Dilbert and His Cohorts Trivia Quiz

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Dilbert is part of the Engineering Department and interacts with several of his co-workers in that department. Dilbert, himself, is highly intelligent, socially inept, and perpetually frustrated. With his round glasses and his upward-curling striped tie, he represents truth and logic in an environment that rewards neither. In other words, he builds great products, only to watch management ruin them.

Dilbert's manager is the Pointy-Haried Boss. With his two horns of hair symbolizing his role as the daily tormentor of the engineers, he is clueless, tech-illiterate, and entirely managed by recent buzzwords. He is living proof of the Dilbert Principle (incompetent employees are promoted to management because they are the least capable of doing actual work) since he cannot engineer, code programs, or effectively manage people, yet he holds total authority over most budgets and projects.

Wally is the professional slacker. He has mastered the art of doing absolutely nothing without getting fired. His signature move is walking the halls with a coffee mug; he figured out that a person holding a coffee cup never looks like they are looking for work, instead they look like they are on break from work. He is very intelligent, fiercely anti-work, and completely immune to corporate guilt or intimidation.

Alice, famous for her "Fist of Death" and triangle-shaped hair, is extremely competent but also extremely stressed. Alice gets things done through sheer force of will and intimidation. Because she receives no rewards for her hard work, her frustration has turned her into a huge cynic.

The rest of the office also has some fascinating characters. Asok is the junior worker who the system has not destroyed just yet. He is a graduate of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), meaning he is often smarter than the rest of the team combined. However, his naive belief that hard works pays off makes him easy prey for extra work and zero credit.

Loud Howard is completely incapable of speaking quietly. His mouth literally takes over his face when he speaks, sending a shockwave of sound across the office. Howard isn't mean on purpose; he is just utterly lacking in self-awareness. He announces completely mundane details about his life, illness, or lunch at a deafening volume and often on a speaker phone in a cubicle.

Dogbert, Dilbert's pet, views corporate stupidity not as a tragedy, but as a goldmine. This is because he frequently operates as a high-priced consultant, telling executives exactly what they want to hear while charging them exorbitant fees. He is brilliant, thinks highly of himself, and looks down on almost all humans (Dilbert being the exception at times).

The company's authority figures also play a big part in the strip. The Evil Director of Human Resources, Catbert designs company policies strictly to maximize worker discomfort and corporate cost-cutting, like timing bathroom breaks or replacing chairs with exercise balls to save money. He is sadistic, manipulative, and just plain evil, masked by a cute kitty persona.

Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, is a minor deity of the underworld who rules over "Heck" with a giant pitchfork. He manages small-scale misery by "darning people to Heck". He is constantly watching for infractions of office etiquette like someone taking the last donut from the box in the break room.

Originally a refugee from a genetic engineering lab, Ratbert moved into Dilbert's house and occasionally wanders into the office. He represents the temp worker and is so desperate for corporate status, he is easily tricked into taking the worst, most humiliating jobs that even Asok would turn down