Are You a Nerd?

Prove that you're a true nerd by answering these questions.

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Last updated: September 27, 2023

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First submitted	November 2, 2013
Times taken	34,480
Average score	50.0%
Rating	4.21

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Question	Answer
What tabletop game is organized by a dungeonmaster?	Dungeons & Dragons
What card game is subtitled "The Gathering"?	Magic
Which company owns the rights to above two games?	Wizards of the Coast
Who wrote "The Silmarillion"?	J.R.R. Tolkien
Where does Superman go when he needs some alone time?	Fortress of Solitude
What are the first five digits of π?	3.1415
Complete the analogy: Anime is to Cartoon as _____ is to Comic Book	Manga
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?	42
What type of alien is Lieutenant Worf?	Klingon
What are the words of House Stark?	Winter is coming
What is the middle name of astrophysicist Neil Tyson?	deGrasse
What English language word might a hacker spell as 1337?	Elite
In what board game can you earn two victory points for having the longest road?	Settlers of Catan
What do you call a bro who likes "My Little Pony"?	Brony
What science fiction series was written by Frank Herbert?	Dune
How do you write the number 16 in binary?	10000
What planet did Luke Skywalker grow up on?	Tatooine
What "test" does a chatbot pass if it can trick a human into believing that it is also human?	Turing Test
What is the 1/1000th of a nanosecond called?	Picosecond
What did Linus Torvalds create?	Linux

Level 77

Nov 5, 2013

I thought 1337 was LEET, which i presume is short for elite.

Level ∞

Nov 5, 2013

Exactly.

Level 30

Jan 12, 2014

So, could leet be accepted?

Level 48

May 21, 2014

Sure it is.

Level ∞

Jul 6, 2016

Leet will work now.

+27

Level 90

Aug 28, 2017

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Level 38

Oct 5, 2023

Translation: "Leet is short for elite, but is a more used term, so it is only fitting that both leet and elite would be accepted."

Level 66

Sep 27, 2023

Lazy nerds, can't even give us both syllables 13373...

Level 77

Sep 27, 2023

I'm not sure that adds a syllable.

Level 57

Oct 10, 2023

ieete? What is that?

Level 82

Jan 12, 2014

Wizards of the Coast is a subsidiary of Hasbro.

Level 68

Jan 12, 2014

I don't play either, but I thought it was Hasbro and I was disappointed when it didn't take it, now I find out I was right all along XD

Level 82

Jan 12, 2014

Dungeons and Dragons was TSR. Magic: The Gathering was originally Richard Garfield Games (just a shell company) but always sold by Wizards of the Coast. Magic was doing great and D&D was losing popularity, probably a related phenomenon, in the mid 90s, so WotC took advantage and bought TSR. Following that, WotC started making the Pokemon card game, which was what really attracted Habro. WotC and all of its properties were acquired by Hasbro in 1999. I think. Don't have Wikipedia open right now...

Level ∞

Jan 13, 2014

Hasbro will work now.

Level 77

Jul 7, 2014

That made it just so much easier.

Level 74

May 26, 2016

Really you should accept "Wizards" as that's what most players actually refer to the company as in casual conversation. I was frustrated when it wouldn't accept Wizards and assumed you were looking for something else.

Level ∞

Jul 6, 2016

Okay, simply Wizards will now be accepted

Level 82

Jul 6, 2016

yeah or WotC. Rhymes with Yahtzee.

Level 79

Dec 26, 2019

Tried Wizard, knew it was something like that, I think due to Austin McConnell's (woeful) video

Level 79

Jan 12, 2014

WOW...I got 4

Level 61

Jan 12, 2014

Apparently I am full on nerd. 20/20.

Level 42

Jan 12, 2014

Thankfully below average on this one.

Level 37

Jan 12, 2014

4/20 what a relief

Level 60

Jan 13, 2014

I had to guess on 2, but it turns out I'm a big nerd. 20/20

Level 91

Jan 23, 2014

17/20. Guess I'm only mostly nerd. I was surprised that TSR wasn't the right answer to the D&D publisher question. I didn't realize they'd been absorbed. Poor Gary Gygax.

Level 50

Mar 3, 2014

lol i thought the answer to "what is the answer to life, the universe and everything" was chuck norris lol hahaha

Level 86

Mar 4, 2014

Only 9/20. I knew I was not that kind of nerd... still over average though :).

Level 54

Jun 26, 2014

7. Should have gotten 9, I think that is low on the nerdometer.

Level 45

Jul 29, 2014

Okay. I am getting SICK of everyone saying it's bad to be a nerd. HELLO, people, Bill Gates is a nerd. Albert Einstein is a nerd, and after all you jocks are hobbling around on old sports injuries, us nerds will be sitting in plush chairs in techno-offices, playing miniature golf, and being rich. Dudes. Get your priorities straight.

+13

Level 84

Sep 15, 2014

Umm, I don't think there are a lot of "jocks" hanging around on JetPunk. Take a chill pill, no one really thinks it's bad to be "nerdy" anymore.

+11

Level 84

Sep 15, 2014

And somehow you assume that *your* priorities of getting rich and playing minigolf are the right ones? You make the same mistake that you accuse others of making.

Level 67

Jul 6, 2016

Damn. Joeythelemur dropping the hammer. Good point. I am a nerd, and I think golf is lame as hell.

Level 91

Aug 28, 2023

Should be "we nerds." I question your commitment.

Level 68

Oct 8, 2023

It's neither good nor bad to be a nerd. In fact, I assure you, noone cares. But also: neither Einstein nor Bill Gates invented anything by collecting Pokemon or playing D&D in their mom's basement. So, get off your high horse, and just enjoy whatever you enjoy.

Level 38

Oct 30, 2015

nerdier than average :/

got 9, avg. is 8 :)

Level 56

Jul 6, 2016

Since this is a quiz about nerdom, I must note that it is too US-centric.

Level 42

Jul 6, 2016

Did anyone know most of the answers only by watching The Big Bang Theory?

Level 79

Jul 6, 2016

I got 5 and BRONY was a flat out guess

Level 67

Jul 6, 2016

I cannot believe such a thing exists. I know there are all sorts of "nerd" (I am loath to use the term) subcultures, but I remember the My Little Pony of my youth as a vacuous 22-minute long toy commercial for young girls with no redeeming quality whatsoever. I think I saw somewhere that the series has been rebooted, so perhaps it has been reformed with better animation, writing, etc., because I just cannot imagine that any person over the age 10, of any gender, would find the original My Little Pony even tolerable.

Level 82

Jul 6, 2016

I'm sort of autistic. Being a brony doesn't really get you tons of chicks. I'm into ponies with little side of a kid's d*. I'm just like Kony kidnapping kids ages 5 and 6. (but not dead since 2006)

Level 75

Oct 27, 2016

I have four granddaughters and none of them ever wanted to watch My Little Pony when they were at my house. Two of them had a crush on Wyatt from Super Why, and one of them really identified with the stoner sloth on It's a Big, Big World. (That was a little worrisome.) Our autistic granddaughter prefers watching DIY home and auto repair DVDs. I say to each his/her own.

Level 79

Aug 1, 2019

I guessed it too, just on a hunch.

Level 67

Jul 6, 2016

I got 12. Should have known Klingon and Battlestar Galactica. And I love They Might Be Giants. Criminally underappreciated band.

Level 62

Jul 6, 2016

Only missed 2. Not bad.

Level 74

Jul 6, 2016

NEEEEEEEEEEEEERDS!

Level 70

Jul 6, 2016

Fun quiz. Please make another nerd quiz.

Level 24

Jul 6, 2016

Dude 22% of the ones I got I didn't know. I feel proud of my guesses for once

Level 38

Jul 7, 2016

Awesome quiz!

Level 73

Mar 27, 2018

4 years ago, when I first took the quiz I was at the average with 9/20. Now I have 17/20. I'm making a progress. :D

Level 73

Oct 8, 2023

I don't even remember taking the quiz, but further 5 years later I breezed through it and got 20/20. The Worf question was the only one I had to think a bit longer about.

Level 79

Aug 1, 2019

10/20, a bit nerdy but not a full-on nerd.

Level 80

Sep 27, 2023

16 in binary is 10000 not 1000

Level 70

Sep 27, 2023

You are indeed correct.

16 8 4 2 1

1 0 0 0 0

Quizmaster, please fix.

Level ∞

Sep 27, 2023

Fixed! I failed my own nerd test.

Level 60

Sep 27, 2023

It took 10 years for someone to notice? Clearly the takers are not as nerdy as claimed...

Level 82

Oct 9, 2023

It looks like this has been updated over the years -- there are a couple of earlier comments referring to questions that no longer appear on the quiz.

Level 76

Sep 27, 2023

Might be worth accepting the full byte for the binary answer. I kept typing 00010000 and 0001 0000

Level 54

Oct 4, 2023

Same. It should be accepted, that's still a correct answer.

Level 78

Sep 27, 2023

Given rounding conventions and the fact that the next figure after 5 is 9 make Pi to 5 significant figures 3.1416?

Level 77

Sep 28, 2023

But they didn't ask "What is pi rounded to the nearest ten-thousandth?" they asked "What are the first five digits of pi?" And the fifth digit of pi is, inarguably, 5.

Level 78

Sep 28, 2023

Asking for the first five digits of pi is not about nerdism, it's about middle school math. From seven digits onwards, it would be legit.

Level 70

Sep 28, 2023

Many people -- who know it it all -- would only know 3.14 off the top of their head

Level 79

Sep 28, 2023

Here's a little mnemonic for you.

May I have a large container of coffee?

3.1415926

Level 68

Oct 8, 2023

According to the Bible, pi is precisely 3 (1 Kings 7:23).

Level 67

Oct 8, 2023

I'm glad engineering students aren't using the Bible as their textbooks.

Level 79

Sep 28, 2023

15/20 makes me 75% nerd. I can live with that.

Level 73

Sep 28, 2023

I scored 8/20. I don't have what it takes to be a nerd. Thanks for the quiz!

Level 68

Sep 28, 2023

15/20. I'm not that much of a nerd (apart from when it comes to books) but I know a lot of them!

Level 89

Sep 28, 2023

I recognize a couple because they are well known, like Klingons and Dungeons And Dragons, but I only know 3 as something I'd have any interest in. As someone who was thinking I was a nerd because I do well on most of this site's quizzes, I quote a modern nerd legend,

"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined."

Level 67

Sep 29, 2023

Got 12, just below the average

Level 77

Oct 1, 2023

No, I am not. 6.

Level 83

Oct 4, 2023

I was wondering whether it would be more correct to call this a Are You A Geek quiz. The definitions from Oxford English Dictionary are very similar. I suppose either is correct.

Geek - a person who is knowledgeable about and obsessively interested in a particular subject, especially one that is technical or of specialist or niche interest.

Nerd - a person who is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about a particular subject, especially one of specialist or niche interest.

Level 75

Oct 7, 2023

My favourite is "poindexter" :)

Level 67

Oct 8, 2023

This is like, exactly the popular culture, early 2000s, Big Bang Theory definition of nerd. Just missing a question with cringe thinly veiled misogyny.

Level 68

Oct 8, 2023

I second this!

Level 23

Oct 8, 2023

Definetly not nerd just 2/20 😅

Level 83

Oct 8, 2023

I guess the answer to the question is yes. Yes, I am a 20/20 nerd ;_;

Level 33

Oct 8, 2023

I always thought pi was 3.142857...

Level 81

Oct 8, 2023

You might have thought that, but if so then you thought wrong.

(Unless this is a reference to something that is just whooshing over my head.)

Level 84

Oct 8, 2023

Possibly whooshing over my head, too, but if not it looks like a confusion between pi (3.14159265...) and one-seventh (.142857...)

Level 68

Oct 9, 2023

That's because for practical purposes, pi is often approximated as 22/7 - which is 3.142857...

Level 61

Oct 8, 2023

10/20, half a nerd

Level 65

Oct 8, 2023

I am delighted to record a score of 1/20.

Level 67

Oct 8, 2023

No, I'm not a nerd. I don't understand why being into board games is in the same category as knowing computer science or mathematics.

Level 77

Oct 8, 2023

I'll wager you also think Star Wars and Lord of the Rings are "for adults too".

Level 76

Feb 15, 2024

Why not? Are you one of those people who think fantasy stuff is immature and for kids? Cause I have news for you, most of human history and culture disagrees with you. I.e. look up the term "mythology".

Level 46

Oct 9, 2023

Typed in, DeGrass

Level 61

Oct 9, 2023

Well I thought I was a nerd, but apparently not- just nerd adjacent! ;-)

Level 71

Oct 9, 2023

Linux is his namesake and most famous "creation" but Torvalds also created git which is arguably as widely-used, if not more so. It's a little hard to establish what you might mean be "well-known" or "widely-used" but both git and Linux are at the very highest levels. I suggest accepting "git" for akshully crowd and the smarty-pants (like me).

Level 77

Oct 9, 2023

Somehow "git" seems appropriate.

Level 67

Jan 11, 2024

Agree! Also tried git first, and was surprised it wasn't accepted. After all, this quiz is all about being a nerd, so I think git should be accepted as it's technically correct.

Level 51

Oct 11, 2023

How did I get the Pi one?

Level 51

Oct 24, 2023

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy, anyone?

Level 65

Nov 23, 2023

Not sure, whether I should be proud or shocked that I got 4/5 points... At least two were wild guesses (Dune and Magic), but on the other hand, I should have known Turing test, but didn't remember.

Level 83

Dec 8, 2023

Idk what sort of pathetic half-nerd I qualify as for knowing most of these but not realising that Klingon was a species as well as a language

Level 60

Jan 23, 2024

“git” should be accepted for the Linus Torvalds question.

Level 76

Feb 15, 2024

Some of these are broader culture things. Like the D&D, GoT and Superman ones, especially since you give away part of the answer.

GoT has trascended into the general public, and the phrase along with it.

As for D&D,a lot of non-nerdy people have heard of the name, so that in itself is not very nerdy.

As for Supes, again, mainly thanks to the 1978 movie I guess, the Fortress of Solitude is a rather basic and well known thing.

One thing would be to ask specific stuff about those subjects, but these answers are all widely known.

In other words, what I'm trying to say is that some nerdy things seep into the wider general culture; and because of that, knowing them does not measure one's nerdiness.

Also, "leet" and "brony" are internet culture terms, not exclusive to "nerd subculture".

Finally, considering we live in an age where nerd culture has massively spread into general culture, these divisions are increasingly fuzzy and useless.

Level 42

Mar 13, 2024

I never thought I would be happy to only get one question right. (1 out of 20)

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