An interesting topic on Fark (it's not news = it's Fark) came up in a thread named "Interviews with three professional pick-up artists at Right Wing News... wait, what?". It was noted that the article says...

Although I did want to do a follow-up, given that I have a mostly male audience...

...and it was noted of one picture that if you "shave these guys, keep them out of the sun, and make sure the US flags you give them are flame-retardant... you'd have a hard time telling from a photo whether you were looking at Kandahar or Kansas."

That led to the creation of this: Is that a Terrorist or Conservative speaking? A quiz.

Ten quotes. Who said them (and I know, it's hard to tell conservatives from terrorists anyway, but have a try anyhow)? Follow the link to the quick quiz above. It shouldn't take more than two minutes unless you're cheating!

More, below the fold.

This may have been diaried previously, but since it is so funny and since I missed it, I figured others may have too.

Can you tell the difference between McCain and Bush?  Are you ready to score an A on the quiz. There is a great website where you can take the quiz and find out your Bush/McCain IQ.    

This is a bit of a history quiz, to see if anyone can come up with answers beyond what I've discovered.

Did you know?

More than 72,043 American soldiers have been killed, wounded, injured, or ill as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

How well do you know your facts about U.S. veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan? Take the War Comes Home "Did You Know?" Quiz and find out!

How media savvy are you? Can you identify a fake story from a real story?

We have come up with a quiz to test your media savvy, grab a pencil and a peice of paper! Write the numbers one to five on your sheet, and there will be scoring  instructions at the bottom. Good luck!

Seven months ago I posted a quiz on Islamic "stuff" and I am back to school, teaching Islamic material this semester, and thought I might drop a quiz on this list in honour of the first night of Ramadan.  These are the questions that are not going to be on the quiz I am going to give my class next week (or at least very few of them will be.  I really don't know -- I still have to write the quiz).  Honestly, the reason I have all these extra questions floating around is that I thought I needed an exam for last night's class, and it turned out I need it for next week.  So I have a whole extra week's worth of lectures from which to draw questions.  

Take the quiz, and take the poll.  Tell me how you did.

Can you guess which current-day political figure...

• Was born on Christmas day 1950...

• 2nd of 5 children...

Take the top three contenders for the Democratic nomination and their spouses.  That's six folks:

Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
John Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards

First off, thanks to those who have volunteered to help out with my running of the YearlyKos Political Pub Quiz, our first annual attempt to determine who are the biggest geeks in the blogosphere.

A few updates worth sharing today:

• Among those who have pledged to field teams of 4-8 for the competition are the folks from ActBlue, MyDD, OpenLeft, TechPresident and an effort from the leading Connecticut blogs.  Are you smarter than them?  Put a team together and prove it.
• We are being sponsored by the DSCC and DCCC.  As a result, the first question will be "How awesome is Chuck Schumer?"  A minimum of 250 words will be required.  There will be no second question until everyone has answered the first question in a satisfactory answer.
• Because I am a big fan of the World Series of Pop Culture, I will be adding an on-stage, oral "finals" best-of-three round for the top two teams coming out of the written rounds.  If you're familiar with the show, you know the format -- there will be a lists of things ("Name all 13 original colonies" -- but harder), and representatives from each team will have to complete the list, going back and forth until one team fails.
• There will be alcohol available for sale.

The event will be held Thursday night, immediately following the keynote speeches, in the main room.  Any questions about the questions?  Here are the basics, but ask away.

Today’s thought experiment:

I’m going to post an article written by a mystery author.

Can you name the author?

On Tuesday I will post the answer.

Here’s the post, and good luck!

PLEASE READ BEFORE "POPPING"!!!

I'm sure that some of you will know the answer to this little one-item quiz immediately. If you do, please be a sport and hold off an hour or so to give your fellow Kossacks a chance to scratch their heads a bit.  In the meantime, all guesses (serious or tongue-in-cheek) are welcomed!

Quiz on the flip...

I have been writing quizzes and exams for the last couple of days, so it is spilling over onto Dailykos.  Here is a quiz on Islamic topics.  How will you do?  
These are not the most difficult questions, and do not require really specialized knowledge (except maybe the last two).  They probably will be a bit of a challenge here for most people (of course, Juan Cole may lurk around here, and there are probably others around here who are scholars in the field – I would definitely not consider myself a scholar in this! – so I hope you are nice – remember I teach undergraduates only).  Enjoy.  And take the poll to let me know how you did (the answers are at the end).

I don't really go to church or anything but I still consider myself to be a spiritual person, so I found a lot of interesting things on this site.  Especially a quiz they call Belief-O-Matic.  You answer a series of questions and then they tell you which church, faith, set of beliefs you are most aligned with according to your answers on the quiz.

I wasn't surprised at what it told me, but I enjoyed reading through some of the links to other religions etc.

The quiz consists of eight questions. four question are personal, and four questions are economic. I took the quiz, and found out that I am a left leaning centrist.

This quiz is run by the Advocates for self government. I think you will enjoy taking this quiz. You might even find out some little surprising things about yourself.

http://www.self-gov.org/...

23% of us are fucked!

And then seeing the interview with the author in the clip on C&L has been a rather nice affirmation that I'm not a total paranoid about the Bushco base. I'm not totally off the wall to be having these thoughts about our societies; UK, US, Canada, Australia. Holland had a Conservative government as well; they just resigned over an immigration scandal. The world seems to be on a conservative trend. If those studies are correct, thats a whole lot of sheep....errrr authoritarian followers...

Everybody seems concerned about issues of church/state separation these days, but how good are you at parsing the speech of politicians and religious leaders whose use coded language that attacks [sometimes unintentionally] the principal of church/state separation ?

What if sme of those politicians and religious doing that were asociated with the left ? What if it was actually hard to separate their language from that of Christian right leaders ?

This is no mere rhetorical question. Read on. Heh, heh...

What if theocracy - or 'theocracy lite' were being advanced slyly, as a concept, in another guise and you didn't even notice because it was so slyly hidden ?

[note: the image above is not an example of 'slyly hidden']

Well, theocracy - or the 'lite' version of it - is indeed being advanced in another guise, and sometimes the people doing that don't even know they are doing it.

Language is viral.

Ideas are viral.

Here's a viral idea that has infected the minds of many - including many on the left.

It goes like this :

You'll be asked just 10 questions, and then it instantly tells you where you stand politically. It shows your position as a red dot on a 'political map' so you'll see exactly where you score.  The most interesting thing about the Quiz is that it goes beyond the Democrat, Republican, Independent. The Quiz has gotten a lot of praise. The Washington Post said it has 'gained respect as a valid measure of a person's political leanings.'"

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