EuroNerd 98

What is EuroNerd 98?

The EuroNerd 98 is an attempt to create an updated European version of the Nerdity Test. It is based on the original Nerdity Test, but questions have been modified to European customs and new questions added - and due to several requests the Star Trek section is very limited.

Just tick the boxes where you answer yes.

The EuroNerd 98 Nerdity Test

1. Education & Schooling

1. Do you have more than 10 years of education?
2. Have you ever asked a question in lecture?
3. Have you ever answered a question asked in lecture?
4. Have you ever corrected a professor in lecture?
5. Have you ever answered a rhetorical question?
6. Have you ever given a lecture?
7. Do you sit in the front row more than 20% of the time?
8. Have you ever had a "perfect attendance record"?
9. Do you take notes in more than one colour?
10. Do you use other props when taking notes? (ruler, compass, protractor)
11. Have you ever tutored someone else?
12. ...for money?
13. Have you ever done homework on a Friday night?
14. Have you ever pulled an all-nighter?
15. Have you ever known more about the subject material than the lecturer?
16. ...but continued in the class because you "needed the grade?"
17. ...and had the lecturer admit this fact to you?
18. Have you ever had an argument with a professor?
19. Did you win?
20. Has a lecturer ever referred someone to you as being more knowledgeable?
21. Did you apply to any college merely for the sake of "seeing if I would get in"?
22. Have you ever taken Latin?
23. Have you ever tried to pass an exam in a course you've never attended?
24. ...did you pass?
25. ...with a result above average?

2. Knowledge

26. Can you count in Roman numerals?
27. Can you understand the owner's manual for electronic equipment?
28. Can you understand the electronic schematic for electronic equipment?
29. Do you know what a "reverse polish notation" calculator is?
30. ...can you use one?
31. ...do you prefer to use one?
32. Do you know any foreign alphabets? (Greek, Russian, Korean, ...)
33. ...do you actually know (speak/read/write) a language using that alphabet?
34. Do you know how your car's engine works?
35. Do you know most of the words to "The Lumberjack Song" by Monty Python?
36. Have you ever wanted to know something for no apparent reason?
37. Have you ever been laughed at for wanting to know something?
38. Do you feel your vocabulary is larger than most people's?
39. Can you program the time on a VCR?
40. Has anyone ever asked you to program his or her VCR time for him or her?

Answer YES if you know what the following acronyms stand for:
41. ...AI?
42. ...ATM?
43. ...ATP?
44. ...CORBA?
45. ...CRC?
46. ...CRT?
47. ...DAT?
48. ...DLL?
49. ...DNA?
50. ...GIF?
51. ...GPS?
52. ...GSM?
53. ...HTML?
54. ...JOVE?
55. ...LAN?
56. ...LASER?
57. ...LED?
58. ...MAN?
59. ...MODEM?
60. ...MUD?
61. ...NADP?
62. ...NASA?
63. ...NFS?
64. ...NSF?
65. ...NTFS?
66. ...OLE?
67. ...OOP?
68. ...OSCE?
69. ...PGP?
70. ...PINE?
71. ...RADAR?
72. ...RAM?
73. ...RPG?
74. ...SCUBA?
75. ...STP?
76. ...TCP/IP?
77. ...TLA?
78. ...URL?
79. ...VRML?
80. ...WAN?
81. ...WYSIWYG?
82. ...XTLA?

83. Did you not know one of the above, but took a wild guess at in anyway?
84. Have you ever created an acronym in order to simplify your writing?

The next few questions deal with scientific constants. Mark yes for any that you can give the value (2 or more significant digits) for. Knowledge of the units attached is NOT necessary, just the numeric portion.

85. Avogadro's number?
86. Charge of an electron?
87. e? (exception: must know more than 3 digits)
88. Earth's gravity near the surface? (g)
89. Gravitational constant? (G)
90. Mass of an electron?
91. Molar gas constant?
92. Permeability of free space? (mu naught)
93. Permittivity of free space? (epsilon naught)
94. Pi? (exception: must know more than 3 digits)
95. Pi with more than 15 digits?
96. Mark this true if you are presently the person knowing the most digits of pi in the room.
97. Planck's constant? (h or h-bar)
98. Speed of light in vacuum?
99. Speed of sound at room temperature?

Can you give the conversion factor between (2 or more sig. digits)
100. ...atmosphere and millibar?
101. ...atomic mass units and kilograms?
102. ...AU and light years?
103. ...bytes and megabytes?
104. ...Celsius and Fahrenheit?
105. ...Celsius and Kelvin?
106. ...centimetres and inches?
107. ...feet and centimetres?
108. ...joules and electron volts?
109. ...kilometres and miles?
110. ...light years and parsecs?
111. ...meters and Astronomical Units (AU)?
112. ...millibar and hectopascal?
113. ...tablespoons and millilitres?

114. If, while answering any question in this section, you said someone else's answer was wrong and were right, mark this question true. (e.g. "You nob! Pi isn't 3.1425. It's 3.1415!")
115. If while answering any question in this section, you checked a reference book to find out the correct answer, mark this question true. (e.g. "AARRGGH! What's that last R in radar stand for?")
116. Are you a strong advocate of the SI-system?

3. Computers

117. Have you ever taken a "higher" computer science course?
118. ...at university level?
119. ...and received a grade in the top 10% range?
120. Are you still capable of doing what you learned in that course?
121. Can you count in binary? (up to decimal 10)
122. Can you count in hexadecimal? (up to decimal 20)
123. Can you define the difference between a 3rd and a 4th generation programming tool?

Which of the following computer languages do you know?
124. Ada?
125. Assembler language?
126. BASIC?
127. C/C++?
128. Cobol?
129. COMAL?
130. FORTRAN?
131. IDL?
132. Java?
133. LISP?
134. Pascal?
135. Perl?
136. PostScript?
137. Prolog?
138. SQL?
139. Visual Basic?
140. Any mathematical language, such as Mathematica, ML, or Maple V?
141. Can you identify at least 3 differences between MS-DOS and IBM-DOS?
142. ...between Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (names don't count)?
143. ...between Linux and FreeBSD?
144. Do you know how to exit the vi editor?
145. ...have you edited a text in vi?
146. ...is vi your preferred editor?
147. Have you ever used a computer?
148. ...for more than 4 hours continuously?
149. ...for more than 8 hours continuously?
150. ...past 4 a.m.?
151. ...as a source of income?
152. ...on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the same weekend?
153. ...with someone you were physically attracted toward?
154. ...in the last 24 hours?
155. ...in the last half-hour?
156. ...as a source of entertainment? (computer game)
157. ...in the last three months?
158. ...in the last three weeks?
159. Have you ever programmed a computer?
160. ...to write a computer game?
161. ...to write a computer virus?
162. ...to write a shell script?
163. Have you ever lost sleep over a computer game?

Have you ever used a
164. ...computer with a touch sensitive monitor?
165. ...digitizer?
166. ...Dvorak keyboard? (as opposed to QWERTY)
167. ...hard disk drive?
168. ...light-pen?
169. ...modem?
170. ...mouse?
171. ...track-ball?
172. ......for something other than a video game?
173. ...trackpoint?

Have you ever used
174. ...MS-DOS/IBM-DOS?
175. ...MS Windows 3.x?
176. ...MS Windows 2.x?
177. ...MS Windows 95
178. ...MS Windows 98 (beta or release)?
179. ...MS Windows NT 3.x?
180. ...MS Windows NT 4.0?
181. ...MS Windows NT 5.0 (beta or release)?
182. ...AIX?
183. ...BSD 4.x/NET2 (including direct derivatives, eg. FreeBSD)?
184. ...HP-UX?
185. ...Irix?
186. ...OSF/1?
187. ...SCO?
188. ...Solaris/SunOS?
189. ...Ultrix?
190. ...VMS?
191. ...Linux?
192. ...Any other flavour of Unix?
193. ...MacOS?
194. ...OS/2?
195. Have you ever seen a magnetic tape reel?
196. Have you ever mounted a magnetic tape reel?
197. Have you ever seen a computer punch card?
198. Have you ever programmed using punch cards?
199. Are you still capable of programming with punch cards?
200. Have you ever set up a kill file?
201. ...that does more than simply "kill"?
202. Have you set up a login.com or similar file for auto-execution on logging unto a computer system? (autoexec.bat, .proile, ...)
203. Have you ever built a computer?
204. ...from chips?
205. Have you ever installed beta software?
206. ...of an operating system?
207. ...did it work?
208. ...for fun?
209. ...to have the newest version?
210. ...do you use it seriously?
211. Have you ever made a single sided floppy double sided?
212. ...with a soldering iron, because it was fastest?
213. Do you still own any computer with less than 512k of RAM? (e.g. Commodore 64, Apple II +/e/c, TRS 80, ad infinitum)
214. ...that is still in working condition?
215. ...and still buy software for it?
216. Do you own a terminal (VT-100 or similar)?
217. ...which still works?
218. ...which you still use?
219. Do you own more than 100 5 1/4" diskettes?
220. ...which still work?
221. ...which you still use?
222. Do you own any 8" diskettes?
223. ...which still work?
224. ...which you still use?
225. Do you own more than one computer with at least a megabyte of RAM?
226. ...with at least 4 megabytes?
227. ...with at least 32 megabytes?
228. Do you currently own any ISDN equipment?
229. ...any dial-on-demand router?
230. Do you still own any modem whose top speed is 300 baud or less?
231. Do you have any "pirated" software? (i.e. second-hand copywritten)
232. Do you have any "public-domain" software?
233. Do you have any "shareware"? (i.e. software author requests a fee be sent to them for its use)
234. Have you ever taken your computer on vacation with you?
235. Is part of your desk space devoted to your computer?
236. Have you changed your desktop background and window colours?
237. ...by designing your own scheme and not using a predefined one?
238. Have you changed your system sounds?
239. ...by designing your own scheme?
240. ...by recording your own sounds?
241. Have you changed the pointers?
242. ...by designing your own scheme?
243. ...by designing your own pointers?
244. Have you changed the icons?
245. ...by using other icons included with the program?
246. ...by using some completely different icons found on for instance a CD-ROM or the Internet?
247. ...by drawing you own?
248. Do you have more than 20 TrueType fonts on your system?
249. ...200?
250. ...2000?
251. ...20000?
252. Have you ever designed your own TrueType Font?
253. Have you ever had your handwriting scanned and converted to a TrueType Font?
254. Have you ever played "Guess My Font" with other nerds (i.e. a contest of guessing the name of the font used for some test page)?
255. ...and won?
256. Do you have (access to) a laptop PC?
257. ...with possibility of surfing the Web wireless, i.e. via a cellular phone?
258. Do you own any O'Reilly books?
259. ...more than 5?
260. ...more than 10?
261. ...the whole Nutshell series?
262. Have you ever telnet'ed from one computer system to another?
263. ...to gain access to a system you had no authorisation on?
264. ...to call a government computer? (NASA, FBI, NORAD, etc.)
265. ...to call a research institution? (CERN, JPL, etc.)
266. ...where the other machine was outside of your native country?
267. Have you ever FTP'ed?
268. ...anonymously?
269. Have you ever uploaded?
270. Have you ever downloaded?
271. Do you have a .plan or similar file for when people finger you?
272. Have you ever read the postings on USENET?
273. ...in the last week?
274. Have you posted to USENET?
275. ...and got a response?
276. ...from someone you knew outside of the net?
277. ...and got a "flame"?
278. ...ever posted a "flame"?

Have you ever posted to...
279. ...a science fiction news group? (rec.arts.sf)
280. ...a sex news group? (alt.sex)
281. ...talk.bizarre?
282. ...rec.humor?
283. ...a sci. or science-related news group?
284. Have you ever written a FAQ for a USENET news group?
285. Have you ever run a vote for a USENET news group?
286. Have you ever moderated a USENET news group?
287. Have you played any MUD's, MUSH's or other multi-user games?
288. ...in the last week?
289. ...today?
290. Do you consistently play more than one MUD, MUSH, etc.?
291. Are you a "wizard/implementor/immortal" on any MUD's, MUSH's, etc.?
292. Do you have a personal Internet domain name?
293. Have you ever given/received an Internet domain name for christmas/birthday?
294. Do you have an electronic mail address?
295. ...more than one e-mail address?
296. ...more than 5?
297. ...more than 5 and not counting aliases?
298. Have you ever sent e-mail?
299. ...to yourself?
300. ...to someone who was in the same room as you at the time?
301. ...with a .sig file appended to the end of it?
302. ...in the last week?
303. Have you ever set up and run a mailing list for e-mail?
304. Do you receive more e-mail than you send?
305. Do you have your own homepage?
306. ...which you coded yourself?
307. ...using raw HTML in a text editor?
308. ...using more than one WYSIWYG editor on the same document?
309. Does it contain graphics?
310. ...which you drew/edited yourself?
311. Does it contain animated graphics?
312. ...which you created?
313. Have you ever tried VRML?
314. ...and published it on the Web (i.e.. you have a homespace/homeworld)?
315. ...and used it for imagining what a physical place/thing looks like (for instance your apartment)?
316. Does your homepage use Java?
317. ...JavaScript?
318. ...ActiveX?
319. ...Shockwave?
320. Have you ever written your own plug-in?
321. Is your homepage designed to be viewed with one particular browser?
322. ...which can easily be seen because you have the browser logo on your homepage?
323. ...and the logo links to a site to download that browser?
324. Have you installed more than one operating system at your PC (at one time)?
325. Do you use alias/batch commands to standardise your OS? (e.g. alias dir=ls)
326. Do you prefer character prompts to GUIs (graphical user interface - windows'n'icons)?
327. Do you feel more at home in a DOS-environment than in Windows 95?
328. Do you feel more at home in UNIX/VMS than in DOS?
329. Do you have a favourite computer language?
330. ...that you've had to defend in verbal debate?
331. Do you have a favourite operating system?
332. ...which you happily and gladly defend?
333. ...even though you know it contains several bugs (don't claim your OS doesn't have any bugs)?
334. Have you ever convinced a non-nerd to use a certain operating system?
335. Have you ever convinced a non-nerd NOT to use a certain operating system?
336. Have you ever convinced another nerd to use a certain operating system?
337. Have you ever convinced another nerd NOT to use a certain operating system?
338. Have you ever discussed the Browser Wars with non-nerds?
339. ...with other nerds?
340. ...with other nerds of the opposite opinion?
341. ...and got involved in a physical fight?
342. Do you refer to operating systems, software corporations etc. by their nickname (i.e. Eunuchs, Microsucks Windoze, Macintrash etc.)?
343. ...while talking to non-nerds?
344. ...while talking to a representative from that corporation or a sales person in general?
345. Have you discussed whether emacs is better than vi?
346. Have you ever called something a "print out" or "hard copy"?
347. Have you ever forgotten a person's name but not their e-mail address?
348. Do you know more computer addresses than street addresses?
349. Do you tend to remember the IP numbers instead of the alpha address for computer sites? (128.253.232.63 vs. crux3.cit.cornell.edu)
350. Do you find that you type more often than you write longhand?
351. Have you ever forgotten how to write longhand?
352. Have you ever used computer symbology elsewhere? (goto, *, etc.)
353. Have you ever spoken internet-ese? (btw, imho, :-), brb, afk, ...)
354. Have you ever blown off doing something you were supposed to do in order to work on the computer?
355. Have you ever felt jealous of someone merely because they owned a better computer system than you?
356. Have you ever "played" a wordprocessor just for fun?
357. ...a spreadsheet?
358. ...a database program?
359. ...a programming environment?
360. ...a graphics program?
361. Ever had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (ie. hurting wrist from using computer mice)?
362. ...so hard you hard to learn to use your mouse with the other hand?
363. ...in both wrists?
364. Do you use more money on your computer than on your carbon-based family?
365. Have you had more computers than relationships?
366. When somebody says "mouse", your first thought is "pointing device" and not "little furry animal"?
367. When somebody says "cat", your first thought is "Unix command" and not "somewhat larger furry animal"?
368. Do you think that the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 etc. are at least as "pretty" as 10, 100, 1000 etc.?
369. Do you think that a kilometer ought to be 1024 meters and not 1000 meters?
370. Do you have a least 1 file or directory on your computer named tmp?
371. ...foo?
372. Have you ever created a fictive user in order to play or test a system?
373. ...was the user name foo, bar, or a derivative of any of these?
374. Do you use old hardware as decoration in your room/home?
375. Have you ever made christmas decorations with torn-off edges from tractor feed paper?
376. When going to the movies, do you watch out for computers in the background? (Movies more or less sponsored by the computer industry such as "Mission Impossible" (Apple Corp.) don't count)
377. ...to determine which operating system they're running?
378. ...and make comments about it to the rest of the audience?

4. Science

379. Have you ever taken a "higher" math course?
380. ...at university level?
381. ...and received a grade in the top 10% range?
382. Are you still capable of doing what you learned in that course?
383. Have you ever majored in the mathematics?
384. Do you know the difference between a scalar and a vector?
385. Do you know the difference between a vector and a tensor?
386. Do you know the right-hand-rule for cross products?
387. Have you ever interpolated?
388. Have you ever extrapolated?
389. Do you know the difference between interpolation and extrapolation?
390. Have you ever integrated numerically?
391. ...and known the result ahead of time?
392. ...and complained about how slow the computer was?
393. Have you ever seen or utilised the spherical harmonic functions?
394. ...and found them aesthetically pleasing?
395. Have you ever considered whether large numbers you met by coincidence were prime numbers?
396. Have you ever found the prime factors of numbers larger than 10000?
397. Have you ever taken part in a discussion about whether 4 definitely is a special number (it's 2 squared)?
398. ...during a lecture?
399. ...in which the professor took part?
400. Do you know more than one convergence?
401. ...do you really know what convergence is?
402. Have you ever read tables of integrals for fun?
403. ...tables of trigonometrical functions?
404. ...tables of random numbers?
405. Have you ever taken a "higher" science course? (physics, chemistry, biology)
406. ...at university level?
407. ...and received a grade in the top 10% range?
408. Are you still capable of doing what you learned in that course?
409. Have you ever majored in the "hard sciences"? ((not mathematics) engineering, physics, chemistry, etc. but excluding psychology, economics, etc.)
410. Do you know Maxwell's equations? (integral or differential form)
411. Do you know Schroedinger's Equation?
412. Have you ever solved Schroedinger's Equation?
413. ...for fun?
414. Do you know the Latin name (genus and species) for anything? (eg. fruit fly, human being)
415. Can you name the first nine elements of the periodic table in order?
416. Can you translate more than half the chemical symbols into the name of the element they represent?
417. Do you know the entire periodical system by heart?
418. Do you know the wavelengths in the visible spectrum?
419. Can you briefly outline the biological process that occurs due to alcohol when it is consumed by a human?
420. ...while drunk?
421. Have you ever dissected something?
422. ...while not involved in a biology class?
423. Do you regard it as common knowledge to know the difference between an eukaryote and a prokaryote?
424. Have you ever verified an equation in a science text on your own? (i.e. experimental proof)
425. Have you ever derived an equation you found in a science text?
426. ...when you didn't have to?
427. ...using other principles? (starting from a different equation than the text did)
428. Have you ever used the word "asymptotic"?
429. Have you ever referred to something as an L.E.D.?
430. Have you ever referred to a ruler as a "straight-edge"?
431. Have you ever said "quartz crystal"?
432. Have you ever referred to a curve/object as hyperbolic, parabolic, etc.?
433. Do you know the numbers of 10 or more food additives based on the EU-defined numbers (such as E202 or E160a)?
434. ...and you're not allergic to any of these additives?
435. Have you ever been taking a romantic stroll under the moonlight, which turned into a discussion about the chemical properties of stars (or some other scientific or highly technical issue)?
436. Do you see your environment as representing mathematical graphs?
437. Has "parabola!" ever crossed your mind while you were playing (or watching others) playing tennis or another ballistic game?
438. Do you find the notion "ballistic game" natural and obvious?

5. Possessions & Nerd Toys

439. Do you frequently find yourself with more plugs than outlets?
440. Do you currently own a can of compressed air?
441. Do you have a personal copy of any version of the nerdity test?
442. ...in space allocated to you on a computer system?
443. Have you ever owned a light sabre (Star Wars)?
444. ...that wasn't made of plastic?
445. Do you own a DVD-RAM drive?
446. Do you own an almanac?
447. Do you own an atlas?
448. Do you own a globe?
449. ...and have it on display? (on a desk, bookshelf...)
450. ...that has bumps corresponding to mountain ranges?
451. ...that lights up?
452. Do you own any "maps of the ancient world"?
453. ...and have them on display?
454. Do you have any "mathematical" artwork? (Escher, fractals)
455. Do you own a cellular phone? (portable phone, not cordless home phone that has a fixed base station with a wire)
456. Do you receive more e-mails than ordinary voice calls on it?
457. Do you send/make e-mails than ordinary voice calls from it?
458. Does it have a graphical web browser?
459. Do you bring it with you every day?
460. ...and it's "on"?
461. ...at parties?
462. Do you know any undocumented features in it?
463. Do you own a non-standard calculator? (scientific, programmable)
464. Do you own a "reverse polish notation" calculator?
465. Do you own a slide rule?
466. ...and know how to use it?
467. Other than a thermometer, do you own any meteorological equipment?
468. Do you own any orienteering equipment? (GPS, compass, sextant, etc.)
469. Do you own an electric pencil sharpener?
470. Do you own any graph paper?
471. Do you own any log or semi-log paper?
472. ...any stochastic paper?
473. ...any polar coordinate paper?
474. Do you own a table of integrals?
475. Have you ever stolen scientific (radiation, biohazard, ...) warnings for personal use?
476. Have you ever bought something from any electronics store?
477. Do you know what an oscilloscope does?
478. Have you ever used an oscilloscope?
479. Do you own an oscilloscope?
480. Have you ever used a microscope?
481. Do you own a microscope?
482. Have you ever used a telescope?
483. ...not for peering through someone's bedroom window?
484. Do you own a voltmeter?
485. ...a multi-meter?
486. Do you own any remote controlled vehicles?
487. Do you own a CB/HAM radio?
488. ...a radio scanner?
489. Have you ever had an amateur radio license?
490. Do you still have an amateur radio license?
491. Have you ever had an extra-class amateur radio license?
492. Have you ever used a chemistry set?
493. ...since the age of 13?
494. Have you ever used a rare earth element?
495. Do you collect minerals?
496. ...and have them on display?
497. Do you own any material of extra-terrestrial origin (moon stone, meteorite)
498. Do you own a slinky?
499. Does a slinky make you think about oscillations?
500. Do you own a Rubik's cube?
501. Are you able to solve Rubik's Cube?
502. ...without using the book or taking it apart?
503. ...in less than two minutes?
504. Have you ever tried to calculate the number of possible permutations a Rubik's Cube can have?
505. Do enjoy solving jigsaw puzzles?
506. ...with more than 4999 pieces?
507. ...with more than 9999 pieces?
508. ...with impossible motives?
509. ...in 3D?

6. Leisure Time

510. Have you ever taken something apart?
511. ...and put it back together correctly?
512. ...was there any "thingie" left after assembly?
513. ...without worrying about voiding the warranty?
514. Do friends and/or family ask you to fix things?
515. Do friends and/or family ask to borrow your tools?
516. ...because you are the only person they know who owns that tool?
517. Have you ever put something together without reference to the assembly instructions?
518. ...because the instructions were wrong?
519. Have you ever bought something primarily for the pleasure of taking it apart to "see how it works"?
520. Have you ever rewired something?
521. Have you ever played a non-sexual role-playing game? (D&D)
522. ...since leaving high school?
523. Have you ever been to a RPG convention? (GenCON, etc.)
524. ...in the last six months?
525. Do you play chess?
526. Have you ever made a technical joke?
527. ...in the last week?
528. ...that no one around you understood?
529. ...and you found yourself trying to explain it?
530. ...that everyone around you understood?
531. ...but their reason for laughing was not yours?

7. (Multi-)Media

532. Do you watch more than 3 hours of TV on any given day of the week?
533. Have you ever watched a documentary?
534. ...voluntarily?
535. ...in the last three weeks?

Have you ever watched a complete episode of
536. ...Dr. Who?
537. ...Battlestar Galactica?
538. ...Space: 1999?
539. ...Star Trek?
540. ...Starblazers? (cartoon about the WWII carrier flying through space)

Can you whistle, hum, sing or snap the theme songs to
541. ...Gilligan's Island?
542. ...Flintstones?
543. ...The Brady Bunch?
544. ...The Jetson's?
545. ...The Addam's Family?
546. ...Dobbie Gillis?
547. ...I Dream of Genie?
548. ...The TV or radio news?
549. Do you watch X-files?
550. Have you ever seen any of the "Revenge of the Nerds" movies more than once?
551. ...More than 5 times?
552. ...all of them in one 24 hour period?
553. Have you seen all of the Star Wars movies?
554. ...in one 24 hour period?
555. Have you ever watched something and stated "That's physically impossible" (due to Newton's laws, etc.)?

Have you ever read anything by
556. ...Arthur C. Clarke?
557. ...Carl Sagan?
558. ...Douglas Adams?
559. ...Isaac Asimov?
560. ...J.R.R. Tolkien?
561. ...Richard Feynman? (e.g. his lectures, etc.)
562. ...Robert A. Heinlein?
563. ...Robert Rankin?
564. ...Stephen Hawking?
565. ...Terry Pratchett?
566. ...TSR Hobbies? (i.e. a novel published by the D&D people)
567. Have you ever read any book on "what you, as an intelligent person, should know"?
568. Have you ever read any book about mathematics made popular?
569. Have you ever read "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" by George Gamow?
570. Have you ever read "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland?
571. ...could you identify with any of the characters (the gerbils don't count!)
572. Do you read books on a daily basis?
573. Have you finished a book in the last week?
574. Have you finished more than one book in the last week?
575. Have you ever bought a book of crossword puzzles/logic problems?
576. Do you read archaic computer manuals for pleasure?
577. Do you own "The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy"?
578. ...have you read it?
579. ...do you own it on video?
580. ...on audio?
581. Do you own an encyclopaedia?
582. Have you ever written/edited (part of/entry in) an encyclopedia?
583. Have you ever read an encyclopedia entry that you weren't researching?
584. Have you ever "surfed" in an encyclopedia (ie. when you've met "see also xxx" in an article, you've jumped to xxx)?
585. ...in a paper-based encyclopedia?
586. ...in a paper-based encyclopedia consisting of more than one volume?
587. Do you read Dilbert?
588. ...on-line?
589. ...on-line and practically every day?
590. Do you own any Dilbert comics?
591. ...more than 5?
592. Are you a member of DNRC?
593. Do you have your title registered within DNRC?
594. Do you sometimes refer to your coworkers as "induhviduals"?
595. Do you sometimes describe somebody as "pointy-haired"?
596. Have you sent Scott Adams an e-mail?
597. ...which was quoted in the Dilbert Newsletter?
598. ...which was quoted in one of his books?
599. ...which was used for a Dilbert story?
600. Do you often feel like you were Dilbert?
601. Do you own any Gary Larson comics?
602. ...more than 5?
603. Do you own any Calvin & Hobbes comics?
604. ...more than 5?

Do you have magazine subscriptions to...
605. ...any popular scientific magazine? (Scientific American or lower level)
606. ...any specialized or academic scientific magazine? (Nature)
607. ...any popular computer magazine? (PC Magazine, PCWorld)
608. ...any specialized, professional or academic scientific magazine? (Dr. Dobbs, Data Communications, Windows Sources)
609. ...any medical journals? (New England Journal of Medicine)
610. ...National Geographic?

8. Personality & Lifestyle

611. Are your socks unmatched?
612. Do you own a digital watch?
613. ...that plays music?
614. ...that's currently set to chime on the hour?
615. ...that has a calculator built in?
616. Do you have acne?
617. Do you have greasy hair?
618. ...without realising it?
619. Do you own any clothing with scientific knowledge printed on it? (e.g. T-shirts with Maxwell's equations)
620. ...which you still wear from time to time?
621. ...are they the only shirts etc. you have?
622. Do you own more "logo"-t-shirts (computer hardware/software brands, medical companies etc) than ordinary T-shirts?
623. Have you ever worn a radiation film badge?
624. ...while not in the laboratory?
625. ...and described what it was to someone, who then backed away in fear?
626. Are your pants too short?
627. Does your underwear have your name in it?
628. Is your outfit uncoordinated? (have someone else evaluate this)
629. Have you ever worn a button-down shirt that is partly or totally hanging out?
630. Have you ever bought similar looking shirts/pants in order to save time when dressing because "everything goes together"?
631. Do you wear glasses?
632. ...held together by adhesives? (tape, glue, boogers)
633. Are you legally blind? (in either eye)
634. Have you ever slept an inverted day? (sleep at dawn, wake at dusk)
635. ...for more than one day in a row?
636. Have you ever slept round the clock? (24 continuous hours in bed)

Which of the following have you used to prevent sleep...
637. ...caffeine tablets?
638. ...coffee?
639. ...regular cola?
640. ...Mega Jolt?
641. ...sugar?
642. ...energy drinks? (Red Bull etc.)
643. ...exercise?
644. ...singing, yodeling, etc?
645. ...something you made in chem. lab?
646. ...something you found in chem. lab?
647. Have you worked in a research lab?
648. ...and been more interested in the work than the pay?
649. Have you ever visited a power plant?
650. ...and not been bored?
651. Are you socially inept?
652. Was the last naked person you saw a hi-res computer scan?
653. Do you talk to yourself?
654. ...when other people are around?
655. Do you talk to imaginary people?
656. ...do they talk back?
657. ...do they seem to be more/less intelligent than you?
658. Do you have a tough time remembering people's names?
659. ...but no trouble with their numeric data? (phone#, birthday)
660. Have you ever played mathematical games with other numbers you see to pass the time? (square/cube root, prime factors of phone#)
661. Do you see everyday situations as representing mathematical concepts?
662. Have you ever found a grammatical error in a published book?
663. Have you ever quoted a piece of literature from memory? (poem, quote)
664. Have you ever eaten pizza cold?
665. ...do you like it that way?
666. ...because you're too lazy to reheat it?
667. Have you ever got pizza (or any other fast food) delivered to the lab/office/science building?
668. Is any leftover delivery food currently residing in your refrigerator?
669. ...that's been there so long, you can't remember ordering it?
670. ...that's been there so long, it's become mobile/sentient?
671. Is any food in your refrigerator moldy?
672. Have you ever commented on the lack of intellectual ability found in a "JEOPARDY" contestant?
673. Have you ever thought about extra dimensions/parallel universes?
674. ...and discussed their possibilities with others?
675. Have you come to any conclusions about UFO's/life on other planets?
676. Have you ever commented: "If I drive fast enough at the red light, it'll appear green."
677. Have you ever found yourself discussing one of the popular scientific theories of the day with someone you just met? (eg. cold fusion)
678. ...did they bring it up because they thought you incapable of talking about non-technical topics?
679. Have you ever taken part in an experiment to prove/disprove one of the popular scientific theories of the day? (cold fusion, big bang)
680. Have you ever given an inanimate object a name? (incl. stuffed animal)
681. Was the object something electronic or mechanical?
682. Did the object also have a "personality"?
683. Have you ever compared and contrasted two scientists? (Einstein vs. Newton, etc.)
684. Have you ever argued with someone else over, which of two scientists was better?
685. Have you ever laughed out loud at a joke written in a serious scientific paper? (Feynman's lectures, textbook)
686. Has anyone ever called you a geek/nerd?
687. ...in the last two weeks?
688. ...for doing/saying something you knew to be geeky/nerdy?
689. Have you ever intentionally done something that you consider geeky/nerdy?
690. ...in the last month?
691. ...today?
692. Do you refer to your computer by its name (not brand, but name - Alice, Mr. Winterbottom or whatever)?
693. ...and your printer?
694. ...and your mouse?
695. Are you a nerd spotter (At a party filled with people being unknown to you, you'll be able to identify and contact other nerds within half an hour)?
696. ...do you end up in dark corners with other nerds discussing operating systems or protocols or anything else considered nerdy within 1 hour after the party began?
697. ...and when you go home, you think you had a really good time?
698. When you speak of non-computer related subjects, do you commonly use phrases like "I pinged him, but he wasn't home" or "No more food for me, insufficient dish space"?
699. Have you ever had you IQ tested?
700. ...was it more than 120?
701. ...148?
702. Are you a member of Mensa?
703. Are you aware of the existence of a German town called "Nördlingen" (the "Nörd-" is pronounced "Nerd-")?
704. When somebody call you a nerd, do you then reply with "Thank you"?
705. ...and you're seriously happy?
706. Are you fanatic about cola brands?
707. Do you store your friends' addresses in a database?
708. ...which you print on labels before leaving for vacation (for easier addressing of all those must-send postcards)?
709. Have you ever forgotten that you had to go to the bathroom (being distracted by a computer, food, a good book etc.)?
710. Have you ever put strange things (glasses, the newspaper) in the refrigerator?
711. Have you ever fallen asleep with your glasses on?
712. Do you usually sleep wearing a wristwatch?
713. Have you ever been drinking cola before or with breakfast?
714. Do you own a plastic flower?
715. Do you drink more cola than beer when you go out in the hectic nightlife downtown?
716. Is your favourite type of crossword puzzles "kryptokryds" (those with numbers in every field)?
717. ...have you ever written a program to solve them?
718. ...have you ever configured an application, for instance a spreadsheet, to solve them?

9. The Nerdity Test

719. Are you taking this test alone?
720. Are you planning to double-check your answers to this test?
721. Have you come across copies of this test from two separate sources?
722. Did you feel offended by any of the questions on this test?
723. Did you resort to lying in order to raise your score?
724. Did you resort to lying in order to lower your score?
725. Are you currently competing with someone else for the highest score on this test (or were contemplating it)?
726. ...did you come up second best and challenge them to a rematch?
727. Have you asked for a technical clarification of anything on this test?
728. Have you ever thought of a question that belongs on this test?
729. ...has your question been implemented?
730. Have you written your own version of the Nerdity Test?
731. Have you convinced your friends to try the Nerdity Test?
732. Have you ever complained that the (classic) Nerdity Test is unfair, because it's so American (using SAT scores, units of measurement etc) that you won't get a high a score as you deserve?

 

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