Maximum PC magazine "Geek Quiz"

meltdown75

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Nov 17, 2004
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Hi all.

Did anyone else take the quiz? I did and got pwned - only scored 46. I found a lot of the questions pretty tough & technical but I guess that's the whole point. Still fairly interesting though imho.
 

Mrvile

Lifer
Oct 16, 2004
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I took it a lot of the questions were easy but a lot were like "I never knew those words could be used like that in a sentence" personally I felt quite pwnt after taking it.
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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Maximum PC doesn't have their articles online. But the Geek Quizes are always insane.
 

meltdown75

Lifer
Nov 17, 2004
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hmm tried finding a link, even checked their forums. apparently it's only in the magazine which i find strange. if they put the quiz online they could publish average scores and other results. prizes for highest scores would be ideal. wouldn't seem like rocket science to the editors of a PC magazine, but what do i know...
 

dragonballgtz

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Mar 9, 2001
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I got most of the technical questions right but questions like "Company A bought which companies B, C, and/or D?" I got wrong.
 

dragonballgtz

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Here is one question from the quiz

Who created an algorithm for ultra-secure hard drive data erasure?
A. Perry Schneier
B. Peter Gutmann
C. Zuzana Licko
D. Rudy Vanderlans

I got that one wrong.













































it be B
 

meltdown75

Lifer
Nov 17, 2004
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Originally posted by: Hi
i got 69

LOL if you did, you'd be among elite company. if you check Max PC's forums, the average score seems to be around the 50-60 mark - but a couple of members of course say they got 100 (shens). Obviously if you know your stuff you would have no trouble scoring in the 80s or 90s... Here's a random sample of some of the questions (answers at the bottom of post... ):

3. Which kind of touch screen detects contact through pressure?
a) Resistive
b) Capacitive
c) Conductive
d) Inductive

8. What will you never find in an EPS file?
a) Audio cues
b) An illustration
c) The complete text of the Bible
d) Crop marks

11. Intel's 2700G is:
a) A high-definition digital signal processor (DSP)
b) The first onboard audio chipset to support 24-bit recording
c) A spec for custom-designed media-acceleration chips
d) A graphics accelerator for handhelds

15. Which chipset has the fastest interconnect speed between the north and south bridge?
a) SiS756/SiS965
b) VIA K8T90
c) Intel 915P
d) nVidia nForce4 Ultra

18. Who invented Tetris?
a) Nadezdha Kalmykov
b) Alexey Pajitnov
c) Dmitri Sklyarov
d) Ivan Pavlov

26. The current 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA) scheme for addressing hard drives will be usable until hard drives reach this capacity:
a) 4.5 terabytes
b) 1330 terabytes
c) 144 petabytes
d) 232 exabytes

42. (2 pts) Which AMD processor in this list was the first to use strained silicon?
a) Athlon 64 FX-53
b) Athlon 64 FX-55
c) Athlon 64 4000+
d) Athlon MP 3000+

57. (2 pts) If a hard drive spins at 10,000rpm, how many times does its outer edge rotate every second?
a) 66.7
b) 166.7
c) 133.3
d) 33.3

59. (easy :p ) What did Gordon Freeman use to make nice with the Ant Lions in Half-Life 2?
a) Bacon bits
b) Bugbait
c) Persimmons
d) Accent
















answers: 3a, 8a, 11d, 15c, 18b, 26c, 42b, 57b, 59b
 

ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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I took it last week, and scored a 70. I ripped through the software and business questions with few problems, but some of those hardware questions are INSANELY hard. Some of the others are virtually impossible if you haven't built a new computer within the last 9 months.
 

imported_Hi

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Feb 22, 2005
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Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: Hi
i got 69

LOL if you did, you'd be among elite company. if you check Max PC's forums, the average score seems to be around the 50-60 mark - but a couple of members of course say they got 100 (shens). Obviously if you know your stuff you would have no trouble scoring in the 80s or 90s... Here's a random sample of some of the questions (answers at the bottom of post... ):

the ones i got wrong most were on the last page