From: bk233@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jack W. Weinmann)
Newsgroups: rec.scouting
Subject: Funny Scouter Quiz
Date: 16 Nov 1992 06:07:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bk233@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jack W. Weinmann)
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I found this on the handout table at our roundtable.  As the Cub Scout RT
Commissioner I know that I didn't put it there, but I suspect that it was
our prankster Boy Scout RT Commissioner that had this rather cute quiz put
on the table.  While it is originally stated as a Roundtable Staff Final
Exam, it can easily be changed to any group (Den Leaders, Cubmasters,
etc...)  One idea that I had was that it could be used at a leader training
session as an icebreaker.  Hand it out with a straight face as if it were a
real quiz.

-----------  You may wish to cut it about here! -----------------------

                       (Put your District's Name Here)

                              ROUNDTABLE STAFF

                       FINAL QUALIFICATION EXAMINATION

Name:_______________________________________    Unit No. ____________________

INSTRUCTIONS: Do not start this test until told to do so.  Read each question
              carefully.  Answer all questions.  You will be allowed FOUR (4)
              hours to complete the test.  Work as quickly as you can and mark 
              the answers in the spaces provided.   Begin Immediately.


1. HISTORY: Describe the history of the Papacy from its origins to the present
            day.  Concentrating especially, but not exclusively, on its social,
            political, economic, religious, and philosophical impact on Europe,
            Asia, Africa, and America.  Be brief, concise and specific.




2. MEDICINE: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a
            bottle of Scotch.  Remove your appendix.  Do not suture until your
            work has been inspected.  You have fifteen minutes.




3. PUBLIC SPEAKING: 2,500 riot-crazed Aborigines are storming the room.
            Calm them!  You may use any ancient language EXCEPT Latin or Greek.




4. BIOLOGY: 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 organization of the
            World Scouting Movement.  Prove your thesis.




5. MUSIC: Write a piano concerto.  Orchestrate and perform it with a flute and
          drum.  You will find a piano under your seat.




6. PSYCHOLOGY: Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the emotional
               stability, degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of
               each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisia, Gregory of Micea,
               Inman of Steagall.  Support your evaluations with quotations from
               each man's work, making appropriate references.  
               It is not necessary to translate.




7. SOCIOLOGY: Estimate the sociological problems which might accompany the end
              of the world.  Construct an experiment to test your theory.





8. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE: Define management.  Define Science.  How do they relate?
              Why?  Create a generalized algorithm to optimize all managerial
              decision.




9. ENGINEERING: The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle have been placed
              in a box on your table.  You will also find an instruction manual
              printed in Swahili.  In ten minutes a hungry Bengal Tiger will be
              admitted to the room.  Take whatever action you feel is
              appropriate.  Be prepared to justify your decision.




10. ECONOMICS: Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the National Debt.
              Trace the possible effects of your plan in the following areas:
              Cubism, the Donatist controversy, the wave theory of light.
              Outline a method for preventing these effects.  Criticize this 
              method from all points of view.  Point out the deficiencies in
              your point of view as demonstrated in your answer to the last 
              question.




11. POLITICAL SCIENCE: There is a red telephone on the table behind you.  Start
              World War III.  Report at length on its Socio-political effects, 
              if any.




12. EPISTEMOLOGY: Take a position for or against truth.  Prove the validity of
              your position.




13. PHYSICS: Explain the nature of matter.  Include in your answer an evaluation
             of the impact of methematics on science.




14. PHILOSOPHY: Sketch the development of human thought.    Estimate its
             significance.  Compare with the development of any other kind of
             thought.




15. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Describe in detail.  Be objective and specific.




EXTRA CREDIT:

   Define the Universe;  give three examples.

----- As long as you cut it at the top, you might as well cut it here! ---

Enjoy.

Jack
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