FAMILIARITY QUESTIONNAIRE
OCQ 90.2003
Instructions
Please rate your familiarity with each item on this questionnaire.
scale below as a guide.
0
1
Never Heard
Of It
2
3
4
5
Use the
6
Very
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
0
Bill Clinton
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
Never Heard
Of It
2
Historical Names and Events.
____ Napoleon
____ Robespierre
____ El Puente
____ My Lai
____ The Lusitania
____ Ronald Reagan
____ Prince Lorenzo
____ The Luddites
____ Neville Chamberlain
____ Vichy Government
____ Queen Alberta
____ Bay of Pigs
____ Torquemada
____ Wounded Knee
____ Clara Barton
3
4
5
6
Very
Familiar
Physical Sciences
____ Manhattan Project
____ asteroid
____ nuclear fusion
____ cholarine
____ atomic number
____ hydroponics
____ alloy
____ plate tectonics
____ photon
____ ultra-lipid
____ centripetal force
____ plates of parallax
____ nebula
____ particle accelerator
____ satellite
0
1
Never Heard
Of It
20th Century Names
____ Gail Brennan
____ Jackie Robinson
____ Houdini
____ Ginger Rogers
____ Greta Garbo
____ Dale Carnegie
____ Scott Joplin
____ Rube Goldberg
____ George Gershwin
____ Mae West
____ Jesse Owens
____ Sister St. Mark
____ Louis Lapointe
____ King Kong
____ P.T. Barnum
2
3
4
5
6
Very
Familiar
Books and Poems
____ Antigone
____ Murphy's Last Ride
____ Catcher in the Rye
____ The Koran
____ Hiawatha
____ Trapnell's Dilemma
____ Mein Kampf
____ The Aeneid
____ Faustus
____ The Boy Who Cried Wolf
____ Pygmalion
____ Hickory Dickory Dock
____ The Divine Comedy
____ Windermere Wild
____ The Raven
0
1
Never Heard
Of It
2
Authors and Characters
____ Adonis
____ Mephistopheles
____ Shylock
____ Ancient Mariner
____ Good Doctor Fehr
____ Venus
____ Romeo and Juliet
____ Bulldog Graziano
____ Norman Mailer
____ Horatio Alger
____ Charlotte Bronte
____ Artemis
____ Lewis Carroll
____ Admiral Broughton
____ Mrs. Malaprop
3
4
5
6
Very
Familiar
Social Science and Law
____ yellow journalism
____ existential angst
____ nationalism
____ megaphrenia
____ acrophobia
____ pulse tax
____ pork-barreling
____ prejudice
____ Christian Science
____ ombudsman
____ consumer apparatus
____ superego
____ trust-busting
____ behaviorism
____ 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