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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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90% and stole it.
ReplyDeleteMC
60 but I wuz robbed!
ReplyDelete98% but only because I don't know squat about the names of clouds. I refuse to learn their names.
ReplyDeleteI think vanderleun's shows that a broad intellect is not encumbered by minutia better left to geeks toiling in small closets.
ReplyDeleteYes Rodge, you are right
ReplyDeleteI'm not too good on baseball stats. Gen. Lee had many horses over his lifetime and military service. I assume you mean his favored horse during the War Between the States - named Traveler.
ReplyDeleteThe test is a pain in the ass for someone of little patience, with its "question-then-answer" format, though made easier by being multiple choice.
I only got an 82. I suspect, like all tankers, MC cheated...
jd
That's why he creates beautiful writings and I'm a wealth of almost useless trivia.
ReplyDeleteI'll tell ya something though, my ability to troubleshoot strange problems is almost magical because of the amount of trivia that turns out to have some application to the problem at hand.
you win some, you lose some.
Baseball?
ReplyDeleteDuring a long rain delay, a baseball color commentator decides to kill some time by sharing a little trivia with the play-by-play announcer.
"I'll bet you don't know who hit the most home runs between 1955 and 1975," the color man says.
"Everyone knows that," says the announcer, "Hank Aaron."
"How about who had the most RBI's between 1955 and 1975?"
"Easy," says the announcer, "Hank Aaron again."
"OK, here's a harder one. Know who got hit on the chin with the most balls between 1955 and 1975?"
"I'm not sure on that one, but I'm guessing Hank Aaron."
"Nope," says the color man, "Liberace."
Tim
84%, only 8 wrong. But then again I am a geek...
ReplyDelete90%. But I guessed on eleven answers, and got three of the guesses wrong (mostly guessing between 2 or three possibilities -- although I remember at least one question (the clouds) where I had absolutely no idea). That said, I got two wrong that I thought I knew. But it seems that it has been so long since I thought about those subjects that I've forgotten much of what I learned.
ReplyDeleteThis was all done without looking up anything (as a matter of fact, I was websurfing while waiting for their page to load), and is clearly what is left of my mind...
68% but many were guesses
ReplyDelete94%
ReplyDeleteScrew you, astronomy!
(Guessed between two best answers on three, guessed wrong on all three. Even I know that probability should'a given me at least one of 'em, but noooooo.)
96% - lucky guessed the biochemistry/genetics and gave credit to Einstein instead of Hubble.
ReplyDeleteLt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner Dick
I was just joking. I got 100, er, 99%
ReplyDeleteYou are, of course, a model of modesty.
ReplyDeleteaw shucks ...
ReplyDelete66% I smacked my forehead a lot when I saw the correct answers--does that count for anything?
ReplyDeleteNot one of you lot questioned .''Trigger" being Lee's horse. Ahem.
ReplyDelete76. But cut me some slack; when I took Chemistry in High School, there were only four elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.
ReplyDeleteBesides, that bitch with the test tubes was starting to get on my nerves.