[Windswept]

Take this BBC news quiz and tell us how you did by answering the poll.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/6321781.stm

Your name will *not* show up in the poll.

[Windswept]

I got four correct.

Of those, two were guesses.

Perky, the duck, seems to be a favorite story at BBC.

(I think Brits might be more tender-hearted than Americans when it comes to animals. )

[faust]

4 right

Didn't know the swimmer's nickname but I did know about the duck.

[billybobsky]

Didn't know any of them... Did better than chance.

[psmith2.0]

Wow, I'm useless. Only got three right.

I only knew, for sure, about the Wolfowitz thing (I saw that earlier this week somewhere). I had to guess on the others, and apparently I suck at guessing.

[Banana]

Pscates, if you're useless at three, what does that makes me at one?

[Moogs]

Thing is, some of that isn't really news, but it's the kind of stuff that if you didn't hear the story you can logically deduce which answer is the most likely. So even if you get 3 or 4 right, I suspect many are just guessing. I know I did.

[digitalprimate]

I got six right, but I kinda missed the "beer" option in this poll!!

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by digitalprimate I got six right, but I kinda missed the "beer" option in this poll!!

Did you 'guess' on any of your answers, or did you actually 'know' them all?

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by pscates2.0 Wow, I'm useless. Only got three right. I only knew, for sure, about the Wolfowitz thing (I saw that earlier this week somewhere). I had to guess on the others, and apparently I suck at guessing.

Paul, do you ever listen to that NPR radio program called "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me"?

They do on-air quizzes (I think on Sundays). Wow, I'm generally *not* very good at guessing 'those' answers.

Now, on an actual written test of some kind, I think I'm usually pretty good at guessing. But these on-air quizzes seem to try to make their answer choices humorous, and that 'silliness' aspect makes it more difficult to 'guess' the answer, imo.

Yeah, that Wolfowitz thing... President of the World Bank? Whoa! I bet his momma is embaaaarrassed.

[AWR]

Only 3 right, here.

Was there any "news" in that quiz, though?

Those are "interest" stories, I think.

[Bryson]

I suck.

[AWR]

Originally Posted by Windswept Yeah, that Wolfowitz thing... President of the World Bank? Whoa! I bet his momma is embaaaarrassed.

She's probably more embarrassed that he was one of the fundamental "architects" of the invasion of Iraq. But really, spitting on your comb is bloody disgusting!!

[murbot]

I got 6 right, even though I didn't actually know the answer to any of them. The answers were too easy to guess though. I knew I had most of them right before I clicked the button.

The only one that was a real stab in the dark for me was the birth-giving machine question. I figured it was defintely not Japan, so I was completely off.

[Moogs]

I thought Wolfman had spit in his comb.

[Foj]

I got three right.

Then I took it again and got them all right.

[Moogs]

Drunk





(nice video... wtf was that from anyway?)

[digitalprimate]

Originally Posted by Windswept Did you 'guess' on any of your answers, or did you actually 'know' them all?

Oh, I did know some of them (Moose, birth-machines, Berlusconi), and the others I guessed :-)
That's why most of the exams at te Uni's here AREN'T multiple choice: It makes people look smart, while they really aren't!


EDIT: So how about the "Beer" option..?

[Chinney]

7 guesses - 4 were right.

[turtle]

I'll confess, I only got one right. All of them were guesses though because I haven't heard of any of those stories. The only reason I got the one right was because there was no way I could see a biology student actually having that happen and so I picked it.

[SpecMode]

Two I knew (Lucky the Duck and Japanese "birth machines"), the rest I guessed on.

I suck at guessing.

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by digitalprimate That's why most of the exams at te Uni's here AREN'T multiple choice: It makes people look smart, while they really aren't!

But accurate 'guessing' takes a certain intuitive intelligence that very possibly can be *more* valuable than simple 'accumulated knowledge', in some instances.

So murbeau is a bright and intuitive guesser; but he's also very smart in general.

EDIT: So how about the "Beer" option..?

My god, you must be a Taurus!

[chucker]

Do I look like I watch news?!

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by chucker Do I look like I watch news?!

You're a smart, interested, curious person; therefore, you watch the news.

[thegeriatric]

Oops. Guessed at them all only got 2 write.

[Ryan]

The first time I tried I only got one right, the second time I got six. Sure, it's cheating, but most of that's not really news anyways.

[digitalprimate]

Originally Posted by Windswept My god, you must be a Taurus!

You mean like in Red bull? Wait, that's not a beer!

[Windswept]

Originally Posted by digitalprimate You mean like in Red bull? Wait, that's not a beer!

As in your 'determination' to get what you want...

...(more commonly called 'stubbornness' - a definite Taurean trait. )