Do you consider yourself technologically knowledgeable? Well maybe you’re a modern-day wirehead, but how much do you know about the basics of modern technologies — engines, fluid dynamics, flight, etc.? Take this quiz and find out if you were stranded on a tropical island with six random associates if you would be the guy making radio transmitters out of coconuts and palm fronds or the guy who falls out of his hammock every night.
(I got 7 out of 10 correct, which earned me the qualification of “useful”. Hey, there has to be a first for everything, right?)
9 out of 10. “Quite good. Starting from the year 0, you might be able to advance civilization to the 17th or even 19th century. You are technologically useful.” Except I apparently don’t know how to make cement.
6 out of 10, far better than expected. 15th century.
I also scored 7 correct but only by virtue of my technologically advanced guessing skills.
9 out of 10, not sure how.