Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question

FiveThirtyEight asks Shakespeare Or Batman? That Is The Question.

I Side With...

I just took the 2016 Presidential election quiz and found that I side the most with Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders. Who do you side with?

Here are my results.

I found this to be the most detailed of such things I've seen. A few issues I didn't know much about. Click "Other stances" to give you more nuanced choices. Also most sections have a "Show more questions" link at the bottom. I didn't use the importance slider but I think it would have helped in sorting the results.

How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality?

How Well Can You Hear Audio Quality? : The Record : NPR "Many listeners cannot hear the difference between uncompressed audio files and MP3s, but when it comes to audio quality, the size of the file isn't (ahem) everything. There are plenty of other ingredients to consider, from the quality of your headphones to the size of the room you're sitting in to, well, your own ears. Can you hear the difference? Take this quiz to find out. One hint: Turn your volume up."

I got 2 out of 6, mostly by non-audio means.

Take The Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers

Take The Intelligence Test That Thomas Edison Gave to Job Seekers "But companies like Apple and Facebook don't put employees through anything quite as exhausting as Thomas Edison's test for potential employees. It was filled with trivia largely considered irrelevant to any job under Edison, but the quiz was all anyone could talk about when the questions leaked in the Spring of 1921. And if you're a trivia masochist you can take the test below."

I did not do well.

20 MRI Scans of Fruits and Vegetables

20 MRI Scans of Fruits and Vegetables.. ""

Can You Spot the Liar?

The NY Times has a Can You Spot the Liar? quiz. I got the first 2 wrong but then the next 8 right.

Regular expression crossword puzzle

This Regular expression crossword puzzle is just evil.

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk

The New York Times has an Interactive Graphic to figure out where you're from based on your dialect, How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk. It got me pretty right.

Right-brained? Left-brained? Take the test!

Right-brained? Left-brained? Take the test! . I'm 66% left, 34% right.

Age Guessing By Clicking

Here's some online study from Harvard, Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age! They guessed I was 15 years younger than I actually am, so there's that.

Typing Test

Visit the Typing Test and try!

Can you name these famous authors?

Kas posted Can you name these famous authors?. No I can't.

The Movie Math Quiz by Spiked Math

The Movie Math Quiz by Spiked Math is really really hard. Most of the films are reasonably well known but others are quite obscure. There's a lot of math I used to know.

I Side With

ISideWith is a political quiz to see how you compare with various presidential candidates and parties. I liked that the questions weren't just yes/no but there was an option "Choose another stance" that had various (though not always enough) shades of grey in there. Here's how I did.

FM 100 Hue Test

FM 100 Hue Test lets you test how color blind you are. It's a little annoying in that you have to put these four rows of twenty squares in order. The gradations are small so after getting them roughly right I got tired of trying to match each pair. I scored a 19.

Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party?

Reza Aslan posted the following quick, Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party? "Who said it: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum?"

Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle

A couple of months ago In Focus posted Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle. "Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today's entry is a puzzle -- part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We're challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners. So I invite you to have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck! [25 images]"

Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle

In Focus presents a puzzle, Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic "Looking at the world through via Google Earth offers striking images of the diversity of our planet and the impact that humans have had on it. Today's entry is a puzzle -- part 2 in a series (part 1 here), this time offering multiple choices. We're challenging you to figure out where in the world each of the images below is taken. North is not always up in these pictures, and, apart from a bit of contrast, they are unaltered images provided by Google and its mapping partners. So I invite you to have a look at the images below, make your guesses, and see your score at the end. Good luck! [25 images]"

The Final Image

The Final Image is a collection of the last shot of several films. Wasn't too easy.

Will it optimize?

A quiz for programmers only, Will it optimize? "See how well you know (or can anticipate) gcc’s optimizer. For each question, the left box contains some code, while the right box contains code that purports to do the same thing, but that illustrates a particular optimization. Will gcc apply that optimization? Put another way, will the code on the left be as fast as the code on the right, when compiled with an optimizing gcc?"

I screwed up 1 and 5.