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This quiz comes from ‘The Worksheet’ on page 22 of the latest mental_floss magazine (pick yours up wherever brilliant/lots of magazines are sold). Let’s test your knowledge of down-and-out flavors and up-and-coming artists.
Discontinued Ben & Jerry’s Flavor or Band I Found On MySpace? Take the quiz. Then come back and tell us how you did.
Comments (38)
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80% and now I’m hungry.
posted by Melissa on 6-20-2007 at 6:15 am
60%… “good”.
posted by Dr. Shio on 6-20-2007 at 6:35 am
Wow, I only got 50%…guess I don’t know my discontinued ice cream flavors as well as I thought…and I’ve even been to the graveyard at the factory!!
posted by Lindsay D on 6-20-2007 at 6:40 am
Aw, man. I even specifically remembered seeing some of the B&J flavors in the store!
60%. I lose.
posted by Tei on 6-20-2007 at 7:21 am
Holy crap, this was hard! I only got 40% and this included the one in which either answer was correct! It looks like Mental Floss came up with a quiz topic that really spanks me.
I better start boning up… Given the choice between more ice cream or more MySpace, I will go with the ice cream!
Straight talk from Sid.
posted by Sid Morrison on 6-20-2007 at 7:23 am
90% which surprised me! I was just thinking “those names are too simple to be Ice cream flavors”. That logic worked.
posted by Amarylis on 6-20-2007 at 7:54 am
One of my favorite unknown MySpace bands, as well as, a delicious icy treat.
www.myspace.com/thescibblers
posted by Kyle on 6-20-2007 at 8:16 am
Terrible. I even got question 8 wrong. ;)
posted by n2y2 on 6-20-2007 at 8:56 am
100% and I don’t even like ice cream. I used the same logic as Amarylis.
posted by lynn on 6-20-2007 at 9:05 am
80%… using same logic as Lynn and Amarylis… but not as well as they did :(
posted by Maria on 6-20-2007 at 10:12 am
80% Love Ben & Jerry’s, visit their flavor graveyard on their website for a laugh at flavors that just didn’t catch on.
posted by Anna on 6-20-2007 at 11:38 am
I scored 50%, which is exactly the same you would expect with random guessing. Since I WAS just randomly guessing, this somehow seems appropriate. I feel that I have proven some important scientific theorem, here.
posted by airship on 6-20-2007 at 11:38 am
hahahahaha wtf i’m in Watermelon Eating Contest, thanks guys! i only got 20%
posted by Noah Dalton on 6-20-2007 at 1:43 pm
90%!! Woohoo!! That’s why I’m 15 lbs. overweight!
posted by Kc on 6-20-2007 at 5:37 pm
60%. Boo.
posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 6-20-2007 at 5:52 pm
I only got 40%. You’d think with my love of ice cream, particularily Ben & Jerry’s, I’d have done much better.
posted by C on 6-20-2007 at 6:15 pm
I got 80% and I’m shocked.
posted by La on 6-20-2007 at 8:42 pm
90%, and yes, I’m a bigg’un.
posted by Maxwell on 6-20-2007 at 8:55 pm
I only got 40% too :( but this quiz made it to the webpicks on crakced(dot)com which is cool
posted by sarahbe on 6-20-2007 at 9:34 pm
40%. Oh well.
posted by Jeff K on 6-21-2007 at 6:30 am
70% - Love my B & J - shld hv done better
posted by JaneM on 6-21-2007 at 9:26 am
80%-tres excite!
posted by jb on 6-21-2007 at 9:54 am
I scored 70%, but NEED to do more research ;)
posted by Beth in Fountain on 6-21-2007 at 1:50 pm
60%—they all sound like yummy flavors anyway
posted by Susan on 6-21-2007 at 5:20 pm
90%
Apple Butter Supreme tricked me.
posted by Drew on 6-22-2007 at 2:26 pm
80% woohoo!
posted by oxhorn on 6-24-2007 at 8:07 pm
I got 40%….my 17 year old daughter got 100%! :(
posted by Mary Sue on 10-22-2007 at 7:18 pm
100%. promise.
posted by Bad Ash on 10-25-2007 at 12:07 pm
80% woot. :P
posted by julie on 12-11-2007 at 7:07 pm
Yo Jason -
I just took the quiz and only got 80%! My questions: I’ve worked at B&J’s for 20 years, and never heard of CapeCodder or the other one I missed on, I forgot.
What’s your source?
posted by Sean, Grand Poobah of PR/Ben&Jerry's on 12-20-2007 at 1:08 pm
9 out of 10. Hah! Mostly guesses to be honest. :)
Apple Butter Supreme was my downfall, too.
posted by Ladysun on 1-16-2008 at 1:58 pm
8 out of 10! A leader among my co-workers. One got a pathetic 3. He shouldn’t be allowed to eat ice cream.
posted by Lindsey on 1-16-2008 at 2:22 pm
80% - it’s a gift, and a curse.
posted by Gail E Tilton on 2-23-2008 at 4:15 pm
I can’t believe I got 100%. And I’d say my amounts of ice cream and music knowledge are rather inversely proportional.
posted by Adrienne on 2-29-2008 at 11:21 am
a lousy 60%!
Apple Butter Supreme?!!! wtf?!!!
i posted a link to this quiz on my blog barredowl.wordpress.com because it was SO funny!
posted by barred owl on 3-24-2008 at 11:29 am
90% I live in B&J-land in Vermont. Apple Butter Supreme…sounds like a flavor B&J’s should try out!
posted by Joanne on 4-27-2008 at 1:04 pm
Can’t believe Rachel’s Brownie was an ice cream flavor! How edgy is that! I got 50% which makes sense. Since I never buy Ben & Jerry’s, I had to guess all of them. The best deal in ice cream is from Rite Aid (formerly Thrifty Drug Store). My one caveat is skip the vanilla. The other flavors are great.
posted by Davevanfunk on 5-11-2008 at 5:52 pm
70%, and this was suspiciously reminiscent of the odd either/or quizzes Lore Sjoberg from the Brunching Shuttlecocks used to run (”Porn Star or My Little Pony?” “Christian Rock Band of Star Trek Episode Title?”).
posted by Synonymous on 5-11-2008 at 7:08 pm