Test Me

[bryant]

My blog is really fairly non-personal anyhow, so we'll just do that test thing here.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

Woot! 65!

The "complete series" one was a gimme :)

[kodi]

My big disappointment with the way that site does its quizzes is that the scoring is based totally on "one correct answer and N-1 wrong answers." If I were king, the wrong answers wouldn't all be equal - someone who thinks my favorite movie is "Going My Way" probably doesn't know me as well as someone who thinks my favorite movie is "Akira," even though they're both wrong. That would help punish the aimless guessers, as well.

[bryant]

In fact, not true! You can assign points to the less correct entries as well. You can't have two 10 point answers, but you can have a correct answer worth 10 points and an incorrect answer worth 7 points, say.

[kodi]

Duh. Yeah, I guess a little thinking would have made me realize that, considering that people manage to score within 1 point of each other.

Ok, so my revised list of things to do when king:

• Document all features in the help.
• Make it possible to demo the system without surrendering an email address.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Woot! I didn't get the lowest score!;-)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think i did :) then again, i don't know Bryant very well.

Also, if the answer to 'best team sports player ever' wasn't Gretzky, i need to take Bryant's crackpipe away.

[bryant]

I like my crackpipe.

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

Dude. 78? Must've been some inspired guessing in there.

[tayefeth.livejournal.com]

Hey, I agree with you. The Great One beats Larry Bird in my book, but Bryant, the nutter, is a Celtics fan...

[bryant]

Yeah, I'd say Gretszky beats Bird.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Hell, i'd put Russell in front of Bird.

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

These personal quizzes are fun. Much more interesting than "which member of Menudo am I? quizzes."

My old Toronto posse, like many long-standing circles of friends, has a zillion in-jokes and memories and anecdotes stretching back through college and high school. A few years ago an email thread amongst us about trivia about each of us exploded. We then collected all the emails and had more than enough questions to play an evening of navel-gazing self-referential trivia. Sounds geeky but was for a variety of reasons one of the most fun evenings of my life. I've since done the same thing with my family and all of our in-jokes - even made up cards and a board and gave it to them all as an Xmas present.

Highly recommended fun activity if you have an incestuous circle of close friends with lots of in-jokes - and a good memory.