I Learned This in Kindergarten Quiz

Answer: Lowing

The word "low" to refer to the sound cows make is older than the word "moo". While "moo" was first used in 1549, "low" has been used since before the 12th century.

Answer: Rhode Island

Rhode Island has the longest official name of any state, yet it is the smallest in area. Other Rhode Island quirks? The official state bird is the Rhode Island red chicken; Rhode Island's official state motto "Hope" is the shortest of any state's; and although the first American Baptist church and American synagogue were founded in Rhode Island, the state has the highest percentage per capita of Roman Catholics in the country.

Answer: Columbus enslaved many of the natives when he arrived in the New World.

Columbus was ruthless to the natives, forcing them to work in gold mines, and cutting off the hands of those workers who didn't satisfy the daily quota.

Columbus did not set foot in the continental United States; he landed on San Salvador in the Bahamas. Isabella did not sell her jewels; in fact, Columbus borrowed much of the money to finance his trip. Although he was brought back to Spain in chains, Columbus was freed by the royalty and died wealthy.

Answer: Ladders

"Chutes and Ladders" (also known as "Snakes and Ladders") is a fairly easy game to play: Roll a die and move forward the number of spaces that you roll. If you land at the foot of a ladder, move up to its top; if you land at the top of a chute (or snake), then move to its bottom. If you roll a six, you go again, but three sixes puts you back to the start. The first person to make it to the top wins. Although winning the game is possible in seven turns, it has been calculated to take an average of 40 moves to reach the end.

Game theorists study "Chutes and Ladders" and classify it as a "Markov chain", meaning that moving forward or backwards is independent of past events. In the book "Winning Ways", the authors create a new "impartial game" based on "Chutes and Ladders", dubbed "Adders and Ladders".

Answer: Jackson Pollock's "_____ Mist"

Vincent van Gogh's "The Red Vineyard" is well-known for being the only work the artist sold during his lifetime. "The Blue Boy" is probably Gainsborough's most well-known work, and "The Yellow Christ" depicts a bright yellow Jesus being crucified in 19th century France. Jackson Pollock's "Lavender Mist" follows that artist's style of "action painting", i.e. dripping paint on a canvas arbitrarily and calling it modern art.

Answer: A

While "J", "U", and "W" were added in the Middle Ages, "A" has been in the alphabet since the ancient Greeks.

Answer: Photoelectric effect

Although Einstein made major discoveries in all four fields, he received the prize "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". Solar cells use a variant of the photoelectric effect to work, as do night vision devices.

Answer: Matrix multiplication

Commutation implies that if the numbers/matrices/vectors/other that are being added/multiplied are put into a different order, the result of the operation would remain the same.

Vector addition is often accomplished by the head-to-tail method, where one vector's tail is placed on top of another vector's head, or arrow. A new vector is drawn from the first vector's tail to the second vector's head and represents the vector sum.

Complex numbers can be multiplied through a similar process to binomial multiplication. To find (ai + b)*(ci + d), sum together the products of the first terms (ai and ci), the outside terms (ai and d), the inside terms (b and ci), and the last terms (b and d). The First, Inside, Outside, Last method is also referred to as FOILing. After FOILing, simplify by reducing i^2 to -1, and group like terms. You should end up with another complex number of the form (bc + ad)i + (bd-ac).

Matrices can be added simply by adding numbers in corresponding columns and rows; however, the matrices cannot be added if their dimensions are different.

Matrix multiplication is more complicated and is not commutative. Matrix 1 must have the same number of columns as matrix 2 has rows. Multiply entry 1,1 of both matrices, then move across one entry in matrix 1 and down one entry in matrix 2. Add the first product to the product of your new numbers, then repeat. When you reach the end of the first row in the first matrix, your resulting sum will be the product matrix's first entry.

Answer: Baseball

While baseball is often referred to as "America's Pastime", it has its roots in France and England. Old French games such as "la soule", "theque", and "la balle au baton", as well as the British game rounders are all cited as origins for the game. Lacrosse has its origins in Native Americans from the Eastern woodlands and Great Plains. Basketball was invented by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. William Morgan invented volleyball in 1895 in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Answer: John Adams

The purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was publicly stated as a way to control foreigners in the United States if war broke out. However, John Adams and the Federalist Congress passed the laws in intent to hurt their rivals Thomas Jefferson and the Republican Party.
The Naturalization Act extended the period necessary for immigrants to live in the United States before gaining citizenship, and was used to stop Irish immigrants, who tended to support Jefferson, from voting for him in upcoming elections.
The Alien Act allowed for the expulsion of "dangerous" aliens during peacetime.
The Alien Enemies Act allowed for their expulsion during wartime.
The Sedition Act, the most infamous of them all, fined or imprisoned any critic of the government; this law was the only of the four that was enforced. The flagrant violation of free speech led to Adams' imminent loss in the 1800 election to Jefferson.