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January 25, 2005
Common Sense Quiz
By QBlog in
Take this helpful quiz to discover your common sense rating. Ten points is given for each correct answer.
1. The best way to learn the facts about a business is to:
- a.) Read material produced by that business
- b.) Read material produced by that business's competitors
- c.) Read material produced by some non-interested third party
- d.) All of the above
- a.) Always wrong
- b.) Always right
- c.) Sometimes right, sometimes wrong
- d.) Broke losers
3. The Internet can be:
- a.) A great way to make money
- b.) A great way to share information
- c.) The bathroom walls of society
- d.) All of the above
4. Discussing the merits of a business, philosophy or idea is:
- a.) A complete waste of time
- b.) A great way to improve one's understanding
- c.) Lots of fun for some people
- d.) Both B and C
5. America's richest men were motivated by:
- a.) Tapes, CDs, seminars and Robert Kiyosaki books
- b.) A deep desire to retire early and spend time with the kids
- c.) Fear that the government, their pension plans and traditional savings would leave them destitute at retirement age
- d.) None of the above
6. A business that has a Google Bombing budget is probably:
- a.) A spam business
- b.) A pornography business
- c.) A Chinese software piracy business
- d.) Quixtar
- e.) All of the above
7. Most of Quixtar's Internet critics:
- a.) Are anonymous
- b.) Get paid to criticize Quixtar
- c.) Are bitter because they failed at Quixtar
- d.) None of the above
8. Most of Quixtar's Internet advocates:
- a.) Are anonymous
- b.) Get paid to advocate Quixtar
- c.) Are bitter because they can't control the Internet
- d.) All of the above
9. Quixtar was formed in:
- a.) 1999
- b.) 1951
- c.) 1970
- d.) None of the above
Now add up all your points. If you scored a 90 then you have perfect common sense. If you scored between 50-80 then you need to work on your common sense. If you scored below 50 then your common sense is lacking.
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Common sense isn't so common. In fact its down right rare.
I'm afraid my common sense is suffering a bit, too.
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#8.) Most of Quixtar's Internet advocates:
* a.) Are anonymous
* b.) Get paid to advocate Quixtar
* c.) Are bitter because they can't control the Internet
* d.) All of the above
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I believe the actual answer is a. & c. I doubt many Q. advocates are paid to advocate Quixtar (even if they think they are), which is why I would also eliminate d. as an answer.
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#9.) Quixtar was formed in:
* a.) 1999
* b.) 1951
* c.) 1970
* d.) None of the above
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Technically, Quixtar was formed in 1999, but we all know that the comp plan and the hierarchy were all begun with Amway in 1959 (if you don't count Nutrilite). So this question isn't stated in a way that is as straightforward as I might have liked.
But I loved the question about having a Google Bombing budget. Seems like this one puts Quixtar in some dubious company. Has anyone bothered to point that out to them?
PW
Another question you could put in there:
If you attend....let's pick a function at random..say.....a boat show, with the intent to recruit people who have paid money to look at boats, and don't think there's anything wrong with that, you are
a) In need of therapy and/or deprogramming from standing order products
b) boiling down XS energy drinks and freebasing the residue
c) Supremely inconsiderate of others
d) A Quixtar "I"BO
Rocket:
The freebasing XS comment is Top 10 of all time on this blog...maybe even Top 5.
Fantastic!
Uh.. I guess this is like Whose Line... the points don't matter?
You were wise not to put up the "grading scale." After all, no one will stand up and say "Doy, I hain't got no er... whatdoyacall... oh yeah, common scents."
:)
My answers
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Rocket:
You actually left out the correct answer to your multiple choice question from below:
e) all of the above
I think people are better off if they answer the whole quiz with the letter "B". At least that'll throw the grading curve off.
Mikey, I think you would be better off answering the questions posed to you....
DF,
Out of respect to QBlog, this discussion will be continued in the forum. As far as anything concering you. I will not respond to your comments any further.
Michael, I couldn't agree more with you here :) Comment section has some limitation, and it is for comments, NOT for debate. It's hard to read and hard to quote some one.
We had the same situation before when a 'Chris' was posting here.
See you in the forum.
Showing my complete lack of common sense.... how can we calculate our score if without the answers? Shouldn't we all then have perfect scores?
Posted by: Dave S | January 25, 2005 8:04 AM