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The assassination of JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated on Friday,
November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while
traveling with his wife Jacqueline and the Texas Governor. A ten-month investigation in 1963–64 by
the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by a single individual, acting
alone.
Identify the individual who best fits each of the following descriptions.
Abraham Zapruder
Clint Hill
Name the individual later and widely accused of complicity in a government sponsored cover-up of the assassination (tests knowledge and understanding)
Earl Warren
J.D. Tippit
Jack Ruby
John Connally
Name the single individual blamed for the assassination (easy, test of basic knowledge)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Matthew Smith
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m.
Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John
Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation in 1963–
64 by the Warren Commission (led by Chief Justice Earl Warren) concluded that Kennedy was
assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when he killed
Oswald before he could stand trial. Although the Commission's conclusions were initially supported
by a majority of the American public, polls conducted between 1966 and 2003 found that as many as
80 percent of Americans have suspected that there was a plot or cover-up.
United States Secret Service Special Agent Clint Hill was riding on the left front running board of the
followup car, immediately behind the Presidential limousine. Hill testified he heard one shot, then,
as documented in other films and concurrent with Zapruder frame 308, he jumped off into Elm
Street and ran forward to try to get on the limousine and protect the President. (Hill testified to the
Warren Commission that after he jumped into Elm Street, he heard two more shots.). After the
President had been shot in the head, Mrs. Kennedy began to climb out onto the back of the
limousine, though she later had no recollection of doing so. Hill believed she was reaching for
something, perhaps a piece of the President's skull. He jumped onto the back of the limousine while
at the same time Mrs. Kennedy returned to her seat, and he clung to the car as it exited Dealey Plaza
and accelerated, speeding to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Lee Harvey Oswald, reported missing to the Dallas police by Roy Truly, his supervisor at the
Depository, was arrested approximately 70 minutes after the assassination for the murder of Dallas
police officer J. D. Tippit. According to witness Helen Markam, Tippit had spotted Oswald walking
along a sidewalk in the residential neighborhood of Oak Cliff, three miles from Dealey Plaza. Officer
Tippit had earlier received a radio message which gave a description of the suspect being sought in
the assassination and called Oswald over to the patrol car. Helen Markam testified that after an
exchange of words, Tippit got out of his car and Oswald shot him four times. Oswald was next seen
by shoe store manager Johnny Brewer "ducking into" the entrance alcove of his store. Suspicious of
this activity, Brewer watched Oswald continue up the street and slip into the nearby Texas Theatre
without paying. Brewer alerted the theater's ticket clerk, who telephoned police at about 1:40 pm.
Oswald provided little information during his questioning. When confronted with evidence which he
could not explain he resorted to statements which were found to be false. Dallas authorities were
not able to complete their investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy because of
interruptions from the FBI and the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby.
Internet Memes
An Internet meme is an idea, style or action which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person
via the Internet
Badger Badger Badger
Dancing baby
Dumb Ways to Die
Email Beta Test
Fenton
Gangnam Style
LOLcat
Nigerian Scam
Planking
Rickrolling
Derived from the work of Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) and based on social networking theories in in vogue after World War I. (many distractors. “Social Networking” is the clue)
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Badger Badger Badger: A hypnotic loop of animal calisthenics set to the chant of "badger, badger,
badger"
Dancing baby: A 3D-rendered dancing baby that first appeared in 1996 by the creators of Character
Studio for 3D Studio MAX, and became something of a late 1990s cultural icon.
Dumb Ways to Die: a music video featuring "a variety of cute characters killing themselves in
increasingly idiotic ways" that went viral through sharing and social media. It was part of a public
service announcement advertisement campaign by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Australia to promote
rail safety.
Email Beta Test: An email chain-letter that first appeared in 1997 and was still circulating as recently
as 2007. The message claims that America Online and Microsoft are conducting a beta test and for
each person you forward the email to, you will receive a payment from Bill Gates of more than $200.
Fenton: Video of a dog chasing deer in Richmond Park, London, and its owner's attempts to call it
off.
Gangnam Style: A song and music video by South Korean rapper, Psy, showing him doing an
"invisible horse dance" and saying the catchphrase "Oppan Gangnam Style"
LOLcatz: A collection of humorous image macros featuring cats with misspelled phrases, such as, "I
Can Has Cheezburger?"
Nigerian Scam: An email scam in which the sender claims to be a high-ranking official of Nigeria
with knowledge of a large sum of money or equivalent goods that they cannot claim but must divest
themselves of it; to do so, they claim to require a smaller sum of money up front to access the sum
to send to the receiver.
Planking: (Lying Down Game) an activity consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous
location.
Rickrolling: posting a URL in an Internet forum that appears to be relevant to the topic at hand, but
is, in fact, a link to a video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up".
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: A trivia/parlor game based around linking an actor to Kevin Bacon
through a chain of co-starring actors in films, television, and other productions, with the hypothesis
that no actor was more than six connections away from Bacon, similar to the theory of six degrees of
separation or the Erdős number in mathematics
Human Evolution
Identify the Homo species which best fits the following descriptions
Australopithecus afarensis
Homo erectus
Hypothesized to be H. sapiens suffering from endemic cretinism as a consequence of congenital hypothyroidism. (Testing awareness of a largely discredited hypothesis)
Homo floresiensis
Homo habilis
Homo heidelbergensis
Homo sapiens denisova
Homo sapiens idaltu
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens sapiens
Australopithecus afarensis: lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago. more closely related to the
genus Homo, whether as a direct ancestor or a close relative of an unknown ancestor, than any
other known primate from the same time.
Homo erectus: In the early Pleistocene, 1.5 -1 Ma, in Africa some populations of Homo habilis are
thought to have evolved larger brains and made more elaborate stone tools; these differences and
others are sufficient for anthropologists to classify them as a new species, Homo erectus. This was
made possible by the evolution of locking knees and a different location of the foramen magnum.
They may have used fire to cook their meat.
Homo floresiensis, which lived from approximately 100,000 to 12,000 before present, has been
nicknamed hobbit for its small size, possibly a result of insular dwarfism. H. floresiensis is intriguing
both for its size and its age, being an example of a recent species of the genus Homo that exhibits
derived traits not shared with modern humans.
Homo habilis lived from about 2.4 to 1.4 Ma. Homo habilis evolved in South and East Africa in the
late Pliocene or early Pleistocene, 2.5–2 Ma, when it diverged from the australopithecines. Homo
habilis had smaller molars and larger brains than the australopithecines, and made tools from stone
and perhaps animal bones. One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed 'handy man' by
discoverer Louis Leakey
Homo heidelbergensis (Heidelberg Man) lived from about 800,000 to about 300,000 years ago. Also
proposed as Homo sapiens heidelbergensis or Homo sapiens paleohungaricus.
Homo sapiens denisova: The full genomic sequence suggested the Denisovans belonged to the same
lineage as Neanderthals, with the two diverging shortly after their line split from that lineage giving
rise to modern humans. Modern humans are known to have overlapped with Neanderthals in
Europe for more than 10,000 years, and the discovery raises the possibility that Neanderthals,
modern humans and the Denisova hominin may have co-existed.
Homo sapiens idaltu: an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived almost 160,000 years ago in
Pleistocene Africa. "Idaltu" is from the Saho-Afar word meaning "elder" or "first born". Fossils differ
from those of chronologically later forms of early H. sapiens such as Cro-Magnon found in Europe
and other parts of the world in that their morphology has many archaic features not typical of H.
sapiens . Nevertheless, thought to represent the direct ancestors of modern Homo sapiens sapiens
Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, lived in Europe and Asia from 400,000 to about 30,000 years ago.
Evidence from sequencing mitochondrial DNA indicated that no significant gene flow occurred
between H. neanderthalensis and H. sapiens, and, therefore, the two were separate species that
shared a common ancestor about 660,000 years ago. However, the 2010 sequencing of the
Neanderthal genome indicated that Neanderthals did indeed interbreed with anatomically modern
humans circa 45,000 to 80,000 years ago (at the approximate time that modern humans migrated
out from Africa, but before they dispersed into Europe, Asia and elsewhere).
Homo sapiens sapiens: Modern humans: Genetically more homogenous than most species, which
may reflect relatively recent evolution or the possibility of a population bottleneck resulting from
cataclysmic natural events such as the Toba catastrophe (supervolvanic eruption: Sumatra,
Indonesia).
Question types
There are many different exam question formats with different strengths and weaknesses that may
be used to assess or to stimulate learning various aspects of learning. Idenify the following question
types from the descriptions.
Alternate Response: AR
Extended Matching Item: EMI
Frequently Asked Question: FAQ
Multiple Choice Question: MCQ
Scholastic Assessment Test: SAT
Short Answer Question: SAQ
Single Best Answer: SBA
Viva voce
AR: Binary true/false questions
EMI: A MCQ variant that nests several questions on a related topic, all of which may be answered
using the same option list. Similar in outlook to SBA questions. Allows assessment of more complex
concepts and understanding than simple MCQs.
FAQ: listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and
pertaining to a particular topic.
MCQ: a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer (or
answers) out of the choices from a list.
SAT: standardized test for most college admissions in the United States.
SAQ: Free response, generally structured questions
SBA: A MCQ variant often used in clinical education to distinguish between, for example closely
related diagnoses. Whilst more than one option may be technically “correct”, only one is the “best”
or “most appropriate” answer
Viva Voce: “with living voice”. An oral examination
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