Yeah they deified virtually everything which is why I was banging my head on the wall trying to pick a phrasing when I remembered Romulus got blow to bits too. That actually happens a lot on these, probably about half to two-thirds of the questions never see the light of day just because I can't find a phrasing that isn't either too obscure or way too blatant, like one of the originals which was something like 'This movie released on Independence Day starred Will Smith fighting aliens over many days to achieve Independence" or others where you realize after the fact that half a dozen movies, some much better known, meet the clue and there's a bout a snowball's chance anyone would recognize actor, director, or film year, that last of which I typically only include to give people a loose timeframe and to formally rule out alternates as a preemptive strike in a dreaded Geek War.
Yeah, I can see how it'd be harder to write a geek quiz than to criticize one.
Looks like you did a pretty good job with this one, anyway - most people got good but not perfect scores, and clearly enjoyed it.
Well in all fairness these aren't multiple choice, you're probably a pretty geeky person if you're 25%+ on most of these. I'll have to start branching out to other zones of geekiness soon, or specializing in more obscure stuff, like a Trek quiz or something, as I think I've already repeated myself a few times... any geeky subjects suggesiton? Mythology, fantasy, etc? I kind of want to avoid anything of the "What is the boiling point of water?" or "How many moons does Mars have?" variety, as my hunch would be those would be less fun.
It can be easy to forget how things that seem the most basic elements of pop culture - be it the One Ring, Jedi lightsabers or something else - are completely alien to a rather large number of people. Until they're made into a movie (okay, the lightsabers were in a movie from the start) - but even then there will be those who stubbornly resist. I was just reading my newspaper's literary supplement today, which made a sad spectacle of itself by choosing to review aSoIaF now, thanks to the TV series, and then massively exaggerating both in its praise for it and in its disdain for "90% of fantasy". Morale of the article, apparently: said literary supplement only takes genre fiction seriously when it becomes genre television, at which point they praise the books as being great literature (they were comparing Martin to Faulkner). Ooookay.
Got a bit side-tracked there, but anyway, all that to say, yes, even getting a score as low as mine does require a certain identification with geek culture. But yeah, there are different kinds of geekhood, and mine tends more in the direction of history, mythology, fantasy novels, languages and less in the direction of sci-fi, American comics and genre movies or TV shows (excepting everything Whedon and a few others).
Test Your Geekdom, Vol VII: Apocalypse How
- 05/04/2012 10:57:54 PM
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Nine and two bonus points.
- 06/04/2012 07:05:12 PM
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Re: Nine and two bonus points.
- 06/04/2012 07:10:18 PM
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24, 'cos I am counting 9d anyway.
- 07/04/2012 06:54:28 PM
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*NM*