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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
Despite what the IMDB will have you believe, no one’s made more guest appearances in pop culture than the devil. From movies, to books, to songs, to TV shows, the guy’s everywhere. Can you match the 12 descriptions of Satan to the roles he was born to play? Click here to take the newest quiz from Jason Plautz (and be sure to post your answers below!).
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Wow! The quiz was wild. Guess I know more about the Devil than I thought…ended up with an 83%. Who would have know that the Devil was a poodle…well, I guess that makes sense. (Meow)
posted by Val on 9-10-2007 at 8:23 am
75%! I’m a real good guesser, I suppose.
posted by Pierre on 9-10-2007 at 8:41 am
10 of 12. Not bad considering that I was guessing on a lot of them. Conspicuously absent (well, at least for me) was the devil’s appearance in a classic Frank Zappa song about a biker, a babe, and beer.
posted by Ken on 9-10-2007 at 11:15 am
This made my day. I got 100%!!! And only a couple were guesses. What fun!
posted by julie on 9-10-2007 at 1:37 pm
83%, 10 out of 12. I did guess on a few, but I think I know a little too much about the devil.
posted by Justin on 9-10-2007 at 2:04 pm
I saw the devil last night on a DVD of the 1980s Twilight Zone. He was played by the same guy who played Nick on Cheers.
There’s another one in which he’s played by the same guy who played the black detective on Barney Miller.
Both made very good satans.
posted by Bassman on 9-10-2007 at 3:40 pm
Running with the Devil
Score: 83% (10 out of 12)
83 seems like the average. Will they grade on a curve? :-)
posted by Sheldon Siegel on 9-10-2007 at 4:43 pm
12 out of 12.
Should I be worried?
I guessed on about half of them, and I’ve always been suspicious of poodles.
posted by SaraLuna on 9-11-2007 at 1:26 pm
83% (10 out of 12.) Accidentally flipped Faust / The Brothers Karamazov.
posted by Heidi on 9-13-2007 at 12:45 am