Instructions: There are only 16 questions. Read all instructions and questions carefully before you begin. Time limit 4 hours. You may begin when you are ready.

# Biology

1) Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed 500 million years earlier, with special attention to its probable effect on the evolution/creation argument. Verify this estimation.

# Economics

2) Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Trace the possible effects of your plan in the following areas: CEO compensation, the China trade balance, and minimum wage.

# Engineering

3) The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed in a box on your desk. You will also find an instruction manual, printed in Swahili. In ten minutes a hungry Bengal tiger will be admitted to your room. Take whatever action you feel appropriate. Be prepared to justify your decision.

# English Literature

4) Rewrite, from memory, Atlas Shrugged -- but with a counter point of view. You will find 1,500 sheets of paper under your chair.

# General Knowledge

5) Describe in detail. Be objective and specific.

# Geography

6) Draw a detailed map of the world showing the location of all armed conflicts. Extra credit: mark an "X" over the exact hiding place of Osama Bin Laden, and calculate how many hundred miles he is from the nearest American soldier.

# History

7) Describe the history of all religions from their earliest origins to the present day. Prove which is best in a manner that will convince the members of all other religions to convert.

# Logic

8) Using accepted methodology, prove all four of the following: That the universe is infinite; that truth is beauty; that there is no little person who turns off the light in the refrigerator when you close the door, and that you are the person taking this exam. Now disprove all of the above. Show all work.

# Management Science

9) Define Management. Define Science. How do they relate? Why? Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial decisions. Implement your algorithm on either a GE 645, CDC 7600, IBM 360/195, or PDP-8. Your program should include all software necessary to support 100 interactive consoles.

# Mathematics

10) Calculate PI to two million decimal places and, by using this result, calculate the volume of the galaxy to 1,999,999 decimal places.

# Medicine

11) Behind your desk you will find a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work is inspected.

# Music

12) Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate and perform it with full orchestra. You will find a piano under your seat.

# Philosophy

13) Why? Explain your answer.

# Physics

14) Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation of the impact of the development of mathematics on science, plus the possible effect of electromagnetic radiation on the global pollution.

# Political Science

15) On the desk behind you is a red phone. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.

# Psychology

16) Employing principles from the major schools of psychoanalytic thought, successfully subject yourself to analysis. Make appropriate personality evaluations and changes, bill yourself, and fill out all appropriate medical insurance forms. Then do the same to the person on your immediate left.

Final instruction: Note that the instructions at the top told you to read all questions before starting. If you have not made any marks on your answer sheet you may write your name at the top and it turn in for an "A" grade. If you have started answering any question, you must complete all of them.

Good Luck.

Based on the last paragraph you must be familiar with the old story of the man who was taking a final examination. He was to write a response to the instruction, "Write Everything You Know about the Lombard League". He wrote, "I know nothing of the Lombard League" and was given a failing grade. However, he protested pointing out that the instructions simply wanted to know what he knew about the topic and knowing nothing is an acceptable answer. He received a passing grade. Moral: Always read the fine print and understand what it reallymeans.

P.S.Re number 14, I have a Doctorate in Particle Theory so could answer that one at some level. Then the question would have to be, Could the person reading the answer understand it?

Considering (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:16 am Based on the last paragraph you must be familiar with the old story of the man who was taking a final examination. He was to write a response to the instruction, "Write Everything You Know about the Lombard League". He wrote, "I know nothing of the Lombard League" and was given a failing grade. However, he protested pointing out that the instructions simply wanted to know what he knew about the topic and knowing nothing is an acceptable answer. He received a passing grade. Moral: Always read the fine print and understand what it reallymeans.

P.S.Re number 14, I have a Doctorate in Particle Theory so could answer that one at some level. Then the question would have to be, Could the person reading the answer understand it?

Lol, they are a teacher, of course they aren't going to understand it, that's why they have a book of answers.

I remember a teacher giving a test like this, only a few of us passed, I was not one of them, I put my name on the top right he asked for the top left.

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