Probably unfair...

[altivo]

Nabbed from jmaynard via vakkotaur

True English Nerd You scored 91 erudition!

Not only do you know your subjects from your objects and your definite from your indefinite articles, but you've got quite a handle on the literature and the history of the language as well. Huzzah, and well done! The English snobs of Boston salute you.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on erudition

Link: The Are You Truly Erudite? Test written by okellelala on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Comments

[chibiabos.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Your LJ-cut text:

"Perhaps an unfair comparison, since I was all but thesis on on MA in English back in the 70s"

Not that I don't gaffe my typing and grammar far more than my share, its just ... well ... ironic. Irony. Iron ... oh, you probably don't want me to go there ;-D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I fiddled with that wording a couple of times so I'm not surprised it got messy.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Scored 68 myself, got "The Librarian". I guess I should've done the lottery instead. =)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I'd say a 68 is darned good for a non-native speaker unless you have actually studied English literature formally for several years. :)

Some of those questions were tough. I'd like to know which ones I missed on, but I suspect some of it was a joke, like that first one: What's the square root of 9? I answered 3, but they may really have wanted "English majors don't do math."

Some questions had more than one correct answer, and they may have given partial credit. Or given more credit for choosing the obscure one. For instance, Geoffrey Chaucer was: 1) the author of Troilus and Cressida; 2) the author of The Canterbury Tales; 3) a gambling addict who often asked his friend Heath Ledger for money to buy back his clothes; 4) a customs-house inspector. Choices 1, 2, and 4 are all literally true. Choice 3 is true in the film A Knight's Tale and it may well be that the real Chaucer was a compulsive gambler. So what do you pick? I suspect they gave the most credit for 4, because it's the most obscure fact, but had to give partial credit for 1 and 2.

Anyway, well done. And well read, too.

[farhoug.livejournal.com]

Hmm, typically I chose the most elaborate one, namely the answer 3. Didn't connect the movie with that choice though, at least not consciously. I should probably watch that movie again, don't remember much of it anymore, bad habit of mine. =)

It did look like to me too that there usually were more than one right answer, I guess that contributed to my better score then. Didn't really know most of them, I guess the only fact I caught there was that Wilde had had some jail time for buggery. I got right some educated guesses about gerunds and proper nouns, I guess I've been browsing through some English grammar pages at some point in my wanderings around the net. =)

[songcoyote.livejournal.com]

well, I got 72, which isn't too bad for a college dropout like me :)

I'm actually surprised I did that well. I think some of my guesses were more accurate than I thought.

My erudition lies more in construction of English than knowledge of facts regarding its history and literature. Oh well!

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Definitely not bad. But you write so well that I'm sure you are well-read too. And that's just as much a key to erudition as classroom exposure. That quiz was a bit on the weird side with some of the questions anyway.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

D'awwww... that's a cute icon. :)
Sorry for the completely off-the-subject comment. I hadn't seen that user pic before.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's new. I pulled it out of hiding today. :)

lol, nope...

[favouritewindow.livejournal.com]

The Librarian
You scored 70 erudition!
Congratulations! You're well above average when it comes to your knowledge of English grammar, history, and literature. You may have missed a few questions, but if you keep your studies up and stay away from genre fiction, we'll have you ready for Stanford in no time! Who knows, we just might be reading your columns in Talk of the Town a few years from now.

I definitely wasn't an English major, and I doubt I would get anywhere near Stanford :P

Re: lol, nope...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

LOL. Stanford does have programs other than English. But I'm not surprised that you scored that high. It's what I'd have expected. You have too low an opinion of your own knowledge and perception (as I've told you before.)

That was a tough quiz. A 70 score is doing darned good unless you already were an English major.