# StarTrek Geek Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 30, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361 "2000-08-30T17:05:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FarrisGoldstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@FarrisGoldstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarrisGoldstein)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/21 "2000-08-30T19:43:23Z")
My band name is “Circum-sexy”… I really like that. ---
**Author:** ![lolagranola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@lolagranola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lolagranola)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/22 "2000-08-30T20:03:20Z")
I’m not sure if I’m proud or embarrassed that I made it to Organian. The scary thing is that I would have done better on a TNG or DS9 quiz. I thought the quiz would never end. How many questions were there??? ---
**Author:** ![FarrisGoldstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f17d59/32.png) [@FarrisGoldstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarrisGoldstein)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/23 "2000-08-30T20:05:49Z")
128, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/24 "2000-08-30T20:53:48Z")
Well, I went up and down, but I ended at the Organian level. I had a lot of lucky guesses though. ---
**Author:** ![lucie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed8c4c/32.png) [@lucie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucie)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/25 "2000-08-30T21:37:17Z")
I got to Rigellian, and intended to finish the damn thing, but it seems to have died, mid-load. And speaking of load, how the hell do they score this thing? I must have missed half the questions, and most of the ones I did get right were pure guesses. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/26 "2000-08-30T21:45:56Z")
I got as high as Organian at one point, but finished (finally!) as a Bill Gates. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/27 "2000-08-30T22:53:12Z")
In light of the above scores, I’m not certain if I should be pleased or disappointed that I am a mere “couch potato.” ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/28 "2000-08-30T23:04:26Z")
I stayed at couch potato for a long time, but finally clawed my way up to Vulcan, which is certainly satisfactory. It was the planet names that killed me. And what was with all those electronica questions, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/29 "2000-08-31T02:04:22Z")
Am I the only one who became **RoadKill!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/30 "2000-08-31T03:28:05Z")
I’m a Rigellian. _sigh_ That outta impress the girls. ---
**Author:** ![Phrogge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@Phrogge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phrogge)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/31 "2000-08-31T05:15:19Z")
Made it to Officer, thanks to some lucky guessing, before I ran out of sitzfleisch and interest. ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/32 "2000-08-31T05:17:16Z")
After sitting at Ensign forever (and getting lots of questions right!), Two music questions shot me up to Trek Geek, then Vulcan. So it’s definitely suspect. Still working on that final ranking . . . After a brief (and deserved) flux between Trek Geek and Vulcan, a music question bumped me up to Officer, and the bonus to Captain . . . Real questions got me to Bill Gates, and to Admiral, and then a lot of flux around Bill Gates, and ending at Bill Gates. My favorite wrong answer was “you’re wrong. you may now resume a normal social life” for missing the Spock’s serial number question. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/33 "2000-08-31T05:18:49Z")
I made Rigellian, but more so because I knew the music equipment questions, rather than the star trek questions(although I’m enough of a nerd to know those too). the weighting system is indeed suspect. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/34 "2000-08-31T06:11:09Z")
Rigellian… So does this quiz ever end or what? ---
**Author:** ![Gatsby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gatsby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatsby)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/35 "2000-08-31T07:36:40Z")
Bill Gates here, although mostly from good guessing. Cool site though. I wouldn’t mind seeing some other trivia from these guys. Thanks for the link, soulsling. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/36 "2000-08-31T08:45:02Z")
I made it to Rigellian, and the scary thing was that I must have made it there, and stayed there, with about 1/3 of the test still to go. (Hey, I missed the safe combination and Spock’s Serial Number) I missed most of the bonus questions, and would have been toast if they’d asked more non Original Series show questions. I swear that I got a question right at one point and actually had my rank LOWERED! (I got it back.) Anyone else notice this?? ---
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/37 "2000-08-31T10:17:58Z")
Woo hoo! I got promoted! I’m an Admiral. _Admiral Fortune._ It has a certain ring to it, no? ---
**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/38 "2000-08-31T13:41:54Z")
Is any one else curious as to why %#@\*^$! ‘Bill Gates’ is a rank on that thing? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/39 "2000-08-31T14:38:30Z")
**Yankee Blue** : > [@](#): > > Is any one else curious as to why %#@\*^$! ‘Bill Gates’ is a rank on that thing? Oh, come now. It’s a long-held pop-culture idiom that Trekkies are nerds, and that Bill Gates, as king of the computer world, is the quintessence of nerdiness. QED. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361/40 "2000-08-31T15:09:21Z")
> [@](#): > > I made it to Rigellian, and the scary thing was that I must have made it there, and stayed there, with about 1/3 of the test still to go. (Hey, I missed the safe combination and Spock’s Serial Number) Same thing here, except I GOT spock’s number through a lucky guess (It was the only one that started with “S”). Most of my answers were guesses, though. Seriously. I _loved_ the snotty replies to wrong answers, especially stupid ones (Ryetalyn cures…“death”. "Oh, sure. “Take two of these and call me in the morning.”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/startrek-geek-quiz/31361.md?page=3)