How awkward is this: I got a 93%. It’s full of spoilers, so if you haven’t seen the movie, you might want to bookmark this for later.
Based on the syntax, I think it’s made by a non-native speaker. And I’m still not clear what the final (and missed) question is referring to: the poster, “Crime Lab,” or something else.
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January 25th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Any idea which one you got wrong? I really hope it wasn’t question 13!
I thought I was getting a lot of them right when taking it, but it turns out that I only got 64% right….. Q14 was sneaky…. I got that wrong… And with Q8… I feel bad – I never actually noticed at all! (although I mis-read the answers and chose (c) when I actually meant (a))
January 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Awkward. Maybe you just don’t fully appreciate your own artistic brilliance?
January 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Flixter sucks, it keeps challenging my contacts without my doing so (yes, I hit skip, so the program is acting autonomically… skynet here we come).
January 25th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Haha. That’s awesome! And awkward… That’s great John.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Johnny: There’s actually a tiny check-box at the bottom of the quiz itself that says “challenge all my friends”. If you forget to uncheck that, it will send it to absolutely everyone, even though it sends you to the next screen anyway.
I only saw the checkbox in the second that I had between clicking “OK” and the screen changing…
January 26th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Don’t take it personally John. It’s an absolutely true story that Charlie Chaplin once came in second in a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest… his brother came in first.
January 26th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
The final question’s referring to the poster, methinks. Most of the promotional materials seem to have o&e replaced with a 9, which almost explains what they’re asking.
I got it right, but failed miserably at some other questions…