Answers to Circuit Court Judge's Quiz
— -- Circuit Court Judge Danny J. Boggs administers trivia tests to prospective law clerks. What follows are the answers to last year's version of the test:
1. What does the Herfindahl-Hirschman index measure?industry concentration2. Who sprang full grown from the head of Jupiter? Who sprang from the sea foam off Cyprus?Minerva; Aphrodite3. Who wrote the Ode to Joy?Schiller/Beethoven4. Name one work by Margaret Atwood.e.g., The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace5. For what was Willie Sutton noted?robbing banks6. Who is your favorite historical figure (deceased)?
7. Complete the line: "Once upon a midnight dreary ______."while I pondered, weak and weary8. How many U.S. states had new all-time high temperatures in the last twenty years?seven9. Who or what were "Fat Man" and "Little Boy?"the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, respectively10. What are the chances of ten straight of the same side coming up in ten consecutive tosses of a fair coin?1/51211. What country's capital is Kuala Lumpur?Malaysia12. Who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats?T. S. Eliot13. Freetown is the capital of what country?Sierra Leone14. Name the most populous country in Africa; in South America.Nigeria; Brazil15. What is measured by an anemometer? A sphygmomanometer? A hygrometer?wind; blood pressure; humidity16. Who gave the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?"Sojourner Truth17. Give the decimal value of the number 212110, which is in base 3.63318. Distinguish Cabeza de Vaca from Vasco da Gama.Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer. Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese explorer.19. Name two works of Kipling.e.g., The Jungle Book, Kim, Gunga Din20. Distinguish Roy M. Cohn from Roy G. Biv.Roy M. Cohn was a lawyer who worked on McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade. Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic device for remembering the colors of the rainbow.21. Distinguish Rimsky-Korsakov from Kolmogorov-Smirnov.Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer. Kolmogorov-Smirnov is a statistical test.22. Within a factor of 2, what was the United States population at the time of the Civil War? The total number of military deaths in the Civil War?32.3 million; 558,05223. Why is Eli Whitney famous?He invented the cotton gin.24. What capital of a European country is the farthest north? The farthest south?Reykjavik; Valletta25. Name a poem that you can recite by memory.26. Who killed: Duncan? McKinley? Cock Robin? Ron Goldman? Vaudeville?Macbeth; Leon Czolgosz; the Sparrow; unknown; radio, movies, television, stale material27. Who wrote The Jew of Malta?Christopher Marlowe28. Where did Michael Jordan play college basketball?University of North Carolina29. Name three quarks.e.g., up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm30. What countries were headed by: Amin? Kaunda? Nkrumah? Kenyatta?Uganda; Zambia; Ghana; Kenya31. What country had a group of authors known as "The Generation of '98?"Spain32. Name three members of Washington's first cabinet.e.g., John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, Edmund Randolph, Samuel Osgood33. How many members are in the U.S. House of Representatives? In what year did it first have this number?435; 191334. Who was Thorstein Veblen?American economist and social critic, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class35. Who was Cinque?Symbionese Liberation Army leader who kidnapped Patty Hearst; also, a slave from Sierra Leone who led the Amistad Rebellion36. Name two Shakespeare plays beginning with "King."King Lear, King John37. Who was Matthew Brady?19th century American photographer, celebrated for portraits of politicians and photographs of the Civil War38. What work of art has most profoundly affected you?
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