TigerHawk

TigerHawk (ti*ger*hawk): n. 1. The title of this blog and the nom de plume of its founding blogger; 2. A deep bow to the Princeton Tigers and the Iowa Hawkeyes; 3. The nickname for Iowa's Hawkeye logo. Posts include thoughts of the day on international affairs, politics, things that strike us as hilarious and personal observations. The opinions we express are our own, and not those of each other, our employers, our relatives, our dead ancestors, or unrelated people of similar ethnicity.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

O'Quiz!!!!

By TigerHawk at 9/26/2007 12:38:00 AM

I am buried in real work and my blogging is lame, but I can still take a mean O'Quiz. I scored 7 against an average of only 4.76.

Do even better than me.

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11 Comments:

By Sara (Pal2Pal), at Wed Sep 26, 02:15:00 AM:

Thank you for your playing the O'Quiz!
You answered 9 of 10 correctly.
The average score on this O'Quiz is 4.76

I missed the Taser question.

I need a life.

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 26, 04:46:00 AM:

You win this round TigerHawk

By Purple Avenger, at Wed Sep 26, 08:27:00 AM:

9/10 which offsets a completely sub par 2 on the last one.

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 26, 08:32:00 AM:

Also got a 7/10

I think a 70% gets me a D grade. Or, as they call it at Harvard, A-

By joated, at Wed Sep 26, 08:38:00 AM:

I too got 7 of 10.

Missed on Stone's latest treason, the Rather quote (shameful of me, I know) and TASER. (Made a wild guess on that one. Should have known there would be more humor to shocking people electronically than I gave credit for.)

By Georg Felis, at Wed Sep 26, 09:25:00 AM:

9/10. I missed the taser question too.

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 26, 09:49:00 AM:

I got an 8 out of 10, although it would have been 7 if they hadn't (sort of) given away one of the answers:

"7. After Hillary Clinton unveiled her health care program, who denigrated the plan as a virtual knock-off of another candidate's plan?"

That indicates someone other than a candidate voiced the complaint, and knowing that Mrs. Edwards appears to be the mouthpiece for their campaign, that's who I guessed.

What I don't understand is how the test-takers do so poorly overall. If you weren't into the news, why would you take such a test? Would you even know who Bill O'Reilly is? Wouldn't most of the test-takers be people watching his show? (I'm making the assumption that all of the questions are derived from show segments.) It just seems strange that the people who would take that specific test would do so poorly. Bill and the gang must scratch their heads, wondering what they're doing wrong.

Best Line of the Week:

"Should have known there would be more humor to shocking people electronically than I gave credit for." - joated

I'm sure we all felt the same way when we missed the Taser question. Humor, coming from the people who invented something just shy of the electric chair? Who woulda guessed!

By kreiz1, at Wed Sep 26, 10:33:00 AM:

7- had chosen "no one's pushing me out" but bailed at the last second. Whenever I face a fork in the road, I go the wrong way.

By GreenmanTim, at Wed Sep 26, 12:43:00 PM:

Your link inexplicably took me to O'Reilly's Great American Culture Quiz. 5 questions, got all but the first right. Beat that, suckas.

By Anonymous, at Wed Sep 26, 01:46:00 PM:

Ditto the Greenman.

5/5

By Steve M. Galbraith, at Wed Sep 26, 08:32:00 PM:

Darned, I would have gotten them all correct but a group of African Americans were acting up and distracted me.

(ahem)