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What's Your Mindset?

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : 20th & 21st Centuries : What's Your Mindset?

Introduction:
"Each August since 1998, Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA, has published its "Mindset List." This list gives us a glimpse of the world view of US students entering college as freshman each year. (Visit http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaf/mindset/)"


1. According to the Beloit College Mindset List of 2006 (for students of the class of 2010, most of whom were born in 1988) which of the following is true?
    They have known only four presidents
    Richard Nixon, Kim Il-Sung, John Candy and Kurt Cobain have always been dead
    There has only been one Pope. They can only remember one other US president
    They grew up wearing Swatch Watches


2. According to Beloit College's 2003 Mindset List, if you belonged to that class, most of your classmates would have been born in 1981. What else would have been true for you and your classmates?
    Rainbow Brite, Care Bears and Smurfs were SO last year!
    There had always been a woman on the Supreme Court, and women had always been traveling into space
    Your parents might have bought you a Cabbage Patch Kid for your first birthday.
    By the time you were born, the first woman had been nominated as a US vice-presidential candidate on a major party ticket.


3. The Beloit College Mindset List states that for this class, "Andy Warhol, Liberace, Jackie Gleason, and Lee Marvin have always been dead."
    Class of 2009 (born in 1987)
    Class of 2004 (born in 1982)
    Class of 2005 (born in 1983)
    Class of 2002 (born in 1980)


4. According to Beloit College's Mindset List, for students of which class has "Google" always been a verb?

    Class of 2002 (born in 1980)
    Class of 2010 (born in 1988)
    Class of 2005 (born in 1983)
    Class of 2003 (born in 1981)


5. The Beloit College Mindset List observes that which of the following was true for students in the class of 2004 (born in 1983)?
    We had always been able to reproduce DNA in the laboratory
    Prince Charles was still a bachelor when they were born
    The first test tube baby was born in their lifetime
    Your parents probably used a cell phone to notify family and friends when you were born


6. Students born in 1986 could make which of the following observations, according to the Beloit College Mindset List for the class of 2008?
    There have never been any Playboy Clubs
    They enjoyed looking at pictures of their parents' trip to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, before they were born
    They could recall watching Roseanne Roseannadanna live on Saturday Night Live
    They remember enjoying 7-Up Gold and Apple Slice


7. According to the Beloit College Mindset List, students of which class can anticipate living until around 2060, with a life expectancy of 77 years?
    Class of 2010 (born in 1988)
    Class of 2009 (born in 1987)
    Class of 2002 (born in 1980)
    Class of 2005 (born in 1983)


8. The Beloit College Mindset List notes that students of this class were 11 when the Soviet Union broke up, and they have never known the Cold War.
    Class of 2002 (born in 1980)
    Class of 2005 (born in 1983)
    Class of 2003 (born in 1981)
    class of 2004 (born in 1982)


9. The class of 2006 (born in 1984) could say what about their world, according to the Beloit College Mindset List?
    Apartheid in South Africa was history, but they had no personal recollection of how or when it ended.
    "Trivial Pursuit" may have been played by our parents the night before we were born
    Our parents may have been watching the Fox television network while waiting for our arrival.
    Who ever heard of having computers in the classroom? That's absurd!


10. If you were in the class of 2007 (born 1985), according to the Beloit College Mindset List, which of the following would most likely have been true for you or your classmates?
    "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" was one of your favorite Saturday-morning cartoons
    You remember playing Pong on your Atari game console
    You never heard Howard Cosell call a game on ABC television
    You remember going for rides in the family station wagon


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