Word Quiz

August 22, 2008 in Entertainment, Fun | 2 comments

This quiz is fun!  You have to try to guess the 100 most common English words in 5 minutes.  I scored a pathetic 39.  I wish I hadn’t looked at the answers so that I could try again.  (Hat tip to Paul Hsieh at NoodleFood and Rational Jenn.)

 

  1. LB on August 22, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    “I wish I hadn’t looked at the answers so that I could try again.”

    Exactly my thoughts. I found it interesting that once you stumbled upon a theme (e.g. pronouns) you could get quite a few in a row. I got an even more pathetic 36.

  2. Amy on August 22, 2008 at 11:10 pm

    Yes LB, when I found pronouns and conjunctions I thought I was pretty smart and was going to get at least 75 words. (See tonight’s post on pride…harhar). I think I got so excited about the few themes I found that I didn’t move on fast enough. I also didn’t cheat by looking at any paper around my desk or words on my screen. If I had just moved my eyeballs to my right, I would have found a field full of common words on my corkboard.