It's Saturday and you know what that means: great time for a pop quiz. You didn't expect a weekend pop quiz did you? Did you study over the weekend? No? Neither did we, but we are administering the test so we don't have to be accountable for our poor study habits. Never mind that the last four pop quizzes have been on Thursday or Friday, Saturday is as good a day as any to try the patience of the faithful few.
Put away your notes, tuck your backpacks under your desk, close all the windows on your computer (except this one, bien sûr!) and prepare yourself for the rigor of a difficult pop quiz. Matthew, stop looking at You Can Call Me Batman's work. This is an individual assignment. If you and YCCMB want to work on the quiz together we can divide both your final grades by two to reflect the assistance. You'll have to get YCCMB's approval though. No? I thought not.
Pick the best answer to each question and then scroll down to the bottom to see the answers. Hyperlinks contained in the question will lead you to the answer, but no fair clicking on those until you grade yourself.
NOTE: Check out the post tag Pop Quiz for previous tests.
1) Which alcoholic beverage did Ron Artest admit to drinking during the halftime of his NBA games?
a) Schnapps
b) Brandy
c) Beer
d) Cognac
e) Port
Answer.
2) Which of the following women is not alleged to have slept with Tiger Woods?
a) Elin Nordegren
b) Rachel Maddow
c) Rachel Uchitel
d) Jaimee Grubbs
e) Kalika Moquin
Answer.
3) Which of the following states did NOT cast its electoral votes for Barack Obama in the 2008 Presidential Election?
a) West Virginia
b) Colorado
c) Nevada
d) Pennsylvania
e) Ohio
Answer.
4) Who came up with the idea of daylight savings time?
a) Elin Nordegren
b) John Ott
c) George Vernon Hudson
d) Benjamin Franklin
e) Thomas Jefferson
Answer.
5) Which is largest?
a) 1 billion
b) 1 nonillion
c) 1 novemdecillion
d) 1 sextillion
e) 12,000,000,000,000,000
Answer.
6) Who is listed as weighing more?
a) Ben Roethlisberger
b) Mike Tyson
c) Kevin Garnett
d) Warren Sapp
e) Glen Davis
7) How many consecutive losses had the New Jersey Nets lost to start this year's NBA season before last night?
a) 15
b) 16
c) 18
d) 20
e) 22
Answer.
8) If the Florida Gators win the SEC championship tomorrow, how many consecutive wins will the program have recorded?
a) 15
b) 16
c) 18
d) 20
e) 22
Answer.
Key: 1) d, 2) b, 3) a, 4) c, 5) c, 6) d, 7) c, 8) e.
Each right answer is worth 12.5%. Brag about your score in the comments.
Saturday, December 05, 2009
Pop Quiz #5
Friday, October 19, 2007
Pop Quiz #4
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls please clear your desk of all notebooks, papers and digital assistants and prepare yourselves for an FCN Pop Quiz! You may, of course, keep your computer on, just don't click on the answer hyperlinks until you've answered all the questions. That includes you, Adrialien; you may be outside the country, but it's still no fair clicking on the hyperlinks until after taking the quiz. Simply select the best solution you can, maybe scratch a notation on a pad of paper to signify your decision and force a modicum of honesty and look at the bottom of the post for the answers.
1) Who is Shinzo Abe?
a) Japanese Businessman who committed suicide after a failed business dealing.
b) Japanese Agriculture and Forestry minister who committed suicide after a cabinet shakeup.
c) Former Japanese Prime Minister.
d) Champion Japanese Sumo wrestler.
2) How old is the first Baby Boomer to have filed for Social Security benefits?
a) 60 (born in 1947)
b) 61 (born in 1946)
c) 62 (born in 1945)
d) 63 (born in 1944)
3) Which of the following songs does Leann Rimes perform in her hit album Family?
a) "Nothin' Better to Do"
b) "Stupid Boy"
c) "Fall"
d) "Before He Cheats"
4) Name the two undefeated teams in the National Football League right now.
a) Green Bay Packers and Indianapolis Colts.
b) New England Patriots and Dallas Cowboys.
c) New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers.
d) New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts.
5) Which of the following products has Greenpeace accused of containing "hazardous products?"
a) Microsoft Zoon.
b) LG Camera Phone.
c) Apple iPhone.
d) Motorola Moto Q9h
e) Greenpeace has accused none of the above of containing "hazardous products."
Ok, have you finished? That took you a long time. Are you sure you don't want to go back and change one of your answers? You can still do so without losing face. That Leann Rimes question really had you going, you might want to rethink it.
Unlike past pop quizzes, the answers were organized in a simple reverse rolling algorithm. If you haven't tried to predict the right response by guessing ahead and using a little math, we are sorry to inconvenience you with the change. If you have treated these little quizzes as math exams, we gotcha. Hah!
Here are the answers, see if you can find the pattern:
1-C
2-B
3-A
4-D
5-C
If you got all the questions right, you did excellently. You are very bright. You may want to start developing Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technologies. (That stands for SMART). Or you could humble yourself by taking any of FCN's past Pop Quizzes.
If you got all but one right, don't feel too badly about the one you missed. Think about the ones you did get. And don't, whatever you do, consider your performance a "B."
If you missed 2-4 questions, you may want to consider a course of treatment with a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.
If you missed all the questions, take heart, the quiz was probably a complete fabrication anyway. Be happy in knowing you are more intelligent than everyone else.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Pop Quiz #3
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls please clear your desk of all notebooks, papers and digital assistants and prepare yourselves for an FCN Pop Quiz! You may, of course, keep your computer on, just don't click on the answer hyperlinks until you've answered all the questions. That includes you, Team Cheese; no fair clicking on the hyperlinks until after taking the quiz. Simply select the best solution you can, maybe scratch a notation on a pad of paper to signify your decision and force a modicum of consistency, and look at the bottom of the post for the answers.
1. Who is older?
b) Shania Twain
2. Which of the following pled guilty?
b) Micheal Vick
d) Phil Spector
3. Which is a bigger killer of American males (measured by total mortality)?
a) AIDS
b) Alzheimer's disease
c) Flu
d) Colon Cancer
4. Which nation has the highest tax rate (measured by the highest average effective tax rates on business capital investments)?
a) United States of America
b) France
c) Congo
d) Hong Kong
e) Mexico
5. Which Republican candidate won the Iowa straw poll?
a) Mitt Romney
b) Mike Huckabee
c) John McCain
d) Ron Paul
Ok, have you finished? No fair peeking unless you're done...
If you answered "C" to questions 1-4 and "A" to question 5, you aced the test. That's pretty good; you did well enough to enroll in a European school.
If you answered something other than the key listed above on one question, you did decently. I hear an American private school calling your name.
If you missed 2-4 questions, you are a product of the American public schooling system. Not a lot you can do about that, buddy. I have some controlled substances that help ease the pain, but you are pretty well situated in your peer-defined education. Enjoy it.
If you missed all the questions, you should try cheating next time or join me in America's higher education system. Or you could go back to day care. Or you could leave a comment disputing the answers and bemoaning the quality of our pop quiz.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Pop Quiz #2
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls please clear your desk of all notebooks, texts and digital assistants and prepare yourselves for an FCN Pop Quiz.
That includes you, Smurph; no fair clicking on the hyperlinks until after you’ve answered. Simply select the best solution you can and look at the bottom of the post for the answers.
1. Which is of greater financial value?
a) The Iraq War funding bill President Bush signed last week.
b) The annual revenue of Hewlett-Packard
c) The Official Purchasing Power Parity of North Korea
2. Which has caused more direct deaths?
a) The Iraq War
b) The 9/11 terror attacks
c) Swimming pools in 2003
d) The V-22 Osprey over its entire career
3. Who has more formal education?
a) President George W. Bush
b) Late ABC anchor Peter Jennings
c) Documentary Film Director Michael Moore
d) American Idol critic Simon Cowell.
4. Which political party misses (is absent from) more House floor votes?
a) Democrat
b) Republican
c) Independent
d) Green
5. Who is James E. Clyburn?
a) Democrat representative from an overwhelmingly Republican district
b) A professional tap dancer
c) The father of two teenage sons
d) Majority Whip
e) All of the above.
Ok, have you finished? No fair peeking unless you're done...
If you answered "A" to questions 1-4 and "D" to question 5, you aced the test. Go treat yourself to a have a low fat, sugar free double latte with whipped cream. Better yet, hold the cream and add some caramel syrup. Or do both the cream and the syrup; you've earned it!
If you answered something other than the key listed above on one question, you did decently. 80% will get you through secondary education. You probably should wait until you ace one of these before visiting Starbucks.
If you missed 2-4 questions, you are either without an internet connection, been up all night for the past two nights, under experimental observation or a professional entertainer. Don't touch any caffeine.
If you missed all the questions, maybe you should try cheating next time.
Friday, April 13, 2007
Pop Quiz #1
Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls please clear your desk of all notebooks, texts and digital assistants and prepare yourselves for an FCN Pop Quiz.
Below are five multiple choice questions. The questions are phrased as pictures and the answer choices test your ability to recognize the person in the photo. Begin when you are ready.
The person in the photo is...
A) Zsa Zsa Gabor
B) Diane Feinstein
C) Lindsay Lohan
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) None of the above
The person in the photo is...
A) Boutros Boutros-Ghali
B) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) None of the above
The person in the photo is...
A) Howard Stern
B) Al Sharpton
C) Madeline Albright
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) None of the above
The person in the photo is...
A) Janet Reno
B) Donna Shalala
C) Sandy Berger
D) Nancy Pelosi
E) None of the above
The person in the photo is...
A) Barack Obama
B) George Clooney
C) Ted Kennedy
D) A really cool guy with long hair that kinda looks like Nancy Pelosi
E) None of the above
Ok, have you finished? No fair peeking at the answers unless your done...
If you answered "D" to all of the above questions, you aced the test. Go treat yourself to a Dove Bar.
If you answered something other than "D" to one question, you did OK. Keep reading FCN and you'll do better in the future.
If you answered something other than "D" to multiple questions, you are either a shotgun-toting hick, a Wal-Mart shopper, a person who cooks at a restaurant serving Freedom Fries, or both. Go take a French class.
If you didn't answer "D" to any questions, consider a career in politics.
