Latin was the favored language for love poetry for over 1500 years. Explore this long and varied history in this quiz. Latin is truly the language of love!

Or, an Illinois 2008 "Night Before Christmas." Lyrics taken from a Chris Britt editorial cartoon in the Dec. 16 Springfield "State Journal-Register." To say more would be gilding the lily. Enjoy.

What could be more exciting than looking at rocks in their natural habitat? Why, looking at rocks under a microscope, of course! So take this quiz. I PROMISE you know more about this than you think!

Memorizing solubility rules for class was about as interesting as eating cardboard. Luckily for you, this quiz is jam-packed with all sorts of delectable chemistry tidbits! Ample hints.

The evil scientist Dr. Blarg has you trapped in his laboratory. If you can't identify ten different minerals, you will meet a fate worse than death! Bwa ha ha! Are you ready for the challenge? (Evil fate not included.)

Consider the ubiquitous yellow pencil. One of the most commonly used but underappreciated objects in the world. Take this quiz and discover the history that made the technological wonder that is the modern pencil!

Some common Latin and Greek quotations are consistently misquoted, mispronounced, or misattributed. Take this quiz to learn about these classical MISquotes!

Do you understand sand? Mull over boulders? Love mud? Are you a big fan of alluvium? If you are thinking, "My sediments exactly!" or "At long clast!" well, take this quiz!

Have you seen-ee Mycenae? I've seen-ee Mycenae, and this is My cenae quiz! Just Mycenae's Greatest Hits, nothing more, nothing less!

Fire Station No. 6 in Livermore, CA is home to the world's longest continuously lit lightbulb. Take this quiz to learn its story!

Bob the Sim was living a happy, carefree life in his simulated little world of "The Sims 1" (PC). Then I came along! Bwa ha ha!

Homer's Greek is linguistically interesting-- a fact not known to most casual readers of the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" in translation. Take this quiz to find out more about the language and poetry of Homer! No knowledge of Greek required.

In 1321, Dante climbed the terraces of Purgatory and saw a new deadly sin on each level. Now the Quiz Makers' Guild is making the same trip, and seeing things Dante never dreamed of. We wrap up our tour with our seventh and final sin, lust.

All you pun-loving Greeks and Romans out there, I have created a quiz just for you! Just pick the answer that's the worst joke, and you should do just fine!

Between the Stone Age and the Mycenaean Age, there was Lerna and the House of the Tiles. Ready for an Early Bronze Age architectural adventure? Take this quiz to Lerna some more!

Join us this evening for a date with the lovely, sexy, intelligent and witty members of the Quiz Maker's Guild. Of course, don't be surprised if discussion soon drifts to matters trivial...

Are you gullible? I know I am. That's why I wrote a quiz just for gullible people like me! Step right up, and don't worry, you'll do fine! (wink, wink)

Yes, my friends, there is a sport called chessboxing, in which competitors alternate boxing rounds with chess matches. Take this quiz to learn about the ultimate contest of brains and brawn!

Geology doesn't just apply to the Earth! Explore the geology of Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Moon, and assorted asteroids!

My high school's "Crummy Car Club" was founded by the theology teacher, who had named his 80's-vintage Volvo station wagon "The Womb of Suffering" after a line in the Bhagavad-Gita. Enjoy this eclectic quiz!

Not sure where to fasten those "knEmides"? Can't decide between your sharp-edged "xiphos" or your trusty "egkhos"? Then work out all your weaponry woes with this quiz!

Let me introduce you to the Order of the Stick, the finest band of incompetent stick-figure adventurers ever to save a "Dungeons and Dragons" style universe. "The Order of the Stick" is a popular and highly acclaimed webcomic and comic book series.

These rocks are as pathetic a lot as ever you'll find. They can't take the heat. They buckle under pressure. After a while, you can't even discern their former selves! Take this quiz to learn the story of a Changed Rock...

You might think all Classical poetry attains the pinnacle of perfection. In reality, there's a fair amount of Greek and Latin poetry that's badly written, badly worded, or just in really bad taste. Take this quiz to find out more!

Not nudists, RUDISTS. What is a rudist? Rudists are clams with delusions of grandeur. They were the major reef-builders during the...Hey! If you want to find out more, you should take this quiz, buddy! It'll be interesting-- I promise!

You thought that keeping birds just meant parrots and finches, didn't you? Take this quiz to learn more about toucans, touracos, and mynahs!

Is the geology of a moon made totally out of ice very different from the geology of the Earth? Yes? No? Take this quiz and find out! The next installment in the "Astrogeology" series.

A wise man may be hard to find, but idiots are a dime a dozen. But are wisdom or stupidity ever clear-cut? Take this quiz to see wisdom (and stupidity) in some very surprising places!

Ancient Greek verbs can be confusing. If you're thinking, "You don't say," then take this quiz! Yes, it's grammar calisthenics, but I wrote especially nice explanations and added some humorous content. Capital E indicates eta; O omega.

Words that take second aorists can be unnecessarily confusing. I mean, where do I look up "ethEka" in a dictionary? Under "tithEmi." Obviously. So take this quiz. Win friends and influence people with your newfound grammatical muscle!

The Burgess Shale: the Cambrian explosion of life. But I'm mostly concerned about the weird and wacky critters that haunted that continental shelf 540 million years ago.

Guy Goma came to the BBC office on May 8, 2006, expecting a job interview. As Luck or Fate would have it, he was mistaken for someone else and interviewed on the air, thus launching his accidental one minute and 15 seconds of fame!