A Quiz All About You!

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1. Right now you are visiting a trivia site, so you obviously like online trivia games. According to a 2000 study by PC Data, does this preference make you more likely to be male or female? Answer: (One Word ... Male or Female, M or F)

2. The fact that you have found this site means you have mastered at least basic internet skills. According to 2001 findings by American researchers, internet users are more tolerant than non-users? True False

3. Trivia buffs love facts. They relish gathering esoteric bits of knowledge that others dismiss as, well, trivial! Many mathematicians and computer programmers are huge trivia lovers. If this obsession for facts and details sounds like a description of you, which of the four basic personality types are you most likely to possess? D Type A Type C Type B Type

4. If you consistently excel at trivia (and I'm sure you do!), you are likely a good candidate for membership in Mensa, the organization for genii. If you passed its admission test, what percentage of the population would you represent? 10 percent 25 percent 5 percent 2 percent

5. As you know, you found this quiz in the 'People' section, so we've already established that you are interested in people. According to the 'four dimensions' based on psychiatrist Carl Jung's theories, does a bigger interest in people than ideas make you a THINKER or a FEELER? Thinker Feeler Neither Both

6. Being able to visit Fun Trivia means you have access to a computer. You may, in fact, own one. What you may not know is that this puts you in a very privileged and rare group. According to a well-known 1998 study, what percentage of WORLDWIDE population owned a computer that year? 11 percent 1 percent 0.0001 percent 0.1 percent

7. It's probably no accident that you were drawn to a quiz about yourself. You don't have to look farther than your local bookstore's 'self-help' section to know you are in good company. Technically called the Psychology/Recovery category, it includes thousands of self-knowledge, evaluation and improvement books. What percentage of total U.S. book sales did these 'self-help' books represent in 1998? 0.2 percent 53.4 percent 19.7 percent 6.3 percent

8. According to 2000 Nielsen statistics on internet use, where are you most likely to be right now? At Home At School At Work At a Library

9. You obviously harbour no lingering hatred of multiple choice tests, or at least like them enough to be taking this one. Your willingness is not shared by everyone, however. In a recent four-year survey of American students, how many said multiple choice tests made them nervous or extremely nervous? 78 percent 50 percent 12 percent 3 percent

10. The fact that you are reading this sentence means you can speak English! According to the National Foreign Language Center (1998), how much of the world's population speaks English to some degree? About 10 Percent About 70 Percent About 20 Percent About 40 Percent