Sometimes, it can make you more cleverer. This is the nicest, most civilised site I’ve seen for some time. But it does make me feel more stupider for not knowing some pretty basic stuff. All the information I could give an ancient civilisation, having time-travelled back there, would be a list of my favouritest Monkees albums. They would be disappoint. And confuse.
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H.P. Saucecraft says
I did the quiz (22 questions) and scored a surprisingly robust 76% in ten minutes. Apparently this is an “average” score, but when I look at the averages he gives, it’s way above them. *proud*
bungliemutt says
I scored 89%, which seems quite impressive for someone who got lost half a mile from a car park in the New Forest last week. Perhaps if I had checked the north star and carried a piece of charcoal I would have been okay.
Black Celebration says
Yes well it stopped me dead after about 5 wrongly-answered questions.
I would not have survived in Stone Age times but I am on course to at least double old Uggo’s life expectancy AND drink beer and eat sweets, so who’s laughing now?”
bricameron says
Can I just say. Wow.
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I will take the quiz later – looks a most excellent site. We used to play the game as stoned students. The only thing I could ever think off was “don’t pee in your drinking water”….
Lodestone of Wrongness says
I lasted 7 questions so I didn’t reach the one that said “Should cavemen pee in their water-supply?”
If I remember correctly some of those stoned evenings in 1971 hours would pass as we discussed how you make glass.
” It’s cool man, you get a shitload of sand and like set fire to it”
Harold Holt says
Pretty much the only thing I remember about Hawaiian ancient tribal culture is that it was punishable by death to pee in the water sources above the villages. Forget where I read that. Probably Hunter S Thompson or some such.
Raymond says
My quiz score was so low that the only job I could reasonably hope to aspire to is ‘assistant to the leprous old woman who cleans out the pigsty after one of them has died’.
Kaisfatdad says
This is no time to be facetious about the labour market, Raymond! The Leprous Old Woman (leprousoldbiddy@pigsty.com) has a whole mountain of cvs to read through from young hopefuls aspiring to that position.
And as for the shortlisting and the job interviews, don’t even go there!
Sniffity says
Could be the one time a zero-hours contract would be a good thing
Dodger Lane says
Good quiz, and it’s certainly confirmed what I long suspected – I am a bit hopeless.
Archie Valparaiso says
Service is Temporary down …
There were no adverbs until the Enlightenment. I always forget that.
Nick Nock says
I’m afraid I would be no use whatsoever to an emerging civilisation. Not only am I deeply dim and haven’t the foggiest clue about how anything actually “works”, but also if I find myself more than 7 feet away from my Sky remote or further than 3 feet from my Arzachel CD, I get anxiety attacks 🙂
H.P. Saucecraft says
Oh, excellent Arzachel reference. Come on @johnny-concheroo – what are we paying you for?
Johnny Concheroo says
If only I could top that with the original Arzachel LP. But since it’s one of those thousand quid items, sadly not
Vulpes Vulpes says
It may fetch a grand, JC, but let’s be honest, it’s not actually much cop.
Johnny Concheroo says
It’s so long since I heard it, I honestly cant remember. It’s the Steve Hillage connection and the fact it only sold about 10 copies that accounts for the price, I guess.
Fin59 says
Never heard of them. Checked them out. Not bad at all. Perfect for gazing out across the North Devon coast, while sipping green tea.
Queen St Gang
Arzachel
Kaisfatdad says
This is a real find: a very thought-provoking site. (Who is behind it? I found it a little odd that they gave no information on that. Not that it matters too much).
Made me think about how specialist so much knowledge is these days. We’re surrounded by technology of which most laymen have little understanding. Our parents’ generation, for example, could tinker with a car and make repairs and gain an understanding of how it worked. Modern cars are so high-tech that it’s no longer possible. That’s not a completely positive development.
Dodger Lane says
Who’s behind it ? Good question KFD…..I suspect Hengist Pod, the inventor the square wheel.
Kaisfatdad says
Hengist Pod! Not heard that name for many years. I will show iron resolve and not post a clip from Carry on Cleo (1964).
I vividly remember one scene where the Roman army were on a hillside and you could see a very anachronistic gas station in the background. I realise now it must have been deliberate.
ianess says
Fun Fact – Carry on Cleo was the only movie about Cleopatra that made a profit.
Bingo Little says
Extraordinarily, and despite almost bankrupting 20th Century Fox (it forced the studio to shut down for six months) the Liz Taylor Cleopatra is actually long since in profit.
No one knows how much money the film has made, since Fox are incredibly secretive on that score, and Hollywood accounting makes “profit” a highly elastic term, but it’s been confirmed that the movie finally broke even in 1973.
Most of the famous Hollywood bombs, including Heaven’s Gate, also turned a profit eventually.
ianess says
Sorry, bingo, should have qualified that statement. I read it first,back in the late ’60s, and think they were referring to making money back in year of release.
As regards Hollywood accounting, I recall reading a James Garner interview in Playboy (yes, I did read it for the articles) where he complained, bitterly and with complete justification, that the studio were still insisting to him that they were yet to turn a profit on the hugely successful Rockford Files. All to do with overheads allocation.
Here’s another Fun Fact – no biker movie has ever failed to make money.
Bingo Little says
Cleopatra is just a really weird movie all round. If memory serves, it was the highest grossing movie of the entire 1960s, but its astronomical budget (which, adjusted for inflation, clocked in at about £350m in today’s money) and frequent production delays, plus the studio’s eventual legal action against its stars, mean it was still a total bomb.
Re: Hollywood accounting, I remember reading an article a few years ago stating that the guy who played Darth Vader (mask off) in Return of the Jedi still hasn’t been paid any residuals because Jedi still wasn’t “technically” in profit. It’s a helluva town.
ianess says
It’s also a staggeringly overblown, preposterous, boring turkey. ‘Scenes from a Revolution’ is an interesting read about the changeover in the ’60s to the New Hollywood following the spectacular run of big budget failures from the major studios who had failed completely to appreciate the cultural revolution and the changed tastes of the younger film goers.
Bingo Little says
Great tip – having just finished the eyebrow-raising Don Simpson: High Concept, at Poppy’s suggestion, I’ll make this my next Hollywood read. Cheers, Ian.
Fin59 says
High Concept is eye opening, if not eye watering isn’t it?
I had a spin on the sex and drugs whirlygig but might as well as have been in the Leamington Ladies Knitting Circle compared to The Don.
ianess says
Have to say that the most eye-popping aspect of the Don Simpson book was the revelation that the mother of his daughter was a girl that I’d recently become exceptionally close to.
Bingo Little says
Bloody hell.
Sewer Robot says
YouTube clip:
(Armstrong & Miller: time traveller)
I took the quiz. I was rubbish.
Kaisfatdad says
Bullseye! That’s about how much good I’d be too. Armstrong and Miller are the business.
ernietothecentreoftheearth says
Some recent news suggests that old HP might have already travelled back in time to impart his Monkees related wisdom.
Anthropologists have come a across a remote tribe who start each day by walking across the beach in groups of four in a strangely familiar, wacky, fashion. Amusing incidents are punctuated by comic sound effects. And daily life is built around performances of catchy popular music tunes. Most significant is the preponderance of lairy shirts.
Apparently, the only other place you will ever come across all of these is at a UKIP meeting
H.P. Saucecraft says
Ho ho!
Vulpes Vulpes says
Ah yes, the Herewecome tribe, visited by ex-marine Bruce Parry, who was invited to play ceremonial drums with them as part of their Scousegit ceremony, after imbibing a half coconut shell full of hallucinogenic fermented monkeys brain. He turned purple and threw up before leaping naked over the effigy of a surf-God.
Black Celebration says
The Halawi tribe lived in long grass that was two feet taller than they were. They could be identified by their battle- cry “We’re the Halawi! We’re the Halawi!”
JustB says
My A Level German teacher told us that joke except they were called the Fukawi in his version.
I miss teachers like that.