The Programming IQ Test

I found this semi-humorous, semi-serious IQ test for developers and thought it was quite neat and worthy of a mention here.

Some questions have obvious answers but there's also a few that could stump you (or at least stumped me). Oddly, the joke questions were harder than the technical ones.

I scored 65 (out of 100), though I should add that I intentionally sacrificed some points at Question 10 (you'll understand when you get there). If you take the test then post your results so all the Niners can see.

I got 80. I also got frustrated by the long loading time of each question.

EDIT: And I object to calling a knowledge quiz an IQ test; IQ has nothing to do with knowledge.

Meh, I thought I'd see right answers when finished with the quiz.. 

Meh, 35. I'm a confined developer, knowing very little about the history of languages, the authors of those languages, or the creators of camelCase etc. Anybody suggest a book that would cover all of this stuff?

Ion Todirel said:

RoyalSchrubber said:

*snip*

well excuse me for not knowing what beverage contains the most sugar and caffeine

EDIT: I got 60 points, damn that funny questions like the beverage one

I answered that one correctly simply by using the reasoning that it was most likely to be the least obvious one (the orange drink).

Sven Groot said:

I got 80. I also got frustrated by the long loading time of each question.

EDIT: And I object to calling a knowledge quiz an IQ test; IQ has nothing to do with knowledge.

65 here, I got the trick questions wrong. Then there were some questions that had multiple right answers:

For instance the P=NP one, both "I don't know" and "Sometimes" are acceptable answers. Ditto with Javascript, since (part of) its syntax is derived from Java, but the rest is marketing.

I also felt I got the drinks questions wrong too.

...unless someone wants to correct me?

W3bbo said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

65 here, I got the trick questions wrong. Then there were some questions that had multiple right answers:

For instance the P=NP one, both "I don't know" and "Sometimes" are acceptable answers. Ditto with Javascript, since (part of) its syntax is derived from Java, but the rest is marketing.

I also felt I got the drinks questions wrong too.

...unless someone wants to correct me?

"Sometimes" is certainly wrong for the question is "P = NP". The answer is either Yes or No, but it hasn't been proved which. It certainly isn't sometimes Yes or sometimes No.

W3bbo said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

65 here, I got the trick questions wrong. Then there were some questions that had multiple right answers:

For instance the P=NP one, both "I don't know" and "Sometimes" are acceptable answers. Ditto with Javascript, since (part of) its syntax is derived from Java, but the rest is marketing.

I also felt I got the drinks questions wrong too.

...unless someone wants to correct me?

The P=NP thing is completely unknown. If you think you any of the other answers is correct, and can prove it, you've got a Turing award waiting for you.

Javascript and Java don't have anything in common. Javascript was not derived from Java, it's syntax stems from the general C-like languages, which is what Java also comes from.

Sven Groot said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

The P=NP thing is completely unknown. If you think you any of the other answers is correct, and can prove it, you've got a Turing award waiting for you.

Javascript and Java don't have anything in common. Javascript was not derived from Java, it's syntax stems from the general C-like languages, which is what Java also comes from.

Hmm, 75.
I feel cheated that the drink question didn't involve tea, though.

And the N= NP question I answewde truthfully:  I have no idea what either of them means (and I don't really care, come to that).

Herbie

Dr Herbie said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

Hmm, 75.
I feel cheated that the drink question didn't involve tea, though.

And the N= NP question I answewde truthfully:  I have no idea what either of them means (and I don't really care, come to that).

Herbie

I feel cheated that the drink question didn't involve tea, though.

Tea doesn't contain a whole lot of caffeine though (tea leaves contain a lot of caffeine, more than coffee, but a cup of tea contains less caffeine than a cup of coffee), and only as much sugar as you yourself put in it.

65
Man some of that was obscure. Fun though.

I got dummy face, score 45.
If it is about Xbox games, I can score at least 90, LOL.

That's weird.  The page said that I scored an 80, but when I read the answer key afterwards, I figured out that the test should have given me an 85.

While waiting here for the next questions to load it's quite interesting to read which ones made you gonna fall ,-)
So when all questions are load and finished I hope I have at least a score as you.

55

I missed a lot of the historical ones, since I started programming in 98.