MetaFilter posts tagged with quiz

a cloud of atlases

shothotbot — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:41:52 -0800

We love our maps here, so how about a map quiz thanks to our friends at The Morning News. Warning: the answer underneath each map is a simple link, and the URL sometimes gives away the answer.

State of berkelium (Bk) at 0° C and 1 atmosphere of pressure

netbros — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:30:47 -0800

Knowledge Score is a general knowledge quiz game. Categories include Art, Astronomy, Food and Drink, Geography, History, Literature, Movies, Politics, Music, Economics, Languages, Sports, Math and more. If you want to try out Knowledge Score without registering, use the "Play as guest" feature.

Which One Is the Original?

netbros — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:47:49 -0800

So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Take 20 logos that were originally designed in Helvetica, and redo them in Arial. Some people would call that blasphemy. Instead, call it a challenge: can you tell which is the original and which is the remake?

How well do you know Canada?

GuyZero — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:26:09 -0800

The Toughest Canada Day Quiz Ever. In honour of Canada Day, one tough quiz from the magazine that told us how much the Internet sucks.

Quizbook

chuckdarwin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:45:04 -0800

Run Firefox with greasemonkey and Facebook Purity to free yourself from the Tyranny of Facebook Quizzes. It's the nuclear option, and it works... like the bomb. BOOM. No more quizzy.

Can You Name Them All?

sambosambo — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:36:14 -0800

Meme Scenery - Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something's amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history.

Just SIP the book

CheeseDigestsAll — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:35:22 -0800

According to Amazon, this is the "essence" of Ulysses: matrimonial gift, quaker librarian, charming soubrette, editor cried, retrospective arrangement, pike hoses, pensive bosom, seaside girls, absentminded beggar. At least, according to their SIP algorithm. Too obscure? How about: barn cellar, famous pig, grey spider, old sheep, egg sac. Pretty easy, right? Now consider: shock shop, seclusion room, least black boy, bull goose loony, big black boys, wicker bag, ward policy, tub room, drug room, red capsules, dorm door, two black boys. Catching on? Now try the quiz.

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tss — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:05:48 -0800

Wikitrivia.net makes trivia questions out of Wikipedia pages. It's a bit rough around the edges, but it does pretty well for not having a magic AI that understands English. Hit reload if you get a question you don't like, or grab the source code if you think you can make it better.

More Ways The Internet Makes You Insecure

The Whelk — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:15:34 -0800

How Old Are You? Guess people's ages based on submitted photos. (via)

King Billy 2008

CCBC — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:41:51 -0800

The 104th General Knowledge Quiz from King William's College on the Isle of Man. Previously linked each year on MeFi.(2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 , 2003, 2002) Sometimes people share answers, sometimes they play alone. Last year's quiz.

M. Mattius Kaufman recreates classic album cover poses. How many can you identify?

Senor Cardgage — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:13:55 -0800

Can You Identify Famous Album Covers Based Only on a Mime in A Leotard? A man, a black leotard, and an famous pose. The rest is up to you. See how many of the album cover poses you can identify. The positions span several decades of indelible pop music iconography. But be fast, as you are being timed and this is much harder than you think. Take too long and the mimes just get bored and kinda stare at you, having dropped their poses.

Friday Flash Fun: Test your geography skills.

Nauip — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:06:44 -0800

Free Poverty. Kinda like freerice.com but they're giving water to places that need it. I feel dumb now. Some places are not where I thought they were.

Found It

netbros — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:40:27 -0800

Place Spotting ― Try to solve this Google map quiz. In the upper part of the page you see a satellite picture. Drag and zoom the map in the lower part of the page until it shows the same location as the upper map. Here's how.

Empire Poster Thread.

daHIFI — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:02:36 -0800

Can you guess these movies from just one letter of the poster? Empire has put together a little quiz to test your movie font knowledge. Guess the movies from just one letter in the film's poster title. Via Neatorama

Goats = Dowry

blue_beetle — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:02 -0800

How many goats are you worth? You've always wondered. Take the quiz and find out.

the is and it are you of

clearly — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:42:15 -0800

The 100 Most Common Words In The English Language

see how many you can guess in 5 minutes

How do you rate as a husband or wife of the 1930s

polysigma — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:45:45 -0800

This scale was first brought to my attention by the blog "The Unwound Road". It appears someone took the original 1930s rating scale and posted it to Flickr. From there it was a natural progression to Internet quiz. So, how would you rate as a husband or wife in the 1930s? Answer 100 true or false type questions and find out!

Candy bar cross-section ID quiz

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:21:34 -0800

Identify the candy bar by its cross-section.

I know, it should be 'Armin Tamzarian'.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:39:52 -0800

Cute quiz: Name the Simpsons characters. Also: US states, countries in Europe, Asia, North and South America, periodic table of elements. More.

Sign, Sign, everywhere a sign.

Mitheral — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:23:35 -0800

US Traffic & Road Sign Test. Five part, 30 questions each, multiple choice test on US road, highway and traffic signs. Results include inline scoring and explanation of each sign. The average for part 1 (the easiest) is only 82% and 15% of takers score less than 70%.

Only God Can Judge Me

spec80 — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:37:51 -0800

Quiz: Who is more homophobic? Religious zealots or Rappers?

Know Your Cuts of Font

wendell — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:09:24 -0800

The Rather Difficult Font Quiz Do you know your Birch from your Bembo from your Bauer Bodini (Hey! Where's Bookman?) At the moment, 34 fonts to identify with more coming soon. A fun way to spend 2-3 minutes and learn just how much a font nerd you really are. (I only got 25 out of 34? I'm ashamed!) Yes, the dreaded comic sans is part of the quiz, but not the others from the woebegotten Typematching post. Still, who the hell is Mrs. Eaves?

Civil War and/or Aerial Reconnaissance Nerds Only

marxchivist — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:43:34 -0800

The of Battlefields and Bibliophiles blog has a fun quiz. Check your knowledge of American Civil War battlefields by guessing which battleground is featured in the Google Earth images. Answers here. I think I know more than the average doofus about this sort of thing, but the only ones I got right were #1, 3 and 4. I got close on number 6. The same blog featured a Hilarious! post on Black Confederates last month. Also, I recently ran across this thoughtful Civil War blog, done by a sixteen year-old girl.

King William College Quiz

biffa — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:46:50 -0800

The King William College Quiz, apparently now my only FPP in a year (since the last quiz), hopefully as hard as ever, but unlikely to reward my brand of laziness. Merry Christmas! See previous posts for laying out answers, I'll post the Guardians' answer sheet in January.

(It's missing a few) TV Theme Songs

carsonb — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:47:16 -0800

Name That TV Theme Song
Need help? Television Tunes has 3000+ themes available in mp3 format. 484 on my first try, 1 player, 10 rounds. Previously: 1 2 3