Hat; Ring; Top; or Bottom?

ANSWER: 4. Use the verb disgrace to say that someone has brought shame upon himself.
Your brother might disgrace himself at the family reunion by being rude to your Uncle Bob.

6. Spell the word for a type of neck pendant: Medalian; Medallian; Medalion; or
Medallion?

You probably notice that grace makes up a big part of disgrace. Combine this with the dis- prefix, meaning “the opposite of,” and
you get a word that involves shame and dishonor. Think of disgrace as a kind of fall from grace — it’s what happens when you do
something that causes you to lose favor or damages your reputation. You could disgrace yourself by losing your tennis match badly,
or you could disgrace yourself by cheating on an exam.

5. Kangchenjunga, Nanda Devi, and Kamet are the three (What? of Where? - two
answers required): First rulers; Highest mountains; Top security prisons; India;
Australia; or Game of Thrones?

3. make strong or stronger

MATH PROBLEMS
Try to find out a multi-digit number that if multiplied
by the number 9 or any of its multiplications products
(18, 27, 36, 45,..) will result in the multiplication factor
repeated (n) number of times

12. What is the diameter of the world in kilometres: 12,742 19,008; 27,783; or
652,500?
13. From Latin meaning 'small room' what are the 'building blocks of life' and smallest
units able to replicate independently?

ANSWER: The number is: 12345679
12345679 * 9 = 111111111
12345679 * 18 = 222222222
12345679 * 27 = 333333333
And so on....

14. Ptolemy (AD100-17