This document contains the text of the easiest quiz in the world. It consists of 10 multiple choice questions about topics like Panama hats, JavaScript equality, the Canary Islands, British kings, and flight recorders. The questions are designed to be very easy to answer correctly.

1. The easiest quiz in the world
ever
Jonathan Fine, Open University, UK
EuroPython Lightning talk, 2010
Source for slides available at http://bitbucket.org/jfine
/javascript-for-python-programmers
.../tex/easiest-quiz-ever.tex

2. Question 1: Panama hats
Q: In which country were Panama hats originally made?

3. Question 1: Panama hats
Q: In which country were Panama hats originally made?
A: Ecuador.
Panama was a city in Ecuador before the creation of the Panama
Canal Zone and then the country Panama.

4. Question 2: Equality is transitive
Command line SpiderMonkey JavaScript interpreter:
easiest-quiz-ever$ js
js> a = ’0’
js> b = 0
js> c = ’’
js> a == b
true
js> b == c
true
js> a == c // Question.

5. Question 2: Equality is transitive
Command line SpiderMonkey JavaScript interpreter:
easiest-quiz-ever$ js
js> a = ’0’
js> b = 0
js> c = ’’
js> a == b
true
js> b == c
true
js> a == c // Question.
js> a == c
false

6. Question 3: Canary Islands
Q: After which creature were the Canary Islands named?

7. Question 3: Canary Islands
Q: After which creature were the Canary Islands named?
A: Dog (canine).
As I recall, there were many dog seals on one of the Canary Islands.

8. Question 4: Assignment assigns
js> words = ’Call me Ishmael.’
Call me Ishmael.
js> words.lang = ’en’
js> lang = words.lang // What is lang?

9. Question 4: Assignment assigns
js> words = ’Call me Ishmael.’
Call me Ishmael.
js> words.lang = ’en’
js> lang = words.lang // What is lang?
js> lang == undefined
true

10. Question 4: Assignment assigns
js> words = ’Call me Ishmael.’
Call me Ishmael.
js> words.lang = ’en’
js> lang = words.lang // What is lang?
js> lang == undefined
true
js> lang = words.lang = ’en’ // What is lang?

11. Question 4: Assignment assigns
js> words = ’Call me Ishmael.’
Call me Ishmael.
js> words.lang = ’en’
js> lang = words.lang // What is lang?
js> lang == undefined
true
js> lang = words.lang = ’en’ // What is lang?
js> lang
en

12. Question 5: King George
Q: What was the first name of Britain’s King George VI?

13. Question 5: King George
Q: What was the first name of Britain’s King George VI?
A: Albert.
He had several names, and Queen Victoria said she wanted her
beloved Albert to be the only English monarch of that name.

14. Question 6: Dot binds
js> a = [0, 1, 2]
0,1,2
js> a.push(3); a.push(4);
js> a
0,1,2,3,4

15. Question 6: Dot binds
js> a = [0, 1, 2]
0,1,2
js> a.push(3); a.push(4);
js> a
0,1,2,3,4
js> b = [0, 1, 2]
js> tmp = b.push
js> tmp(3); tmp(4); // What is ’b’?

16. Question 6: Dot binds
js> a = [0, 1, 2]
0,1,2
js> a.push(3); a.push(4);
js> a
0,1,2,3,4
js> b = [0, 1, 2]
js> tmp = b.push
js> tmp(3); tmp(4); // What is ’b’?
js> b
0,1,2

17. Question 6: Dot binds
js> a = [0, 1, 2]
0,1,2
js> a.push(3); a.push(4);
js> a
0,1,2,3,4
js> b = [0, 1, 2]
js> tmp = b.push
js> tmp(3); tmp(4); // What is ’b’?
js> b
0,1,2
js> [length, this[0], this[1]]
2,3,4

18. Question 7: White rhinocerous
Q: What is the colour of a white rhinocerous?

19. Question 7: White rhinocerous
Q: What is the colour of a white rhinocerous?
A: Grey.
The name is a corruption of the Dutch work for ‘wide’.

20. Question 8: False is false
js> true ? 1 : 0
1
js> false ? 1 : 0
0

21. Question 8: False is false
js> true ? 1 : 0
1
js> false ? 1 : 0
0
js> new Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0 // Question

22. Question 8: False is false
js> true ? 1 : 0
1
js> false ? 1 : 0
0
js> new Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0 // Question
1

23. Question 8: False is false
js> true ? 1 : 0
1
js> false ? 1 : 0
0
js> new Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0 // Question
1
js> Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0

24. Question 8: False is false
js> true ? 1 : 0
1
js> false ? 1 : 0
0
js> new Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0 // Question
1
js> Boolean(false) ? 1 : 0
0

25. Question 9: Black box
Q: What colour is the black box flight recorder carried by
commercial planes?

26. Question 9: Black box
Q: What colour is the black box flight recorder carried by
commercial planes?
A: Orange.
This makes it more visible.

27. Question 10: Like JavaScript
Q: JavaScript is not like which programming language . . .

28. Question 10: Like JavaScript
Q: JavaScript is not like which programming language . . .
. . . created by Sun?

29. Question 10: Like JavaScript
Q: JavaScript is not like which programming language . . .
. . . created by Sun?
A: Java.

30. Thank you