Re: Maximum PC magazine's geek quiz
[color:"orange"]Which kind of questions ?
Serious questions about knowledge and abilities in the technology domains or stupid questions about your way of living like in most of the tests on the internet ?[/color]
The quiz consists of serious questions (though some of the available answers are not) and range from general tech knowledge to obscure minutia, including games and tech related pop culture. More specifically, topics include things like the features of video cards, chipsets and CPUs, etc, video codecs, optical disk standards (encryption, capacity, etc), the meaning of acronyms, and identification of pictures (usually of a motherboard component or some other electronics part). The few gaming questions can range from general knowledge (the name of the first RTS released for the PC, or the first FPS to support 3D hardware acceleration) to some feature of a MMORPG, which I usually don't get since I don't play them (one this year was easy to guess, though: the meaning of an exclamation point over the head of an NPC in World of Warcraft - new quest). Pop culture questions can be things like 'which of the following actors has not starred in a movie as a computer hacked?' or YouTube's maximum upload file size.
From this year's quiz;
5) Name one of the ingredients in Intel's new high-k dielectric gates:
a. Titanium
b. Hafnium
c. Adamantium
d. Blueberries
40) Which processor has the highest clock speed?
a. Core 2 Duo T7600
b. Athlon 64 FX-57
c. Pentium Extreme Edition 840
d. Celeron D 356
