Maximum PC's Geek Quiz 2009
Posted 10/14/09 at 10:30:00 AM by The Maximum PC Staff
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We like you. We spend all year being nice to you—giving you the scoop on hardware, software, games, and news from the industry. We may not always be nice to companies or products, but we’re always nice to our readers.
Well, nearly always. You see, every year the editors at Maximum PC get together in a big room with no windows or doors or air and hash out a series of questions for our annual Geek Quiz. Some are easy. Some are not. Some might have you pulling out your hair in frustration (those are our favorites).
But we’re not doing this just to be cruel. See, if you do well, you get the satisfaction of showing us up, plus a standardized score that you can show people to prove how awesome you are. And if you don’t do so well, hey, you get to learn stuff! Looking up answers on your favorite search engine, by the way, is strictly verboten.
Mom jeans from Lands End; Zelda belt buckle from Hot Topic; Three Wolf Moon T-shirt from The Mountain Company; glasses from the Six Flags guy.
So, whip out those #2 pencils and that slide rule, step away from the Google, and get ready to prove your mettle.
5000
Submitted by mesiah on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:15pm
W00t! I got 5000..... the second time I took it. lol. A few of the questions definately dont belong though.
Submitted by COMMANDER_COOK on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:38pm
I hate my score (2900)
I'll take it again later.
Newbie? I got 45/50 last
Submitted by B10H4Z4RD on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 4:32pm
Newbie? I got 45/50 last quiz.... 20/50 this quiz. brb imma go study
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Intel Q6600@3.2
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Windows 7 64 RC
Submitted by pcfxer on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 3:58pm
MaximumFAIL
Gnome, KDE and XFCE aren't Linux Desktop Environments at all. They are WINDOW MANAGERS and can be installed on ANY OS!
There, I am the BIGGEST geek! No Jobs v. Gates q's, no UNIX (MULTICS UNICS) q's??? More like lame anti-C (which still runs the latest OSes btw) OOP loving geek.
Submitted by shutout5591 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:14pm
They are all Desktop Enviornments. Gnome is only for UNIX, and kde is for all os.
Close enough.
Submitted by The Gianni on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 3:39pm
3rd :) not bad (with 4500). I don't really see were the perturbing head scratchers are though. I would have had one more but clicked the wrong fucking button.
zombie killer 4100, but the
Submitted by frizzly on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 1:28pm
zombie killer 4100, but the @$#% thing wont let me log in to compare scores. oh well...
Frizzly Mejere
"Once you go down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny."
Submitted by Digital-Storm on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 11:33am
Half those questions weren't even "Geek" questions. Twitter? Seriously now.
So close!
Submitted by zerokool on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:35am
4500/5000, not too bad. I think some of the application ones were garbage questions... Oh Well...
Submitted by MvanA on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 9:13am
That's funny, I got Zombie Killer but I have never played Left 4 Dead. Does that mean they'll take it back?
Submitted by bjazz on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 8:55am
The only one I'm sorry I missed was the 4870 shader units - I missed that they were asking about the X2. It's not so much of a "geek" quiz as it is a "do you read every single article and post that MaximumPC publishes" quiz.
Submitted by Shckr57 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:17am
lol, i got a perfect score, how, cause i used my genuis mind, opened the september 2009 issue of max pc mag and the answers to all the questions are right there, in reality i only got a 38 correct. so subscibe and you will get smarter !!!
Submitted by pcfxer on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 4:00pm
LOL, subscribe and get smarter awesome!
3200
Submitted by 010000100110010... on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 7:16am
I got 3200. I'm an enthusiast!
Enthusiast. 2700. But I
Submitted by lunchbox73 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 6:57am
Enthusiast. 2700. But I didn't need to use a #2 pencil at all!
So who is the geek in the picture anyway?
A lot of the questions were
Submitted by vistageek on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 5:50am
A lot of the questions were questions involving specific programs, like digsbe, synergy, left for dead, and what not. I got all of those right, but still, they were a bit biased questions. I knew the pie one! :-)
I am an "Enthusiast", 3300
Submitted by Tekzel on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 5:20am
I am an "Enthusiast", 3300 of 5000. There were some oddball questions on there. I also chose wrong on a few and right as I clicked I realized I was choosing the wrong one. haha.
I got the same thing.
Submitted by AntiHero on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 6:42pm
I got the same thing.
It wasn't hard but....
Submitted by Devo85x on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 4:35am
most of the questions weren't hard, but most of them you had to have experience with to know (i.e. The Left 4 Dead question, synergy question, digsby question, etc...)
Submitted by chocobo on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 1:45am
I got 23/50, a score of "newbie"... come on, really? I certainly don't claim to be a tech expert, but those are really hard questions. I would think getting nearly half of them right would count for a little more. /cries
Submitted by wolf17 on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:12pm
Wait, so SATA 6 isn't backwards compatible? If so, that's really stupid. Ig the hard drive industry needed a boost in sales lol.
"Life is about living, not stressing" - a very smart girl :)
It is backwards compatible.
Submitted by Sharkman6684 on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 11:17pm
It is backwards compatible. The question asked which of these is not true. So that was one of the choices that is true.
29/50
Submitted by JohnP on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:06pm
And I did not cheat by looking up the X digit of Pi! I wanted to tho...
Damnit...
Submitted by 1337Goose on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 8:59pm
Damnit, enthusiast... 30/50
Looks like 1337Goose needs to hit the books to perhaps become a little more 1337...
~Goose
34/50
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 9:09pm
34/50, yet I remembered pi!
Submitted by Zombie_Bo_Jackson on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 8:49pm
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