Which _____ am I?

[cjsmith]

Somebody, somewhere, has to have code that churns these out. There sure are enough of them. It's got to be automated. Fill in a category (Serenity characters, Platonic solids, fruits, toes); name a bunch of things in that category; assign random qualities to each thing (the tetrahedron is assertive and dominant); push the button and a quiz pops out.

An advanced version of the code will search Wikipedia for you so that you don't have to know the names of anything in your category. That version also has language lookup tables so that it can assign questions having something to do with the qualities you listed. That costs money, though. The freeware version is random. There's a checkbox for whether or not you want it to give you repeatable results.

This would explain a lot.

To save aspiring quiz writers all this tedious pointing and clicking, I would like to announce that I am some guy in a coat, an octahedron, a kumquat, and the piggy who had roast beef.

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[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

All this reminds me of the version of "This Little Piggy" I did with my kids when they were little:

This little piggy went to market and got hit by a truck.
This little piggy stayed home and a serial killer broke into his house.
This little piggy had roast beef and died from bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
This little piggy had none because he was anorexic.
This little piggy looked at what happened to all of his siblings and ran around screaming "Wee wee wee wee wee wee!" Fortunately, he was given a new wardrobe of shirts with sleeves that tie in the back, and was given a nice padded room in the local mental hospital.

I am therefore the truck driver, the serial killer, the beef farmer, the failed nutritionist, and the piggy who went "Wee wee wee".

[jcgbigler.livejournal.com]

(And yes, the failed nutritionist came out of the quiz with the kumquat, lingonberry and pineapple. And the beef farmer is a blockhead, so that works too. :P)