Quiz results!

[triskellian]

Original quiz can be seen here.

The answers

Questions where the correct answer got the highest number of votes are marked with an *

1. *I like arthouse films; she doesn't
2. *We both like high school films
3. *Neither of us like horror films
4. *Although we both like Jane Austen, she's not either of our favourite
5. *Margaret Atwood is my favourite, although secretrebel likes her too
6. *I like Ian McEwan, but he's not my favourite; she doesn't like him much at all
7. *Ursula Le Guin is secretrebel's favourite; I like her too, but not as much
8. *We both read comics/graphic novels
9. A bit of a red herring... Most people thought it was secretrebel who reads the Angel fanfic. She reads much more fanfic than me, but doesn't read Angel; I do.
10. *She reads HP fanfic
11. She's seen Janet Jackson in concert
12. Although I like the Divine Comedy much more than secretrebel does, she's seen them live and I haven't... Or so I thought. smiorgan has just reminded me that I did see them live, but they were so rubbish I've blanked it out ;-)
13. *secretrebel, on the other hand, really hasn't seen the Offspring, despite liking them more than I do. I have seen them.
14. *She likes strategic board games; I don't much
15. ...and I like Guillotine but she doesn't (although she will play it)
16. We both dislike yellow
17. *Purple's my favourite colour
18. *Her favourite colour is green
19. Although we both wear a lot of black, it's neither of our favourite colour
20. No one bought a purple skirt
21. I bought a white one
22. *and she bought a green one
23. I wear hats in summer
24. *and she wears them in winter
25. *She wears socks indoors
26. *Neither of us wear shoes indoors
27. *I go barefoot as much as possible
28. *She's a veggie
29. I've dated a veggie
30. *I eat fish. Quite a few people said they thought secretebel ate fish and was a vegetarian, which should probably prompt some sort of 'what do you think vegetarian means anyway?' rant
31. *Neither of us like tuna (well, actually, I do like real tuna steaks, so perhaps the question should have included the word 'tinned')...
32. ...or eggs (I'll eat them as a sort of foil for cheese: cheese omlette, cheesy scrambled eggs, etc, and I quite like the yolk, although I really don't like egg white; she only eats them as an invisible ingredient)
33. *She hates cucumber
34. and I hate lettuce
35. *I won't eat Doritos (nasty things ;-)
36. But neither of us won't eat prawn cocktail crisps (they're yummy)
37. I was a guide (briefly)
38. ...and a Sea Cadet
39. We both did gymnastics
40. Only I was on a badminton team (although she plays badminton now, and I don't)
41. And the netball team was just me, too
42. *She went to private secondary school
43. ...but we both went to state secondary schools (she transferred halfway through) (this was the question no one got right)
44. *She's part Indian
45. My mother was educated by nuns
46. *Neither of us played the guitar
47. *...but I played the clarinet
48. She thought up the idea for the quiz (it's in my LJ 'cos she doesn't have a paid account)
49. But it was me who had a job involving making up quiz questions (it was only a tiny part of the job)
50. *I'm ticklish (she claims to have taught herself not to be)
51. She's religious
52. *I wear nail varnish (much less than I used to, but I was wearing it at the time of the quiz's invention). frax, I didn't penalise you for believing me when I said I didn't any more ;-)
53. We both always wear the same earrings
54. *She always wears the same bracelets
55. *I have a driving licence (this is the question everyone got right)
56. *We both own our own houses (well, our mortgage companies do, but you know what I mean)
57. Neither of us have a first aid certificate
58. We've both been self-employed. She still is, and I was for a deeply depressing three months before starting my current job.
59. This was kind of a trick question: we both have a marriage plan, and fortunately, the people with whom we have them both got this question right ;-)
60. *We both want to move to Cornwall, after spending a week there recently
61. She usually wears a watch (I never do)
62. *I always wear a necklace
63. And I'm afraid it's Cobweb (mine) who's the biggest of the four cats concerned

The scoring system

• Correct answer: 2 points
• Answering one of us when the answer is 'both': 1 point
• Answering one of us when the answer is the other: -1 points (credit to bateleur, via lathany, for that suggestion ;-)
• Other answers: 0 points

I did briefly consider awarding 1 point for an answer of 'both' when the correct answer was one of us, but since the aim is to distinguish between us, I discarded the idea ;-)

The high score tables

Scores are out of 126 (ie 63 questions, maximum score of 2 points per question).

1. smiorgan, 88
2. quantumboo, 86
3. killalla, 80
4. kauket, 79
5. _yakumo_, 68
6. lathany, 64
7. frax, 63
8. verlaine, 62
9. cuthbertcross, 61
10. mr_snips, 51
11. bluedevi, 48
12. dr_bob, 44
13. _kent, 43
14. =inskauldrak, 42
15. =bateleur, 42
16. arralethe, 38
17. cardinalsin, 30
18. wimble, 28

Comments

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

I suck.

On the other hand, I did better than I expected to!

[triskellian]

Are you sure you can tell the difference between us at all? Perhaps there should be a beginners' version of the quiz, with stuff like names, pictures and LJ icons to distinguish ;-)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

In fact, I can't understand this "can't tell the difference" malarkey at all. It just so happens that my secretrebel/triskellian skill only has about half a dot in it.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and how come your Wednesday comment comes before bateleur's Tuesday comment (which was posted on a Wednesday, but before yours), and several other Wednesday comments which appeared before yours did?

[triskellian]

Cos I actually posted it last night for secretrebel to read, and just re-dated it. Evidently that doesn't work as well as I thought. Damn. Shall go post a really new entry, pointing to this one.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

But... now the new one appears on my friends list but this one doesn't. This one does appear if I go to your livejournal page, and as you can see I can still read and comment on it.

What is going on?!

[triskellian]

Maybe the new one knocked it off the bottom of your most recent friends page? Or have you scrolled back? I don't understand, anyway. Probably pixies!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

I think the quiz has done its job - it's clear that on average people can tell you apart rather well !

In fact if you remove the evil trick questions (almost every one of which I fell for) I reckon the average score would be almost 1 per question.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

On the contrary... I'm frightened by how difficult some people seem to find it. Very few have more than 50%.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

This is only a reasonable concern if you do a comparator quiz. If I get time, I'll try to do a "can you tell cardinalsin and frax apart?" quiz, for comparison.

[triskellian]

Which ones do you consider evil trick questions? Cos I'd've said there was a... well, a continuum of questions of varying amounts of trickness ;-)

[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

My strategy of "flip a coin, and when in doubt throw yarrow stalks" clearly worked better than I could ever have hoped... though I am a bit worried that the yarrow stalk I lost underneath the SCSI stack may be starting to smell.

Quite a few people said they thought secretebel ate fish and was a vegetarian, which should probably prompt some sort of 'what do you think vegetarian means anyway?' rant

Technically I think the word is "vegaquarian":-)

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

Heheh. I actually quite like that as a word - even if it's lacking something as a concept.

[triskellian]

Well, if you redefine it, you can apply it to yourself, y'know ;-)

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Vegaquarian:

"Aquatic Vegetable"

[nixieq.livejournal.com]

62 is the one question i would've been able to make even an educated guess on. >;) but! now i certainly feel like i know you a bit better! and that's a good thing. >:D

[triskellian]

Welcome to my world, where my friends can't reliably tell the difference between me and my best friend, even though we look about as unalike as it's possible to look while being about the same height and often the same hair colour ;-)

[kauket.livejournal.com]

I can!!! :(

[triskellian]

That's true, you can ;-) Sorry!

Well done on your score, btw :-)

Eggsactly.

[dr-bob.livejournal.com]

32 ...or eggs (I'll eat them as a sort of foil for cheese: cheese omlette, cheesy scrambled eggs, etc, and I quite like the yolk, although I really don't like egg white; she only eats them as an invisible ingredient)

Hooray! I'm not a freak. Someone who feels exactly about eggs as I do! White is yucky. Eggwhite, that is.

OFFICIAL PROTEST

[blondeccgirl.livejournal.com]

I have an offical protest to log. you told me I scored 66 in this quiz, but where is my name on that high scores table??? Hmmmm.....

I demand that you update it, and give me the credit due... after all, I got know that you hate lettuce, and I got question 45 right...

Re: OFFICIAL PROTEST

[triskellian]

You're not on the list because I made it before you took the quiz :-P

And entering a competition after the results have been published hardly counts, even though I do trust that you didn't look at them before answering ;-)

(I asked question 45 partly for you - you're the only person I expected to know the answer, rather than merely guess correctly ;-)