FAMILIARITY QUESTIONNAIRE

OCQ 90.2003

Instructions

Please rate your familiarity with each item on this questionnaire. Use the
scale below as a guide.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Never Heard Very
Of It Familiar

For example, if the item said "Bill Clinton" or "Mexico", or "the Bible", you
would probably write a '6' beside it because it is very familiar. However, if
the item said "Fred Gruneberg" (my next door neighbor) you would write a '0' to
indicate you never heard of him.

e.g., 6 Bill Clinton

0 Fred Gruneberg

In other words, the difficulty of the items ranges from easy to impossible.

We want to determine if individuals who are knowledgeable about one area are
also knowledgeable about other areas.

Updated fall 2003

 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Never Heard Very
Of It Familiar

Historical Names and Events. Physical Sciences

____ Napoleon ____ Manhattan Project
____ Robespierre ____ asteroid
____ El Puente ____ nuclear fusion
____ My Lai ____ cholarine
____ The Lusitania ____ atomic number
____ Ronald Reagan ____ hydroponics
____ Prince Lorenzo ____ alloy
____ The Luddites ____ plate tectonics
____ Neville Chamberlain ____ photon
____ Vichy Government ____ ultra-lipid
____ Queen Alberta ____ centripetal force
____ Bay of Pigs ____ plates of parallax
____ Torquemada ____ nebula
____ Wounded Knee ____ particle accelerator
____ Clara Barton ____ satellite
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Never Heard Very
Of It Familiar

20th Century Names Books and Poems

____ Gail Brennan ____ Antigone
____ Jackie Robinson ____ Murphy's Last Ride
____ Houdini ____ Catcher in the Rye
____ Ginger Rogers ____ The Koran
____ Greta Garbo ____ Hiawatha
____ Dale Carnegie ____ Trapnell's Dilemma
____ Scott Joplin ____ Mein Kampf
____ Rube Goldberg ____ The Aeneid
____ George Gershwin ____ Faustus
____ Mae West ____ The Boy Who Cried Wolf
____ Jesse Owens ____ Pygmalion
____ Sister St. Mark ____ Hickory Dickory Dock
____ Louis Lapointe ____ The Divine Comedy
____ King Kong ____ Windermere Wild
____ P.T. Barnum ____ The Raven
 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Never Heard Very
Of It Familiar

Authors and Characters Social Science and Law

____ Adonis ____ yellow journalism
____ Mephistopheles ____ existential angst
____ Shylock ____ nationalism
____ Ancient Mariner ____ megaphrenia
____ Good Doctor Fehr ____ acrophobia
____ Venus ____ pulse tax
____ Romeo and Juliet ____ pork-barreling
____ Bulldog Graziano ____ prejudice
____ Norman Mailer ____ Christian Science
____ Horatio Alger ____ ombudsman
____ Charlotte Bronte ____ consumer apparatus
____ Artemis ____ superego
____ Lewis Carroll ____ trust-busting
____ Admiral Broughton ____ behaviorism
____ Mrs. Malaprop ____ Oedipus complex
 List of Foils

Historical Names and Events: El Puente, Bonnie Prince Lorenzo, Queen Alberta

Physical Sciences: cholarine, ultra-lipid, plates of parallax

20th century names: Gail Brennan, Sister St. Mark, Louis Lapointe

Books and Poems: Murphy's Last Ride, Trapnells' Dilemma, Windermere Wild

Authors and Characters: The Good Doctor Fehr, Bulldog Graziano, Admiral
Broughton

Social Science and Law: megaphrenia, pulse tax, consumer apparatus