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February 9, 2003

A Quiz of a

A Quiz of a Different Sort

Pick the one from each list below who does not belong, and then state why:

1. Poincare, Cantor, Mandelbrot, Peitgen, Sierpinski
2. Mattise, Derain, de Vlamick, Rousseau
3. Gaugin, Stevenson, Somerset Maugham, Toulouse-Lautrec
4. Albert Michelson, Roman Polanski, Joseph Conrad, Karol Wotyla, Arvo Part
5. Bronson Alcott, Louisa May Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne
6. Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, Horace Walpole, Jane Austen, Thomas Peckett Prest, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Okay, that will do for now. I expect, that 1, 2, and 4 may be more difficult than the others.

Posted by Steven Riddle at February 9, 2003 4:39 PM