Результаты тестирования

8 из 8 - Поздравляем, вы - вымирающий вид россиянина, отлично знающего свой родной русский язык. Вы один из немногих носителей элитарного знания, доступного в наше время единицам (4% от общего числа опрошенных). Второй вариант: вы - выпускник, которого хорошо натаскали на сдачу экзамена по русскому языку. Третий вариант: вы – репетитор. Или просто закончили филологический факультет и пошли работать не по специальности.*

*Подробнее о проведенном ВЦИОМом опросе, и о том, как это же задание выполнили другие россияне, читайте в материале на RB.ru.

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А я и вовсе не филолог...и уже 18-й год не живу в России....:P

А тест вот здесь, если кто хочет попробовать--он займёт всего несколько минут! www.rb.ru/poll/7/

Добро пожаловать в Англию – страну традиций, королей и абсурдных шуток, а также «Шекспира, Гарри Поттера и левой ноги Бекхэма», как справедливо отметил герой одного английского фильма. Здесь, в строгой элегантности интерьера, в обществе сдержанных соседей, у потрескивающего камина ты обретешь комфорт. Кем бы ты ни чувствовал(-а) себя в глубине души – усердным мастером или потомственным аристократом, – ты умеешь с честью и достоинством нести свой жребий. Однако под этой строгой полированной оболочкой безупречности искрится тончайшее остроумие и крайне ироничный взгляд на мир.

Welcome to England--the country of tradition, kings and absurd jokes, but also "Shakespeare, Harry Potter, and Buckham's left foot", as a character in an English film correctly observed once. Here, amidst the stern elegance of the interior, in the society of self-controlled neigbours, you will find a comfortable spot. No matter whom you feel yourself to be in the depths of your heart--a diligent artisan or a hereditary aristocrat--you know how to carry your fate with honour and dignity. But underneath that stern polished veneer of impeccability sparkles the finest wit and a highly ironic view of the world.

I had posted a SH quiz a while back: www.johnhwatsonmd.com/sherlock-holmes/

The entry is here: med-cat.livejournal.com/323548.html; myself, charleygirl , malkhos , and wirral_bagpuss answered....take a look if you'd like to do the quiz yourself....the answers are here:

www.johnhwatsonmd.com/a-criminal-mastermind-the-answers/

Hee, take a look--from www.johnwatsonmd.com

Want to try? I'll set the comments to screen ;)
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In 2004, there was a celebrity edition of Mastermind.

Stephen Fry was faced with 14 questions in the available time on his chosen specialist subject – Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.

Here are the 14 questions. How well would you have done?

1. In which publication did the first Holmes story “A Study in Scarlet” first appear in 1887?
2. In “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, by what name did Jack Stapleton head a school in Yorkshire and establish a reputation in entomology?
3. What name did Holmes adopt in his guise as an Irish-American spy?
4. Mycroft Holmes was a founding member of which club of the most unsociable and unclubable men in town?
5. Irene Adler, always known as “the woman” by Holmes, was the prima donna of which opera company when she met the King of Bohemia?
6. In “A Study in Scarlet”, what 5-letter word is scrawled in blood on the wall in a dark corner of the room?
7. In “The Valley of Fear”, what was the local name for the members of Lodge 341 of the Ancient Order of Freemen in the Vermissa Valley?
8. In “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax”, with which London banking firm did Lady Frances have her account?
9. On which theorem did Professor Moriarty write a treatise that won him the mathematical chair at a small English university?
10. When relating his very first case, “Gloria Scott”, whom does Holmes describe as “the only friend I made during the two years that I was at college”?
11. In “The Solitary Cyclist”, what was the nickname of “the greatest brute and bully in South Africa” who conspired with Bob Carruthers to get Violet Smith’s fortune?
12. In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”, how did Dr Roylott get the poisonous snake into the room of his step-daughters, killing Julia?
13. In which story did Holmes make his celebrated reference to “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” – the curious incident being that the dog didn’t bark?
14. What did the red-headed London pawnbroker Jabez Wilson have to copy out when he was duped by John Clay into accepting a position with the spurious “Red-Headed League”?

Stephen managed to get eight right.  I will post the answers at a later date.

Reposted from konstansa 

Freud’s priorities

( Test in Russian ) Five things are happening in your house at the same time. In which sequence would you solve them? The telephone is ringing! The baby is crying! Someone’s knocking or calling you from the front door! You hung the clothes out to dry and it is beginning to rain! You left the tap on in the kitchen and the water is already overflowing! In which sequence would you solve these problems? Нашла у mi3ch. Tags: разминка для мозгов EDIT 8/8/10: here's the answer key: UPD. Every individual point represents something in your life. 1. Telephone represents Work 2. Baby represents Family 3. Door represents Friends 4. Clothes represent Money 5. Tap represents Sex PS Ну уж совсем на всякий случай для японо-китайско-французско говорящих: 1. Телефон - Работа 2. Ребенок - Семья 3. Дверь - Друзья 4. Одежда - Деньги 5. Кран - Секс Конечно же, старик Фреейд так все подстроил, чтобы мы все сексуальными маниаками оказались) Ну кто бы сомневался.