I just got sent this Nerd Test and thought is was hilarious. Give it a try and post your results.
[url]http://students.washington.edu/mmccain/nerdtest.html[/url]
I got a very ordinary 38%. It's been too long since I've played D&D.
Edit: Typo.
the only things in the test that made sense were the movie questions.
e.g. the matrix quote, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (i watch the movie last week) and the terminator questions.
question 41. If 42 is the Answer, then the Question is...
i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42
they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...
whats the go there...
gawd... 47% -- then again, not like I didn't expect it [:)]
what scared me is how apparently obscure some of my knowledge is... like pheonix purchase prices, and half rate scifi/fantasy knowledge - guess it kinda freaked me I wasn't guessing [:)]
edit: thinking of it, half of that knowledge came from Jacana! Like knowing which characters weren't a part of the weatherlight.
quote:Originally posted by inglis
i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...
whats the go there...
i beleive it has to do with the book series "hitchikers guide to the galaxy" some how (its been a while since i read it)
From what I can remember of the story, an ancient race (Our ancestors, I believe) built a supercomputer to calculate the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years it spat out the answer "42". The computer told them they didn't understand the question, rather than the answer (or something like that). Confused, the descendants built a new machine to calculate the question for which 42 is the answer. It spat out the answer (or rather the question) "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?".
6 multiplied by nine is 54 in base 10.
6 multiplied by nine is 42 in base 13.
I'm not actually sure whether Douglas Adams (Author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) did this on purpose. Another theory suggests that 42 represents "BIG BANG", or at least the addition of the numerical indices of those letters in the alphabet (2 + 9 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 14 + 7 = 42).
That was way hard. I ended up getting 31%, but I guessed about half.
Where were the Buffy questions, hey???
I?m a big fan of LOTR, Star Trek, and Buffy (not that I would admit that to anyone in person?), but because I don?t know about D&D and some of that other stuff, I guess I?m not a nerd after all?
Not very accurate really. -But it was a bit of fun.
Im proud to say I have only 7% nerd blood in me. Alright! [8D]