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

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 ;-)