Comments on: Lunchtime Quiz: UK or USA?

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:09:57 +0000

This was one of the few quizzes that I was actually interested in taking. 2 out of 5 seem neat. If you don’t want to provide bored people with time wasting activities that occasionally make them feel like their trivia banks are at all useful, then skip it. It’s not like I would’ve noticed if there was no quiz at all.

By: mrs.djs

mrs.djs — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:45:27 +0000

WTH? I’m sorry, did this count as credit for some of you?

Did it prevent you from getting into your college of choice?

SO you got tricked. Boo. Hoo.

Perhaps those of you who are too young to know who those people are should try some of the trivia quizzes over at nick.com. Oh you mean they don’t have intelligent and witty quizzes made for fun over on that site?

…

Quit griping, lighten up. Sheesh. :D

By: Tdave

Tdave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:42:06 +0000

I just wanted the answers so I kept hitting USA.. I knew Nancy Kulp was from PA because of an interview she did shortly before she died.

People thought Vincent Price was British, but he was from Kansas.

The actress who plays Rose on “Two And A Half Men” is from New Zealand. She has to hide her NZ accent because the Rose character needs to be an American girl. To her, she’s faking an American accent when she plays Rose.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:35:08 +0000

That sucked. Mental Floss is usually great but that was terrible.

For starters, I assumed each person would have a video clip so you could listen to their (fake or otherwise) accent.

Secondly, like Colin, I was born in the 80s and only knew who two of the actors were.

Thirdly, the fact that they were all the same. That was a waste of time and I’m disappointed in you.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:32:26 +0000

Booo! Between the too-easy 1-hit wonder quizzes and this thing, I’m starting to wonder if you’ve lost your Quiz Mojo. If so, please stop posting quizzes until you can come up with a few that don’t suck.

I got 100%, by the way. By the time I got to #5, it started to smell a bit fishy.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:01:47 +0000

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:54:56 +0000

What the hell? You should be ashamed. Aside from the fact that being born in the 80s I didn’t know who half those people were…not to mention the fact that I’m also in the UK right now, which kinda adds insult to injury.

By: Lindsay C.

Lindsay C. — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:40:22 +0000

My grapes are sour too because my husband is British so I was hoping for an easy 100%. Once again, le sigh…

By: tricia

tricia — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:06:28 +0000

You bet sour grapes! Bad form guys!

By: mrs.djs

mrs.djs — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:54:28 +0000

Sheesh I smell sour grapes.
I still managed to get a 9 out of 15.
I thought for sure that guy from the Jefferson’s was British. D’OH!!