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All Bench, No Bats

This gaggle of morons was on television again the other evening, I hear. It’s really depressing to think that there can be 719 Republicans running for president, and not ONE active brain cell between them.

The Democrats have had their turn to offer an immense field of underwhelming choices, too, but not for quite some time. That’s not to say they’ve been running good candidates, just not as many. Are you old enough to remember the Democratic primary season of 1988? I sure am. The cast of characters on the Jackass team was known to the media of the day as “The Seven Dwarves”. This Mental Floss quiz gives you three minutes to guess all seven of them. I didn’t do very well, so why don’t you have a try. Plus, I think you’ll be a little bit amazed when you see the entire list.

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Don’t Know Much About Nothin’ At All

I suppose some of you are still reeling from that nasty-ass quiz on the Periodic Table last week. Look at it this way: just how often do you really need to know about the atomic weight of Gallium anyway?

This quiz should make you feel a little better. It’s a geography quiz appearing in the St. Louis Dispatch based on the 2006 National Geographic survey of geographic literacy among Americans aged 18-24 (a.k.a “The Dumbest Generation”). There are only eight questions, and I would expect anyone who is a regular reader here to be able to answer all eight correctly. If you do, pat yourself on the back that’s you’re smarter than those damn youngsters even if you can’t spell Molybdenum.

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Pop Quiz

Feeling smart today, children? Well this will fix that for you in a jiffy:

See if you can name ALL the elements in the Periodic Table in fifteen minutes or less. And you can’t get all cute by typing in the abbreviations, you have to type out the entire name of each one (which means, obviously, that you have to spell it correctly in order for the computer to mark it correct).

I remember very distinctly learning the perioidic table in high school chemistry, but even our chemistry teacher, Mr. Sweetser (who was a sumbitch, lemmetellya) didn’t make us memorize the WHOLE thing. So I was pretty pleased with myself that I got about half of them. 56 out of 118 to be precise.

If you want to study up a bit before giving this a try, let me recommend this brilliant animation set to Tom Lehrer’s immortal song “The Elements”. I kept running this song over and over in my head, and it undoubtedly helped me remember five or six different elements.

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Name That Robot

This might amuse you for a moment or two: a quick quiz about famous movie and television robots

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Who Wants To Be A Viking?

Okay, we know Ralph is a Viking in his sleep, and those Hurstwic guys are Vikings on the weekends and on cable TV, but how about you?

You could try this little quiz of viking trivia to see if you’re ready.

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Quizzy

A trio of quizzes to amuse and challenge you:

First, yet another “what X are you” internet personality quiz that will help you determine just how EEEEEEVIL you are.

I expected to be far more evil than I turned out to be: I was merely “Neutral”. I’m obviously losing it as I flounder through middle age.

Next, a trivia quiz that’s a bit more challenging, but not at all beyond the realm of doable: Name All The Presidents Of The United States In Eight Minutes

I have to be honest and admit that I missed four of them. Those mid-19th century guys who didn’t do much of anything are the real challenge here. You should at least be able to name all the Presidents of the 20th Century.

(Oh, and as an added bonus, here’s a trivia question from me: In the 20th Century, six Vice Presidents went on to become President, but only one was elected as a sitting incumbent VP. Who was it?)

The third one is for serious TV trivia buffs only: Tom McMahon has a list of actors who appeared in at least THREE different TV series during their careers. See if you can name at least three series for each one. There are a couple of additional rules, so read his post carefully.

I did very well with this quiz. I could only name one series for Katey Segal, and only two for David Hasselhoff, otherwise I got them all.

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Fugawi!

Map Of The World

My online friends and I used to occasionally play a geography quiz game we called “Fugawi”. The idea was to guess the correct location based on clues about the place. Our friend Richard was the undisputed master of Fugawi, so much so that after a fashion we made him be the game host rather than let him kick our sorry butts yet again.

I miss playing Fugawi (among the other various games and activities in the forum), but this Flash-based geography quiz game is deucedly difficult and ought to keep anyone who thinks they know their map of the world amply challenged.

I got as far as Level 11 (out of 12) with a final score of 470,039 points. Turns out my weakness is places in Australia and the South Pacific.

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In Order To Form A More Perfect Union

Can you pass this “civics literacy” quiz about American government, history, economics and politics? (via Tony Hightower, a Mutual Friend of Torrez)

The quiz has 60 questions and will take 10-15 minutes to complete. The average score of online participants so far is a failing grade of about 60%. In fact, this quiz was given to seniors at 50 universities, and the highest mean score for any school was Harvard at 69%. I scored 86% (52 out of 60 correct).

Our entire political system is being dismantled every day by the shenanigans in Washington, but if the best-educated members of our society do not even have a functional understanding of the origins, operations, and philosophical underpinnings of our government, there may be no chance to save it.

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Pucker Up!

I don’t know if it was the heat or the humidity or holiday hangovers or what, but it seemed like I had a significant Asshole Encounter every single day last week. At home, at work, online, even in the parking lot of the supermarket, there was no let up from it. The jerk meter was up to 11 and I never knew where the next one might materialize.

It finally reached the point where I had to ask myself if *I* was the asshole. You know how sometimes you just don’t recognize your own unpleasantness until you just can’t escape the reality of it any more? I sat in my den last night, watching the torrents of the “This American Life” TV series I’d downloaded, and one of the episodes was about people behaving extremely badly at a hot dog stand in Chicago, and that’s when the moment struck me.

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Jingle Jangle

Used to be that advertising jingles were a huge part of our daily dose of pop culture, but they’ve sort of died off in the last ten years or so. I can remember jingles from commercials I watched in the 1960s, fercryinoutloud, but I’ll be damned if I can think of a recent one that was the least bit memorable.

So maybe this link will only be worthwhile for you if you’re my age or older: it’s a quiz to see if you can match a snippet of a jingle to its advertiser. The only one I didn’t immediately recognize was the one for Starburst candy, YMMV.

Comments:
I had absolutely no recollection of the Toyota jingle.
Posted by Karan [URL] on 05/19/07

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