Monday, August 27, 2007
O'Quiz!!!
Six out of ten this week. That's it, against an average score of 5.15 out of ten, somewhat higher than usual (signalling, obviously, a marginally easier O'Quiz).
Even I'm embarrassed.
8 Comments:
By 
, at
Mon Aug 27, 10:09:00 PM:
A question. When you are not sure of the answer, do you make an educated guess?
Another question. When you absolutely have no clue, do you make a wild guess?
My score is consistently below the average, however, I never make wild guess, and I only make educated guess, when I am relatively sure.
Vilmos
By 
Larry Sheldon, at
Mon Aug 27, 10:14:00 PM:
View the O'Quiz Archive
Thank you for your playing the O'Quiz!
You answered 7 of 10 correctly.
The average score on this O'Quiz is 5.13
On guessing--most of the time I trust my subconscious works the dredge up facts forgotten at the surface. That is a tactic that has served me well of the years. In the case of a total blank in "tests" like this one, I pick the answer that seems to be the best match of the drift of the other questions--in effect guess what the author think is the right answer from the evidence of the wording of questions that I know the answer to.
Done that for years too.
By Larry Sheldon, at
Mon Aug 27, 10:18:00 PM:
Examples where my tactics did not work (annotated):
7. Some groups are protesting the sculptor chosen to create a monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall. Why?
You answered All of the above
The correct answer was He is not black
Chinese artist Lei Yixin has been selected to sculpt the three-story high monument. Critics say only a black American artist would be appropriate.
That was a guess based on the drift.
8. The controversial Khalil Gibran Academy, a public school devoted to teaching in Arabic, is about to open in Brooklyn. Who was the man for whom the school is named?
You answered The first man to translate the Koran into English
The correct answer was A Christian writer
Born to Christian parents in Lebanon, Gibran moved to New York City as a young man. His many works included "The Prophet," written in 1923.
The right answer was in fact my first guess--I violated another long-standing and useful rule: don't change an answer.
9. President Bush has visited 49 states. Which one has he thus far avoided?
You answered Alaska
The correct answer was Vermont
The president has not set foot in the Green Mountain State, which he lost by wide margins in both 2000 and 2004.
Subconscious thought a visit to
Alaska would have been recalled....
By , at
Mon Aug 27, 10:32:00 PM:
9/10. I need to start leaving the hive more.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Mon Aug 27, 11:07:00 PM:
Question #11
What right wing family values gun-lovin' GOP senator from Idado was caught trying to give/get a blowjob from a man in a toilet stall in an airport men's room?
If you said the other guy in the stall was Sean Hannity (wearing his Nugentkill Obama tie shirt and women's underwear) you still get a bonus point.
Question #12
What clueless flunky just resigned as Attorney General of the United States?
Okay if you forgot his name that's ok, for most people will have forgotten this clown in six months anyway.
I'm hoping Keith Olbermann start's a quiz. But the Worst Person of the Week is indeed amusing.
Have a nice evening, tutti fascisti ;-)
By Sara (Pal2Pal), at
Mon Aug 27, 11:15:00 PM:
Wow! 10 out of 10. Being home all week with a majorly bad head cold has at least one benefit.
Tomorrow is Today's Dream
Kahil Gibran
and my Mother's motto.
By , at
Tue Aug 28, 12:23:00 AM:
Q13. What long-time commenter has clearly jumped the shark?
By GreenmanTim, at
Tue Aug 28, 01:30:00 PM:
Tied with TH. But lured to the wrong answers on ocassion when jumping the "snark"...
