Think You're a PC Nerd? Take the Geek Quiz 2010 and Find Out!
Think You're a PC Nerd? Take the Geek Quiz 2010 and Find Out!
Posted 08/18/2010 at 11:07am
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Imagine yourself competing in the geekiest of all game shows, facing off against the geekiest of geeks—those characters of pop culture whose intellectual excellence you aspired to as a child and still seek to emulate in present day. Could you hang? Could you hold your own in such rarefied company, matching wits with the best of ‘em? Sadly, we can never know that, but Maximum PC’s annual Geek Quiz is a pretty good indicator of brain power in its own right. And you don’t even need to be first to the buzzer or frame your answers in question form. So what’s stopping you, smarty pants? It’s time to get your Quiz on!
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a1namill
September 15, 2010 at 12:59pm
My wife and me met him, his mom and BIG bodygaurd in the Empire state building elevator, going down running from a swarm of Asian girls in 1992 while we were on vacation ;-) . we have pictures !! It was pure chance..
nizbit
September 14, 2010 at 3:44pm
I cant believe Dr. Who did not make the geeky greats. Serious omission.
pacaton
September 10, 2010 at 11:53am
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swish22743
September 07, 2010 at 6:23am
2100 not bad i guess but def have to guess on some of them! haha
Nickompoop
September 01, 2010 at 1:39pm
Hunh, I did pretty good. 2800 out of 6000. Considering not one person scored a perfect score.
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jamesmathis23
August 31, 2010 at 1:43pm
I need to stock up on Hot Pockets so that I can get caught up on all things Geek.
nduanetesh
August 30, 2010 at 12:26pm
2900 out of 6000. Ouch. I am suitably ashamed.
I also suspect some others who posted their scores cheated ;-)
Korora
August 30, 2010 at 4:37pm
Only 54/60 .... too many US specific questions for a mere Kiwi. I've done better in previous years. BTW the '46-60 Correct' hex code is wrong - the third line should read OC29985A3A34F.......... I don't think the script for Pulp Fiction included a Square bracket.
sojrner
August 27, 2010 at 7:18am
Wow... some really good Q's. One or two total "huh?" moments, couple of "no way!"s and at least one "foul!"
fun times.
etsugua
August 26, 2010 at 5:13pm
either that or the test hanged on me :-O Can't believe I flew through 60 questions that fast.
gruvsf
August 26, 2010 at 11:38am
2600. I missed a couple of easy ones with the A & B options. I never was very good at standardized tests.
SuperSpy
August 26, 2010 at 9:26am
So I guess 2600/6000 could be worse, but these past few years in IT management vs doing any actual IT work has taken its toll on my geek cred.
SuperSpy
August 26, 2010 at 9:28am
I have to point out that it was very disappointing that I couldn't get past the first question when trying to take the quiz on my Droid X. Something about that just seems wrong. :(
das0527
August 26, 2010 at 9:06am
Did anyone else have trouble logging in and saving their score? I got a 5600/6000, but when I tried to log in and save it nothing happened.
griffinii
August 26, 2010 at 8:03am
3200 out of 6000 but it doesn't compare to Vader being "impressed" by me. :)
cyberfalco
August 26, 2010 at 6:39am
Or something like that. I didn't write it down and when I logged in, my score was gone. But, I didn't look anything up. Hope I get a droid figure.
chiroho
August 25, 2010 at 5:16pm
Just 20 correct for me, and most of them were guessing. Apparently I need to lock myself in a closet with a bunch of pop tarts and Maximum PC mags.
PM_DMNKLR
August 21, 2010 at 10:57pm
Actually, if you take all of the letters, convert them to numbers and add down, 12 rounds later and it all adds up to 1, literally. I still can't seem to understand it, but I guessed that that was the resulting sum, and well, I was right. Took me awhile to do all of the math, but was a great time waster nonetheless. Thanks guys! PS, I still haven't taken the quiz, lol. Oh well.
PM_DMNKLR
August 21, 2010 at 11:21pm
Ok, so I took it and yeah, I agree, it kinda sucks. Of course, the quiz is labeled as a "geek quiz", but it's not really a geek quiz, it's more of a "jack-of-all-nerds" quiz. Every year it's like that. Oddly, I got more right on stuff i just guessed at than I did seriously answering, lol.
tonytober
August 21, 2010 at 5:42pm
I didn't get 100% but I got that message too:
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9985408140A2948199A3409496A38885994B40
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85A399898340A2A8A2A385944BCan anyone guess what does that mean? The one that can figure it out is a real geek...
No need of playing the game anymore
Jaryth000
August 19, 2010 at 1:11am
Not NEARLY as good as last years. FAR to many questions that I'm guessing 90% of the people that took the quiz just guessed. What model of Phone was Neos based off of? Really... thats just random Trivia or fandom... Geekyness is one thing, overboard is another. Or some random yet close together dates for some random spec? Meh... needs more "What is this connector" or "how would you do this?" or "whats wrong with this picture" stuff. Things that get you thinking, and less pop-culture, or random reference information.
Although, granted I did get a lot of easy, actual tech questions wrong... over thinking it I guess? Not sure why I thought a GPU would have more transitors then a CPU XD. On wait... it does. I guess I picked the right answer then?
Jasker
August 19, 2010 at 5:43am
It didn't ask "What has more transitors". It asked which "CPU" did.
Wily_One
August 18, 2010 at 8:43pm
Sorry, but whoever is responsible for the picture has Scotty's uniform on backwards. Every true Geek knows the Star Trek emblem is on the (wearer's) left side.
/facepalm
tornato7
August 18, 2010 at 6:44pm
I didn't know Tesla invented the VTOL. That would be a good plot for crysis 3 though. not really
jgrimoldy
August 18, 2010 at 5:36pm
As amusing as this little quiz might be, it was very disappointing to see how many pages this damn thing took up in the printed magazine rather than using the valuable space for meaningful content.
AMD4298
August 18, 2010 at 5:24pm
My score was 4200/6000. Also there are 2 bugs with the quiz:
-#38 says pcie 2.9 not 2.0. but the magazine says 2.0.
-#51 says witch cpu but the gtx 480 is a gpu
pacaton
August 18, 2010 at 3:23pm
If you get a perfect score, you get this comment:
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85A399898340A2A8A2A385944BIt's not ASCII, or a jpg, or a gif, or a png. It's 90 bytes long. I thought it might be a hash, but Reverse MD5 hash lookup doesn't know the original ...
avenger48
August 18, 2010 at 6:41pm
Looks like hexadecimal to me. Try converting it to base 10 or binary and see what results.
EDIT: If all of the numbers are added (with a=10, b=11, etc.), you get 1,080. Aside from being a common vertical pixel size for TV's, this means nothing to me.
In base 10, it is 3.78216383303x10^27
In binary, it is 0011100100100100000010011000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Hopefully, this means something to someone.
JE_Delta
August 18, 2010 at 2:25pm
4600/6000
Last year's Quiz was much more difficult.
All these questions are just general facts that you pick up along the way.
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