Comments on: Test Your Word Power!

Test Your Word Power!

johnny novak — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:46:02 -0800

Test Your Word Power!

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:47:14 -0800

By: cassbrown1

cassbrown1 — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:59:07 -0800

Eleventeen

By: fvw

fvw — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:03:18 -0800

8/10, though the tom foolery had me stumped.

By: tweak

tweak — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:06:03 -0800

7/10, it would have been real nice if they included the correct answers so I know which ones I missed. So a big 'meh' to that. Might as well just link to Quizzilla's which Family Guy Character Are You?

By: Superfrankenstein

Superfrankenstein — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:06:59 -0800

6. All lucky guesses, duh.

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:29:18 -0800

correct answers are above the next question - easy to miss though.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:54:39 -0800

5. Shit.

By: mumble

mumble — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:34:55 -0800

Toadstool - From the German 'tod' and 'stuhl' which means 'death stool'. Seriously? Lethal feces?

By: tula

tula — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:35:26 -0800

8, no idea how.

By: blendor

blendor — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 02:54:43 -0800

7/10. Re: real answers -- they are listed at the top after each submission. I only realized this when I was finished and had to back up to see them all.

By: sacrilicious

sacrilicious — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:09:53 -0800

7. Me flunk English? That's unpossible!

By: Peach

Peach — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 03:54:10 -0800

10. I rule!!!!!!

By: muddylemon

muddylemon — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:05:21 -0800

8 - i was about 7 answers in when i figured out the real answers were on the top. Word they should learn: Usability

By: kev23f

kev23f — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:49:01 -0800

muddylemon, do you mean the first answer listed is always the correct one? cos its not working like that for me. oh, and 7 out of 10 for me.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 04:56:51 -0800

kev, I think he means that the correct answers are displayed (rather poorly) on the top of the page after you put in your answer. 7 out of 10 for me.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:00:53 -0800

9/10, but they're wrong on the one they claim I missed. They say ball - Old English: bulla, a bull which is not true according to any of the dictionaries I've consulted (AHD, for example). Also, they spell caviar "cariar" at one point.

By: dances_with_sneetches

dances_with_sneetches — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:37:41 -0800

I got 4 out of 10 and thought I was the dumbest person of MeFi. Tried another and got 8 of 10. Maybe my first set was hard.

By: mmkhd

mmkhd — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:40:37 -0800

mumble: "Stuhl" also means chair. "Stuhl" as stool is not used that often. Mostly as a medical term for feces and maybe in bad jokes involving chairs. "Stuhlprobe" = sample of feces for medical testing "Stuhlgang" = bowel movement

By: Acey

Acey — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:43:47 -0800

5. Most were guesses though, except 'pass the buck' which I know is a phrase that came from poker. Yeah!

By: Gator

Gator — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:49:47 -0800

The guy who created this, Dave Taylor, has some other interesting sites as well.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:53:07 -0800

7/10, dagnabit

By: Malor

Malor — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:09:15 -0800

9/10.... "by hook or by crook" was an outright guess, the others not so much. The one I missed was "admiral".

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:38:02 -0800

Word power, or ability with words? "Word Power" always makes me think of the weirding modules from that stupid "Dune" story (though I love how in the Lynch film they should "be FUCKED!" when they want to blow someone up).

By: selfmedicating

selfmedicating — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 06:45:59 -0800

9/10 - I missed nutgraph tho I disagree with their definition of what it is.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:17:29 -0800

MetaFilter: the new Reader's Digest?

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:35:49 -0800

Most I've gotten is 5. I suck at this!

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:40:49 -0800

I wonder how much of this etymology is provable; the origin of (spoiler)... OK for Oll Korrect is very much in question.

By: caddis

caddis — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:42:52 -0800

Bzzzt! That answer is wrong!

By: rottytooth

rottytooth — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:52:38 -0800

Woohoo! I got 3!

By: squirrel

squirrel — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:24:03 -0800

I got your nutgraph right here.

By: O Blitiri

O Blitiri — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:41:18 -0800

Hard to compare scores since everyone seems to be getting different quizzes. FWIW: A Jeopardy! episode within the past month or so had "hushpuppy" originating with the Civil War story that the quiz says is the wrong answer. Possible class action nerd-suit against Sony?

By: rottytooth

rottytooth — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:49:36 -0800

Hard to compare scores since everyone seems to be getting different quizzes. Yeah, that's it, I'm getting all the hard questions (1/10 the second time through)

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:14:12 -0800

This is fun! Thanks!

By: Peach

Peach — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:26:01 -0800

Durn - 9 out of 10 this time. "trivia" tripped me up.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 13:38:38 -0800

I hate language.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 14:43:49 -0800

9, then 9, then 8, with just one repeated question (ketchup -- Malaysian sauce).

By: mumble

mumble — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:23:00 -0800

mmkhd, I'm German and quite familiar with the word "Stuhl", that's why I was so surprised by the (alleged?) role it played in the etymology of "Toadstool". Then again "Toadchair" would probably sound, er, weird. Or maybe I'm just really confused by this whole stool/Stuhl business. </derail>