Dungeons and Dragons was TSR. Magic: The Gathering was originally Richard Garfield Games (just a shell company) but always sold by Wizards of the Coast. Magic was doing great and D&D was losing popularity, probably a related phenomenon, in the mid 90s, so WotC took advantage and bought TSR. Following that, WotC started making the Pokemon card game, which was what really attracted Habro. WotC and all of its properties were acquired by Hasbro in 1999. I think. Don't have Wikipedia open right now...
Really you should accept "Wizards" as that's what most players actually refer to the company as in casual conversation. I was frustrated when it wouldn't accept Wizards and assumed you were looking for something else.
what?? why? Most of these are common knowledge and even if they weren't, knowing any of these would not make you a bad person or something. being happy to score low on this does make you a certain kind of person though.
The only thing really niche was the company one. (which you could get by just naming a few well known ones, since hasbro is accepted)
17/20. Guess I'm only mostly nerd. I was surprised that TSR wasn't the right answer to the D&D publisher question. I didn't realize they'd been absorbed. Poor Gary Gygax.
Okay. I am getting SICK of everyone saying it's bad to be a nerd. HELLO, people, Bill Gates is a nerd. Albert Einstein is a nerd, and after all you jocks are hobbling around on old sports injuries, us nerds will be sitting in plush chairs in techno-offices, playing miniature golf, and being rich. Dudes. Get your priorities straight.
And somehow you assume that *your* priorities of getting rich and playing minigolf are the right ones? You make the same mistake that you accuse others of making.
It's neither good nor bad to be a nerd. In fact, I assure you, noone cares. But also: neither Einstein nor Bill Gates invented anything by collecting Pokemon or playing D&D in their mom's basement. So, get off your high horse, and just enjoy whatever you enjoy.
I cannot believe such a thing exists. I know there are all sorts of "nerd" (I am loath to use the term) subcultures, but I remember the My Little Pony of my youth as a vacuous 22-minute long toy commercial for young girls with no redeeming quality whatsoever. I think I saw somewhere that the series has been rebooted, so perhaps it has been reformed with better animation, writing, etc., because I just cannot imagine that any person over the age 10, of any gender, would find the original My Little Pony even tolerable.
I'm sort of autistic. Being a brony doesn't really get you tons of chicks. I'm into ponies with little side of a kid's d*. I'm just like Kony kidnapping kids ages 5 and 6. (but not dead since 2006)
I have four granddaughters and none of them ever wanted to watch My Little Pony when they were at my house. Two of them had a crush on Wyatt from Super Why, and one of them really identified with the stoner sloth on It's a Big, Big World. (That was a little worrisome.) Our autistic granddaughter prefers watching DIY home and auto repair DVDs. I say to each his/her own.
I don't even remember taking the quiz, but further 5 years later I breezed through it and got 20/20. The Worf question was the only one I had to think a bit longer about.
But they didn't ask "What is pi rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth?" they asked "What are the first five digits of pi?" And the fifth digit of pi is, inarguably, 5.
I recognize a couple because they are well known, like Klingons and Dungeons And Dragons, but I only know 3 as something I'd have any interest in. As someone who was thinking I was a nerd because I do well on most of this site's quizzes, I quote a modern nerd legend,
"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."
I was wondering whether it would be more correct to call this a Are You A Geek quiz. The definitions from Oxford English Dictionary are very similar. I suppose either is correct.
Geek - a person who is knowledgeable about and obsessively interested in a particular subject, especially one that is technical or of specialist or niche interest.
Nerd - a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest.
This is like, exactly the popular culture, early 2000s, Big Bang Theory definition of nerd. Just missing a question with cringe thinly veiled misogyny.
Why not? Are you one of those people who think fantasy stuff is immature and for kids? Cause I have news for you, most of human history and culture disagrees with you. I.e. look up the term "mythology".
Linux is his namesake and most famous "creation" but Torvalds also created git which is arguably as widely-used, if not more so. It's a little hard to establish what you might mean be "well-known" or "widely-used" but both git and Linux are at the very highest levels. I suggest accepting "git" for akshully crowd and the smarty-pants (like me).
Agree! Also tried git first, and was surprised it wasn't accepted. After all, this quiz is all about being a nerd, so I think git should be accepted as it's technically correct.
Not sure, whether I should be proud or shocked that I got 4/5 points... At least two were wild guesses (Dune and Magic), but on the other hand, I should have known Turing test, but didn't remember.
Some of these are broader culture things. Like the D&D, GoT and Superman ones, especially since you give away part of the answer.
GoT has trascended into the general public, and the phrase along with it.
As for D&D,a lot of non-nerdy people have heard of the name, so that in itself is not very nerdy.
As for Supes, again, mainly thanks to the 1978 movie I guess, the Fortress of Solitude is a rather basic and well known thing.
One thing would be to ask specific stuff about those subjects, but these answers are all widely known.
In other words, what I'm trying to say is that some nerdy things seep into the wider general culture; and because of that, knowing them does not measure one's nerdiness.
Also, "leet" and "brony" are internet culture terms, not exclusive to "nerd subculture".
Finally, considering we live in an age where nerd culture has massively spread into general culture, these divisions are increasingly fuzzy and useless.
gahh I tried to write the decimals of pi not digits (and first I read 4 not 5 of them were requested). I got enough questions right though to beat 90% and get 4 points. Guess that makes me a dumb nerd haha.
The only thing really niche was the company one. (which you could get by just naming a few well known ones, since hasbro is accepted)
got 9, avg. is 8 :)
16 8 4 2 1
1 0 0 0 0
Quizmaster, please fix.
No. That doesn't even make sense.
May I have a large container of coffee?
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"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."
Geek - a person who is knowledgeable about and obsessively interested in a particular subject, especially one that is technical or of specialist or niche interest.
Nerd - a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest.
(Unless this is a reference to something that is just whooshing over my head.)
GoT has trascended into the general public, and the phrase along with it.
As for D&D,a lot of non-nerdy people have heard of the name, so that in itself is not very nerdy.
As for Supes, again, mainly thanks to the 1978 movie I guess, the Fortress of Solitude is a rather basic and well known thing.
One thing would be to ask specific stuff about those subjects, but these answers are all widely known.
In other words, what I'm trying to say is that some nerdy things seep into the wider general culture; and because of that, knowing them does not measure one's nerdiness.
Also, "leet" and "brony" are internet culture terms, not exclusive to "nerd subculture".
Finally, considering we live in an age where nerd culture has massively spread into general culture, these divisions are increasingly fuzzy and useless.