True English Nerd
You scored 78 erudition!
Not only do you know your subjects from your objects and your definite from your indefinite articles, but you've got quite a handle on the literature and the history of the language as well. Huzzah, and well done! The English snobs of Boston salute you.
I think the quiz might be a little off... most people my age must be even more illiterate than me....
Test tracked 1 variable. How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 58% on erudition
Okay, everybody else, your turn!!
Laura
Yah! 99 percent. I bet your mother will score 100.
Posted by: Mombear | January 29, 2006 at 07:16 PM
Hmmm. Apparently a lot depends on how you answer the questions that have more than one answer (e.g., the one about Shakespeare's sister).
Posted by: Bonnie | January 29, 2006 at 09:30 PM
Wow. I am impressed.
Posted by: Laura | January 29, 2006 at 11:43 PM
They appear to figure percentages by age groups. They probably had only two people in my group.
Posted by: Mombear | January 30, 2006 at 06:27 AM
I scored a 63, which was only higher than 9% in my age and gender, but then again, I've been more of a computer geek than an English nerd for quite some time now.
Plus, I'm sure I got the question about the New Yorker wrong. Other than the cartoons, it's pretty boring, really.
And some of those guys I'm pretty sure I'd never heard of at all.
Posted by: David | January 30, 2006 at 11:01 AM
84. Not bad for an engineer, eh?
Posted by: John | January 30, 2006 at 12:10 PM
84, which is pretty good considering that my choice for the answers of at least of couple of them was "Huh?" True English nerd..don't really think so.
Posted by: nell | January 30, 2006 at 08:00 PM
I got 78, which put me in the 99th percentile for age and gender. Again, I suspect their sample size is pretty small.
Posted by: PaBear | February 01, 2006 at 07:07 AM