Smarter than the average test-taking wombat

[womzilla]

I am smarter than 98.33% of the rest of the world.
Hardest Quiz Ever

via agrumer.

Be warned--if you take it seriously, it will take you a while, even though it's only 20 multiple-choice questions.

Comments

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

14 out of 20 here.

Guessing my wrong ones: #1 (I would like them to specify the rules of Russian roulette, there are variants), #7 (looks like a mnemonic to me, but I don't know what for), #9 (round about there I decided that I should do it on my own head-knowledge, not use Google, and I'm really not sure about the relative values of the precious metals), #16, #18 (no clue about Australian rules football, still less about most of the answers), and #20 -- although on #20 I did succeed in finding the question (and again, which dictionary?).

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

Heh. You're ahead of me on #20.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

The trick to that one is that the question is in white text on the white background. If you highlight it, you'll be able to read it. It's something like, "Which of these words is not found in the dictionary?"

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

Yeah. As soon as you said "finding the question", I found it. When I originally tackled the question, I started working under the assumption that the goal was to deduce the question from the answers.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

I assumed Russian Roulette was being played with one loaded chamber. Actually, the answer is the same with up to four loaded chambers.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Depends: When you say "two rounds", does that mean you spin the chamber both times? Or do you spin it once and then pull the trigger twice? You get different answers.

(Though that one is so skewed, either way, that how can only 23% of people get it right?)

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I just went through the test answering only the first question, and it turns out that they want the coins.

I can only assume that they're assuming Russian Roulette is played with one empty chamber...in which case the coins give a 1/32 chance of living and the other three all give 1/36. So that's another one of my wrong ones. It does explain why so few people get that one.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

That's one that I actually should have gotten wrong, but I chose the coins--I somehow took the "six-shooter" to mean that they were going for the 1/36 odds in all three cases.

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

I made exactly the same mistake.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

That's a bizarre way of playing. Not that I've ever seen it played, of course.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

...and it turns out I got #15 wrong due to being unable to correctly add 55 and 10. Sigh.