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Looks like we’re back. Sorry for the delay. As a reward for your patience, here are two ‘Name x in y minutes’ quizzes, courtesy of readers Karen Wise and Mike Duffy.
The moon wasn’t in the 7th house and jupiter wasn’t aligned with mars…so I did lousy.
posted by beth on 3-25-2008 at 1:22 pm
The “added difficulty” actually made it easier, unless the Cosby kids were Sondra, Vanessa, Theo, Rudy and Lisa Bonet. I could not think of the character played by Lisa Bonet.
posted by Jack on 3-25-2008 at 1:54 pm
Lisa Bonet was Denise, right? I only saw a few episodes of that show, but I saw the one where she got her driver’s license and went around singing, “I got my license! Yeah yeah yeah yeah!” Obviously that had an effect on me, as I sang the same thing when *I* turned 16 several years after I saw the episode :)
posted by TeacherPatti on 3-25-2008 at 2:03 pm
Completely forgot Sondra. Was she not on very much or was she another “Chuck Cunningham” type character?
posted by Fran on 3-25-2008 at 2:27 pm
Jack, I had the exact same problem. I had the other four in ten seconds and didn’t get Denise until about 8 seconds left.
posted by Marcus on 3-25-2008 at 2:28 pm
I kept typing in “Sandra” and “Saundra” for the last one until time ran out – just my luck!
posted by Anita on 3-25-2008 at 2:48 pm
10/12 on the horoscope quiz. Not bad since I don’t really follow all that.
posted by Eileen on 3-25-2008 at 9:13 pm
100% on both, yo. Dig it.
posted by Drew on 3-26-2008 at 12:34 am
I tried typing in all the Cosby kids that I knew, but the quiz only accepted Rudy. It didn’t accept Fat Albert, Russell, Bucky, Mushmouth, Dumb Donald, Weird Harold, or Bill!
posted by gmsc on 3-26-2008 at 2:29 am
Cosby Kids – 17 seconds – Hardest one was spelling Sondra correctly.
Zodiac – 1:06 – Hardest one was spelling Sagittarius correctly.
posted by MikeTrig on 3-26-2008 at 6:18 am
I know my Cosby’s – 7 seconds. Sondra married Alvin and they lived in an apartment with their twins. Remember Olivia? They had to bring her in when Rudy got too old to be cute.
posted by LP on 3-26-2008 at 11:45 am
Damn you Pisces!!
posted by Sara on 3-26-2008 at 12:35 pm