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Quiz about 9 For 10 Back in High School
Quiz about 9 For 10 Back in High School

9 For 10 Back in High School Trivia Quiz


Even though you have been out of High School for years, you still get nightmares about being stuck in those old classrooms. The teachers are asking you questions that you barely remember the answers to. Can you survive another surreal day in high school?

A multiple-choice quiz by qrayx. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
qrayx
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
385,969
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
8 / 10
Plays
662
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Question 1 of 10
1. Civics: Where you learned about how the US government works. Sort of. The teacher is explaining how there are three co-equal branches of government, when suddenly she turns to you and asks:

Which branch of government is responsible for enforcing the laws?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Biology: When it comes to interwoven, messy situations, government is nothing compared to biology. There are so many things in biology that work together to make living things function properly. The teacher is droning on about different parts of the cell when she asks you:

Which kinds of molecules do cells keep in the nucleus, which contain the coded instructions for cell function?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Theatre: Finally! A chance to stand up and move instead of sit at a desk. Like the government and the cell, effective communication is the key to success in the theatre. This is why the teacher is making sure his students know all the proper names of the stage components and personnel. He turns to you and asks:

Who in the cast is responsible for stepping into the lead role at a moment's notice, should the primary actor suddenly be unable to perform?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Math: Confusion in its purest form. You miss the days when math was just counting and drawing the numbers properly. Now there are names for all the different special kinds of confusion. The teacher asks you:

Which field in mathematics focuses on rates of change?
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. French: Knowing a second language means you can forget twice as many things, right? In French, you had to learn a lot of nouns and adjectives, but you swear that most of your time in class was spent learning the verbs, and how to conjugate them. The teacher sees you drifting off, and asks you:

How do you say "to go" in French?
Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Music: As one of what feels like a million clarinet players, you can finally take a mental break in band class. Unfortunately, the goofballs at the back of the room are always messing around and making way too much noise for you to properly relax. The teacher sees you not paying attention, and asks you:

Which brass instrument uses a slide to change notes?
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Physics: Applied math. The study of the natural world. Still boring. The teacher is talking about forces, and how F = ma is a super important equation. All you can think about is when you get to leave. The teacher see you and asks:

Which scientist had three laws of motion named after him, and ultimately had his name become a unit of measurement in the metric system?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. English: How hard could it be? You're speaking English every day. But the teacher instead has you studying English from hundreds of years ago: Shakespeare. Now you're trying to decipher dialogue in what feels like a totally different language. You were so focused on the lines that you forgot about the story. The teacher asks you:

In which of Shakespeare's plays does the jealous Iago deceive and betray his friend?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. History: Shouldn't school be history for you? Your teacher is going through the long story of the twentieth century. He just got to the part about the Great Depression of the 1930s. You can feel some of this information coming back to you when suddenly your teacher locks eyes with you and asks:

What was Franklin D Roosevelt's proposal to bring the United States of America out of the Great Depression?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What a nightmare. You don't remember the school days being so long or having so many classes. You ask yourself:

Why did you ever go to school?

(The first letter of the correct answers to the previous nine questions spell this answer)

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Civics: Where you learned about how the US government works. Sort of. The teacher is explaining how there are three co-equal branches of government, when suddenly she turns to you and asks: Which branch of government is responsible for enforcing the laws?

Answer: Executive

The simple way of describing the three branches of US government is that the Legislative branch makes the laws, the Executive branch enforces the laws, and the Judicial branch interprets the laws.

The legislature is filled with people who make up new laws or repeal old ones. They debate and modify, and eventually sign new bills into law.

The executive branch makes sure people are following the laws, and then enforces punishments for those who break the law.

The judiciary branch is where the courts and judges work. When laws seem to contradict each other, it's their job to come up with solutions.
2. Biology: When it comes to interwoven, messy situations, government is nothing compared to biology. There are so many things in biology that work together to make living things function properly. The teacher is droning on about different parts of the cell when she asks you: Which kinds of molecules do cells keep in the nucleus, which contain the coded instructions for cell function?

Answer: DNA

In the 1940s and early 1950s, we still did not know much about how our own cells worked. Many scientists were focusing on proteins, which were obviously important and exciting. Not many were looking at DNA. They knew it existed in the cell, but it did not have any obvious function. Some scientists decided to focus on these more obscure molecules, which ended up being a lot more important than anyone realized. In the early 1950s, Francis Crick and James Watson, with help from Rosalind Franklin, pieced together the structure of DNA, and also realized that it was perfect for storing coded information. The secret of cell regulation and reproduction had finally been unlocked.

The discovery of the function of DNA energized the field of genetics, reinforced the theory of evolution, and opened entire new fields of study in biology and chemistry.
3. Theatre: Finally! A chance to stand up and move instead of sit at a desk. Like the government and the cell, effective communication is the key to success in the theatre. This is why the teacher is making sure his students know all the proper names of the stage components and personnel. He turns to you and asks: Who in the cast is responsible for stepping into the lead role at a moment's notice, should the primary actor suddenly be unable to perform?

Answer: Understudy

Recorded media only ever shows the audience a single, best take of a performance. Theatre, on the other hand, has to be performed night after night. Any number of complications can arise between shows, and the theatre has to be prepared. Most major roles in stage performances have backups in case the main performer cannot go on stage. These are the understudies, who learn all the lines and choreography of the lead roles, but who only get to use their training in emergencies.

Most theatre performers start as understudies for more prominent actors. This way they can practice the lead roles in a professional setting, while the production can use the more experienced actors for the performance.
4. Math: Confusion in its purest form. You miss the days when math was just counting and drawing the numbers properly. Now there are names for all the different special kinds of confusion. The teacher asks you: Which field in mathematics focuses on rates of change?

Answer: Calculus

Calculus deals with the rates of change. Math teachers like to teach in the abstract, but it has many practical uses. How much money you make per hour is a rate of change, and so is how much your hourly rate increases over time with raises. Using calculus is how you would combine these two rates to figure out how much money you will make over a long period of time.

Geometry is about studying shapes (this is where trigonometry lives). Most people think statistics is just probability, but it's actually about analysing data. Algebra is one of the largest and most difficult to define branches of mathematics. Most people think of algebra as "solving equations".
5. French: Knowing a second language means you can forget twice as many things, right? In French, you had to learn a lot of nouns and adjectives, but you swear that most of your time in class was spent learning the verbs, and how to conjugate them. The teacher sees you drifting off, and asks you: How do you say "to go" in French?

Answer: Aller

Learning how to properly conjugate verbs for all the pronouns is a big part of French (and many other languages). It becomes more complicated when learning all the different verb tenses. French does have rules for conjugation and tense, but it breaks those rules almost as often as following them.

The word "aller" (Ah-Lay) in French means "to go". Some pronouns use the normal endings, like "nous allons" (we go), but other forms don't anything like what you would expect, like "je vais" (I go).

Etre (Et-Truh) means "to be". Manger (Mon-Jay) means "to eat". Lire (Leer) means "to read".
6. Music: As one of what feels like a million clarinet players, you can finally take a mental break in band class. Unfortunately, the goofballs at the back of the room are always messing around and making way too much noise for you to properly relax. The teacher sees you not paying attention, and asks you: Which brass instrument uses a slide to change notes?

Answer: Trombone

Wind instruments change their notes by changing the length of the tube that air vibrates in. Some instruments, like clarinets, use keys to close or open holes to change the length. Other instruments, like trumpets, use valves to add extra bits of pipe.

The trombone has the most beautifully simplistic solution: just have a big long sliding part to change the length of the tube.

In the music world, there are many jokes about trombones being too loud (often couched in truth). There is a reason why an orchestra may have lots of violins, violas, and cellos, but only two trombones. Two is usually more than enough.
7. Physics: Applied math. The study of the natural world. Still boring. The teacher is talking about forces, and how F = ma is a super important equation. All you can think about is when you get to leave. The teacher see you and asks: Which scientist had three laws of motion named after him, and ultimately had his name become a unit of measurement in the metric system?

Answer: Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton made many contributions to math and physics in the 1600s. He codified the three laws of motion, which changed the way we understand how the world works. His second law is associated with the famous F = ma equation, which is possibly the most famous physics equation after Einstein's E = mc^2.

Newton was so prolific and influential that in 1948 his name was adopted as the official unit of force. There is a fake story about Newton deriving inspiration for his work when an apple fell off a tree and hit him on the head. Coincidentally, an apple weighs about one Newton.
8. English: How hard could it be? You're speaking English every day. But the teacher instead has you studying English from hundreds of years ago: Shakespeare. Now you're trying to decipher dialogue in what feels like a totally different language. You were so focused on the lines that you forgot about the story. The teacher asks you: In which of Shakespeare's plays does the jealous Iago deceive and betray his friend?

Answer: Othello

"Othello" is one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear were also tragedies. In Othello, like other tragedies, many characters acted on assumed conclusions in unfortunate ways, and most ended up sad, dead, or both.

Even hundreds of years later, the name Iago is still a synonym for traitor and schemer.
9. History: Shouldn't school be history for you? Your teacher is going through the long story of the twentieth century. He just got to the part about the Great Depression of the 1930s. You can feel some of this information coming back to you when suddenly your teacher locks eyes with you and asks: What was Franklin D Roosevelt's proposal to bring the United States of America out of the Great Depression?

Answer: New Deal

Isolationism was a mindset in the United States that it should not intervene in foreign affairs (like world conflicts). Despite the sentiment, the US rarely kept to interests only within her borders, and often intervened in world politics. Most notable were the two world wars.

The New Deal was Franklin D Roosevelt's solution to the Great Depression (actually passed by Congress). It was a series of economic programs to create jobs, provide relief money, and to regulate banks and corporations to prevent the reckless behavior that led to the depression in the first place. The effectiveness of the New Deal's programs are still debated and controversial.

The Marshall Plan was an aid program set up after the Second World War to rebuild Europe. Instead of making the defeated nations suffer, as happened after the First World War, the victors instead decided to help rebuild the devastated nations of Europe, with new friendly governments. The plan was also used to curb the spread of Communism from the USSR.

The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s was a movement to end sanctioned discrimination by the US government. In 1964, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.
10. What a nightmare. You don't remember the school days being so long or having so many classes. You ask yourself: Why did you ever go to school? (The first letter of the correct answers to the previous nine questions spell this answer)

Answer: Education

There is debate about the exact role of the education system, and its effectiveness. Many people forget most of what they learned in high school, and never use it in their daily lives. On the other hand, we have records of times and places in which school was not compulsory, and can see the differences between the modern world and old one. At the very least, school teaches us how to communicate and think rationally. It provides a shared social experience that people of all age groups can remember and empathize with.

Ultimately, it seems an educated citizenry yields more successful societies, and this is why we all still get an education.
Source: Author qrayx

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