Brag, ignore if it offends you

[altivo]

OK, innerwolf and quickcasey both did it, so here it is:

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?
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For extra credit, did you spot the misspelling in the quiz answers? ;p

Comments

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

I was sure you'd get 100%. My faith is unshaken.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually it seems familiar. I think I've done it before, a year or two back.

[dongstyle-ltd.livejournal.com]

Assuming it is the same quiz, you have indeed done this last year! I believe you also pointed out there was a misspelling in the quiz answers last year too.

It might be interesting to make this a yearly ritual to see if your results would ever deviate from 100%.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Um, I'm not sure I want to know if I start forgetting stuff like that. But then, chances are I won't remember that I ever knew it?

[dongstyle-ltd.livejournal.com]

In which case, I'll keep it in mind not to remind you...should I happen to remember myself :P

I should probably finish reading The Wisdom Paradox sometime. It's a relatively light exploration on the changes of brain function in later stages of development.

[innerwolf.livejournal.com]

I was going to say something nice...but...seeing that you got a 100% I will now have to go and devise an even better and more brilliant retort...
*flips my tail your general direction*...any resemblance to a Monty Python sketch was completely intentional...

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*curls his lip in a horse-laugh*

Getting correct answers to trivia like that is part of my job, after all.

I predict that the questions most often missed are the Immaculate Conception, the Shakespeare, and the one about the most common religions in the world.

TO be or not to be....what was the question again..

[innerwolf.livejournal.com]

I Have no idea what questions were missed..however having not studied religion, that could be one I missed....Shakespeare on the other hand is not completely foreign to me having worked several productions from the tech side of the equation lighting and set construction.

Re: TO be or not to be....what was the question again..

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Undoubtedly then, you knew that "Twelth [sic] Night" isn't a comedy.

I'm sure a lot of people miss the religion question because they just naturally assume that Christianity is in the top three. It isn't.

Re: TO be or not to be....what was the question again..

[altivo.livejournal.com]

There. I made a typo myself. Twelfth Night IS a comedy, of course. The others were tragedies.

Me too.

[scruff.livejournal.com]

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?
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Re: Me too.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not a surprise. I'm sure you can handle much tougher questions. :)

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

*smirks* I call shenanigans! There was not near enough math in there for this engineer to do well. :P I am so not going to tell you what I scored. Let's just say it was a tad embarrassing. ;)

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I better get my broom O.O

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Funny. That made the image of the South Park episode pop into my mind where they attacked the carnyies with brooms. :P

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

*snorts and shakes his head* Gah, I can't even spell. Oh well, we are not known for our spelling abilities anyway. ^.^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Everyone else seemed to be complaining that there was too much math, though the only questions I remember that had math in them were the area of a triangle and "How many digits are there in pi?"

I thought the tricky ones were the dangling modifier and the religions with the largest number of adherents.

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

Three math questions, the two you mentioned then the percentage question. If you get me out of the realm of math then it is a roll of the dice if I know an answer or not. Grammar, Literature, History and Geography questions are pretty much always recipes for disaster for me.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh right, the ten percent question. That's math? Hardly more than making change.

Shame on you for being an idiot savant, though. You're too smart to be just a one-trick pony.

[shadow-stallion.livejournal.com]

*winks* Oh I know more than just one trick. ;)

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you did this one earlier in the year. *scratches his headfur*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I thought it was longer ago than that, but yes, it seemed pretty familiar.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

*rubs his face and gets out of bed*

HIGH school? Last I remember it was 1980 and Reagan
was giving some speech at the White House in Janurary...

*Doesn't have to take the test, he'd get a 0*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I was in graduate school by then. Gods I disliked Reagan. What an old fraud.

[animist.livejournal.com]

One thing I enjoy about Internet Quizzes - they make me feel better about the grammar and spelling in my posts!

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I don't recall ever seeing any grammar or spelling errors in your posts.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

I'm still wondering which one I missed. Too bad they don't show you...

Btw.. I'm still going to send you the schematic, but maybe not tonight...
Sorry.... *hugs*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh, foxy, don't feel guilty about that. I can't really do anything with it other than look at it out of curiosity right now. I have one book manuscript to finish editing by November 1, and then another to start writing immediately. Take your time, this is not at all urgent and I know you will be loads of help.

I could go through the quiz and make an answer sheet if you're really curious. Several of the items are "trick" questions, and, to be honest, I'm afraid US high schools haven't measured up to that level for decades now.

Like for instance the Shakespeare question. Maybe students are still exposed to Julius Caesar and Macbeth but I'm betting not. A few years ago while working the reference desk at a college library, a senior in journalism came to me with a "take home" exam. Bad enough that she needed help finding the answers, worse that she just wanted me to tell her what they were.

One of the questions that was bothering her was "In which Shakespeare play does the character Mercutio appear?" Not only did she not know the answer (Romeo and Juliet of course) but she had no idea how to find out. She asked me if it would be in Contemporary Literature and I pointed out to her that Shakespeare was not contemporary at all. Her response? "Well how would I know? I never heard of him." This from a college senior who wanted to be a writer. That's how low we have sunken.