USA Today, via Google
In case your subscription to People has lapsed, the NY Times challenges us to a fun interactive quiz today: it shows us the headshots of 52 celebrities, politicians and sports figures, and asks us to name them. It's not multiple choice: it simply shows the photo with a blank line beneath, where you can type their name. If you have time to waste, and can get through their subscriber wall, it may entertain you. To offer one hint: having watched the Democratic primary debates this election cycle definitely will help.
After you've identified everyone (or, if you're like me, you've failed to identify quite a few of them), some results are presented, broken down by age group. The window into what our kids and grandkids spend their time thinking about is worth a look.
Only got 18 of them. Which is better than I thought I'd do.
ReplyDeleteHelpful hint: there is an option to skip the quiz and see how your fellow Americans did. If you go that route you can still see their pictures along the side and see how many you can recognize.
Ok, I got 27. I did not watch the debates, but most of those whom I recognized are politicians. Or world leaders like Putin and Boris Johnson. I was not able to name any celebrities besides Oprah. I was able to identify Serena, but no other sport figures.
ReplyDeleteI didn't type names so my official count was zero. But it's a lot faster just to look at the photos, or skip to the end as Katherine suggests.
How many did you identify, Jim?
ReplyDeleteI identified 27. I knew a couple of other sports figures. Probably missed a couple more politicians than you did. Didn't recognize any of the rich guys, either. And embarrassed to say I guessed the wrong hairless Black politician.
DeleteI got 28. I got Putin wrong because I spelled his first name "Wladimir". Anti-polish bias.
ReplyDeleteI identified Xi as Deng. Pretty sure he was in charge sometime within the last 40 years.
DeleteJust for the record: I had to work fairly hard to pick out the headshot at the top of the post: most of the photos of her that come up on Google show a good deal more of her, er, talents.
ReplyDeleteNot surprisingly I got only 14 correct. All of them politicians. I really don't follow celebrities or sports at all.
ReplyDeleteI knew who Yang, Steyer, Cory and the Chinese leader were but could not remember their names. I did not recognize Oprah, Amy, Tulsi, and Lebron James, although I am familiar with who they are.
In general I have always been very poor at recognizing faces and remembering names, along with learning foreign languages or any thing that involves rote memory, e.g. multiplication tables.
This Youtube comic thing for the ages 13-22 set is definitely something I see from my kids. Common site and sound in our house is: kid curled up in a chair with a cell phone or tablet, with earbuds or Apple headphones plugged in, laughing every 15-20 seconds.
ReplyDeleteThrough the magic of marketing, somehow whoever markets these things, however they do it, it's done in such a way that they let the target age groups know about this content, but comparative oldsters like us are blissfully unaware. And therefore we've lived our lives not realizing we're missing out on PewDiePie's act.
I got 35. Because I am a very stable genius.
ReplyDeleteI also learned that I still can't spell Buttigieg. The table of respondents' variant spelling was pretty funny.
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