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 cleverthings
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?