1. If Popeye the Sailor had gotten his spinach in the U.S. around September 2006, his biceps might not grow larger. In fact, he may just start feeling abdominal pain, severe cramps, and have to suffer through diarrhea. Which of the following might he say? I eats all me spinach and I gets Ebola! *Toot, toot!* I eats all me spinach and I gets Salmonella! *Toot, toot!* I eats all me spinach, and I gets E. coli! *Toot, toot!* I eats all me spinach and I gets Botulism! *Toot, toot!*

2. If we were to take Shakespeare’s line from 'As You Like It', “All the world's a stage/ And all the men and women merely players” and changed the word “stage” to “chessboard” and “players“ to “chess pieces“, which of the following people would not be a chess piece? (HINT: think of the names of chess pieces and what titles each of these people may have held) Niccolo Machiavelli Desmond Tutu Marie Antoinette Elton John

3. In many countries, there are laws against a brother and sister being intimately involved. If mythological gods could be charged ex post facto, which pair would be safe from prosecution? Jarilo and Morana Zeus and Hera Skadi and Njord Isis and Osiris

4. Joke time! -- So there’s this guy who walks into a sushi bar and orders some raw fish wrapped in seaweed. The sushi bartender says he can only have seaweed wrap if he calls it by name. So the man decides he doesn't want it until later. “Why?” asks the sushi bartender. What does the man reply? Kanji see? (Can’t you see?) Nori, san. (No reason.) I’m not hu-nigiri. (I’m not hungry.) You tako too much. (You talk too much.)

5. Santa’s little helpers go on strike, so he decides to borrow some elves from Middle Earth to help get his sleigh ready. Which of the following matches would be valid? Aragorn bridles Donner Arwen grooms Blitzen Legolas gives Tricksy a bath Elrond repairs Runner’s shoes

6. If we were to mix Karl Marx’s ideology with E. E. Cummings' writing style, which of the following might be the result? THERE IS NO HIGHER BEING i believe in socialism Renounce… all… material… possessions… U r lyke a meen purson

7. Timmy is afraid of big words. However, he is even more afraid of words that mean “big”. Which of the following is he going to want to steer clear of the most? minuscule picayune copious diminutive

8. One’s Erdős number (or Bacon number) is how close they are from co-authoring a paper with mathematician Paul Erdős (or starring with actor Kevin Bacon). Someone who has co-written a paper with Erdős is assigned a value of one. And if another person were to have co-written a paper with a person who has co-written a paper with Erdős, then their Erdős number would be two. Whichever number you have that is the smallest is your Erdős number. Let’s suppose that instead of an Erdős number, there was a “Joseph McCarthy number” based on personal meetings between dignitaries. We want to find the “McCarthy number” for his most hated enemy, Joseph Stalin. If I said I could connect him in three steps, which of the following would break the connection because it never happened? All of these happened Truman discusses the transfer of power with Eisenhower at the White House Eisenhower campaigns with McCarthy in Wisconsin Stalin meets with Truman at the Potsdam Conference

9. If the signers of the American Declaration of Independence were to participate in the Olympic Decathlon, which of the following would NOT be valid? Samuel Huntington runs the 110m hurdles John Hancock does the pole vault George Washington does the triple jump Thomas Jefferson throws the shot put

10. The characters on the show “Friends” decide to join the Religious Society of Friends (also known as the Quakers). Which of the following ‘life lessons’ would not be learned by the characters as it is NOT one of the Testimonies of the Quakers? Rachel discovers the benefit of plain dress Ross believes that men and women are equal Joey learns that it is okay to marry more than one spouse Phoebe teaches that violence is bad