Ok, so, the joke is way beyond played. It’s really really played.
But I couldn’t help myself. Some jokes I guess just get funnier the more they are repeated.
You’ve seen it millions and millions of times (so says youtube at least). So, can you tell me what Rick would never do?
Oh, internet. Sometimes, you are too much fun.
I haven’t used this blog much to talk about things to come, but, since there are a few ideas in the pipeline, and some people may have just found this site (thanks reddit!), thought it would be a good time to mention some of the things we’re planning on adding to the site soon.
As always, if you have any ideas or comments, please comment here or use the feedback page.
Ok, so I’m not much of a blogger. My writing skills are slightly less developed than an unfertilized chicken egg. However, over the past month or so, I’ve been trying to add some more trivia games. Even though I haven’t figured out how to stop the aging process, I figure it never hurts to try to keep the memory sharp.
A game I’ve been working on for quite some time, but never finished, until today, is a name the Elements of the Periodic Table. Sure, there’s over a hundred of them, and most I’ve never even heard of, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying.
How well can you do? (click image above to play the game)
Well, I figured it was about time I started to learn a bit more about the countries of the world. While I could have just had one remember them straight from memory, I really find that a visual representation helps one remember them, as well as learn them for the next time.
So I put together a little map and naming game. Each country highlights a color when you get it right, to help distinguish the countries apart. I wanted the map to be small enough to work on multiple resolutions, which is why some of those eastern European countries are a little hard to distinguish, assuming you remember what they’re called. I’m expecting those on the other side of the pond to do better than us Yanks.
Without further ado….
Can you name all the countries of Europe?
In honor of the 2007 NFL season which starts in a couple weeks, I thought I’d throw together a quiz to see how many of the Super Bowl winners of the past 41 years I could remember. In doing so, I came across some interesting statistics, that somewhat flies if the face of the parity argument that is thrown around by NFL commentators and chatterers.
Out of 41 years, the Super Bowl has only been won by 17 different teams. That’s just barely half of the teams in the NFL who have won in 4 decades.
To compare the other 3 major US sports during that time (% teams winning championship from 1967-present)
NFL: 17 of 32 (53%)
MLB: 19 of 30 (63%)
NBA: 14 of 31 (45%)
NHL: 16 of 30 (53%)
Obviously, these are not scientific numbers, because each league has expanded since 1967, and they had different #’s of teams during those 40 years. However, you’ll notice they are all fairly only slightly above or below 50% in ‘Championship Parity’. Why is this? Does it have to do with poor owners who don’t know how to build a team that can win, or the fact that star players tend to propel certain teams to championships in multiple years? I’m curious your thoughts.
Take the Super Bowl quiz yourself:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/superbowls.php
William Shakespeare, whoever he was, certainly was a prolific little writer. According to multiple sources, he wrote 38 plays and 154 sonnets, and is often considered to have written the most beautiful poetry in the English Language. He also married Anne Hathaway, who may or may not be the great great great great great great great great great grandmother of the similar namesake of our generation. No, I kid.
Anyhow, given that Jeopardy and the N.Y. Times Crossword both frequently have questions related to the plays of Shakespeare, I figured it only fitting to use his plays as the basis for the next quiz. There were 36 plays in the First Folio of Shakespeare
The works are ordered based on their order in the First Folio, but as you’ll notice, the years they are believed to have been written do not follow the same order. Ready to take on the Bard yourself, and see how many you remember? As usual, you have 10 minutes to name as many of the 38 plays as you can.
In what will be the last US based quiz or game for a little bit, I put up the Name the U.S. States quiz. It has the map, and you just have to fill in the states. Same timer and some nice feedback while you are filling them in.
Also, a quick shout out to Ironic Sans, who originally put together a version of this a few months back. I mainly published this one because I got so many people who played the State Capital game asking me to do a state one. Enjoy.
After all the interest in the President Quiz, I decided to spruce up a State Capital game I wrote a while ago. I got the interest to learn the State Capitals a year or so ago after they kept coming up on Jeopardy. I’ve got to admit, there were a quite a few capitals I had never heard of before.
Once you take the quiz yourself, you can see which state capitals are the most known and unknown, as well as the average amount of capitals that those taking get right. The game has been live for a couple days, and currently, nearly 25% of those guessing get all the capitals right.
Take the quiz now. Enjoy.
Well wow. It would appear over 40 thousand other people also found the idea of trying to name the U.S. Presidents an interesting challenge. The most forgettable presidents statistics are fairly interesting. Understandably the most remembered are the recent presidents, as well as Washington and Lincoln. I’m kinda surprised actually that Andrew Jackson only got a 77% remembrance rate, given his prominence on the $20 bill.
Also out on the 4th was a Rasmussen poll that details the popularity and recognizability of various U.S. Presidents throughout history. In general, it would appear that the results of their poll on recognizability fall similarly in line with the statistics from those taking the President quiz. However, at the bottom of the charts on sporcle were Hayes and Arthur, and the Rasmussen poll didn’t mention them at all. Perhaps they forgot to include them in their questions!
Here’s a shout out to Digg for all the attention, as well as the post on OneMoreLevel.com, and all you other blogs and forums out there. Also thanks to my hosting provider, Forbesoft. You held up to getting Dugg. Well done.