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Wednesday, June 21, 2006

The Right Answers to the Blog Quiz

Tony had a link to this quiz on his blog, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
Well, You Know What a Blog Is...

You got 4/8 correct!

But, truthfully, most blogs probably bore you.

I mainly made educated guesses to get half the questions correct, and several were "blogging terms" that I've never heard, so I think they're specific to one service or another.

Anyway, the question then was: what are the real answers? They didn't show which questions I'd gotten wrong.

The answers (determined by trial and error) after the break:


  1. Which of these blogging services started first?
    =>  * LiveJournal
        * Blogger
        * Myspace
        * Diaryland
  2. What does RSS stand for?
        * Ready Set Syndication
        * Really Simple Site
        * Rich Site Syndication
    =>  * Really Simple Syndication
  3. If you get "dooced," what happens?
        * People out your protected entries in public
        * Your significant other finds your blog and  
          breaks up with you
    =>  * You get fired from your job because of your blog
        * An embarrassing post forces you to shut down your blog
  4. Which of the following is not a kind of blog?
        * Moblog
        * Audioblog
        * Splog
    =>  * Nogblog
  5. Which of the following celebrities does not have an
     online blog or journal?
        * Donald Trump
    =>  * Kirsten Dunst
        * Anna Kournikova
        * William Shatner
  6. In what year was the word "blog" first used?
        * 1998
    =>  * 1999
        * 2000
        * 2001
  7. In 2005, what percentage of US teens had blogs?
        * 10%
        * 25%
        * 15%
    =>  * 20%
  8. In early 2005, which of the following blogging hosts
     had the most blogs?
        * LiveJournal
    =>  * Blogspot
        * Typepad
        * Xanga

posted by TT at 6/21/2006 10:26:00 PM

3 Comments:

  • Thanks for figuring out the answers...i only got 3 out of 8, but i was close on a couple of them.

    By Blogger Jodi, at 6/22/2006 10:51 PM  

  • I got 3/8 as well. How long did it take you to trial and error?

    By Blogger The Narf, at 6/23/2006 9:05 PM  

  • Not long -- I just kept backing up a screen, changing one answer, and then seeing if the count changed. On most of the questions I managed to get it right (improve my score) on my second guess.

    By Blogger TT, at 6/23/2006 11:54 PM  

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