Newt or Schrute: the Quiz

[beac]

From Mother Jones:

Can you tell the difference between Dwight Schrute and Newt Gingrich? No, you probably can't.



One of these is Newt Gingrich. Or maybe both. We just don't know.

In case you haven't heard, in his younger days former House Speaker Newt Gingrich looked an awful lot like Dwight Schrute*.

But the eerie similarities surely end there, right? I mean, one of them is mercurial, despised by his colleagues, in love with animals, obsessed with pop culture mythology and modern warfare, and wrapped up in an endless subplot involving a blonde love interest.

And the other one is Dwight Schrute.

Take this short Mother Jones quiz to find out if you can tell the difference between Newton Leroy Gingrich and Dwight Kurt Schrute III.

Update (4pm EST on Feb. 8): After a total of 13,000 plays, the average score hovers at 45% accuracy. (Question #9 is the real stumper.) Did you do any better?


http://motherjones.com/media/2012/02/newt-gingrich-or-dwight-schrute-quiz
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My score? TEN percent!

[DefenseLawyer]

1. I took that quiz the other day

I think I got two right! Where's Rod Serling?

[Chiyo-chichi]

2. This is brilliant.

I got 60%.

[TheWraith]

3. I got 3 out of 10 right.

Then I tested it on my father, a regular watcher of The Office.

He scored 2 out of 10 right.

[annabanana]

4. 50%, , ALL the questions are crap shoots basically..

Reality out-weirds fiction once again...

[beac]

5. It is hilariously terrifying, no doubt about it. n/t

[Saving Hawaii]

6. 40%

Scared the living daylights out of me.

[Chiyo-chichi]

7. In the words of Andy Bernard, I think we all "Schruted it."

[MisterP]

12. Andy = Romney

[quaker bill]

8. 40%, it is apparently hard to tell the difference

[a la izquierda]

9. 50%

which is sad because I watch a lot of The Office.

[beac]

10. I'm beginning to think Newt crossed over from a parallel universe.

Wish they'd come and take him back.

(At least our native Shrute has SOME redeeming qualities!)

[a la izquierda]

11. Dwight IS a beet farmer...

and I love beets. There's that.
And he introduced me to the fairy tale of Der Strewwelpeter (http://www.officetally.com/the-office-take-your-daughter-to-work-day)