Age confirmation quiz (obsolete, remember to update)

Note that in the following quiz some questions might have several factually correct answers, but only one of them would be a natural choice for an adult, not too elderly person.

1) The captain of the Enterprise...

a) ...has no hair.
b) ...has no hair - on his chest.
c) ...has a hairy pet.

2) Leslie Nielsen is known as…

a) ...doctor at Discovery Channel.
b) ...one of the best comedic talents of all time.
c) ...a handsome leading man in serious movies.

3) There’s something weird in the neighbourhood. Who you gonna call?

a) Ghostbusters!
b) Ghostbusters! (And they can be any gender you like).
c) That queer rich guy who likes to dress in blue-grey underwears and a mask and who lives in suspicious circumstances with a beardless lad.

4) Steve Sanders went into a sex shop, all by himself. He must be…

a) ...a freaky pervert.
b) ...perfectly ordinary young man, with natural urges and going through a dry season.
c) ...a bit old-fashioned. Hasn’t he heard of internet porn?

5) Doctor Who is…

a) ...best show ever! And it has great effects!
b) ...best show ever! But the special effects suck.
c) ...cancelled. And let’s not talk about the movie.

6) An eccentric male lead with strange pseudo-scientific theories is working in a high-class security agency. Whenever he is not solving paranormal cases with a female companion, he is…

a) ...trying to find his lost sister.
b) ...tinkering with his broken time machine.
c) ...inventing the perfect strawberry milkshake.

7) In the movie, Batman fought with…

a) ...Superman.
b) ...Joker, on top of cathedral.
c) ...rubber shark, while hanging from bat ladder.

8) Disney princesses are good role models, because…

a) ...they don’t always follow their parents’ wishes, but pursue their own dreams.
b) ...they know that doing hard menial work and having great dreams will eventually land you in good marriage.
c) ...they are kick-ass heroes who love their sister.

6 comments:

  1. Andy_Panthro27 December 2016 at 10:53

    1. baldy
    2. the handsome leading man of Forbidden Planet
    3. He-Man!
    4. (I literally have no idea who this is)
    5. Now known as Doctor Mysterio
    6. Wait... I thought we already had the Doctor Who question?
    7. Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer at Christmas.
    8. they teach you that all you need is a good singing voice

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    1. Ilmari Jauhiainen28 December 2016 at 01:47

      Good try, although there were some clear mistakes. I understand you won't know number 4, but I thought number 6 would be quite obvious!

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    2. Andy_Panthro28 December 2016 at 21:36

      I got it, just another joke! Doctor Who being someone with pseudo-scientific theories, who works for UNIT (sometimes anyway), has female companions (mostly), and certainly solves paranormal cases.

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    3. Ilmari Jauhiainen28 December 2016 at 22:37

      Yeah, that's the option b) - think about the Pertwee Doctor, who was stranded to Earth, worked exclusively for UNIT and tried to make his time machine work. But Pertwee Doctor wouldn't be known by a child of eighties living his/her teenage years in nineties, so picking that option shows you are way too old for this test.

      Instead, in the nineties, there was a series with a guy with really weird theories, working in a secret service with a female companion, and solving paranormal cases. This is the series we are looking for.

      There was also a similar series around 2008-2013, but picking that option would at once show you are way too young for this test.

      Now, you'll just have to figure out whether the weird guy in the nineties series was trying to find his lost sister or whether he was always making strawberry milkshakes. Voltgloss has apparently solved this, since he knew another series with the same actor.

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  2. Voltgloss27 December 2016 at 12:22

    1. Comes in peace (shoot to kill)
    2. Shirley (stop calling him that)
    3. "He-Man" is close. The best answer is: "HE-MAN! HE-MAN! HE-MAN!"
    4. Just doing some newspaper reporting
    5. A friendly NPC owl that can appear in the Age of Adventures title "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"
    6. Inexplicably hosting the Red Shoe diaries
    7. His costume designer. How else do you explain "bat nipples?"
    8. While their beginnings are rooted in the social mores of the 30s/40s, over time their evolution has reflected the civil rights movement and recently further progressive ideals, culminating in the logical American conclusion: their own media franchise.

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  3. Ilmari Jauhiainen28 December 2016 at 01:50

    Great answers and close enough. You show remarkable knowledge of these things! I think we have a winner.

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