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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Check out InternJason’s fantastic new quiz!: 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 (strange).
You up for the challenge? Be sure to leave your Real score in the comments below.
Yea!!!! 100!!!
Either I am a good guesser, or a closet Real World fanatic.
(I’ll never tell….)
posted by Beth on 8-21-2007 at 7:08 pm
7/11 (64%)
I Passed!
Not bad for guessing all the way through (except for van Gogh, Fischer, and Dickinson, and I was wrong on van Gogh).
- Dave.
posted by DaveR on 8-21-2007 at 7:11 pm
91% (10 of 11)
I’ve never even watched an episode of Real World.
I only got burned by the piercing one because I fell for the pic with a piercing. I can be so gullible sometimes.
Cheers!
Skunky
www.skunkmonkey.com
posted by Skunky on 8-21-2007 at 7:40 pm
8/11 Pretty good if I do say so myself but I guessed most of them.
posted by Sally on 8-21-2007 at 10:23 pm
91% (10/11)
Oh, a misspent youth. I was thrown by the Van Gogh question as well.
posted by mitbitna on 8-22-2007 at 2:43 am
8/11, having never watched Real World. Guessed reasonably well, though fell for the piercing, too, and am still smoked by being wrong on the real world schitzo versus the mathematical genius–I would have sworn that was the guy A Beautiful Mind was based on…
posted by Chan on 8-22-2007 at 8:07 am
Embarrassingly, I scored 11 out of 11 correct! Clearly, I need to atone for the waste of brain space. I’m thinking working with the disabled children who were denied the loving attention of Shavonda…
posted by Lizzie on 8-22-2007 at 10:22 am
91% I only missed one! Darn Van Gough…..
posted by Becky! on 8-22-2007 at 10:26 am
Apparently I am either the only one who can’t click on the quiz or the only one not smart enough to figure out how to get to the quiz….or maybe just the only one who can’t get to the quiz and commented on it.
posted by Lindsay D on 8-22-2007 at 11:37 am
I can’t click on it either.
posted by Scott on 8-22-2007 at 12:28 pm
Are you clicking on the highlighted text? It’s working just fine for me.
posted by InternJason on 8-22-2007 at 12:31 pm
I also can’t click on it, there is no highlighted text in my world.
posted by Danielle on 8-22-2007 at 12:46 pm
There is no highlighted text/link for me either :(
posted by Stacey on 8-22-2007 at 1:20 pm
me either…
posted by mri on 8-22-2007 at 2:20 pm
Hooray Mangesh is the best!
posted by Lindsay D on 8-22-2007 at 2:36 pm
ha… thanks Lindsay, but Jason deserves all the credit since he’s the one who came up with the brilliant quiz!
posted by Mangesh on 8-22-2007 at 2:38 pm
Well, could finally open the quiz! 9 out of 11. Not too bad considering I did not watch too many of the Real World episodes
posted by JaneM on 8-22-2007 at 5:11 pm
I missed the Van Gogh question as Dave R. did. I thought he cut his own ear off…………?
posted by John Brown on 8-22-2007 at 5:22 pm
Woot! 91% I missed the “alter ego” one. Considering I only ever watched New York (original), San Fran, and London Real Worlds, I think I did pretty good.
I can’t believe so many people missed the Van Gogh one!
posted by CentreChick on 8-22-2007 at 10:23 pm
Woohoo! 100% I recognized Puck, but I never watched any of the other Real Worlds.
posted by Lebetho on 8-23-2007 at 10:20 am
91%, but this was surprisingly challenging. Where does InternJason come up with these things?
posted by Trena on 8-23-2007 at 10:21 am
I got a score of 91% (10/11) even though I’ve never seen any of the Real World shows. The one i missed was the “disabled children” one.
posted by Jason on 8-23-2007 at 12:17 pm