Here's a crazy hard quiz (via Womzilla). It's a little bit intelligence test & a little bit trivia contest. I did use the internets to confirm a couple of my answers (including one that I still go wrong even after "confirming" it) but I mostly tried to do the quiz as if it were trivia night. The first time I did it I realized that I forgot to answer 1 of the questions. When I got that one right it jumped me up about 8 percent which surprised me at first but I guess if there are 20 questions then that makes sense as a difference for getting one more question correct.
good times...
Grrumble. 23 minutes of my life gone away. And for what? Fourteen lousy correct answers. And I'm not even sure which all of them were.
I believe question 6 is wrong: taken literally, the answer is I think -5, when they probably intend it to be 5. Do I get 5000 points? :)
spoiler alert:
I think the math works. 16-13=3 which is 2 under, or an eagle, on a par 5 hole.
And, Phil, please direct yr concerns to the impossible quiz people. HoD policy is not to care about complaints of people who got MORE correct answers than I did...
If you read thru the comments thread in the LJ linked to in my post, there are discussions of some possible flaws in the questions. Also someone posted a list of all the correct answers (altho you'll need to run it thru an ROT13 decrypt)
I got bored with the test partway through. I think it tests your google research skills more than anything ... you had to research to decipher what some of the questions were even asking before you could then research the answer. Too much work. So I guess I scored "lazy" on this one.
Yes with Georg re: question 6 and the Eagle.
I liked Question 20 a lot, though I had no idea what the right answer was.
Please give yourself a self-satisfied grin for getting me with the ROT13 decrypt. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Lisa S. -- for shame! :-)
Phil, ROT13 gets mentioned/used a lot on sites like Making Light but I'd never heard of it before either. Found a definition (at ROT13.com): "/rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!" Most Usenet news reading and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or spoilers. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding."