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    POLS138 Worksheet 1

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    The document contains 14 trivia questions about various topics including science, technology, history, and politics. It tests knowledge about the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency, which companies designed the Betamax format and built the first laser, when the iPhone and Tamagotchi were released, which NASA space shuttles were destroyed, details about British and US leaders, and definitions of political terms. The questions cover a wide range of factual information to assess general knowledge.

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    The document contains 14 trivia questions about various topics including science, technology, history, and politics. It tests knowledge about the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency, which companies designed the Betamax format and built the first laser, when the iPhone and Tamagotchi were released, which NASA space shuttles were destroyed, details about British and US leaders, and definitions of political terms. The questions cover a wide range of factual information to assess general knowledge.

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    The document contains 14 trivia questions about various topics including science, technology, history, and politics. It tests knowledge about the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency, which companies designed the Betamax format and built the first laser, when the iPhone and Tamagotchi were released, which NASA space shuttles were destroyed, details about British and US leaders, and definitions of political terms. The questions cover a wide range of factual information to assess general knowledge.

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    POLS138 Worksheet 1

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    Aida Sazwani
    The document contains 14 trivia questions about various topics including science, technology, history, and politics. It tests knowledge about the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency, which companies designed the Betamax format and built the first laser, when the iPhone and Tamagotchi were released, which NASA space shuttles were destroyed, details about British and US leaders, and definitions of political terms. The questions cover a wide range of factual information to assess general knowledge.

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    1. A slugrsquo;s blood is green.

    a. False
    b. !True

    2. Cashmere is the wool from which kind of animal?


    a. Camel
    b. Sheep
    c. !Goat
    d. Llama

    3. What are rhino039;s horn made of?


    a. Skin
    b. Bone
    c. Ivory
    d. !Keratin

    4. How many known living species of hyenas are there?


    a. 6
    b. 8
    c. !4
    d. 2

    5. What is the scientific name of the cheetah?


    a. !Acinonyx jubatus
    b. Lynx rufus
    c. Panthera onca
    d. Felis catus

    6. What is the collective noun for a group of crows?


    a. !Murder
    b. Gaggle
    c. Pack
    d. Herd

    7. What is the scientific name of the Common Chimpanzee?


    a. Gorilla gorilla
    b. Pan paniscus
    c. !Pan troglodytes
    d. Panthera leo

    8. What colour is the female blackbird?


    a. !Brown
    b. Black
    c. White
    d. Yellow

    9. What is the collective noun for vultures?


    a. Ambush
    b. Gaze
    c. !Wake
    d. Building
    10. The internet browser Firefox is named after the Red Panda.
    a. False
    b. !True

    11. quot;Decapodsquot; are an order of tenfooted crustaceans. Which of these are


    NOT decapods?
    a. Shrimp
    b. Crabs
    c. Lobsters
    d. !Krill

    12. To which biological phylum do all mammals, birds and reptiles belong?
    a. Placazoa
    b. !Chordata
    c. Annelida
    d. Echinodermata

    13. What is the world039;s longest venomous snake?


    a. Yellow Bellied Sea Snake
    b. Inland Taipan
    c. Green Anaconda
    d. !King Cobra

    1. Which company designed the quot;Betamaxquot; video cassette format?


    a. LG
    b. !Sony
    c. Fujitsu
    d. Panasonic

    2. Which of the following is the standard THX subwoofer crossover frequency?


    a. 70 Hz
    b. 100 Hz
    c. !80 Hz
    d. 90 Hz

    3. Who patented a steam engine that produced continuous rotary motion?


    a. Nikola Tesla
    b. Albert Einstein
    c. !James Watt
    d. Alessandro Volta

    4. When was the Tamagotchi digital pet released?


    a. !1996
    b. 1990
    c. 1989
    d. 1992
    5. When did the CD begin to appear on the consumer market?
    a. !1982
    b. 1972
    c. 1992
    d. 1962

    6. When was the iPhone released?


    a. !2007
    b. 2004
    c. 2006
    d. 2005

    7. Who built the first laser?


    a. Edith Clarke
    b. Nikola Tesla
    c. !Theodore Harold Maiman
    d. Jack Kilby

    8. Which of the following cellular device companies is NOT headquartered in Asia?


    a. !Nokia
    b. HTC
    c. Samsung
    d. LG Electronics

    9. Which round does a WW2 M1 Garand fire?


    a. 7.62x51mm
    b. !.3006
    c. .308
    d. 7.62

    10. What is the quot;Mitsubishi Wakamaruquot;?


    a. A pickup truck
    b. !A robot
    c. An motorcycle
    d. A motorboat

    11. Out of all of the NASA Space Shuttles, which 2 have been destroyed in
    disasters?
    a. Enterprise and Atlantis
    b. None of the Above
    c. !Challenger and Columbia
    d. Discovery and Endeavour

    1. Who was the British Prime Minister at the outbreak of the Second World War?
    a. Clement Attlee
    b. Stanley Baldwin
    c. Winston Churchill
    d. !Neville Chamberlain
    2. Who was the only president to not be in office in Washington D.C?
    a. Abraham Lincoln
    b. Thomas Jefferson
    c. !George Washington
    d. Richard Nixon

    3. Before 2011, quot;True Capitalist Radioquot; was known by a different name. What
    was that name?
    a. True Republican Radio
    b. !True Conservative Radio
    c. United Capitalists
    d. Texan Capitalist Radio

    4. How many people are in the U.S. House of Representatives?


    a. 260
    b. !435
    c. 415
    d. 50

    5. Despite being seperated into multiple countries, The Scandinavian countries are
    unified by all having the same monarch.
    a. True
    b. !False

    6. Russia passed a law in 2013 which outlaws telling children that homosexuals
    exist.
    a. !True
    b. False

    7. During the 2016 United States presidential election, the State of California
    possessed the most electoral votes, having 55.
    a. !True
    b. False

    8. Joko Widodo has appeared in the cover of a TIME magazine.


    a. !True
    b. False

    9. What is centralism?
    a. Conforming to one single common political agenda.
    b. The grey area in the spectrum of political left and right.
    c. ! Concentration of power and authority in a central organization.
    d. Remaining politically neutral.

    10. Former United States President Bill Clinton famously played which instrument?
    a. Baritone horn
    b. Violin
    c. Piano
    d. !Saxophone
    11. Which former US president used quot;Let039;s Make America Great Againquot; as
    his campaign slogan before Donald Trump039;s campaign?
    a. !Ronald Reagan
    b. Richard Nixon
    c. Jimmy Carter
    d. Gerald Ford

    12. Between 1973 to 1990, what country was ruled by dictator Augusto Pinochet?
    a. Indonesia
    b. Nicaragua
    c. Ethiopia
    d. !Chile

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