PROGRAMMER OR KILLER

James Joyner · Monday, December 22, 2003 · 8 Comments

Malevole has an amusing quiz wherein, from photographs, one has to pick serial killers and programming language inventors. It’s not as easy as it sounds!

Rob Smith got 8 out of 10. I fared exactly as well as random guessing would predict. I only knew one of them by sight–the Son of Sam killer.

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Lawren says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:14

I too was 8/10.

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Steven says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:30

I managed 7/10.

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James Joyner says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:31

They all looked like serial killers to me!

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Michael Demmons says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:41

I was looking for Rob’s picture in there…or James’s Technorati pic!!!

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James Joyner says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:49

Heh–never wrote any software programs!

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jen says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 14:56

I got 7/10. I waffled on the Ukrainian killer or I would have had 8.

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Tom says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 15:52

9/10 , sometimes it pays to be a geek. Is it scary that I recognized two of the programmers, and only one serial killer? I think so…

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Kate says:

Monday, December 22, 2003 at 16:08

A programmer friend who took the test pointed out that the two need not be mutually exclusive.

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