Caution: test is 75 questions long!
(75% will get you a PhD!)
What was your score?
So far (maybe 35 in) “high school graduate” (yes with decent grades) seems to characterize the questions.
All I’m going to say is that the average Jeopardy contestant would ace that quiz, and the vast majority of them have not been PhDs.
Also that my knowledge of Shakespeare sucks mightily.
IX is what number? (multiple choice)?
Mars is Red cuz’ what element (ditto)?
What emperor made horse a consul? (yup)
Inventor, printing press (sigh)
Ego stroke quiz. I am no where near a PhD. 83%
Got 91%. If you’re well-read, it’s not that hard.
I got 100%.
What a dumb test.
FWIW, I have a BA in English, and military MOS training in power generators, which includes circuits and engines.
Yep, I think I would have gotten most of them right when I was in high school.
They didn’t really have much to do with education level. Having a Ph.D. is about depth, not breadth, of knowledge.
FWIW, I got 97%. The ones I missed were the one about why Mars is red and the one about the emperor’s horse; and I might have gotten them if I’d stopped to think about them longer.
I expect to be called DR. RivkahChaya now.
My mother will be so proud.
This is just like the online IQ tests that spit out ridiculously inflated numbers to make you feel good.
Or what G0sp3l (more succinctly) said.
I got 100%, and so did my husband. Neither of us is even close to a PhD.
It has nothing to do with formal education, more to do with how long you’ve lived and absorbed stuff.
That was easy. 100% and nowhere near a PhD. As noted, it’s more a function of remembering stuff from life.
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It’s a memory quiz, and basically a test to see how well you take tests. If you read all the little extra info blurbs, some of them contained answers to later questions. I am very good at multiple choice tests. I can score 85% on a test I am completely unprepared for and know absolutely nothing about just by reading all the questions through carefully, and studying their structure.
That test was kind of like the officer’s candidacy test in the Army, which I took, even though I didn’t go to officer’s school. It’s a lot of random trivia and a few trick questions. They want to know how broad your knowledge base is, how good your reading comprehension is, and how well you do under pressure. I got a 98% on it (it was 50 questions), which was the highest score ever in my unit. There was a question about fishing I might have missed.
But it had trivia like “Who was the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin?” which I knew because my father taught Soviet politics. There was a little know guy named Malenkov in office briefly between Stalin and Khrushchev.
Somehow I got halfway through and tapped on something which took me to a Presidential Facial Hair Quiz. Didn’t bother to go back.
I got 86% and I have a BA in English, no where near a PhD. Ironically, the ones I struggled with were the Shakespeare questions. I always get Macbeth and Hamlet mixed up. :smack:
I had 100% up to question 35 and got bored. I don’t know what the rest of the test was like but it was just Jeopardy type trivia up to that point.
I hope the writers of that test, not to mention the intelligent test-takers of the Dope, didn’t say the inventor of the printing press was Gutenberg.
I got 87%. Many of them were guesses, though somewhat educated ones, and a few were about things I have no education in and just know from osmosis. Or don’t know.
We only did two Shakespeare plays at my school and neither came up in those questions, and knowing the history of other countries never really came up. My History lessons in High School were about my own country, New Zealand, and our Geography lessons were about contemporary cultures.
I don’t think I’d ever get a PhD.
Well, apparently I am a PhD even when I am fairly drunk.