Nerd quiz!
(Quiz from Robin, regarding White and Nerdy)
do you know what song this parodies? (automatic 5 point deduction) (-5)
... did you use the internet to find out? (0)
do you mow your front lawn?
... while wearing khakis?
... and a polo shirt?
... a pink polo shirt?
do you have a love for pac-man that borders on the religious?
have you ever used the phrase "roll with the gangstas"?
... are said gangstas in fact scared of your nerdiness?
did you go to mit? (haha, suck on that one!)
... and graduate first in your class?
do you play d&d? (1)
... and have your own dice? (2)
... and play it on the streets?
are you an mc escher fan?
... and have more than 3 prints?
... currently on your wall?
do you drink tea? (3)
... would you choose it over beer?
... is it Earl Grey? (4)
... do you order it: "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"?
... Robin memorial question: do you feel dirty because you got that joke? (nope, I'm proud. 4)
do you own (or would you like to own) a hybrid? (5)
... would you pimp it out?
... are you proud of your stationary rims?
do you own action figures? (6)
... are they in their original packaging?
... and you refuse to sell them? (7)
... did you totally catch the seth green cameo? (8)
... and kind of thought the part where he spanks himself was hot?
do you own any books by stephen hawking?
do you refer to your books as your library? (9)
do you have a page on myspace?
... is it pimped out?
... does anyone care about it?
one point for every digit of pi you know. (18)
do you put mayonnaise on everything? (no idea how thats nerdy, but its in the song, who am i to argue?)
do you play minesweeper?
... obsessively?
... have you beat it on expert?
... have you created even harder configurations than expert offers?
do you know pascal?
... do you use it in the shower?
... honorary sal question: do you know what disadvantages it has compared to java and c? (19)
do you ever wear a shower cap?
do you do vector calculus for fun?
... in the shower?
do you solder?
... do you own a soldering iron? (bonus 5 points for a soldering gun)
do you have a favorite tv theme song? (20, the Angel theme)
... is it happy days?
... are you willing to argue that its the best ever, and fight to the death over it?
... do you have an awesome dance associated with the song?
do you play ping pong?
... seriously?
... are you good at it?
do you play trivial pursuit? (21)
... while sober? (22)
... have you ever thrown a game board of any type?
... while sober?
do you know javascript?
... can you indentify the book series the javascript rhino is from? (23 - O'Reilly is my homie)
... do you know any klingon at all? (I'm ignoring a few nouns)
(bonus 10 points for both the above)
... have you used it in public?
... did you use it because you (correctly) assumed others wouldn't know it?
have you ever ridden a segway?
... did you wear padding and a helmet?
... were you so good you didnt have to use your hands?
... do you *own* a segway?
... do you understand the underlying principles? (24)
can you identify the equation they're dancing in front of? (25)
... does it make you want to stab your kidneys? (2 point deduction for your shame)
... does it make you giggle like a schoolgirl?
... does it appear in your dreams? (26, but only when I've been using it recently)
... sal memorial question: did you look it up on wikipedia to see what solutions they have for it?
have you ever practiced lightsaber moves? (27)
... seriously? (28)
... with another person? (29)
... and rotoscoped it?
... and had the video put on the internet?
are you a fan of surge protectors? (30)
... so much so that you give them as gifts?
do you collect comics?
... are you an x-men fan? (31)
... do you know the differences between x-men series?
... do you know which are canon and non-canon?
... and know where the local comic shops are? (32 -- only because of the rpg overlap)
... and know the staff by name?
... does the staff know you?
do you keep pens in your pocket? (33)
... your SHIRT pocket?
... do you use a pocket protector?
... does the pocket protector have a logo?
... is the logo a serious form of advertisement?
do you have an ergonomic keyboard?
do you shop online more than offline? (34)
do you own more than two forms of writeable media? (35)
have you ever edited a wikipedia entry?
... without insulting anyone?
can you recite more than two scenes from monty python and the holy grail? (36)
... more than 5? (37)
... can you recite the whole movie?
... do you quote whole scenes unprovoked? (38)
... do you know what the last moose title card says?
do you know what ROTFLOL stands for? (39)
... do you think of it as a compliment?
... do you say it in conversation? (40)
have you ever been paid for programming? (41; I'm assuming some of my UG research counts, since I spent some stretches of that doing very little else, and it was paid)
... a website specifically?
... do you code for your friends for free? (42)
do you know html? (43)
... do you code for your blog? (44)
... do you make homepages for nonhuman entities (pets, imaginary characters, etc)?
do you own a fanny pack?
... do you think it's cool?
do you wear button-down shirts?
... do you wear khakis?
... do you buy either on sale at the gap?
do you enjoy bubble wrap? (45)
... do you "get freaky" with it?
do you play badminton?
... while wearing your sweater around your shoulders?
in high school, were you in the a/v club (or similar entity)?
... were you in the glee club? (46)
... were you on the chess team? (half a point for quiz bowl) (47.5 -- assuming science olympiad is equivalent to quiz bowl, +president)
(bonus 10 points for all three)
(bonus point for each team for which you held the captain position)
have you ever asked the question "kirk or picard"?
... do you have a ready answer?
... that contains more than one word ("kirk" or "picard")?
... have you had an argument about it?
... on more than one occasion?
... did you win by shear stubbornness?
do you go to renaissance faires? (48.5)
... Robin memorial question: do you use the term "ren faire"?
is your name on your underwear?
... or perhaps a license plate? (+1 bonus point for indentifying the movie reference.)
have you ever been given a wedgie?
... did you pre-cut your underwear to circumvent them?
did you know that the star wars holiday special is real? (49.5)
... do you want see it?
... have you seen it? (20 bonus points) (thank goodness it aired before I was born)
... do you own a copy?
... do you fear that George Lucas would hunt you down and try to burn your copy?
do you enjoy bowling?
... seriously?
... while sober?
... do you wear plaid pants while doing it?
have you ever flashed the "live long and prosper" sign? (50.5)
... and meant it from your heart?
... if you couldn't do it right away, did you practice until you could?
total: 50.5
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