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// This is the Question file for the Hacker Test v0.11 // Most of the questions are based on the hacker-test made by Felix Lee, // John Hayes and Angela Thomas in September 1989. Many thanks to them for // some funny reading! // This file contains a bit more than 200 questions, but any person answering // the questions with the Quest program will probably not answer all of them. // Read the file Quest.doc for information about how to use the Quest program. // But you probably score higher by looking at the source code instead..;-) // // 1992-06-19 version 0.11 E. Lundevall Initial: This is the Hacker Test version 0.11, which will test if you are a hacker. Don't take this too seriously... Each question will have one possible choice (a number) which you type in after the prompt 'Answer: '. Some questions will allow multiple choices where you choose a number of answers. Most people will not answer all questions, since some will only be asked if a previous question gave a certain answer. You can find out how many questions are left to answer by typing 'Left' at the answer prompt. If you want to quit before you are finished, typ 'Quit' at the prompt. You can have the question displayed again by typing 'Again' at the prompt. If you are unable to use the program, you will probably not get any good scores anyway... Have a nice test... :::: Scores: 0 - 32 : You are a Computer Illiterate. 33 - 128 : You are a Complete Beginner. 129 - 384 : You are a Lamer. 385 - 768 : You are a User. 769 - 1024 : You are a Power User. 1025 - 2048 : You are a Hacker. 2049 - 4096 : You are a Guru. 4097 - 65535 : You are a Wizard. :::: Questions: 1: Do you know what a computer is? * 0 No => -1 * 1 Yes => 2 2: For how long have you used a computer in a single session? * 0 At most 4 hours * 5 More than 4 hours * 10 More than 8 hours * 20 More than 16 hours * 30 More than 32 hours * 40 More than 64 hours 3: Have you ever done any programming? * 0 No => 10 * 10 Yes 4: Have you ever missed a class while programming? * 0 No * 10 Yes 5: Have you ever missed an examination while programming? * 0 No * 20 Yes 6: Have you ever missed a wedding while programming? * 0 No => 8 * 20 Yes 7: Have you ever missed your own wedding while programming? * 0 No * 40 Yes 8: Have you ever programmed while intoxicated? * 0 No => 10 * 10 Yes 9: Did it make sense the next day? * 0 No * 20 Yes 10: Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment? * 0 No => 12 * 10 Yes 11: Have you ever soldered on the motherboard of your computer? * 0 No * 25 Yes 12: Have you named a computer? * 0 No * 5 Yes 13: Have you seen "Tron"? * 0 No * 5 Yes 14: Have you seen "WarGames"? * 0 No * 5 Yes 15: Do you know how many days old you are? * 0 No * 15 Yes 16: Have you ever written a flight simulator? * 0 No * 30 Yes 17: Have you played Hack? * 0 No * 10 Yes 18: Ever change the value of 4? * 0 No => 21 * 5 Yes 19: ...intentionally? * 0 No * 10 Yes 20: ...and in any other language than Fortran? * 0 No * 10 Yes 21: Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed? * 0 No * 5 Yes 22: Have you ever wanted to download pizza? * 0 No * 10 Yes 23: Have you ever invented a computer joke? * 0 No * 10 Yes * 20 Yes, and some people did not get it 24: Do you know what K&R is? * 0 No => 26 * 10 Yes 25: Do you what the contents of page 49 (original K&R) is? * 0 No * 10 Yes 26: Do you know what ASCII and EBCDIC stands for? * 0 No * 10 Only ASCII * 15 Only EBCDIC * 25 Yeah, both of them 27: Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal? * 0 No * 15 Yes 28: Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes? * 0 No * 25 Yes 29: Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex? * 0 No * 15 Yes 30: Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa? * 0 No * 20 Yes 31: Do you know what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC? * 0 No * 20 Yes 32: Do you know maxint on your system? * 0 No * 10 Yes * -5 What is maxint? 33: Ever defined your own numerical type to get better precision? * 0 No * 20 Yes 34: Can you name powers of two in arbitrary order? * 0 No * 5 Yes, up to 2^8 * 10 Yes, up to 2^16 * 15 Yes, up to 2^24 * 20 Yes, up to 2^32 * 30 Yes, up to 2^48 * 40 Yes, up to 2^64 35: Have you ever used program overlays? * 0 No * 10 Yes 36: Have you ever patched binary code? * 0 No * 10 Yes * 25 Yes, while the program was running 37: Can you read a punched card, looking at the holes? * 0 No => 39 * 10 Yes * -5 Punched card? => 39 38: Can you read a punched card, feeling the holes? * 0 No * 15 yes 39: Have you ever digitized a picture? * 0 No * 5 Yes 40: Have you ever taken a picture of a CRT? * 0 No * 10 Yes 41: Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT? * 0 No * 10 Yes 42: Did you ever forget to mount a scratch monkey? * 5 No * 15 Yes * 0 What? Scratch monkey? 43: Have you ever optimized an idle loop? * 0 No * 10 Yes 44: Did you ever optimize a bubble sort? * 0 No * 5 Yes * 10 Replaced it with a better sorting algorithm 45: Does your terminal/computer talk to you? * 0 No * 10 Yes 46: Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem? * 0 No => 48 * 10 Yes 47: ...did it answer? * 0 No * 15 Yes 48: Can you whistle... * 0 No * 2 Yes * 10 ... in 300 baud? * 15 ... in 1200 baud? * 25 ... in both 300 & 1200 baud? * -5 What is baud? 49: Can you whistle a telephone number? * 0 No * 15 Yes 50: Have you ever received a Fax or a photocopy of a floppy? * 0 No * 1 Yes 51: Have you ever shown a novice the "any" key? * 0 No => 53 * 10 Yes 52: ... was it the power switch? * 0 No * 10 Yes 53: Have you ever participated in a standards group? * 0 No * 15 Yes 54: Have you ever debugged machine code over the telephone? * 0 No * 15 Yes 55: Can you convert hex to octal in your head? * 0 No * 10 Yes 56: Can you convert postfix to prefix in your head? * 0 No * 10 Yes 57:* Do you know what the following stand for? * 10 DASD * 10 Emacs * 10 ITS * 10 SNA * 10 SANA * 10 TCP/IP * 10 Spool * 10 RSTS/E * 0 I know nothing, I'm from Barcelona... 58: Can you build a Puffer Train? * 0 No * 10 Yes 59: Do you know what a Puffer Train is? * 0 No * 10 Yes 60:* Can you play music on your... * 10 ... printer? * 10 ... disk drive? * 10 ... tape drive? * 0 None of the above 61: Have you debugged a program with a radio? * 0 No * 15 Yes 62: Have you witnessed a disk crash? * 0 No * 5 Yes 63:* Do you know what the following abbreviations stands for? * 5 RTFM * 5 FYI * 5 BTW * 5 IMHO * 5 sic * 5 TANSTAAFL * 5 HHGTTG * -20 GOIDWDDWS * 0 I know nothing, I'm from Barcelona... 64: Have you ever made a line printer picture? * 2 No => 66 * 10 Yes * 0 What is a line printer picture? => 66 65:* Do you have a line printer picture of... * 5 ... the Mona Lisa? * 5 ... the Enterprise? * 5 ... Einstein? * 5 ... Oliver? * 5 ... Snoopy? * 0 None of the above 66: Fill the rest of the expression in: Allan tar kakan ... (Swedish question) * 0 ... av LasseGurra Aktersnurra * 0 ... via NFS * 10 ... i 9600 baud * 0 ... ifrån kakburken * 0 ... med grep * 0 Huh? I do not understand the question. 67:* Have you ever used ... * 10 ... TPU? * 10 ... TECO? * 10 ... Emacs? * 10 ... ed? * 10 ... edit? * 10 ... edlin? * 10 ... vi? * 10 ... Xedit (in VM/CMS)? * 10 ... SOS? * 10 ... EDT? * 10 ... Wordstar? * 0 None of the above 68:* Have you ever programmed in... * 15 The X Window system * 15 CICS * 0 None of the above 69:* Have you ever attended... * 15 ... Usenix? * 15 ... DECUS? * 15 ... SHARE? * 15 ... SIGGRAPH? * 15 ... NetCon? * 15 ... DevCon? * 0 None of the above 70: Have you ever seen voice mail? * 0 No => 72 * 10 Yes 71: ... can you read it? * 0 No * 10 Yes 72: Have you ever programmed naked? * 0 No * 10 Yes 73: Do you know what Amiga ECS is? * 0 No => 75 * 5 Yes 74: Do you know the use of the word at offset $07C? * 0 No * 10 Yes 75: Do you solve word puzzles with an on-line dictionary? * 0 No * 10 Yes 76: Ever drop a card deck? * 0 No => 79 * 5 Yes 77: ... Did you successfully put it back together? * 0 No => 79 * 10 Yes 78: ... Without looking? * 0 No * 15 Yes 79: Have you ever received a case of beer with your computer? * 0 No * 10 Yes 80: Does your computer come in 'designer' colors? * 10 No * 0 Yes 81: Ever mask a NMI? * 0 No * 15 Yes 82: Do you have any defunct documentation? * 0 No => 84 * 10 Yes 83: ... do you still read it? * 0 No * 10 Yes 84:* Do you own... * 5 ... a modem? * 10 ... a terminal? * 10 ... a toy computer? * 10 ... a personal computer? * 15 ... a minicomputer? * 25 ... a mainframe? * 35 ... a supercomputer? * 35 ... a hypercube? * 5 ... a printer? * 15 ... a laser printer? * 15 ... a tape drive? * 5 ... a sampler? * 10 ... a digitizer? * 15 ... a scanner? * 10 ... an outmoded peripheral device? * 0 None of the above 85: Ever reverse-engineer or decompile a program? * 0 No => 87 * 10 Yes 86: ... did you find bugs in it? * 0 No * 15 Yes 87: Ever help the person behind the counter with their terminal/computer? * 0 No * 10 Yes 88: Ever thrown a computer from more than two stories high? * 0 No * 10 Yes 89: Ever blown up a computer? * 0 No * 10 Yes 90:* Are you active on... * 10 ... FidoNet? * 10 ... Usenet? * 10 ... Z-Net? * 0 None of the above 91: Ever patched a bug the vendor does not acknowledge? * 0 No * 10 Yes 92: Ever fix a hardware problem in software? * 0 No * 10 Yes 93: Ever fix a software problem in hardware? * 0 No * 15 Yes 94: Ever belong to a user/support group? * 0 No => 96 * 5 Yes 95: Have you ever started a user group? * 0 No * 10 Yes 96: Ever had your activities mentioned in the newspaper? * 0 No => 98 * 10 Yes 97: ... did you get away with it? * 0 No * 10 Yes 98: Ever write comments in a non-native language? * 0 No * 10 Yes 99: Ever physically destroy equipment from software? * 0 No * 15 Yes 100: Do you take listings with you to lunch? * 0 No => 103 * 10 Yes 101: ... to bed? * 0 No => 103 * 10 Yes 102: ...with another person in the bed? * 0 No * 10 Yes 103: Ever patched a microcode bug? * 0 No => 105 * 10 Yes 104: Ever patched around a microcode bug? * 0 No * 15 Yes 105: Can you program a Turing machine? * 0 No * 10 Yes 106: Have you ever starved while dining with philosophers? * 0 No * 10 Yes 107: Ever deadlock trying eating spaghetti? * 0 No * 10 Yes 108: Have you ever solved the halting problem? * 0 No => 110 * 10 Yes 109: ... correctly? * 0 No * 10 Yes 110: Ever written a self-reproducing program? * 0 No * 10 Yes 111: Ever swapped out the swapper? * 0 No * 10 yes 112: Ever been asked for a cookie? * 0 No * 5 Yes 113: Ever create an unkillable program? * 0 No => 115 * 10 Yes 114: ...intentionally? * 0 No * 15 Yes 115: Ever speed up a system by removing a jumper? * 0 No * 10 Yes 116: Do you know Gray Code? * 0 No * 10 Yes 117: Do you know the difference between DTE and DCE? * 0 No * 10 Yes 118: Do you know the RS-232C pinout? * 0 No => 120 * 15 Yes 119: ... Can you wire a connector without looking? * 0 No * 20 Yes 120: Do you have a copy of Dec Wars? * 0 No * 10 Yes 121: Do you have the Canonical Collection of Lightbulb Jokes? * 0 No * 10 Yes 122: Do you have a copy of the Hacker's dictionary? * 0 No => 124 * 10 Yes 123: ... Did you contribute to it? * 0 No * 15 Yes 124: Do you have a flowchart template? * 0 No => 126 * 5 Yes 125: Is it unused? * 0 No * 10 Yes 126: Do you have your own fortune-cookie file? * 0 No * 10 yes 127: Do you have the Anarchist's Cookbook? * 0 No => 129 * 10 Yes 128: ... Ever make anything from it? * 0 No * 10 Yes 129: Do you have a programmable calculator? * 0 No => 131 * 10 Yes 130: ... is it RPN? * 0 No * 10 Yes * -5 RPN? 131: Have you ever owned more than... * 5 ... 1 computer? * 10 ... 2 computers? * 20 ... 4 computers? * 30 ... 8 computers? * 40 ... 16 computers? * 0 None of the above 132: Do you have a separate phone line for your terminal/computer? * 0 No => 134 * 10 Yes 133: ...is it legal? * 10 No * 0 Yes 134: Do you have an optical disk/disk drive? * 0 No * 10 Yes 135: Do you use more than... * 10 ... 16 megabytes of harddisk space? * 20 ... 64 megabytes of harddisk space? * 30 ... 256 megabytes of harddisk space? * 50 ... 1 gigabyte of harddisk space? * 60 ... 4 gigabytes of harddisk space? * 70 ... 64 gigabytes of harddisk space? * 80 ... 1 terabyte of harddisk sapce? * 0 None of the above 136: Do you have a personal magnetic tape library? * 0 No => 138 * 10 Yes 137: ... is it unlabelled? * 0 No * 10 Yes 138: Do you own more than... * 5 ... 16 floppy disks? * 10 ... 64 floppy disks? * 20 ... 256 floppy disks? * 30 ... 1024 floppy disks? * 40 ... 4096 floppy disks? * 0 None of the above 139: Do you have any 8-inch disks? * 0 No * 10 Yes 140: Do you have a TTL handbook? * 0 No * 10 Yes 141: Do you have printouts more than three years old? * 0 No * 10 Yes 142: Do you have a job? * 0 No * 10 Yes => 144 143: Have you ever had a job? * 5 No => 148 * 10 Yes 144: ... computer related? * 0 No * 10 Yes 145: Have you ever been a system administrator? * 0 No * 10 Yes 146: Do you have more megabytes than megabucks? * 0 No * 10 Yes 147: Have you ever downgraded your job to upgrade your processing power? * 0 No * 10 Yes 148: Have you ever had a security clearance? * 0 No * 15 Yes 149: Do you work irregular hours? * 0 No * 10 Yes 150: Have you ever solved Adventure? * 0 No * 10 Yes 151: Have you ever solved Zork? * 0 No * 10 Yes 152: Can you out-doctor Eliza? * 0 No * 10 Yes 153: Have you ever written any redcode? * 0 No * 10 Yes 154:* Have you ever written... * 15 ... an adventure game? * 15 ... a real-time game? * 15 ... a multi-player game? * 15 ... a networked game? * 0 None of the above 155: Have you ever etched a printed circuit board? * 0 No * 10 Yes 156: Have you ever used a light pen? * 0 No => 158 * 10 Yes 157: ... did you build it? * 0 No * 10 yes 158:* Have you ever used... * 10 ... a teletype? * 10 ... a paper tape? * 10 ... a decwriter? * 10 ... a card reader/punch? * 10 ... a SOL? * 0 None of the above 159:* Have you ever built... * 15 ... an Altair? * 15 ... a Heath/Zenith computer? * 0 None of the above 160: Do you know how to use... * 10 ... an oscilliscope? * 10 ... a voltmeter? * 10 ... a frequency counter? * 10 ... a logic probe? * 10 ... a wirewrap tool? * 10 ... a soldering iron? * 10 ... a logic analyzer? * 0 None of the above 161: Have you ever designed an LSI chip? * 0 No => 163 * 15 Yes 162: ... has it been fabricated? * 0 No * 25 Yes 163: Can you program an Eniac? * 0 No * 20 Yes 164: Have you ever toggled in boot code on the front panel? * 0 No => 166 * 20 Yes 165: ...from memory? * 0 No * 30 Yes 166: Do you recite IBM part numbers in your sleep? * 0 No * 15 Yes 167: Do you know what IBM part number 7320154 is? * 0 No * 25 Yes 168: Can you sing something from the IBM Songbook? * 0 No * 5 Yes 169: Do you know more than... * 10 ... 1 programming language? * 15 ... 2 programming languages? * 20 ... 4 programming languages? * 30 ... 8 programming languages? * 50 ... 16 programming languages? * 80 ... 32 programming languages? * 0 None of the above 170: Have you ever designed a programming language? * 0 No * 40 Yes 171: Can you program in Basic? * 5 No => 173 * 5 Yes 172: ... do you admit it? * 10 No * 1 Yes 173: Can you program in assembler on... * 0 ... no machine? * 5 ... 1 machine? * 10 ... 2 different machines? * 20 ... 4 different machines? * 35 ... 8 different machines? 174:* Do you know... * 10 ... APL? * 10 ... Ada? * 10 ... BCPL? * 10 ... C++? * 10 ... C? * 10 ... Cobol? * 10 ... Comal? * 10 ... Eiffel? * 10 ... Forth? * 10 ... Fortran? * 10 ... Hypertalk? * 10 ... Icon? * 10 ... Lisp/Scheme? * 10 ... Logo? * 10 ... MIIS? * 10 ... Modula-2? * 10 ... Modula-3? * 0 None of the above 175: Do you also know... * 10 ... MUMPS? * 10 ... Oberon? * 10 ... Pascal? * 10 ... PL/I? * 10 ... Pilot? * 10 ... Plato? * 10 ... PostScript? * 10 ... Prolog? * 10 ... RPG? * 10 ... Rexx (or ARexx)? * 10 ... SETL? * 10 ... Smalltalk? * 10 ... Snobol? * 10 ... VHDL? * 10 ... any assembly language? * 0 None of the above 176: Ever copy a copy-protected disk? * 0 No * 5 Yes 177: Have you ever created a copy-protection scheme? * 0 No * 15 Yes 178: Have you ever made a "flippy" disk? * 0 No * 5 Yes 179: Have you ever recovered data from a damaged disk? * 0 No => 181 * 5 Yes 180: ...with a disk editor? * 0 No * 15 Yes 181: Can you decode MFM data in your head? * 0 No * 15 yes 182:* Can you use... * 8 ... AmigaOS? * 8 ... BSD Unix? * 8 ... non-BSD Unix? * 8 ... AIX * 8 ... VM/CMS? * 8 ... VMS? * 8 ... MVS? * 8 ... VSE? * 8 ... RSTS/E? * 8 ... CP/M? * 8 ... COS? * 8 ... NOS? * 8 ... CP-67? * 8 ... RT-11? * 8 ... MS-DOS? * 8 ... Finder? * 0 None of the above 183:* Can you also use... * 8 ... OS/2? * 8 ... PRODOS? * 8 ... more than one OS for the TRS-80? * 8 ... Tops-10? * 8 ... Tops-20? * 8 ... OS-9? * 8 ... AOS/VS? * 8 ... Multics? * 8 ... ITS? * 8 ... Vulcan? * 0 None of the above 184: Have you ever found an operating system bug? * 0 No => 188 * 5 Yes 185: ... Did you exploit it? * 0 No * 10 Yes 186: ... Did you report it? * 0 No => 188 * 10 Yes 187: ... Was your report ignored? * 15 No * 5 Yes 188: Have you ever crashed a machine? * 0 No => 190 * 2 Yes 189: ...intentionally? * 0 No * 10 Yes 190: Do you know any people? * 0 No => 193 * 1 Yes 191: ... more than two people? * 0 No => 193 * 5 Yes 192: ... do they admit it? * 0 No * 5 Yes 193: Can you write a Fortran compiler? * 0 No => 195 * 20 yes 194: ... in Teco? * 0 No * 30 Yes 195: Can you read a machine dump? * 0 No * 15 Yes 196: Can you disassemble code in your head? * 0 No * 15 Yes 197:* Have you written... * 20 ... a compiler? * 30 ... an operating system? * 15 ... a device driver? * 15 ... a text processor? * 5 ... a display hack? * 25 ... a database system? * 25 ... an expert system? * 15 ... an edge detector? * 35 ... a real-time control system? * 25 ... an accounting package? * 10 ... a virus? * 15 ... a prophylactic? * 0 None of the above 198: Have you ever written a biorhythm program? * 0 No => 201 * 5 Yes 199: ... Did you sell the output? * 0 No => 201 * 10 Yes 200: ... Was the output arbitrarily invented? * 0 No * 10 Yes 201: Have read the source code to the Quest program? * 0 No => 203 * 5 Yes 202: ... Have you improved it? * 0 No * 10 Yes * 15 Rewrote it in assembler 203: Have you ever written self-modifying code? * 0 No * 10 Yes 204: Did you ever write a program that ran correctly the first time? * 0 No => 208 * 10 Yes 205: ... Was it longer than... * 2 ... 1 line? * 5 ... 20 lines? * 15 ... 100 lines? * 35 ... 1000 lines? * 75 ... 5000 lines? 206: ... Was it in assembly language? * 0 No * 45 Yes 207: ... Did it work the second time? * -10 No * 20 Yes 208: Ever submit an entry to the Obfuscated C code contest? * 0 No => 211 * 10 Yes 209: ... Did it win? * 0 No * 20 Yes 210: ... Did your entry inspire a new rule? * 0 No * 30 Yes 211: Do you use MS-DOS? * 10 No * 0 Yes 212: Do you like MS-DOS? * 10 No * -10 Yes 213: Have you ever written a Lisp interpreter? * 0 No => 215 * 5 Yes 214: ... in any other language than Lisp? * 0 No * 10 Yes 215: Have you read Neuromancer? * 0 No => 217 * 5 Yes 216: Would you like to be a cyberjockey? * 0 No * 5 Yes 217: Have you ever written a recursive program? * 0 No => 219 * 2 Yes 218: ... in Fortran (not Fortran-90)? * 0 No * 15 Yes 219: Do you know the answer to the question about Life, Universe & Everything? * 0 No * 5 Yes 220: Do you know what GNU stands for? * -5 No => 222 * 5 Yes 221: Have you ever released any software under the GNU Software License? * 0 No * 10 Yes 222: Have you ever tried to improve your score in the Hacker Test? * 0 No => -1 * 10 Yes => -1 ::::