In the spirit of the “How many five year olds can you take in a fight” quiz I wrote about almost two years ago, The Accountant™ passed along the “how many 90 year olds can you take in a fight” quiz.

Some new rules apply here versus the original:

• Everyone is ambulatory (no wheelchairs)
• Everyone is wearing groin protection — this is a big update from the first quiz
• The “arena” is bigger, about the size of a basketball court

My results:

I could take down 35 90 year olds in a fight.

This is all in good fun. If you are thinking about submitting my results before the court, this in no way implies that I would actually take on 35 90 year people at once, or that I would want to.

Mental Floss has a really sweet quiz on matching Monopoly Chance and Community Chest art to the right card. It’s a twelve question quiz. Unfortunately the usability of the quiz sucks, and I had to write down 1 – 12 and cross the numbers off as I made my answers.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=739

I got 9 out of 12, how did you do?

Thanks to Jumbotron for showing me this at work last week.

My buddy Jumbotron sent this to me at work: the Real Age Virtual Age quiz on sonnyradio.com. It’s Flash-based quiz that asks up to 34 questions to determine your “virtual” age and your life expectancy. Your virtual age is how old your body and mind are based on diet, exercise, lifestyle, and family history.

Unfortunately I initially took this test at work, and had my information architecture and usability hat on. I bitched about the poor question phrasing and goofy slider the whole time. For example, the race question is flawed. There’s a radio button that makes you select one race. There needs to be at least a “Mixed” option, but a multiple select would be even better. I imagine the scoring algorithm isn’t complex enough to handle multiple racial vectors.

The answer options are mostly on a scale, and sometimes the scale doesn’t make sense. For example, on the “Male conditions” question answers range from “average” to “bald and stocky.” I’m bald, but not stocky. So where do I put this slider?

Another stupid question was about marital status. “Cheating” is at the bottom, and “Happily married” is at the top. “Married” is one down from “Happily married,” but what if you’re in a happy committed relationship? According to answer slider, being happily committed is less healthy than being not-so-happily married. Weird.

I don’t put too much stock into the results. It’s hard to agree with my virtual age of 23.6 when my right knee is bothering me from over-training with kettlebells. My life expectancy is also really high at 84.4 years. No one in my immediate family has made it past 74. Although I don’t drink or smoke and am not overweight, there are a lot of genetics that have to be overcome.

My final results were:
Virtual Age: 23.6
Your Life Expectancy: 84.4

Give the test a run and report back if you feel like it.

I ride almost fifty miles round trip on my motorcycle every day for work. As I motor alongside cars, trucks, bikes, pedestrians, and other road trash I often think about putting together a “how to not crash in traffic” series of posts. The problem is filming my trips and then being “lucky” enough to have something noteworthy happen. I do have a remote lipstick-style camera for my camcorder but it can only mount in one direction unless I ruin a helmet by sticking it on with adhesive. I would miss capturing lane intrusions, the most prevalent thing I run into.

Anyway, I was excited to take a two-part safety test put on by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. The first part is a ten question US road sign quiz. On medium speed, a road sign flashed up for about a second. You are given three possible answers and asked to identify the sign. You can guess twice for each question, losing one point per incorrect guess.

The second part of the test is a ten question “safety perception” quiz. You are shown a photograph of a traffic situation for five seconds. Like the traffic sign test, you are given three possible answers. The problem is that you don’t know what they will ask ahead of time.
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Here’s a fun little quiz to break up my motorcycling gibber-jabber: How many miles per gallon does your body get?
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Everyone loves quizzes, and this one should be fun for most of my Gibberish readers. Most of you ride, or are the types of people who would ride. So, give the motorcycle personality test on Hello Quizzy a shot.

Thanks to segue00 on the FZ6 sportbikes.net forum for linking this over the weekend.

I was:
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My stepsister forwarded this to me awhile ago. There are six questions, with four answers for each question.

It’s a silly thing to do, but it’s Friday — what else are you going to do before you leave work for the weekend?
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Big thanks to Rangerette for passing along this What pre-1985 Video Game Character Are You? quiz.

Turns out I am the ship from Defender, which I spent a fair amount of quarters on with my Dad at Aladdin’s Lamp arcade. :) The summary is quite accurate, right down to the clumsiness. What I make up for in agility I make up for in snatching stuff in mid-air before it hits the ground.

I am a Defender-ship. I am fiercely protective of my friends and loved ones, and unforgiving of any who would hurt them. Speed and foresight are my strengths, at the cost of a little clumsiness. I’m most comfortable with a few friends, but sometimes particularly enjoy spending time in larger groups. What Video Game Character Are You?