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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Over the past few years, we’ve cranked out hundreds of quizzes. Chances are you haven’t aced them all just yet. We’ll be re-running a quiz from the archives each day at 5pm. Now we’ve even got a graphic.
This is the true story of eleven personality quirks, picked to live in a quiz and have their lives taped. Some of the descriptions below are of castmates on MTV’s The Real World, while others are history’s greatest minds. Find out what happens when people stop being normal and start getting real; choose whether the quirk below comes from a Real World castmate or a famous genius.
Take the Quiz: Genius or Real World Castmate?
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Van Gogh didn’t lose his ear in a fight with a friend, he cut it off himself…..
posted by Miss Know on 3-5-2009 at 6:42 pm
@Miss Know: Technically the question says “after a fight with a friend”. Fooled me, too, though!
posted by Jon. on 3-5-2009 at 6:54 pm
That’s a dirty trick. Saying he “lost” is implies that it was accidental, or that somebody else did it to him. That threw me off.
posted by Cassie on 3-5-2009 at 9:17 pm
Slightly sickened that I only got one wrong (not Van Gogh, the Cystic Fibrosis one).
Also, my recaptcha is punny: Pryor to
posted by Adrienne on 3-6-2009 at 10:11 am
The Van Gogh one fooled me, too.
I’d sure like to know who each of the geniuses were. I was only able to ID about 1/3 of them, and the answers only referred to their names if they were the person with the quirk. I still have no idea who about 1/3 of them are. And I think I’d have been able to do significantly better if I’d had a name as well as just a photo.
posted by fredly on 3-6-2009 at 2:18 pm