This quiz has nothing to do with cats or anything else useful.
My students had to take a midterm exam today, so why should I give SherWords readers the day off?
This 10-question quiz is closed-book: no reference materials of any kind are allowed. Each question is followed by a link to its answer and, where I feel like it, some explanation thereof. Use these links only after you have answered the question. Ceiling Cat will know if you peeked, and what happens after that might not be pretty.
Ready? Okay, then, here we go!
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In case you are thinking of disagreeing with any of the answers, keep in mind who gives the grades around here.
1. Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a ton of lead? (Click here for the answer.)
2. What was U.S. President Truman's middle name? (Answer)
3. What was U.S. President Ford's first name? (Answer)
4. Where in the 48 contiguous states of the USA is it possible to drive southward on a paved road across the border into Canada? (Answer)
5. Which major object in our solar system requires the fastest launch of a spacecraft from Earth to reach on a direct trajectory? (Answer)
6. In a regulation, 9-inning baseball game (not one shortened by rain or other exigency), what is the smallest possible total number of plate appearances for one team's batters? (Answer)
7. If the presidents of San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley stand in the middle of the football stadiums on their campuses, which of them is the farthest west? (Answer)
8. How many accelerators are there in a car? (Answer)
9. What large body of water does the Sun rise over as seen from the Panama Canal? (Answer)
10. If you push straight backward on the lower pedal of a tricycle's front wheel, which direction does the trike move (assuming good lubrication and that the wheel is prevented from turning left or right)? (Answer)
2. What was U.S. President Truman's middle name? (Answer)
3. What was U.S. President Ford's first name? (Answer)
4. Where in the 48 contiguous states of the USA is it possible to drive southward on a paved road across the border into Canada? (Answer)
5. Which major object in our solar system requires the fastest launch of a spacecraft from Earth to reach on a direct trajectory? (Answer)
6. In a regulation, 9-inning baseball game (not one shortened by rain or other exigency), what is the smallest possible total number of plate appearances for one team's batters? (Answer)
7. If the presidents of San Jose State University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley stand in the middle of the football stadiums on their campuses, which of them is the farthest west? (Answer)
8. How many accelerators are there in a car? (Answer)
9. What large body of water does the Sun rise over as seen from the Panama Canal? (Answer)
10. If you push straight backward on the lower pedal of a tricycle's front wheel, which direction does the trike move (assuming good lubrication and that the wheel is prevented from turning left or right)? (Answer)
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