Are you a dumbass Merkin? Take the U.S. cities quiz!

[Oeditpus Rex]

http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/uscitiesquiz.html



I got 445 out of 474. As a geophreak, I consider that unacceptable. :(

[Shakespeare]

1. You mean one of THESE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin

:scared:









:rofl: :hi:

[Oeditpus Rex]

35. OMD!

I had NO idea! Seriesly! :rofl:

[Shakespeare]

37. I've always thought those were one of the most bizarre things mankind has EVER designed.

I mean....WHY???? :wtf:


:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

45. Dunno... but did you catch this?

Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition describes the term's etymology as stemming from an "alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English;


To clarify:


mal·kin /ˈmɔkɪn, ˈmɔl-, ˈmæl-/
–noun British Dialect.
1. an untidy woman; slattern.
2. a scarecrow, ragged puppet, or grotesque effigy.
3. a mop, esp. one made from a bundle of rags and used to clean out a baker's oven.
4. a cat.
5. a hare.

Also, mawkin.


Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

[Shakespeare]

47. Ha!

That's PERFECT.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. 398. I suck.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I wish to register a complaint about this quiz I took not half an hour ago

There's no dot on the map for Wilmington. x(



That's assuming, though, that they mean the one in Delaware.

[GOPisEvil]

8. They meant the one in North Carolina. (See Augusta in my post below.)

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Well, that's just silly!

Delaware has only two cities: Wilmington and Dover.

The toll booths preclude any other places with populations over 30. :D

[GOPisEvil]

14. Now, now, Rehoboth Beach has maybe 50. In winter.

In the summer...lots more. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. Mutley R Us has folks near there

She has to use GPS, NORAD and a divining rod to find it. :D

[GOPisEvil]

19. A dearly departed DUer and I visited there. It WAS a little convoluted.

To say the least. :D

[GOPisEvil]

3. 462, but some of those "significant cities" aren't.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. They are

to the people who live in them.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I suppose, but "Augusta" is misleading.

There IS an Augusta in Georgia, and for fans of golf it is FAR more significant than the one in Maine.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. Considering the quiz has all the state capitals

I logically assumed they meant the northernmost one. :shrug:

[GOPisEvil]

10. Heh - well, I kinda forgot Augusta was the capital of Maine...

In fact, it took me two tries to remember there IS an Augusta, ME. Sorry Mainers. :blush:

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Boy, are you lucky WIMR isn't around right now

:scared:

[GOPisEvil]

15. Or crim son, or Mainah or mainegreen...

I knew Bangor and Portland though. (And on Portland, they differentiated between Maine and Oregon.)

Did THEY know where Laredo, Corpus Christi and Brownsville are? :P

[Oeditpus Rex]

20. Tejas is easy

Only thing that gave me pause was "Is Odessa east or west of Midland?" But I remembered. :)



They shoulda made it tougher — like Pflugerville or Anahuac. :D

[GOPisEvil]

21. Cut 'n' Shoot or Gun Barrel City

:D

[Oeditpus Rex]

24. Oh, crap

What's the place Bonnie Parker came from? Rowena or somethin' like that. South of Fawt Wuth, maybe a little southwest.

:banghead:

[GOPisEvil]

26. Rowena is correct.

Ellis County. :thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

29. k, I was a bit off in the direction

It's a tad southEast of Fort Worth.

That's kind of a weird thing with me. Whenever I read about little towns in a book or hear about 'em in a movie, I gotta find 'em on a map.

Peter Bogdanovich made me a cappy hamper in that sense with "The Last Picture Show" and "Paper Moon." :D

[GOPisEvil]

31. I remember being that way when reading Last Picture Show.

Megargel. Great name.

A friend of mine went to Thalia. Not much there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. I don't even remember the names of the towns in that

Not even the one where it was centered — though I seem to recall reading that the name of it was fictionalized. Can't remember the name of the town where it was shot, though.

Now, "Paper Moon" — besides St. Jo(seph), where they were headed, there were Gorham and Lucas and Waldo and... I just found one on the map in that area called Covert.

What the hell's it doing on the map? :shrug:

[fudge stripe cookays]

42. A Lizards fan, eh?

"I strangled my girl in Pflugerville....Pflugerville...."

reprehensor was actually a fan before he moved down. When we made our first trip to Austin from Dallas and he saw the exit sign, he about pissed himself he was so happy. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

46. He pfled from his pflogger in Pflugerville?

I have all but two of their CDs. I've seen 'em eight times and interviewed Tom Pittman and Richard Bowden.

[elleng]

55. DITTO,

but having fun anyway!

[ChoralScholar]

52. Yeah, and I got it right after Atlanta,

so I was looking for Augusta, GA.

I wonder how many of these cities are inaccurately placed.... for example, it shows Fort Smith, AR just east of Tulsa, OK, which it's not. Fort Smith is located at the vertex of the 'angle' of the Arkansas state line. The dot they have is more accurately Fayetteville or Springdale. Although, since it's right on the line, it's actually Siloam Springs.

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. A crappy 388 for me.

Fun quiz, but it only gave me one attempt for Wilmington and told me I was wrong, but I wasn't! x(

[boilerbabe]

11. I think I aced it, but got no score at the end n/r

[VenusRising]

16. Citteh kwiz iz brokin'!

x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. Just noticed that

I think maybe I over-populated it. :blush:



:hi: :hug:

[VenusRising]

22. Out there planting your seed

of knowledge, huh?

:hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. Uh...

Nope. I ain't touchin' that one.

[VenusRising]

25. Chicken.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

27. Okay, then

I was gonna say, these days, the seed isn't so much planted, anyway, as broadcast.

[VenusRising]

28. There are soooo many ways to take that.

:evilgrin:

[Oeditpus Rex]

32. I'm reminded of a bit from an 'All in the Family' episode

Lionel explained something to Archie that culminated in the slightly veiled insult, "So, what you need to do, Mr. Bunker, is... shove yours."



Archie: "Y'know, a guy could take that two ways."

Mike: "Yeah, but, knowing Lionel, I think he only meant it one way."

Archie: "Yeah, I guess you're right."



:D

[VenusRising]

40. I always loved the way Lionel and Mike played up to Archie

and his prejudices, and then smacked him over the head with them.

That was when sitcoms were actually GOOD.

[UrbScotty]

30. 451!

[Parche]

34. 430 for me

:woohoo: :woohoo:
:hi:

[Bennyboy]

36. 318...I don't know shit about Texas or Florida

and don't really care to either!

[EstimatedProphet]

38. 423. Feh.

There were a few I got ahead of myself and clicked next on before I checked to see if the answer was right, so I threw away some points.

[harmonicon]

39. 364

I thought I'd do better

[laconicsax]

41. They fucking charged me a toll when I clicked on the cities in Delaware

:grr:

[fudge stripe cookays]

43. 465...kiss my feet!

:woohoo:

The only ones that screwed me up were Escanaba, Moorhead, and Scottsbluff.

It helps that my genealogy research takes me to half those places. :D

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. I never even *heard* of Escanaba

:shrug:



Now — I'd kinda like to see something before kissing it.

[elleng]

56. But Mass. was so screwed up,

tiny! Boston just doesn't exist!

[1monster]

44. I took the whole test and it never gave me a score! Grrr. I know I got at least

two and probably three or more worng, but I got most of them right and it never gave me a score. :(

[1monster]

48. Okay, I went back. Since the map didn't load, I thought you typed in the

state where the city was located...

It was harder to find on the map, for sure. And twice I clicked on the dot that should have been one city, but it was so close to another city that it registered for the wrong city.

Here's one that's a lot easier: http://www.pibmug.com/files/map_test.swf

Can You Pass the Third Grade????

[femmocrat]

50. Are there 474 questions?

If so, forget it.

[Doc_Technical]

51. Only 378 out of 474.

For shame.

[rurallib]

53. 453 - blanked on Grand Junction

and kept looking for Wilmington Delaware, not NC

[TreasonousBastard]

54. Got to 35 questions and got bored. n/t

[Mutley]

57. Wow, I suck.

322.

:o :o :o

[JVS]

58. What a boring fucking task!

[seemunkee]

59. No, I'm a lazy ass Merkin

That test is too long.

[bumblebee1]

60. 417 out of 474

[bumblebee1]

61. Just took the Europe quiz

scored 132 out of 138

[chknltl]

62. 274 yep, hickster here. Think I'll go vote fer bush agin...

right after I git done replacing the batteries in my Billy The Talkin Bass.

[Random_Australian]

63. The only one I got was Washington DC, 'cos it was labelled.

I guess that is what happens when you combine a hatred of geography with an unfamiliarity of a foreign country.

Meh.

[Oeditpus Rex]

64. Don't sweat it, dude

I'd do well to locate Sydney and Melbourne. But they'd probably throw places like Geelong at me. :D

[Random_Australian]

65. Ah, but which part of Australia is in outer space?

Hah hah, fooled you there!

Only the prime minister before last's global warming policy was out there!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

(It was a great day when our side won the elections - formerly, it was just us and the US that hadn't signed Kyoto, and the very DAY he got into power we had it signed.)