Take the Geek Test!

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:26 pm

Just seen this on the fabulous JazzPrincess/Diana Krall forum -

Click here to take the Geek Test!

http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

I got
8.48126% - Poser

......which means nothing to me .

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:48 pm

Ruh-roh....

I got 34.714% - Total Geek

It was the Monty Python script and collecting cool rocks that got me... oh and knowing that the answer is 42, but who doesn't know that?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:52 pm

Oh man...I got GEEK 20.903%....Im a biologist, I have to use latin, and know about sciencey things!

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 5:54 pm

I have "Geekish Tendencies" . . . I guess I dont watch enough Star Trek to achieve true geek status.

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:34 pm

I scored 3.74753% - Poser, whatever that means. I'm shattered.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 6:36 pm

*feeling really dorky*

costellopunk · Post by **costellopunk** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:08 pm

19.13215% - Geek

not bad...right?

whtesde · Post by **whtesde** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:59 pm

20.9073% - Geek

Bow before me, suckas! C'mon, just a little bit of bowing?

Jackson Doofster · Post by **Jackson Doofster** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:55 pm

7.29783% - Poser

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:54 am

Total Geek. 30-something %

Mr. Average · Post by **Mr. Average** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:27 am

30.76923% - Total Geek

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:29 am

Oh thank Spock there are folks as bad as me...

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:04 pm

I have geekish tendencies at 11-something %. The man of the house is a total geek at 32 or so %. Like I didn't already know that. I think that dating and having married a geek is what pushed me into the geekish tendencies category. It's all his fault.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:18 pm

I'm a notch above G2S with Geekish Tendencies at 12.something. Hilarious that Mug is our resident Geek. If it were less Star Trek and computer oriented, I might have done a lot better. I checked that there are other things I could have been Geeked on (e.g. knowing at least 10 book ISBNs by memory, if not 20, or anything else related to my line of work), and also that I'd exaggerated to get points.

Why 42?

And what is the SCA?

And why exactly do either glasses (OK, obvious steretype) or snorting while laughing (which I checked) indicate geekishness?

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:06 pm

42 is the meaning of life according to Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

I don't see that as being geeky in the UK....i thought everyone knew 42 was the meaning of liff.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:24 pm

laughingcrow wrote:I don't see that as being geeky in the UK....i thought everyone knew 42 was the meaning of liff.

I agree-- I haven't even read the books, only heard the radio play!

I admit my brother and husband have exposed me to a lot of Star Trek, and I read 2001 as a kid, and other bits and pieces. And I love science. But I'm a bit baffled by my score, since I'm not that computer knowledgable, have never 'gamed' or been to any 'con'. Oh well....

PS-- My son and I are watching a THUNDERBIRDS DVD. This does not bode well for him!

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:25 pm

No, sorry, knowing that makes anyone a total geek (though I did once make references to The Meaning of Liff for a student essay on language and representation). Why 42, anyway? Good age. 6 x 7. A square and its root. So what? And what about 'SCA', anyway?

Shame there weren't any questons relating to fantasy football. I think my spreadsheet relating to player performance might have scored rather highly.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:40 pm

SCA is Society for Creative Anachronism. I believe they dress in Elizabethan costumes and wave swords about and holler 'Huzzah!' at one another. I would like to point out that as one with only mildly geekish tendencies, I have never participated, but am associated with those who have. It is serious geekism.

Post by **DrSpooky** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:29 pm

21.30178% Geek

Hmmm... I wonder if Spooky answered the questions I would do more. Just getting ranked as a plain geek doesn't sound that bad to me.

It looks like playing role playing games and the SCA might give you more points.

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:09 pm

Ummm, let me see.

I did this test again - in the name of my dear DrS as he sat beside me, and wonder of wonders, the score was much higher. He did confess to much more than he did on his own with me present as his conscience. Let me post the real score that he rightfully earned this time:

39.84221% - Major Geek

I believe this score is much more accurate.

I however, am nothing close to a geek. Only married to one.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:33 pm

11.2426% - Geekish Tendencies

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:46 am

12.62whatever%-Geekish Tendencies.

I will just say that wearing three watches at a time is not necessarily geeky. Sometimes it is a fashion statement. And sometimes you are twelve years, and people keep giving you Swatch watches, and they all look cool, okay? It doesn't mean you're a geek.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:23 am

23.07692% - Geek

me geek.

divorced from a software engineer graduate of MIT and Stanford.

technical theater was my life in high school/college - though, i never did sound or lights. i liked props and costumes.

if i had time, i'd do SCA. great fun w/ costumes!

when office machines break, they come find me to take them apart and fix them. not the guys, not the project managers who spend their days getting buildings built, ME.

me geek girl. and i wear glasses too. and would gladly be a librarian if offered a position.

geeks are cool. so says me.

uselessbeauty? · Post by **uselessbeauty?** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:26 pm

32.93886% - Total Geek

i think it was the comic books that did me in since i hate star wars and star trek. That and I wear glasses and sometimes snort when i laugh, and read douglas adams and oh dammit... i'm a geek and i'm not ashamed to admit. i'll wave my geek banner like a flag. long wave old geeky glory

so lacklustre · Post by **so lacklustre** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:46 pm

7.88955% - Poser