2. MEDICINE
You will be provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle
of scotch. Remove your own appendix. Do not suture
until your work has been inspected. You will have fifteen minutes.
3. PUBLIC SPEAKING
2500 riot-crazed aborigines will be turned loose in the classroom with
you. 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 the probable effects on our next election. Show
who would have been our next President and why.
5. MUSIC
Write a piano concerto. Orchestrate it and perform it with flute and
drum. You will find a piano under your seat.
6. PSYCHOLOGY
Based on your knowledge of their works, evaluate the political stability,
degree of adjustment, and repressed frustrations of
each of the following: Alexander of Aphrodisias, Ramsesall, Gregory
of Nicoa, and Hammurabi. 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 a full-scale experiment to test your
theory.
8. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Define management. Define science. How do they relate? Why? Create
a generalized algorithm that can be used to optimize all
managerial decisions. Design the systems interface and prepare all
software necessary to program this algorithm on whatever
computer may be selected by the examiner.
9. ENGINEERING
The disassembled parts of a high-powered rifle will be placed on your
desk. 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 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 on the wave theory of light and
on the overcrowding of citizens band radio channels.
11. POLITICAL SCIENCE
Pick up the phone on the desk beside you and start World War III. Report
at length on its socio-political effects, if any.
12. EPISTEMOLOGY
Take a position for or against the truth. Prove the validity of your
position.
13. PHYSICS
Explain the nature of matter. Include in your answer an evaluation
of the impact of mathematics on science, plus the possible
effect of electromagnetic radiation on global pollution and on the
love life of radar operators who spend long periods in that
environment.
14. PHILOSOPHY
Sketch the development of human thought; estimate its significance.
Compare this with the development of other kinds of
thought.
15. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
Describe everything you know in detail. Be objective and specific.
16. EXTRA CREDIT
Define the universe. Give three examples.