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You have crash landed on the moon. What equipment should you take with you as you try to hike 200 miles back to base? The moon survival challenge Once you have the above items prioritized from most important to least important (from top to bottom), click the button below to see your score and compare [...]
Test your geography skills and see how well you know our world
by Marshall Brain | December 22, 2009
A very nice geography quiz for you to try: Globetrotter XL If you find you are always stuck on level 1 or level 2, it means you are not getting a good enough score to advance to the next level. If you need to cheat, this can help [[[Jump to previous test - Test – [...]
Test – Do you have Adult ADD/ADHD (attention deficit disorder)?
by Marshall Brain | November 10, 2009
Do you have Adult ADD/ADHD (attention deficit disorder)? This test can help you find out: Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) Test Use this questionnaire to help determine if you need to see a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment of ADD or ADHD in an adult. More info: See also: How ADHD Works [[[Jump to [...]
Test – how good is your memory, and is lack of sleep affecting it?
by Marshall Brain | November 2, 2009
A very interesting little memory test that will check two different memory functions. When it says that you should take a 5 minute break, you should heed its advice to get an accurate reading. Face Memory Test [[[Jump to previous test - How long do you have before you die?]]]
Here’s an interesting test – you fill out a questionaire and it calculates your projected life span. The questionaire takes about 5 minutes: How long will I live? It looks at a number of factors that affect life expectancy, but it also leaves out many. For example: – it does not look at the effects [...]
What’s Your Political News IQ? Take the Pew “current news quiz” with “12 multiple choice questions about people, events and issues in the news.” Once you complete the quiz you will be able to compare your answers with a national cross section of 1,002 adults: Pew News IQ Quiz The average respondent got 5.3 answers [...]
What we have here is “the top 10 popular programming puzzle sites that will help test your thinking and improve your programming, problem solving, and logical thinking skills”: 10 Puzzle Websites to Sharpen Your Programming Skills That’s a lot of test questions… [[[Jump to previous test - How useful would you be if you time-traveled [...]
This is a fantastic test for HowStuffWorks readers. It is a quick technological quiz based on this premise: If you were to travel 2000 years into the past, how useful would you be in jumpstarting technological advancements? This 10 question quiz will help you figure out your technological usefulness. If you do poorly on the [...]
The first XKCD book contains a cipher puzzle. You can see it in this photo. This is the cipher text: GJNHIYTOTNNNBSFOEVYYVT NAQGYIUAEIEAIAEURFYV GULGBIREOUKEGEAEEPFQ VQTLEDVYSRNVNJULRNAQTVZOY RVETOHRHEWSWHAGURJNO RNYYZVZFDESFYIEIOPELJR ERGUROBEBRLGNVNLSDKETEBI Your challenge is to decipher it. What is interesting is that, because it contains the image of the Reddit alien, it got picked up on Reddit and became [...]
Look at the following painting. It contains the images of 100 historically important people (plus a few that are not really that important). How many of the people can you identify? Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante by Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi, Zhang An – 2006 If you are so inclined, post your score in [...]
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