Beat the monkey...

[vilakins]

...in geography, history, science/tech, and trivia. (Well, what did you think?) Nicked from astrogirl2's blog, maximumverbosit.

Your Final Quiz Score: 38 right out of a possible 60
The Monkey's Final Score: 18 right out of 60

You asserted your intellectual superiority brilliantly! The monkey is now left contemplating his own inferiority. Where others have failed to claim the mantel of unequivocal dominance over lesser species, you have truly succeeded! Congratulations on besting the ape and reaffirming the capabilities of the human mind. You have done humankind proud.

You scored in the 90th percentile.
(90% of quiz takers scored worse than you)

Geography Your score: 13 Monkey's score: 6 -- Quite a sufficient job.	History Your score: 9 Monkey's score: 3 -- Not too bad.
Science/Technology Your score: 9 Monkey's score: 5 -- Well done.	Random Trivia Your score: 7 Monkey's score: 4 -- Good but not great.

Link: Monkey Challenge Trivia Quiz

Not bad over all, but I think I ought to have done better in science. :-(

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

You did better than I did. My Science scores were appalling, the monkey beat me. I did manage 33 out of 60.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Good going! What percentile was that, because most people must do quite badly on this one, with random guessing giving them around 15.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I honestly can't remember my percentile. I was so appalled at my science scores that I didn't make a note of anything except my overall score. I take comfort in the fact that the science I got wrong was developed in the last 15-20 years, I got the science I learned at school correct.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I've just done the quiz again repeating my answers and discovered I'm in the top 80%.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

See, I thought that was a good score. :-)

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

I only managed 30 out of 60, but my score is still in the 70th percentile! You are clearly way cleverer than me...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, but some of those were stabs in the dark. :-) That was a good test though: not US-centric as a lot are.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Except for the 'which island is further west' question. There was no 'depends where you're standing' option!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

But west is west as you go round the globe, even in the so-called East; IOW 'further right' on the map. :-)

[kerravonsen]

Yes, but it depends on where you're standing; at least, where you started from. You may be going around the globe in an east-west direction, but all that "furthest west" means is "which island, when you are travelling in an East-West direction, takes you the longest to get to" -- the question is, longest to get to from where?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I read it as the furthest left onthe map, but OK, you could start from say Madagascar and go west till you hit the islands; the answer would still be the same.

[kerravonsen]

I read it as the furthest left onthe map

The point is which map? The map which has England on the West, or the one that has Alaska on the West? It's completely arbitrary.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The furthest left is still the same unless the islands are split by the map's limits.

[kerravonsen]

Exactly! It depends where you're standing.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No it doesn't. New York is east of LA no matter where you are.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Put it this way. The four islands are a group. One is west of the others. That answer is always the same no matter where you are.

[kerravonsen]

Ah, you mean that "where you're standing" is "some point just to the east of all of them".

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No. There's only one which is the westmost one, no matter where you are. They might be all east of you but one is west of the other three.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Yep, but I was thinking more along the lines of what if you were standing on one of the islands - depending on which one you were on would mean that others were to the east or the west...

/pedant

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I got through the first screen of this... and then dropped it like a rock.

You see, one of the questions was "what Canadian Province has the tallest mountain?" and one of the answers provided was "The Yukon teritory" Well, I know that that IS where the tallest mountain in Canada is, but I thought "aha, trick question, it's a territory not a province, they even say so by calling it by its full name." So I pick the province where the next tallest mountain is, Alberta.

And get it wrong. Because they WERE looking for The Yukon. Even though they CALL it a territory.

If the people who write the quiz can't be bothered to properly know and make clear the difference between a province and a territory, I can't be bothered with their quiz.

*elitist Canadian* ;)

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Can I be smug on 45 out of 60? Now I duck as you all throw things at me. :-)