Well, thanks to Monty Python’s University of Woolamaloo drinking song, I got the other philosophy question right.
And has a decent memory. Most people forget a lot of what they learn.
As I mentioned already, a gap indicates two wrong answers in a category. For anyone interested, here is the answer key. I missed the closest planet question and the Oscar question and I wasn’t too confident of my answer for American poets, but I guessed right between the two choices I narrowed it down to.
1. Who was Plato’s teacher?
Aristotle
Athena
Euripides
** Socrates**
2. Which branch of philosophy deals with the nature of reality, being, and the world?
Logic
Religion
Epistemology
** Metaphysics**
3. Who said “Je pense donc je suis”… meaning, “I think therefore I am”?
Michel Foucault
** René Descartes**
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
4. Which of the following religions does not talk about Moses?
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
5. What do you call a religion that believes in multiple deities?
Monotheistic
Polytheistic
Polyamorous
Godful
6. What Christian denomination is known for resisting modern conveniences?
The Mormons
The Amish
The Methodists
The Jehovah’s Witnesses
7. When more people demand a product with limited supply, what will happen to the price?
It will stay the same
It will be set by the government
It will go up
It will go down
8. When prices are mostly going down, this is known as:
Inflation
Holiday blues
Stagflation
Deflation
9. When there is only one producer or seller of a product, it is called a:
Non-profit
Business sector
Monopoly
Oligopoly
10. Who wrote “A Christmas Carol”?
Jim Henson
Mark Twain
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
11. Which of Shakespeare’s plays listed below is not a tragedy?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
12. Of these poets, who was not American
Walt Whitman
Thomas Hardy
ee cummings
Robert Frost
13. Who was not alive during the Renaissance?
Martin Luther
Napoleon Bonaparte
Leonardo da Vinci
Ferdinand Magellan
14. From the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century, what empire was India a part of?
The Byzantine empire
The Catholic empire
The British empire
The Ottoman empire
15. What country did the US drop the atomic bomb on?
Germany
Russia
China
Japan
16. How many legs does an insect have?
2
8
4
6
17. Which planet is the closest to earth?
Saturn
Venus
Mercury
Mars
18. Which of the following is not a chemical element?
Oxygen
Sodium
Iron
Water
19. Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Andy Warhol
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Vincent van Gogh
20. Which of the following composers performed and composed even after he was almost completely deaf?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johannes Brahms
21. Which of the following films did not win an Oscar for best picture?
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Forrest Gump
Rocky
Throw me on the “got 'em all right” pile…
Aha! I also had 0 gaps but missed four.
ETA: Removed confusion about the wording of one of the questions.
Yep, got them all right. But I really wasn’t sure about 20 and 21… it was a “best guess” answer on both. The others, though, I had no doubt.
That’s weird, I missed 3 and got 2 gaps.
Yeah, the Mars/Venus one I suspect they mark “Venus” as the correct answer but that seems a weird question to be on a test like that since it has a variable answer. Hell, I believe even Mercury is sometimes the closest planet to earth.
Ditto. As an example, I just found out that Thomas Hardy was a poet. 
What can I say, I hated Tess and Jude enough that I never sought out any more of his work.
Checking the answer key, I got them all right, although Citizen Kane was definitely a guess with approximately 86% confidence.
I am, as I think I’ve mentioned before, working with a GED and a give 'em hell attitude. If someone does well on this test, it tells me nothing more than that they’ve paid some minimal amount of attention to their elementary and secondary education. If they do badly, it tells me that their elementary and secondary education were woefully inadequate, or that they just Do. Not. Give a shit.
A person’s reaction to their score is more meaningful to me than the score they make.
Like those internet IQ tests. If a person believes those things are anything like a real IQ test and actually brags about their score, that tells me that I probably do not want to talk to them.
[hijack]
My favorite Hardy Poem. [/hijack]
Yes, it tells you we all like to stroke our own egos by taking knowledge tests and bragging on how well we did.
I played around with the answers for a bit, and I don’t think that’s possible. Try the test again and report back if you get the same results.
0 Gaps and got two questions wrong-the one about the insects (yes, yes its pretty obvious but its been years since I’ve been taught that-we didn’t dwell on it on Biologly last year) and the Oscars one.
No gaps. Haven’t checked my answers yet. Even allowing for one wrong in each category it shows a basic education, good test taking ability, good recollection of facts. Doesn’t point out any specialized knowledge. I think there are a lot of intelligent, well educated people who could do poorly on the test, without reflecting on their abilities. It’s just a matter of whether you have the background information or not. For instance, I knew Citizen Kane didn’t win Best Picture, but it’s just trivial information that I wouldn’t expect most people to know.
Thanks. I still don’t like it, but I think it’s very useful as distilled essence of Hardy. Read this, and there’s really no reason to slog through the rest of it.
21 of 21, but I guessed (educated guess) lucky on 2.
I don’t think that they were particularly hard questions, but they were the sort that you sort of had to pay attention in school to get right.
Or just have a slightly better than averge memory.
More absinthe, Tom?
Zero gaps in my knowledge. Thank God for this test, I can finally stop learning crap.
3 wrong (according to post #23), 1 gap.
Don’t think it means much.