Neither Jackie NOR Marilyn

And I didn't expect to be Jackie or Marilyn. This one is pretty accurate, I think--and with only 2 questions!

Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are a Grace!

You are a Grace -- "I need to understand the world."

Graces have a need for knowledge and are introverted, curious, analytical, and insightful.

How to Get Along with Me

• * Be independent, not clingy


• * Speak in a straightforward and brief manner


• * I need time alone to process my feelings and thoughts


• * Remember that If I seem aloof, distant, or arrogant, it may be that I am feeling uncomfortable


• * Make me feel welcome, but not too intensely, or I might doubt your sincerity


• * If I become irritated when I have to repeat things, it may be because it was such an effort to get my thoughts out in the first place


• * don't come on like a bulldozer


• * Help me to avoid my pet peeves: big parties, other people's loud music, overdone emotions, and intrusions on my privacy

What I Like About Being a Grace
* standing back and viewing life objectively
* coming to a thorough understanding; perceiving causes and effects
* my sense of integrity: doing what I think is right and not being influenced by social pressure
* not being caught up in material possessions and status
* being calm in a crisis

What's Hard About Being a Grace

• * being slow to put my knowledge and insights out in the world


• * feeling bad when I act defensive or like a know-it-all


• * being pressured to be with people when I don't want to be


• * watching others with better social skills, but less intelligence or technical skill, do better professionally

Graces as Children Often

• * spend a lot of time alone reading, making collections, and so on


• * have a few special friends rather than many


• * are very bright and curious and do well in school


• * have independent minds and often question their parents and teachers


• * watch events from a detached point of view, gathering information


• * assume a poker face in order not to look afraid


• * are sensitive; avoid interpersonal conflict


• * feel intruded upon and controlled and/or ignored and neglected

Graces as Parents

• * are often kind, perceptive, and devoted


• * are sometimes authoritarian and demanding


• * may expect more intellectual achievement than is developmentally appropriate


• * may be intolerant of their children expressing strong emotions

Take Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz at HelloQuizzy

Found at We Have Been Blessed.

20 Years After Graduation, I've Still Got It

Your result for The Commonly Confused Words Test...

English Genius

You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 100% Expert!

You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word to describe your excellence! You have the uncommon intelligence necessary to understand things that most people don't. You have an extensive vocabulary, and you're not afraid to use it properly! Way to go!

Thank you so much for taking my test. I hope you enjoyed it!

For the complete Answer Key, visit my blog: http://shortredhead78.blogspot.com/.

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Guess I'll Take That as a Compliment

I wouldn't want to be the president anyway.

Your result for The Presidential Capacity Test...

Religious Adviser to the President

79% Values, 53% Charisma and 47% Judgment!

How would YOU do on the Presidential Capacity Test?

Evidently I was born at the wrong time

About 60 years too late, that is!

99 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test!

Hat tip to Angie.

Big Brother made me take this quiz

Then he laughed in my face. I got the worst results of everyone in the household with an age in the double digits.

41%

OnePlusYou Quizzes and Widgets

What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Your Thinking is Concrete and Sequential

You are precise, orderly, and realistic. You tend to get to the point and get things done. Difficult, detailed work is easy for you. You take things step by step. Time limits aren't a problem for you either. You work well with deadlines. What does drive you crazy is any sort of task that isn't precisely laid out. You don't like anything to be ambiguous. You prefer to deal with the facts at hand.

What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Looks like me and Ellen are from opposite ends of the thinking spectrum!

Saqué una nota buena en el examen

My parents will be relieved that my college degree in Spanish is still serving me well.

You Passed 8th Grade Spanish

Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!

Could You Pass 8th Grade Spanish?

Via Amy Caroline.

Geniuses Read This

My high-school vocabulary teacher would be proud of me. We were all required to take a once-a-week vocabulary enrichment course until January of senior year. Apparently, it paid off.

H/T Michelle at Rosetta Stone, who also has a genius-reading-level blog

Halloween Personality

What's scary here is that in 5 questions, they managed to figure all this out. It's all true, too.

What Your Halloween Habits Say About You

You're a friendly person, but not the life of the party. You like making someone else's day - and you'll dress up if you think of a really fun costume. You're weird. You're downright deviant. And you use dressing up in a costume as an excuse to act out. Your inner child is full of wonder and very sweet. You truly fear the dark side of humanity. You are a true misanthrope. You're logical, rational, and not easily effected. Not a lot scares you... especially when it comes to the paranormal. You are picky and high maintenance. If you wear a Halloween costume, it's only when you really feel like it. And it has to be perfect.

What's Your Halloween Personality?

What Kind of Candy Are You?

Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

Very popular, one of you is not enough.

What Kind of Candy Are You?

Wonder if I could tweak my results to make it turn out that I am a Milky Way (my favorite candy EVER).

Via Jean at Catholic Fire.

My Nerd Test Score

Because all the cool bloggers are taking this test.




Pretty accurate, I'd say, though I'd have scored myself way higher on the "awkwardness" one. I guess that since I (unlike Little Brother) don't strap (multiple) light sabres to my belt, it was in my favor there.
I do have a degree in Literature so I'm glad to see that I tested high for that. As far as the technology stuff, it must be the result of TheDad's influence, since he's a programmer.

100 Acre Quiz

Everybody's got a quiz today, it seems. And I just LOVE quizzes!


Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!

Via Christine, who's also Kanga.

What Classical Composer Are You?

You scored as Schubert, So, you've found something you like to do. You don't want to do anything else. You do a good job, even if it kills you. Schubert 80% J.S. Bach 75% Haydn 70% Wagner 65% Brahms 60% Beethoven 55% Hector Berlioz 50% Chopin 50% Handel 45% Tchaikovsky 40% Schumann 40% Mozart 30% Liszt 15% Which classical composer are you? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Schubert, So, you've found something you like to do. You don't want to do anything else. You do a good job, even if it kills you. Guess I should listen to some of his music and see if I like it. Via Esther, who scored as my favorite composer, J.S. Bach.

What Instrument Should I Play?

How funny--this is what I DO play. Self-taught and everything.

You Should Play the Guitar

You're very independent - both in spirit and in the way you learn. You can teach yourself almost anything, even if it makes your fingers bleed. You're not really the type to sit patiently through a music lesson - or do things by the book. It's more your style to master the fundamentals and see where they take you. Highly creative and a bit eclectic, you need a wide range of music to play. You could emerge as a sensitive songwriter... or a manic rock star. Your dominant personality characteristic: being rebellious Your secondary personality characteristic: tenacity

What Musical Instrument Should You Play?

Via Jean at Catholic Fire.

I talk like a New Yorker. So what of it?

YES, I grew up in North Jersey. Now I live in the Philly 'burbs and the accent here is very different from home!

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Northeastern.
You're probably from somewhere near New York City, possibly north Jersey, or Connecticut or Rhode Island. If you are from New York City you may be one of the types who people never believe when you say you're from New York.

If you are not from here, you are probably one of the following:
(a) A Philadelphian who can't stand the way other Philadelphians say "on";
(b) A Yat from New Orleans; or
(c) Someone from England, Australia, or New Zealand, in which case why are you doing this quiz in the first place?

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different Same

Via Esther, who also grew up in New Jersey.

I am Bert

Quite true. I am Bert. And I'd bet good money that TheDad would score as Ernie.

Your Score: Bert

You scored 70% Organization, 51% abstract, and 45% extroverted!

This test measured 3 variables.

First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.

Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type.

Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself.

You are very organized, both concrete and abstract, and both introverted and extroverted.

Here is why are you Bert.

You are both very organized. You almost always know where your belongings are and you prefer things neat. You may even enjoy cleaning and find it therapeutic. Bert is a big neat freak and gets quite annoyed when Ernie makes a big mess.


You both are sometimes concrete and sometimes abstract thinkers. Bert is probably a bit more concrete in his bottlecap collecting addiction and his love of the weather. He does show his abstract side when he sings and performs his "Doin' The Pidgeon" song. You have a good balance in your life. You know when to be logical at times, but you also aren't afraid to explore your dreams and desires... within limits of course.


You are both somewhat introverted. Bert is probably more introverted, because he spends most of his time either with Ernie or alone. Still he has no problem being around other people in his role as chairman of "The National Association of 'W' Lovers." Like Bert, you probably like to have some time to yourself, but you do appreciate spending time with your friends, and you aren't scared of social situations.

The other possible characters are

Oscar the Grouch

Big Bird

Snuffleupagus

Ernie

Elmo

Kermit the Frog

Grover

Cookie Monster

Guy Smiley

The Count

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Link: The Your SESAME STREET Persona Test written by greencowsgomoo on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Via Amy. She's Elmo!

What Author's Fiction Am I?

Which Author's Fiction are You?

Flannery O'Connor wrote your book. Not much escapes your notice.
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Go figure. I wrote my college senior thesis on Flannery O'Connor. Maybe I should get those books out and savor a re-read!
H/T to Esther, who is also Flannery O'Connor.

This was fun--and kind of true

Your Birthdate: July 28

You have a Type A personality so big it makes other Type A's shrink away in shame. You never shy away from adversity - and you love to tackle impossible problems. Failure is not an option for you, and more than a few people are put off by your ego. You tend to be controlling, and you hate leaving anything up to chance. Your strength: Your bold approach to life Your weakness: You don't accept help Your power color: Bronze Your power symbol: Pyramid Your power month: October

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

What's Your Superpower?

I must have read Ellen's mind while taking this quiz.

Your Superpower Should Be Mind Reading

You are brilliant, insightful, and intuitive. You understand people better than they would like to be understood. Highly sensitive, you are good at putting together seemingly irrelevant details. You figure out what's going on before anyone knows that anything is going on! Why you would be a good superhero: You don't care what people think, and you'd do whatever needed to be done Your biggest problem as a superhero: Feeling even more isolated than you do now

What Should Your Superpower Be?

Shameless Self-Promotion

Because I can.
I am smarter than 97.25% of the rest of the world.
Find out how smart you are.

I knew something was up when Big Brother started asking me about kilograms, glasnost and Washington State. "Hey! You're taking a trivia quiz, aren't you?"

He admitted to that, and agreed to IM me the link to the quiz as soon as he was done.

He got a measly 77%. Neener, Big Brother. Bow to your mother, the Trivia Queen.