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[capri0mni]

You know the Bible 90%!

 

Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!

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Um. No. I actually try to avoid reading the Bible as much as I can (and I said so, on the very last question).

This is a generational thing, I think-- an example of cultural literacy, and being able to make educated guesses on the rest (such as knowing that the Isrealites did not get into Egypt on bicycles).

Okay, yes, though. I did attend Mount Saint Mary College, as an undergrad, where we were required to take three religion courses and a philosophy course to graduate*. So I guess, technically, I am a Biblical scholar. But I haven't cracked open a Bible in nearly twenty years.

*the three courses I chose were: "Roots of Judaism and Christianity" (taught by an iconoclast nun, who insisted on changing God's pronoun from "He" to "She" in all the hymns), "The Bible as Literature," and "World Religions" (Where I wrote my credo as a Neo-Pagan, and officially came out of the broom closet).

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[trinalin.livejournal.com]

Actually, for a real Biblical scholar, some of those answers are wrong. :-)

I got 87% - I find that humorous. (I probably honestly know a much much smaller percent than that!)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I couldn't believe some of the choices on a lot of those questions. "Thou shalt not smoke" as one of the Ten Commandments ?!! I mean, really!!

I disagree with many fundamentalists who rant about America becoming "a Godless nation." But the Bible is one of the most influential books in Westsern civilization, there should at least be some pride in cultural literacy...

Now, I'm curious about the 10% it said I got wrong...

[trinalin.livejournal.com]

Heh - I'm pretty sure the questions on book order were my big failing.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. I was never much for paying attention to book titles. Even in the fiction section of Barnes&Noble... I just open the cover and dive right in.

(and just so you know -- the first few times around, I thought your icon said: "Doctor Who is my underrug"... and I didn't get it ;-)

[pedanther]

The standard method for constructing a four-choice question is to include two answers that are obviously wrong to anyone who's done even minimal study (and one that would seem plausible to anyone who didn't know the real answer).

That's not quite the same thing, though, as two answers that are obviously wrong even to the people who have done no study at all. Pfui.


(I got 100%, by the way, but I'm not sure I could do it again. I was definitely winging it on some of the questions.)

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

That's not quite the same thing, though, as two answers that are obviously wrong even to the people who have done no study at all. Pfui.

Yeah. As I was taking the test, part of me was thinking: "This is meant to be a joke... right?"

The "What Kind of Doctor Who Fan Are You?" quiz was much better, even though Troughton and Davison were both completely ignored...

[pedanther]

I think, on reflection, that that was because they're not (considered to be) useful indicators of what kind of Whofan you are.

A person who says their favourite Doctor is Tennant is probably a newbie. A person who says their favourite Doctor is TomDoc is probably familiar with the old series. A person who says their favourite Doctor is McCoy is probably a battle-scarred veteran of the flame wars. But what kind of fan is a person who says their favourite Doctor is Troughton?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

But what kind of fan is a person who says their favourite Doctor is Troughton?

Well, most of Troughton's eps were destroyed, and the episodes that are left are least likely to be shown as repeats on television. So if you want to know Troughton's stuff, you really have to go looking for it, and /or be patient enough to fill in the gaps in a reconstructed story (just as fans of foreign films have to be patient with subtitles). So. off the top of my head, I'd say a Troughton fan is "An intellectual connoisseur."

But all of that can also be said of Hartnell fans, as well, so we may need to qualify that a little further. Since people tend to have the warmest feeling for the Doctor they most want to be like, I'd reserve "Intellectual connoisseur" for Hartnell fans (rather haughty, they think the show should have ended when Hartnell decided to leave, and not go in for all this regeneration nonsense, and a complete sacrifice of the show's original, educational, mission). And I'd say that Troughton fans are the "Shy, cuddly, Uber-geeks." (too shy for the autograph line, but if someone in the crowd uses "metal breakdown" as a quip, they'll know they've found each other).

But yeah. As I mused in one of my replies to that original post that perhaps the quiz-maker's only contact with fandom is through online forums and newsgroups, and mainly understands the different fans based on how they react when a flamewar starts, and which side they allign themselves with. As far as I know, no one ever started a flamewar over Troughton or Davison.

BTW, you do know that two_love has 88 members, and is watched by 94, so there are a fair number of us out there.