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Submitted by TheBigJ on

I just got sent this Nerd Test and thought is was hilarious. Give it a try and post your results.

[url]http://students.washington.edu/mmccain/nerdtest.html[/url]

I got a very ordinary 38%. It's been too long since I've played D&D.

Edit: Typo.

Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 3:56 AMPermalink

Im proud to say I have only 7% nerd blood in me. Alright! [8D]

Submitted by Maitrek on Sat, 06/03/04 - 4:17 AMPermalink

Man I got like 45% and I guessed most of the answers.

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sat, 06/03/04 - 5:22 AMPermalink

26% for me, i guess reading all of hitchikers guide to the galaxy paid off...

Submitted by bullet21 on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:16 AMPermalink

19 %, but that test was very hard and lots were guesses.

Submitted by Kalescent on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:52 AMPermalink

9 % i done this one back in school :D but i did a re-run just incase ive become more nerd-like in the past 6 months ,OR perhaps i might have grown cooler ? - looks like inglis is the least nerd saturated so far... [8D]

I think of myself as a bit of a nerd tho....

Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 8:53 AMPermalink

the only things in the test that made sense were the movie questions.

e.g. the matrix quote, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (i watch the movie last week) and the terminator questions.

question 41. If 42 is the Answer, then the Question is...

i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42

they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...

whats the go there...

Submitted by J I Styles on Sat, 06/03/04 - 9:20 AMPermalink

gawd... 47% -- then again, not like I didn't expect it [:)]

what scared me is how apparently obscure some of my knowledge is... like pheonix purchase prices, and half rate scifi/fantasy knowledge - guess it kinda freaked me I wasn't guessing [:)]

edit: thinking of it, half of that knowledge came from Jacana! Like knowing which characters weren't a part of the weatherlight.

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sat, 06/03/04 - 10:37 AMPermalink

quote:Originally posted by inglis

i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42

they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...

whats the go there...

i beleive it has to do with the book series "hitchikers guide to the galaxy" some how (its been a while since i read it)

Submitted by TheBigJ on Sat, 06/03/04 - 11:29 AMPermalink

From what I can remember of the story, an ancient race (Our ancestors, I believe) built a supercomputer to calculate the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years it spat out the answer "42". The computer told them they didn't understand the question, rather than the answer (or something like that). Confused, the descendants built a new machine to calculate the question for which 42 is the answer. It spat out the answer (or rather the question) "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?".

6 multiplied by nine is 54 in base 10.
6 multiplied by nine is 42 in base 13.

I'm not actually sure whether Douglas Adams (Author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) did this on purpose. Another theory suggests that 42 represents "BIG BANG", or at least the addition of the numerical indices of those letters in the alphabet (2 + 9 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 14 + 7 = 42).

Submitted by souri on Sat, 06/03/04 - 12:32 PMPermalink

I got up to question 5 and my brain started to hurt, so I stopped.

Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 12:44 PMPermalink

quote:I got up to question 5 and my brain started to hurt

haha yeah i got that as well. kept checking the scroll bar to see how far to go.

Submitted by palantir on Sat, 06/03/04 - 5:12 PMPermalink

That was way hard. I ended up getting 31%, but I guessed about half.
Where were the Buffy questions, hey???
I?m a big fan of LOTR, Star Trek, and Buffy (not that I would admit that to anyone in person?), but because I don?t know about D&D and some of that other stuff, I guess I?m not a nerd after all?
Not very accurate really. -But it was a bit of fun.

Submitted by Kane on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:03 PMPermalink

26.19047619047619%...not too bad!

Submitted by hobonation on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:23 PMPermalink

Well, I havent even heard of most of these games. But I scored an Embarassing 40.5%

"Glavin"

Submitted by Brain on Thu, 11/03/04 - 11:09 PMPermalink

30.952380952380952% Thought I'd do better actually. May have gotten my qa'pla mixed up...

Submitted by Malus on Fri, 12/03/04 - 6:20 AMPermalink

26% yippee I'm sooo happy. lol

Submitted by GooberMan on Sat, 13/03/04 - 7:26 AMPermalink

Got me a 40.476190476190474% result, which makes me "a well balanced nerd" according to the results panel. What a classy test - it has a Fight Club reference and Trogdor on the same page, so it must be good! :P

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Sun, 14/03/04 - 1:49 AMPermalink

Man, I lord over the lot of you, I got a whopping 62%! I now pronounce myself KING GEEK!

I'm not ashamed of my geekiness, and neither should any of you be, embrace it and love it... ;)

Submitted by matias on Mon, 15/03/04 - 11:21 PMPermalink

ok, I got 21.428571428571427% not so bad, I was guessing alot but it seemed to work!

Submitted by bouncy roo on Tue, 16/03/04 - 10:52 AMPermalink

21.428571428571427% nerd blood flows through your veins.

eeep...that can't be right..can it?

Posted by TheBigJ on

I just got sent this Nerd Test and thought is was hilarious. Give it a try and post your results.

[url]http://students.washington.edu/mmccain/nerdtest.html[/url]

I got a very ordinary 38%. It's been too long since I've played D&D.

Edit: Typo.


Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 3:56 AMPermalink

Im proud to say I have only 7% nerd blood in me. Alright! [8D]

Submitted by Maitrek on Sat, 06/03/04 - 4:17 AMPermalink

Man I got like 45% and I guessed most of the answers.

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sat, 06/03/04 - 5:22 AMPermalink

26% for me, i guess reading all of hitchikers guide to the galaxy paid off...

Submitted by bullet21 on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:16 AMPermalink

19 %, but that test was very hard and lots were guesses.

Submitted by Kalescent on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:52 AMPermalink

9 % i done this one back in school :D but i did a re-run just incase ive become more nerd-like in the past 6 months ,OR perhaps i might have grown cooler ? - looks like inglis is the least nerd saturated so far... [8D]

I think of myself as a bit of a nerd tho....

Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 8:53 AMPermalink

the only things in the test that made sense were the movie questions.

e.g. the matrix quote, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (i watch the movie last week) and the terminator questions.

question 41. If 42 is the Answer, then the Question is...

i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42

they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...

whats the go there...

Submitted by J I Styles on Sat, 06/03/04 - 9:20 AMPermalink

gawd... 47% -- then again, not like I didn't expect it [:)]

what scared me is how apparently obscure some of my knowledge is... like pheonix purchase prices, and half rate scifi/fantasy knowledge - guess it kinda freaked me I wasn't guessing [:)]

edit: thinking of it, half of that knowledge came from Jacana! Like knowing which characters weren't a part of the weatherlight.

Submitted by MoonUnit on Sat, 06/03/04 - 10:37 AMPermalink

quote:Originally posted by inglis

i put "What do you get when you multiply six by seven?" - 6x7=42

they say the answer is "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?" - but that is 54...

whats the go there...

i beleive it has to do with the book series "hitchikers guide to the galaxy" some how (its been a while since i read it)

Submitted by TheBigJ on Sat, 06/03/04 - 11:29 AMPermalink

From what I can remember of the story, an ancient race (Our ancestors, I believe) built a supercomputer to calculate the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years it spat out the answer "42". The computer told them they didn't understand the question, rather than the answer (or something like that). Confused, the descendants built a new machine to calculate the question for which 42 is the answer. It spat out the answer (or rather the question) "What do you get when you multiply six by nine?".

6 multiplied by nine is 54 in base 10.
6 multiplied by nine is 42 in base 13.

I'm not actually sure whether Douglas Adams (Author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) did this on purpose. Another theory suggests that 42 represents "BIG BANG", or at least the addition of the numerical indices of those letters in the alphabet (2 + 9 + 7 + 2 + 1 + 14 + 7 = 42).

Submitted by souri on Sat, 06/03/04 - 12:32 PMPermalink

I got up to question 5 and my brain started to hurt, so I stopped.

Submitted by inglis on Sat, 06/03/04 - 12:44 PMPermalink

quote:I got up to question 5 and my brain started to hurt

haha yeah i got that as well. kept checking the scroll bar to see how far to go.

Submitted by palantir on Sat, 06/03/04 - 5:12 PMPermalink

That was way hard. I ended up getting 31%, but I guessed about half.
Where were the Buffy questions, hey???
I?m a big fan of LOTR, Star Trek, and Buffy (not that I would admit that to anyone in person?), but because I don?t know about D&D and some of that other stuff, I guess I?m not a nerd after all?
Not very accurate really. -But it was a bit of fun.

Submitted by Kane on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:03 PMPermalink

26.19047619047619%...not too bad!

Submitted by hobonation on Sat, 06/03/04 - 7:23 PMPermalink

Well, I havent even heard of most of these games. But I scored an Embarassing 40.5%

"Glavin"

Submitted by Brain on Thu, 11/03/04 - 11:09 PMPermalink

30.952380952380952% Thought I'd do better actually. May have gotten my qa'pla mixed up...

Submitted by Malus on Fri, 12/03/04 - 6:20 AMPermalink

26% yippee I'm sooo happy. lol

Submitted by GooberMan on Sat, 13/03/04 - 7:26 AMPermalink

Got me a 40.476190476190474% result, which makes me "a well balanced nerd" according to the results panel. What a classy test - it has a Fight Club reference and Trogdor on the same page, so it must be good! :P

Submitted by Wizenedoldman on Sun, 14/03/04 - 1:49 AMPermalink

Man, I lord over the lot of you, I got a whopping 62%! I now pronounce myself KING GEEK!

I'm not ashamed of my geekiness, and neither should any of you be, embrace it and love it... ;)

Submitted by matias on Mon, 15/03/04 - 11:21 PMPermalink

ok, I got 21.428571428571427% not so bad, I was guessing alot but it seemed to work!

Submitted by bouncy roo on Tue, 16/03/04 - 10:52 AMPermalink

21.428571428571427% nerd blood flows through your veins.

eeep...that can't be right..can it?