This month I’m participating in the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, drawing from my “Grab Bag of Delectable and Occasionally Edifying Interwebby Wonderments.”
It’s back-to-work Monday, so a perfect time for a bit of brain-stretching fun and games. Yes, that’s right. We’ve reached the letter “Q,” and what better way to reward ourselves for making it this far than by diving into a few quizzes–after we’ve finished our posting and commenting, of course.
There are a bazillion quiz sites out there, most of them utter crap, but never fear. Because I don’t want you to have to endure the same profound irritation I experienced, I scoured the interwebs to come up with this enticing selection of quizzy tastiness just for you.
Encyclopedia Britannica: There’s no subscription required for the quizzes, which is a big yay, because they have bucketloads. You can test your knowledge of cheese facts, world foods, vocabulary, baroque art, world foods, spelling—you name it, they have a quiz. Go on. Clicky click and go get smarter.
The Guardian’s quizzes are often way more difficult than I think they’re going to be, possibly because I’m Canadian and a lot of their content is UK-focused, but equally possibly because I’m not nearly as well informed as I like to think I am. They recently put their Daily Quiz on hiatus, but there are masses of archived quizzes, so all is not lost.
Another favourite quiz is Merriam-Webster’s How Strong is Your Vocabulary? They also have a “Name That Thing” and a “True or False” quiz, which are also fun.
Competitions and Quizzes section of the Oxford Dictionaries site has all kinds of goodies archived for your delectation: What kind of a poem are you? or Are you a nOOb or a netizen? or How well do you know the language of beer? (For the record, I apparently do not speak beer at all.)
How about you? Do you have any favourite quiz sites? Please share the bounty in the comments, because clearly it’s only going to take me a hundred years to get through these links, and I hate being bored.