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Are You Smarter Than a Blogger?
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A BLOGGER?....Want to amuse yourself while you wait for election results? In 2004 the Guardian entertained us with a campaign quiz on election day, and I blew it, getting only 33 out of 40 correct. Pretty poor for a political blogger, I thought. This year's quiz, however, is way harder, chock full of questions that require specific dates and numerical answers. The final two questions were gimmes, but even so I only got 20 out of 30 right. I guess that means I should turn in my keyboard.
Anyway, the quiz is here. Have fun.
I got 20/30 too.
20/30 as well
I got 20 out of 30, third. Tough quiz. I think I was close on about five more. Is accurately remembering stuff from the primaries important at this stage?
25/30, not bad...but then I'm completely obsessed by this race...
I beat you by one (21 out of 30), but I'm sure it was just a lucky guess that got me there.
20 out of 30
20/30. This is quite a trend.............Hopefully it's graded on a curve or we'll never get into that Ivy league school
22/30 and they said I wasn't obsessed. So how come I'm spending all day reading blogs and political websites?
Guess I gotta go back to work tomorrow.
I got 24/30. Can I have a job?
19 out of 30. I'm just a retired musician.
19/30
20/30 also.
Although I'm sure I picked the correct answer for another 4 ...
Screwy widget, or bone-headed participant?
Holy crap! I read two daily newspapers, listen to NPR morning and afternoon, read a bunch of lefty blogs, and watch both Stewart and Colbert but still got only 20/30, which seems to be the mode today.
I attribute it to old age.
I got 23 out of 30. Not bad for an old lady of 59.
24/30. In your face, Drum!
The last question, I remember McCain going to some German place in Ohio, but Schmidt's Fudge House? I thought that was a joke answer.
20/30. Bob clearly rocks!
Wow! I got 22 and I'm a Canadian. Let's say I had a few lucky guesses.
26, and I'm amazed I got more than anyone else who's posted so far!
(But who would know how long Dreams has been on the NYT bestseller list?)
18/30 :-( but not bad for someone who won't even be voting...
20 of 30 also.
Is that the average detail-recall of the readership of this blog(ger), or what? In any case, not sure that some of the questions tested relevant knowledge.
As for me, just a regular old blog reader ... well, about five times a day.
23/30
Bob beat me by one. And I had a correct one but changed it... so stupid...
You say you remembered Schmidt's Fudge House then?
21/30
max
['I have no goddamned idea how much of Romney's campaign money was his own (except it was a lot). I've slept since then, not to mention I never knew the exact figure.']
24/30. Better than I expected, considering the buildup. Had a much harder time identifying all the references in this list.
24 of 30. Best I've ever done on a test!
I got 30. That's why I should have been running for president.
22. Can I have my MoJo blog now please?
Good quiz, though: question-master knew their stuff, like listing two other Bay Areas political figures (Newsom, Camejo) as alternate answers to Matt Gonzalez for Nader's running mate.
You say you remembered Schmidt's Fudge House then?
@Neil that was
23 of 30, but I guessed on 80 percent of them, i.e. subconcious memory guided the choices.
Ernst: Ja.
26! Only Inkblot beats me and Neil (and I consider it an honor to be bested by Inkblot). I really need to find a better way to spend my time, huh?
27/30. Come on guys, haven't you been paying attention?
21. Not Ivy League, but could it get me into Northwestern?
I guessed on almost all of them, and got 17/30, which I thought was pretty good.
I got quite a few right where I really didn't have a clue. So, some lucky guessing.
22/30. I can't wait to listen to music again instead of talk radio.
26/30. I thought McCain did a lot worse than that in Iowa.
20/30
Definitely a look into Kevin's readers - I think a Kossack would've done better, and I assume Nate would've got them all.
19/30
If Inkblot didn't cheat, I'll apprentice myself to Joe the Bomb, um Plumber for a year.
Darn. 22 out of 30. Next time I'll pay more attention to all the trivia campaigns create.Oh, wait. Isn't that what they do already?
I got 21 out of 30--"knowledgeable but not obsessed" was the comment, which is about right for me.
But the ones I missed were pretty obscure like the %age of John Edwards' votes in Iowa and the number of primaries that McCain won.
So it's OK by me. tks rich
19 - Bur I didn't read down to 'all of the above' in the Biden on Obama quotes.....
I got 28/30. Missed the German restaurant and the weeks on the bestseller list (that latter was stupid, though...)
25/30 - Canadian.
32/30
Veinte y seis. (Comalo, Luis Dobbs!)
I am surprised I did so well. I was thinking, maybe, 18. I am upset that Samuel Wurzelbacher's retroactive interference led me to get wrong the name of Mc Cain's favourite rathskeller. I guessed Jan's Wurz Haus.
Stupid plumbers.
22/30, but I didn't read all the Q on the Biden--stopped at the "clean & articulate". Also, to be fair, I got at least 2 right from reading the news this morning.
22/30
I got the f@#$in best seller question though. That one can be answered through deductive reasoning.
23 for me. My wife would tell you I'm obsessed with this stuff. I'm not. Not me.
23/30...not too bad. Would have got 24, but couldn't help answering Guns, Gold and Greatness for Ron Paul's convention. Too funny to pass up.
Oh and wasn't the kindergarten essay a joke. Who writes essays in kindergarten? and who has teachers who remember kindergarten essays for 40 years?>