The Edison Mental Fitness Test
It's 1920 and your looking for employment. Do you have what it takes to work for the great inventor? Take his employee's test here: >TEST<
Remember that one has to think of the world as it was in 1920. The best I could manage was a 70 so it looks like it's back to the farm/sweatshop/dockyards for me.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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83% on the 30 Q test. Missed 1 or 2 I should have gotten.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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66% on the 30 q sampler.. I have a feeling i woulda done much worse on the full 150. A couple of them threw me off due to being 1921 questions, but I can't say that even if I got those right, i likely would not have been higher than 70%
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76% on the 30q...I shouldn't second guess myself lol.
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66% on the full test.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road,
but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely
chicken's dominion maintained. ~Machiavelli
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59% in the 30Q...
Would have got more if I knew more about America
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Taking the sampler version, I got 83%.
I missed 1-2 questions because I didn't go with my first choice (as a former Knowledge Bowl geek, I really ought to know better), but there were still at least a couple that I had no idea of the answer regardless. Talk about semi-obscure knowledge.
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
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Yes! XYZ is the best score right?
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i did brilliantly i got full marks!
(well all but most of the questions)
50% onsampler but shhhh, dont tell anyone
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56% on the 150 question version.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then, the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
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You were in knowledge bowl too? Awesome!Originally Posted by Martok
Taking the sampler version, I got 83%.
I missed 1-2 questions because I didn't go with my first choice (as a former Knowledge Bowl geek, I really ought to know better
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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59% on the 30 question sampler
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." - Issac Newton
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All the what's produced where/how much got me bored after about the 60'th question. Got all historical, geographical etc. ones correct (except a couple USA based details) but my average was struggling not to sink about 50%.
Down with Tommy!
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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Same. Would have been better if I knew more about the US.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
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Yeah Mouza, coming from a different cultural perspective could make that test doubly hard. Some of the answers are based on global conditions during the early 20th century, things have changed a bit in the last 100 years. Considering they claim that only 6 percent originally passed I guess we aren't doing too bad.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
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49% or so on the 150 questions, considering I'm neither a native speaker of the language used(some words I didn't know), not from america, have a cold and am generally stupid, that is not too bad I guess.
"Topic is tired and needs a nap." - Tosa Inu
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50% on 150
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83% on the 30 question sampler.
Absolutely clueless on some of the science questions.
Up until two minutes ago, I would've sworn 'Diamond Lathe' was a kind of coffee.
Got the history and geography questions mostly correct.
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52% on the 30 sampler.
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Yep; I was the geography/history/music/mythology "specialist". Our team made it to the state tournament our junior and senior year.
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
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79%. Kind of bad...
Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
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Nice. I was the history/geography/current events guy.Yep; I was the geography/history/music/mythology "specialist". Our team made it to the state tournament our junior and senior year.
We made it to the state tourney in my junior and senior years as well. But we got fourth and third in state.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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79% on the 30Q...
I consider this not to bad as it is an American-oriented test (and I am not...)
Philippe 1er de Francein King of the Franks
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48%, I'm quite proud of the fact that on most questions I got wrong, I had to try all 4 answers before getting the right one.
Abandon all hope.
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66% on the 30q sampler.
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Cool. Always nice to meet a kindred spirit.
Heh. Well you've got me beat there.We made it to the state tourney in my junior and senior years as well. But we got fourth and third in state.
CROur team never even cracked the top ten either year.
"MTW is not a game, it's a way of life." -- drone
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