mighty fine trivia by James Callan
Mental Floss regularly produces great quizzes, but I thought this one was especially fun: Identify the book given a vertical strip photocopied from the text.
How’d I do?
Score: 90% (9 out of 10)
I could’ve gone 10/10, but second-guessed myself on the last question.
A whole bunch of very good questions I’ll try not to repeat on my 2008-in-review quiz next Tuesday*.
Ben Schott, you’ve done it again.
*January 6 at the Old Pequliar in Seattle. If you’re in town, come!
Process of elimination helped me out on this one. (No pun intended, Show ▼
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As I was going along, I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to make 50%. So 75% was a pleasant surprise.
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Where I whiffed it, after the jump …
Step 1: Identify the building. (First maybe you want to turn off the sound, I guess.)
Step 2: Guess where it is on the map.
(To keep the page relatively quiet, I stashed the game behind the jump.)
My internet pal (and Jeopardy! contestant) Adam Villani has a clever pop music quiz up at his blog.
Premise: identify a musical artist, given the artist’s number of #1 hits, total number of weeks at #1, year of their first #1 hit, and the year of their most recent #1 hit.
I haven’t worked through the whole list, though I think I’ve got 1-3 down.
Another stellar Mental Floss quiz:
Score: 80% (12 out of 15)
Average score was 73%, so I squeaked out an above-average performance.
Can you name the 10 highest grossing films in America that were not part of a franchise (no sequels, no prequels, no sidequels)? You’ve got five minutes.
I got three in the first few minutes … then was inspired to get three more before running out of time.
I tried five different spellings for Shrek before remembering that yes, there were sequels.
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