I have very vague souvenirs about the questions. Here is what I remember : AG - Given, x^6+1=y^3. Resolve singularities. What is the genus geom./arith. ? what kind of curve is it ? give graph of exceptionnal curves. (incidences) AG - What are hyperelliptic curves. Where are the ramification points. AG - Compute h^0(P^r,O_{P^r}(k)). AG - Take a fermat cubic, what can you say about it ? (cohomology,...) AG - What is a del Pezzo ? examples. Properties. (same for K3) AT - What are the possible maps between surfaces of genus g and g'. AT - Are there non vanishing maps between S^3 and S^3. AT - I was also asked something about the index theorem and the relation to complex surfaces but I can't remember (I believe I also couldn't remember on that day) Here are some practice questions they gave me earlier : AG - Take the Veronese embedding of P^1 inside P^n. Take the cone above it, its resolution. What is it ? (k-th Hirzebruch surface) AG - You have a deg 4 line bundle L over an elliptic curve. Give equation of embedding i_|L|. AG - What is the fundamental group of a smooth quintic in P^4. AG - Take X - -> P^N rational map. Blow it up and resolve the map. Describe morphism. AG - What are all canonical divisors on smooth hyperelliptic curve? AG - X, smooth hyperelliptic curve of genus 2. Give an explicit divisor of degree 0 corresponding to an element of degree 2 torsion in the Div Class group. AG - Take X --> C morphism, generic fiber P^1 (i.e. ruled) a) true or false : fibres are connected. (prove it) b) show it has a section AG - Same but generic fibre is of genus 1, smooth. AG - Classify all geometrically ruled surfaces which ar hypersurfaces in P^3. These questions come from Kursat, Sukhendu, Rene, etc. : AT - Define degree of map. AG - Give double cover of P^2 ramified above a conic. AG - Take a pencil of conics, generic enough. What is the number of singular fibres? AG - What are the automorphism of an elliptic curve? AG - Describe space of singular cubics. (dimension?) AG - Compute Cl(P^1xP^1)