Quiz Me February 9, 2012 5:21 AM   Subscribe

Remember when someone made that quiz about MetaFilter members on that website where you can make quizes? Can I get that link again? Just the main site works too since that's what I really want.
posted by theichibun to MetaFilter-Related at 5:21 AM (31 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

Are you thinking of Sporcle? (Warning: Timesink.) Here's a Metafilter Facts quiz, and here's a slightly outdated Most Active MeFites quiz.
posted by Phire at 5:53 AM on February 9, 2012 [1 favorite]


There's one on sporcle. Searching for metafilter there gives one result, but I'm pretty sure there were a couple others.
posted by solotoro at 5:53 AM on February 9, 2012


Dear Phire,

:P
posted by solotoro at 5:54 AM on February 9, 2012


The Metafilter Facts quiz comes from this thread by Rhaomi, though looking at the 'Quiz' tag on MetaTalk there's also this quiz by goodnewsfortheinsane.
posted by Phire at 5:56 AM on February 9, 2012


Sorry, solotoro.

And, hey, if you're really bored, Cortex once made this "who said what" game that's pretty fun, too.
posted by Phire at 5:58 AM on February 9, 2012


Ah, sweetness. Thanks
posted by theichibun at 6:57 AM on February 9, 2012


What's in the box?
posted by Jofus at 7:34 AM on February 9, 2012


Phire: " And, hey, if you're really bored, Cortex once made this "who said what" game that's pretty fun, too."

It's borked.
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posted by zarq at 8:00 AM on February 9, 2012


The answer is almost always The Whelk.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:17 AM on February 9, 2012 [1 favorite]


Wow. Even after all this time, 35% of the test takers remember Miguel.

I did a lot worse on that than I expected. (46th %tile) But I totally didn't see or understand the "byline elements" part and didn't attempt to answer any of those. I would have gotten all of them. Still.

restless_nomad, I did remember you, which apparently few people do; and I remembered your last name but not your first. But as long as I've known taz (here and metachat), I've never known her real name. Apparently, few of us pay attention to the tag lines.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 8:35 AM on February 9, 2012


Isn't the D in DTFMA "ditch"?

I've met Vacapinta and didn't remember his name :(

But I got 86th percentile which seems weirdly high.
posted by Infinite Jest at 8:59 AM on February 9, 2012


Huh. Use of the Professional White Website ensured that I missed every single tagline. I never noticed that difference until the quiz highlighted it.
posted by darksasami at 10:24 AM on February 9, 2012


I got 97th percentile! :D
posted by grouse at 10:25 AM on February 9, 2012


I got 97th percentile too!

All of: subsites, mods usernames, terms, acronyms, flagging options, byline elements. Sucked at the other categories (more than half of mods real names, but otherwise, less than half for every remaining category).
posted by FishBike at 10:54 AM on February 9, 2012


Where do you see percentiles?
posted by maryr at 11:25 AM on February 9, 2012


Click on the "View Stats" link above the quiz to see the percentiles.

I got 73/74, 99th percentile! The only one I missed was open source advocate: Doctorow, which I won't lose any sleep over.
posted by maqsarian at 11:38 AM on February 9, 2012


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posted by maqsarian at 11:42 AM on February 9, 2012


ths s whr m vkng!
posted by hattifattener at 11:55 AM on February 9, 2012


He's taken his Irving? Who's Irving?
posted by darksasami at 12:48 PM on February 9, 2012


Here's a Metafilter Facts quiz

That is the most confusing format for a quiz I've ever seen. I spent about three minutes staring at it in confusion and trying to type in the blue boxes.

99th percentile, though, yay!

Huh. Use of the Professional White Website ensured that I missed every single tagline.

Same here, I only got I only got 'community weblog' of the the current (boring) tag lines, which I've never seen - when did they replace the funny ones?

The old ones sort of work, though - 'the plastic.com it's okay to like', 'more addictive than crack' and 'self-policing since 1999' all showed up as extra rows in the taglines section, but didn't get me any points.
posted by jack_mo at 1:01 PM on February 9, 2012


98th percentile - missed a couple of the mod real names and 'notable' users (some subjectivity there, for sure).
posted by dg at 1:48 PM on February 9, 2012


92nd percentile. I also tanked on the taglines due to my use of the professional white background.
posted by desjardins at 1:53 PM on February 9, 2012


What the heck? I could only name 5/7 subsites and couldn't figure out how to 'move on' from that. I coulda been a contender!! (in about the 33rd percentile).
posted by bquarters at 6:15 PM on February 9, 2012


I did a bit better on sporcle's 'name all the ryan gosling movies'. But I still did badly. Please don't revoke my membership.
posted by bquarters at 6:20 PM on February 9, 2012


99th percentile, but I cheated a little bit.
posted by slogger at 6:27 PM on February 9, 2012


longboat?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 10:24 PM on February 9, 2012


YSStOG, the MeFi wiki is pretty good for those kinds of things. In this case, see "Longboat."
posted by RichardP at 10:31 PM on February 9, 2012


Okay, I gotta brag, I got 42/74 right with one thumb on my phone while breastfeeding at 2 a.m. before I ran out of time.

Of course mostly what I do during these 2 a.m. interludes is read metafilter after I run out of news in my rss reader, so I've read a LOT of stuff I otherwise would skim in the busy daylight hours in my desperate attempts to stay awake and have, as a result, learned a lot.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 12:18 AM on February 10, 2012


The Says Who game doesn't load. Yet another victim of the Great Server Migration?
posted by Devils Rancher at 4:42 AM on February 10, 2012


Another breastfeeding Metafilterer here. Best 2 am reading on the web.
posted by devinemissk at 2:54 PM on February 10, 2012


I got in the 33rd percentile. Oops. And I didn't remember any of the mod real names.
posted by insectosaurus at 10:18 AM on February 11, 2012


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