Hard Trivia Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. What decimal number is represented by the binary number 101101?
45
43
41
53
2. Assume that all sculptors are artists and no artists are chemists. Which conclusion must be true?
Some chemists are sculptors.
No chemists are artists or scientists.
All artists are sculptors.
No sculptors are chemists.
3. Which novel opens with Robert Walton’s letters and uses them to frame Victor’s account of creating a living being?
Dracula
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
4. Which country is completely surrounded by South Africa?
Eswatini
Botswana
Lesotho
Malawi
5. Which of these European languages is generally classified as a language isolate rather than as a member of the Indo-European or Uralic families?
Hungarian
Maltese
Welsh
Basque
6. Why is mitochondrial DNA in humans usually inherited through the maternal line?
Mitochondrial genes are located on the X chromosome.
Only maternal mitochondrial genes can replicate after birth.
Sperm cells contain no structures that produce energy.
The egg supplies nearly all the cytoplasm and organelles to the embryo.
7. Which minor key is the relative minor of C major?
C minor
A minor
D minor
E minor
8. Who wrote the essays collectively known as The Federalist Papers?
George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Patrick Henry
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
James Monroe, John Marshall, and Samuel Adams
9. Which art term describes the modeling of forms through pronounced contrasts between light and dark?
Chiaroscuro
Sfumato
Impasto
Foreshortening
10. Mars sometimes appears to move backward against the background stars. What primarily causes this apparent retrograde motion?
Mars briefly reverses its direction along its orbit.
Earth overtakes Mars as the planets travel around the Sun at different speeds.
Earth’s axial tilt changes the apparent direction of Mars each season.
The Moon’s gravity bends the observed path of Mars.
11. The Peace of Westphalia, signed in 1648, is most directly associated with ending which conflict?
The Thirty Years’ War
The War of the Spanish Succession
The Seven Years’ War
The War of the Austrian Succession
12. Two atoms have the same atomic number but different mass numbers. What is the best conclusion?
They are isotopes of the same element.
They are ions with different electrical charges.
They belong to different elements in the same group.
They have equal numbers of neutrons but different numbers of protons.
13. At a convergent boundary between an oceanic plate and a continental plate, which outcome is most typical?
The continental plate sinks because it is generally thinner.
The denser oceanic plate subducts beneath the continental plate.
Neither plate descends, so only a transform fault forms.
Both plates separate and create a mid-ocean ridge.
14. A moving object’s speed doubles while its mass stays constant. How does its classical kinetic energy change?
It increases by one-half.
It becomes twice as large.
It becomes four times as large.
It remains unchanged because the mass is constant.
15. In Dante’s Inferno, what category of wrongdoing is punished in the ninth and lowest circle of Hell?
Heresy
Fraud
Violence
Treachery
16. What is the smallest positive integer that leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 5 and a remainder of 3 when divided by 7?
7
17
13
12