You've come this far and you're still not quite sure whether or not this is for you. That's why we've created "the nerd quiz." Following the strict testing standards of Masters & Johnson, we've chosen twelve questions that will, without a doubt, prove whether or not you are a Nerd. So put down that remote, pick up a pencil, um, mouse, and start a-marking...

 

1) Your glasses break. You:

a. fix them with masking tape.
b. wear them broken.
c. don't notice.
d. take them to an optician.


2) Someone brings up computers
     in conversation. You:

a. wet your pants
b. hyper-ventilate.
c. begin sputtering techie
           gibberish

d. change the subject.


3) Before calling a potential date,
     you:

a. make a list of things to say.
b. recite "The Rules."
c. think what your mother
           would say.

d. drink.


4) Your dream tattoo is:

a. Gandalf.
b. Einstein.
c. pi.
d. Satan.


5) Your roommate catches you:

a. kissing your pillow.
b. singing along to the
          "Friends" theme.

c. playing air guitar.
d. sleeping through
           "Jeopardy."


6) During your first sexual
     experience, you were thinking:

a. about telling your friends.
b. is that all there is?
c. about comic books.
d. about doing it again.

  7) During your free time you:

a. reorganize your record
           
collection.
b. try to think up clever things
            to say to cute
boys and/or girls.
c. make incessant lists.
d. live life to the fullest.


8) You made your parents:

a. pretend that they didn't
            know you.
b. drop you off a block from school.
c. change their clothes
            before a recital.
d. divorce.


9) Your favorite screen saver is:

a. Einstein as Mona Lisa.
b. the crapping dog.
c. Klingon attack.
d. flowers.


10) At parties, you:

a. miss all allusions to
           popular culture.
b. don't notice that your fly
           is down.
c. stand around till the beer's gone.
d. get laid.


11) You collect:

a. pogs.
b. naked photos of  Scott Baio.
c. zines.
d. undergarments.


12) Your big moment of high
        school was:

a. blowing a valve during
            the marching band tuba solo.
b. throwing up on the
            Homecoming Queen.
c. unnoticed.
d. different every day.

 




SCORING:

Give yourself a point for every a, b or c that you selected.
If you totaled:


12:       you've achieved Nerdhood. Welcome.

11-9:  so close. To the undiscerning eye, you look like one of us.

8-5:    while you exhibit the occasional tendency,
              you're far too well-adjusted.

4-1:     you're just borrowing this magazine, aren't you?

0...      um, can we come over to your house to play?