Are you a n00b?

[CrimsonChaos]

Find out if you're a n00b! Take this little quiz (or have someone you know take it), and see how many you can get right!

[Obviously this is just for fun, and maybe a little education too for the true n00b's (like me) out there!] Just figure out which letter corresponds most closely to each item listed. I'm sure some of you will think it's juvenile, but I enjoyed making the quiz nonetheless.

HSF:
a. An instruction set for a processor (such as SSE and MMX).
b. Components responsible for cooling a processor.
c. Abbreviation for ?High Security File?, a data-encrypted file requiring a password to access.
d. Used in adult personal ads ? an abbreviation for ?hermaphrodite seeking female?.

MOBO:
a. Slang for a mobile phone.
b. Slang for a motherboard.
c. Slang for 1,000 Megabytes.
d. Mobo Dick, dolphin trainer ? the lesser known brother of Moby Dick.

PWNED:
a. A corruption of the word "owned" originating from online gaming.
b. Password protocol in UNIX/linux.
c. Jumper setting on the motherboard to bypass the BIOS password.
d. A chess move involving pawns, and similar to ?en passant? in that it?s both difficult to understand and difficult to pronounce.

SATA:
a. A type of motherboard.
b. A type of video card.
c. A type of hard-drive interface.
d. A follow-up test to the SAT?s designed to single out the compu-nerds from the rest of society.

XEON:
a. A server chip developed by Intel.
b. The unit of measure used for temperatures of computer components.
c. What the ?X? stands for in OS-X.
d. A dangerous strain of the gas ?Xenon?, it renders a person incapable of rational, logical, or intelligent thought. (This gas is rumored to be responsible for the many subscriptions to AOL).

2-2-2-5:
a. An example of a family, model, step, and version ID for a Pentium processor.
b. Algorithm used by a hyperthreading processor to determine a thread?s priority.
c. Measurement of RAM latency.
d. Key combination for that safe harboring the two most important things to you: your hard drive, and your porn (for some of you, this is one in the same).

TROLL:
a. Underclocking the processor to run at cooler temperatures to prevent overheating.
b. Scouring the forums to find (or create) posts and topics just to argue.
c. (Short for ?patrol?) A nickname for anti-virus programs that stay resident in memory and ?patrol?, by scanning any incoming files for threats.
d. A mean little beeotch and/or bastard.
e. Both B and D.

OS:
a. Abbreviation for ?operating system?.
b. Abbreviation for ?online status?.
c. Similar to OP (original poster), an abbreviation for ?original sender?.
d. Used in place of SOS when you need a distress signal that?s not quite so urgent.

OC:
a. Used in conjunction with OEM (original equipment manufacturer), and is an abbreviation for ?original consumer?.
b. A less expensive type of OCZ brand-name RAM or Power Supply.
c. Abbreviation for ?overclocking?.
d. ?The OC? ? that horrible show where the storyline is predictable and the actors are horrendous ? and it?s not even porn!

FPS:
a. Abbreviation for ?first-person shooter?.
b. Abbreviation for ?frames per second?.
c. Abbreviation for ?fast packet switching?.
d. All of the above.
e. The antithesis of FAQ (frequently asked questions), and means ?frequently presented solutions?.

 

[Leros]

kinda pointless without an answer key or something (hopefully nobody actually needs one)

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Actually there was one question on there I didn't know...

What, precisely, is a troll? Just an argumentative person?

 

[WraithETC]

b
b
a
c
a
c
e
a
c
a

i think pwned did not originate in WC3 though.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

b

b

a

c

a

c

e

a

c

d

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

1 b
2 b
3 a
4 c
5 a
6 c
7 e
8 a
9 c
10 b

 

[theMan]

d. A mean little beeotch and/or bastard.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Didn't pwned originate with starcraft?

 

[hurtstotalktoyou]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't pwned originate with starcraft?

The origin is debated, but there are two popular theories:
1) a misspelling within the Warcraft game
2) a misspelling by a well-known Quake gamer

Nobody knows which is correct.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: hurtstotalktoyou

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Didn't pwned originate with starcraft?

The origin is debated, but there are two popular theories:
1) a misspelling within the Warcraft game
2) a misspelling by a well-known Quake gamer

Nobody knows which is correct.

Interesting. I was under the impression it started with the korean invasion in starcraft. Shows how much I pay attention.

 

[bendixG15]

It either
doesn't take much to be a noob these days,
or
most of us are noobs

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: ItmPls
b

b

a

c

a

c

e

a

c

d

the last question is debatable...

 

[n0cmonkey]

Is S.A.T.A. a type of hard drive, or a type of hard drive interface?

 

[egkenny]

SATA:
a. A type of motherboard.
b. A type of video card.
c. A type of hard-drive.
d. A follow-up test to the SAT?s designed to single out the compu-nerds from the rest of society.

None of the answers are correct
SATA is an interface. PATA and SCSI are also interfaces. Would you call either of these "A type of hard-drive"?

 

[Cheesetogo]

Sombody from highly technical should make a quiz...I bet %95 of us would fail.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Originally posted by: CrimsonChaos
XEON:
a. A server chip developed by Intel.
b. The unit of measure used for temperatures of computer components.
c. What the ?X? stands for in OS-X.
d. A dangerous strain of the gas ?Xenon?, it renders a person incapable of rational, logical, or intelligent thought. (This gas is rumored to be responsible for the many subscriptions to AOL).

Hey... A and D are the same thing....

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: egkenny
SATA:
a. A type of motherboard.
b. A type of video card.
c. A type of hard-drive.
d. A follow-up test to the SAT?s designed to single out the compu-nerds from the rest of society.

None of the answers are correct
SATA is an interface. IDE and SCSI are also interfaces. Would you call either of these "A type of hard-drive"?

e is

Well each interface has its respective HDs. And those hard-drives are usually identified primarily by their interfaces. So the interface that a HD is compatible with puts it within a certain class or type.

It may rub you a bit wrong, but c is still the "best" answer.

This question could have been made a bit more tricky by including a "none of the above" answer, however.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
Sombody from highly technical should make a quiz...I bet %95 of us would fail.

Yeah right, half of those guys are so full of 5h1t it is oozing out of their eyes. 40% are somewhat intelligent & get by with their use of the English language. 9% are of reasonably high intelligence & also appear more intelligent than they are either by their knowledge from school or their articulation again, neither of which shows true intelligence but only an ability to retain information. The other 1% are either highly knowledgable in their skill set or just flat out smart (IQ 120+).

Look at it this way, a plummer could give us a test and 99% of us would bomb it. Does that make him highly intelligent or does it make us ill prepared? The answer is obvious.

Oh and pwned originated with a Quake goober who mispelled the word, but all his lackeys thought he was 1337 c00ln355 & started spreading it like a virus. This thread has been Pwn3d by Pr0d1gy.

 

[egkenny]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: egkenny
SATA:
a. A type of motherboard.
b. A type of video card.
c. A type of hard-drive.
d. A follow-up test to the SAT?s designed to single out the compu-nerds from the rest of society.

None of the answers are correct
SATA is an interface. IDE and SCSI are also interfaces. Would you call either of these "A type of hard-drive"?

e is

Well each interface has its respective HDs. And those hard-drives are usually identified primarily by their interfaces. So the interface that a HD is compatible with puts it within a certain class or type.

It may rub you a bit wrong, but c is still the "best" answer.

This question could have been made a bit more tricky by including a "none of the above" answer, however.

The problem is that this is supposed to be a quiz to find out if someone is a noob. I bet there are a lot of noobs that think that SATA is a type hard drive.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Originally posted by: egkenny

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: egkenny
SATA:
a. A type of motherboard.
b. A type of video card.
c. A type of hard-drive.
d. A follow-up test to the SAT?s designed to single out the compu-nerds from the rest of society.

None of the answers are correct
SATA is an interface. IDE and SCSI are also interfaces. Would you call either of these "A type of hard-drive"?

e is

Well each interface has its respective HDs. And those hard-drives are usually identified primarily by their interfaces. So the interface that a HD is compatible with puts it within a certain class or type.

It may rub you a bit wrong, but c is still the "best" answer.

This question could have been made a bit more tricky by including a "none of the above" answer, however.

The problem is that this is supposed to be a quiz to find out if someone is a noob. I bet there are a lot of noobs that think that SATA is a type hard drive.

You are correct but if you had to choose one of those 4, then the hard drive one would be the best choice.

 

[DanDaMan315]

PWNED did not originate from WoW, I knew that word well before November 2004, I believe it originated from the infamous Counter-Strike.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Oh and pwned originated with a Quake goober who mispelled the word, but all his lackeys thought he was 1337 c00ln355 & started spreading it like a virus. This thread has been Pwn3d by Pr0d1gy.

 

[sniperruff]

if you think the quiz is remotely challenging, you'd be a noob.

 

[imported_g33k]

#10 = D

 

[Budman]

CrimsonChaos = noob .