Monday morning quiz quarterbacking
Dec. 28th, 2009 08:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacJon Carroll's Christmas quiz.
His answers.
This year's quiz was grizzly; just miserable for me. No wonder I found something else more cheerful to offer.
Questions I got part of: 5, 11, 17. The general location of the Jewish Autonomous Region and what "Santa Cruz" means are the only questions on the entire quiz I could answer without hesitation. I knew who "John the Posthumous" was, but I'd never heard him called that. I had not heard that his uncle murdered him, nor need he have; infant mortality was very high in those days. (Interesting fact about John the Posthumous: he was the 13th king of the Capetian dynasty and the last in an unbroken father-to-son succession that had lasted 13 generations, so far as I know the longest such in European royal history.)
Question I got part of, but should have gotten all of: 9. Hell 'n Maria, I forgot about Charles G. Dawes!
Question I got, but wasn't entirely sure I had: 13.
Question I sort of vaguely got: 6. I'd have said "he was a local farmer or something."
Question I got wrong: 10. I knew Reagan had never won an acting award, but really, exactly who got the Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" is an Oscar question, not a Vice President question.
Questions I didn't get at all, but should have: 1, 3, 12.
Question I didn't get at all, but knew in what field of knowledge the answer lay: 4.
Question I didn't get at all, but at least knew that I knew nothing about the subject: 2. I never watched that show.
Question I didn't get at all, and am stunned that anybody would: 7.
Other questions I didn't get at all: 14, 15, 16.
Question I still don't get, even after reading the answer: 8.
His answers.
This year's quiz was grizzly; just miserable for me. No wonder I found something else more cheerful to offer.
Questions I got part of: 5, 11, 17. The general location of the Jewish Autonomous Region and what "Santa Cruz" means are the only questions on the entire quiz I could answer without hesitation. I knew who "John the Posthumous" was, but I'd never heard him called that. I had not heard that his uncle murdered him, nor need he have; infant mortality was very high in those days. (Interesting fact about John the Posthumous: he was the 13th king of the Capetian dynasty and the last in an unbroken father-to-son succession that had lasted 13 generations, so far as I know the longest such in European royal history.)
Question I got part of, but should have gotten all of: 9. Hell 'n Maria, I forgot about Charles G. Dawes!
Question I got, but wasn't entirely sure I had: 13.
Question I sort of vaguely got: 6. I'd have said "he was a local farmer or something."
Question I got wrong: 10. I knew Reagan had never won an acting award, but really, exactly who got the Oscar for "An Inconvenient Truth" is an Oscar question, not a Vice President question.
Questions I didn't get at all, but should have: 1, 3, 12.
Question I didn't get at all, but knew in what field of knowledge the answer lay: 4.
Question I didn't get at all, but at least knew that I knew nothing about the subject: 2. I never watched that show.
Question I didn't get at all, and am stunned that anybody would: 7.
Other questions I didn't get at all: 14, 15, 16.
Question I still don't get, even after reading the answer: 8.
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Date: 2009-12-28 07:16 pm (UTC)(The only one I got was #13, which was really a lucky guess; I vaguely wondered if the directors in #16 were all blind, which turns out to be, as it were, doubly wrong.)
Don Keller
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Date: 2009-12-28 08:41 pm (UTC)