Brain Wars VII

Stace sent me an email. Now there’s nothing quite as fun in the email department as an email from Stace so I got all excited and opened it quickly. This is what it said:

Good lord:

http://www.impossible-quiz.com

I can’t believe I got 15 of 20 right. 91.83 percentile. Woohoo!

Love you,
Me

As I clicked the link several things happened all at once. Fernando jumped up, pulled on a kilt, pulled off the underwear, rubbed several handfuls of mud in his hair with one hand while waving a polished battle axe around his head with the other, and started yelling, “Brain Wars! Brain Wars!” at the top of his lungs.

Oh hell. It’s on. Welcome to Brain Wars VII or so. It may only be Brain Wars VI but who can keep track? Anyway, I’m sure Stace didn’t intend to launch the war, but you can never tell what is going to get Fernando all worked up. Now we’re knee deep in the figurative rivers of blood and there’s no going back.

The situation as it stands right now is a tie but that could change rapidly as a new assault is launched. Here’s what has happened so far:

Impossible Quiz goes to Stace who got one more right than I did. Ugh.

Am I Dumb also goes to Stace who again got one more right than I did.

Free IQ Test goes to me cause I spanked her handily… well if you call four points being spanked handily… and I do.

Cadaver For Sale also goes to me cause I’m worth more dead than she is… oh sure probably just cause I’m so much bigger than her but that’s not the point.

So that’s where the war stands at present. I was thinking this year we could expand to invite fellow soldiers to join us. Or at the very least get you all to recommend new fields of battle to be added to the war. So if you know any good IQ or Knowledge-type testing sites please post a link to them in the comments.

And if you’re thinking it might be fun to join the battle, put on your kilt, rip off your undies and pick yourself a weapon to whirl around your head. Before you decide which army to join though, I thought it was only fair to give you a heads up. So here you go:

1.  We both have a pretty damned solid foundation in math. But Stace has had statistics and probability while Hedon hasn’t. On the other hand, Hedon has had physics while Stace hasn’t. Really though, math is probably pretty much a wash.

2.  Stace is better read than Hedon… at least in the fancy-pants books that often come up in these things. Regardless, they both have pretty extensive vocabularies and each can almost always pick which word doesn’t belong with the other four words.

3.  Back in the day, Hedon was the history major and Stace was woefully lacking in historical knowledge. However, in the past couple of years Stace has been coming on strong in the history arena so I’m not sure who gets the history nod. I would think Hedon is still slammin on the ancient history, but Stace might take recent history… especially recent European history.

4.  Stace’s mind is slightly more logical than Fernando… ok a lot more logical. But Fernando spanks her on the spatial questions like “which picture fits best into the following series” and “if all of these pieces were combined which block would they make” and such.

5.  Stace progresses through each test carefully and methodically answering each question after a logical elimination of the possible answers. Fernando often skips questions intending to come back to them later and then forgets to do it… thus scoring one less than Stace on the “Am I Dumb” test yesterday. BUT Fernando has a cool battle axe and wears a kilt during Brain Wars. He also has a cool battle cry that sounds kinda like a big scary bird of some sort. Stace has no battle cry and insists on wearing underwear even during Brain Wars.

So that’s about all the information I can give you on the armies. I guess there is one other tiny piece of info that might be helpful in picking a team… no one ever knows what causes a new Brain Wars and no one knows why they suddenly end. The one thing we’re all sure of is that Brain Wars never ever end when Stace is in the lead… I’m just saying.