<![CDATA[Jezebel: quizzes]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: quizzes]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/quizzes http://jezebel.com/tag/quizzes <![CDATA[Cosmo Thinks Women With Integrity Are Total Failures]]> Cathy Alter might claim that women's magazines saved her life, but we're a little more skeptical. To crib a line from Cher Horowitz, looking for advice in a Cosmo quiz is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie, and yet, something about the title of this quiz enticed me: Are You Destined For Success? Feeling reasonably content with my career trajectory, I thought to myself, I am totally going to ace this idiot quiz. How wrong I was! My lack of ruthlessness or duplicity caused Cosmo to term me an "Undetermined Dawdler." (BURN!!!) Here's the first question: "While shopping, you and a pal spot a top that you both love, but there's only one left. Do you let her have it?" The options are: A) Yeah, it's not worth fighting over. B) Hell no, you'll tear it out of her hands if you have to. C) You try to steer her toward another shirt that would look much hotter on her, hoping she'll take the bait. I chose A, because, you know, she's my friend and it's just a shirt. Wrong answer!

I did the quiz again and chose B), and that got me labeled "Blindly Ambitious," which, in Cosmo world, is a no no. Because showing your ambition makes you seem like an undainty "bulldozer," and nobody likes that in a lady. Just for the good of womanity, I took the quiz a third time, and chose C) and other answers that were similarly manipulative. Like for the question, what do you do when you hear that your crush is dating another girl, you're supposed to "Snoop around to find out how serious they are. If it's just a casual thing, you can still make a play for him." When I choose those sorts of passive aggressive responses, Cosmo was delighted, and called me a "savvy goal-getter" who could manage to be simultaneously "likely to succeed…and likable." Sigh. The takeaway: stabbing your coworkers and friends in the back with your fuck-me heels is a-ok by Cosmo standards as long as you have a shit-eating grin on your perfectly glossed lips.

Are You Destined For Success? [Cosmopolitan]

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<![CDATA[Are You Smarter Than A Jezebel Editor?]]> We got so bored today I asked the other editors to play Traveler IQ Challenge for a post, in honor of the places we are not traveling right now. But since no one was really here and Jennie was with that needle-wielding Chinese witch doctor of hers it was between myself, and my score of 171,910, with which I was rather pleased, and Jessica, who scored... 342,337. What the fuck, Jessica? Do you have a real mouse or something? Am I just stupid? Is my mind atrophying in my old age? Is that why I'm not sure if I'm using the term "atrophy" correctly? How the fuck did you remember where Guinea was? Okay, so I played again and scored a 269,874, but I refuse to stop there. I will beat you, Jessica. And you and you and you! What the else am I going to do for the next few hours? Oh, invoices? Hah. SUCK MY DICK EASTER ISLAND!!!
Traveler IQ Challenge [TravelPod]
New Game Puts Geography On The Map (See what they did there?) [WSJ]

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<![CDATA[Are We Cheating Whores Or Just Friendly And Popular?]]> There's a quiz regarding relationships and fidelity in the UK paper The Mirror today that's sorta retarded. The eight-question, multiple-choice quiz is supposed to help readers determine the likelihood of whether or not they will be unfaithful to their significant others. Three problems: If you don't have a boyfriend, you have to pretend that you do when answering the questions if you want "accurate" results. Secondly, the questions seems to be based on a core belief that people cheat and/or flirt solely because of self-esteem issues. Third, the quiz assumes that a range of behavior counts as cheating — other than sexual contact — like flirting with an old guy just for fun, or going for drinks with your co-worker, or taking a guy's number in a bar. Most women do those things all the time in varying degrees. Does that mean we're big cheaters, or simply personable and normal? We took the test ourselves:

The results are broken down into four groups. Here's how the Mirror lists them:

CHEAT IN WAITING
You may think it's all just harmless flirting but because you rely on sexual attention to feel good it only takes a rough patch to send you into the arms of another. Wake up to your cheating potential now, and accept that true self-esteem always comes from within.

DITHERER
You grew up desperate for security, so you won't risk losing your relationship. But you wonder if you should have someone else waiting in the wings. When men pay you attention, you're scared of rejecting them so you're liable to give out mixed sexual signals, then panic when they expect more from you. Face up to the games you're playing - and put your trust back into your real relationship.

QUEEN OF DENIAL
You're unhappy in your relationship yet you won't even look at another man in case you're tempted to stray. Being this closed down suggests that your self-confidence has taken a real battering and you're prepared to put up and shut up rather than leave. And if that sounds way too risky consider pursuing a friendship with the other man - that alone may show you that there's an alternative out there.

FAITHFUL.. NEARLY
Everyone has the potential to start an affair, but you're nowhere near it at the moment. You're happy in your relationship and sexually confident enough to enjoy a harmless spot of flirtation with other men occasionally. When problems do arise you talk about them, and you would never expect a man to be the answer to everything.

Our results:
Anna : Faithful...Nearly
Dodai: The Ditherer
Moe: Faithful...Nearly (For the most part. She admits to being all over the map.)
Tracie: 50/50 split between Faithful...Nearly and Cheat in Waiting
Jennifer: Faithful...Nearly

Obviously, such a quiz shouldn't be taken to heart, since answering eight questions about yourself with answers that don't even necessarily reflect how you feel could never truly be that enlightening. But you know, we never met a silly British quiz we didn't take.

How Likely Are You To Cheat? [Mirror]

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It's easy to forget that celebrities are people too! And so we turn our loving gaze towards Rachel Bilson, who we can never actually recognize, but we know she's the one from that show that isn't Mischa Barton, who we can recognize. As Rachel limps slowly but determindly back into the dating scene, we present our quiz: What Kind of First Date Are You? Find out, Rachel dear, after the jump.

It's your first date, where would you go?

  1. Somewhere expensive, intimate and romantic, where the lighting is low enough to conceal your desperation.
  2. To the nearest puppy farm, to cuddle some puppies.
  3. To the nearest puppy farm, to shoot some puppies.
  4. The nearest 8-Ball motel with rooms for rent by the hour.

What would you wear?

  1. Jeans and a teeshirt. Why make an effort when all men are pigs anyway?
  2. Little black dress, long gloves and a tiara because you think you're fucking Audrey Hepburn you deluded fat fool.
  3. That coat you made for your project runway audition out of dead lepers' skin and infused with your menstrual blood.
  4. Your vagina, and a dab of perfume.

You go out for dinner, and order drinks first. What's your tipple?

  1. Something pink and creamy because you're a girly girl and you are entirely hairless below the neck.
  2. Champagne. If you're going to have to sleep with this jerk, you're gonna get your money's worth. Oh yes.
  3. Water or a soft drink. Because you are a crashing bore.
  4. Nothing too over the top - just a couple of bottles of vodka.

The bill comes. What do you do?

  1. Run.
  2. Offer to pay because you refuse to bow before the patriarchal norms of society, which is why you never get a second date, and also you don't shave your armpits, you lesbian.
  3. Lean over seductively and whisper in his ear that cheapskates don't get their cocks sucked.
  4. You don't notice, you passed out under the table an hour ago.

He walks you to your apartment and suggests coming up for coffee. You:

  1. Can't hear him over the noise of slamming the door in his face
  2. Vomit apologetically on his shoes.
  3. Bring him up and make him coffee and then say goodbye and thank him for such a lovely night, you boring pathetic goody-twoshoes, no wonder no-one loves you and you will die alone.
  4. Bring him up, drink another couple of bottles of vodka, smoke some weed, have enthusiastic but inept ultimately unsatisfying drunk sex, repeat for six months until you're both deluded enough to get married, have a couple of kids, wake up one day wondering how you ended up saddled with such a dickhead, divorce him and slide into a banal, lonely alcohol-infused middle age.

Mostly 1s, 2s, 3s or 4s: Kill yourself, loser.

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