Exams for everyone!

Quick quiz, kids. Reply in the comments, with just the number and letter or just the letters in order, and I'll give you your score. Answers given in 48 hours (12:10am Sunday). Feel free to guess if you don't know the answer!


1. Which of these is *not* a country?

a. Svalbard
b. Georgia
c. Niue
d. Malabo

2. Which of these is *not* a capital city?

a. Canberra
b. Budapest
c. Tokyo
d. Sao Paolo

3. Which of these animals is extinct?

a. Przwalski's Horse
b. Coelacanth
c. Carolina Parakeet
d. Sei Whale

4. The atomic number of carbon is?

a. 10
b. 6
c. 13
d. 4

5. Who liberated their enslaved populations (serfs/slaves) first, Russia or the United States?

a. Russia
b. The United States
c. Trick question, they liberated them the same year!

6. Gunpowder was first invented in what country?

a. Germany
b. France
c. China
d. India

7. What play contains the lines "To be or not to be, that is the question..."?

a. Othello
b. Hamlet
c. A Street Car Named Desire
d. Rent


8. Who wrote Wuthering Heights??

a. Jane Austen
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Emily Bronte
d. Mary Shelley


9. What is an imaginary number?

a. Something bored mathematicians come up with
b. A number that contains numbers after a decimal point (such as 1.374)
c. A number with a repeating decimal
d. The square route of a negative number

10. 2^0 (two to the 0th power)=?

a. 2
b. 0
c. 1
d. -2

(no subject)

It got cold tonight, again, and it might just stay cold, which is good.

School is done, and I think I might miss this sort of wrapping up when college is done. I got to do my bi-annual ritual of throwing away every single piece of school work, saving unused paper from my notebooks, and tossing away everything. Tests, syllabi, handouts. Because I'm done. It's done. It's all done.

I also got the day off, which was even better. I know that after the kerfluffle in October where I didn't work for a week, you'd think I'd be upset, but I'm not. It's only one day, and a Friday, and I needed to rest.

Got to take a nap for the first time in a long time. Window open, because it was in the 60's today, which is just perfect for me. Very breezy. Gray as old people's hair, too. Nice day to lay and listen to the wind and the leaves which have fallen en masse.

And it was cold enough to justify a steaming mug of sugar free, decaf French Vanilla (which isn't bad, surprisingly). Also justified a fur blanket and fuzzy slippers. I can see my breath in the air.

In a couple of weeks, it'll be winter for real.