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

[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