The official home page of the PG Cult...
How do you know when you're a member of the cult? Ah, you'll know...
See how many of these PG cult membership questions you can answer. And
remember, these questions are collected from a variety of pg folks - any one
individual will not fit all these criteria at the same time!
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Don't miss
the
movie, now on DVD!
Have you enjoyed the
BBC radio version?
(MP3 CDs, dubious audio quality but
great fun)
Can you sing Tom Lehrer's The
Elements?
At full speed?
Can you at least hum the tune?
Bonus question: Do you know where the
tune is from? (Hint: see item 1 of this question...)
Can you recite the
Preamble to the Constitution?
Can you sing it?
Do you know any other
Schoolhouse Rock songs?
Can you name them all, by album?
Do you also own the 1996 version (Schoolhouse
Rock! Rocks) with
Skee-Lo singing "Mr. Morton" and "My
Hero, Zero," performed by the Lemonheads?
Do you know the four
move checkmate?
Do you know more
than 6 digits of
π?
More than 10 digits?
More than 50 digits??
How about
e?
Can you solve the
Rubik's
Cube?
In under 3 minutes
Without ever reading a solution book?
How about the
Rubik's 4x4?
Rubik's 5x5?
Have you tried
Rubik's
Revolution?
Have
you seen the Reduced Shakespeare
Company?
Do you own
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged?
The Complete Word of God, Abridged?
The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas?
Do you have it memorized?
Do you know
P.D.Q. Bach?
How about Peter Schickele?
Have you sung any of his songs?
Have you read
Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach?
Can you beat
everyone you know at SET?
Quiddler?
Both?
Can you identify the following movies...
HP?
LOTR?
MP?
RHPS?
Have you seen any of them more than
once?
Have you seen all of them more
than once?
Have you ever dressed up as a character
from any of them?
Do you remember Firesign Theater?
Off I go, wearing my tight pajamas!
Do you know
Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor? (listen
or purchase
E
Power Biggs Bach Toccata & Fugue)
Did you and your friends play it in high school, just to
listen?
Did you use it as your wedding recessional?
Do you play D&D?
Do you own your own dice?
Do you DM?
Do you know where Xanth is?
Do you refer to others as Muggles, mostly because they just don't understand
you?
Are you researching your family's genealogy?
Before you retire?
Before you even have kids?
Have you ever sung...
Poisoning Pigeons
in the Park?
When Alabama
Gets the Bomb?
New Math?
Have you read books by any of the following authors...
Terry Pratchett?
Stephanie Tolan?
Orson Scott Card?
Tamora Pierce?
Have you read all the works of any of
these authors?
Have you read all the works of all
of these authors?
Have you ever called anyone a "shrubbery"?
Do you own CDs of any of the following artists...
Weird Al Yankovic?
Tom Lehrer?
They Might Be Giants?
Dr. Demento?
Loudon Wainwright III?
Austin Lounge Lizards?
The Bobs?
The Ramones?
Allan Sherman... Hello
Muddah, Hello Fadduh?
Do you have any of these on vinyl?
...on 8-track?
Do you know the words to...
Why Does The Sun
Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)
Have you seen TMBG in
concert?
Do you own any of (ALL of?) the albums?
Do you have musical instruments in your home?
Do you have more musical instruments than people?
Do you have a "music room" in your house (known in other
homes as the living room, family room, or some other room)?
Can you recite...
The
Jabberwocky?
the Bene Gesserit
Litany against Fear?
Shakespeare's Sonnets?
Hamlet's soliloquy "To
be, or not to be: that is the question..."?
Hamlet's speech "What
a piece of work is man! How noble in reason!"
Macbeth's speech "To-morrow,
and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day..."
any passage from
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, in Middle English?
Ground Control
to Major Tom?
Have you ever
belonged to the Society for Creative Anachronism
(SCA)?
Are you still a member?
Do you have the
sheet music:
Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer (with not enough illustrations by Ronald Searle)?
Can you do the Time Warp again?
Do you have the
25th anniversary edition DVD? Neither do we, but we have this
RHPS edition...
It's just a jump to the left...
Have you read Stephen Chbosky's
The perks of being a wallflower?
Have you seen...
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes?
...any of its sequels?
Dark Star?
Hardware Wars?
Do you have copies of any of these?
Are you pedantic
about the correct use of apostrophes?
It's
"its"!
Have you seen the
latest physics cult classic...
What tHe ßleep DQ W∑ (k)πow!?
Did you get all the jokes?
Have you seen these other cult films...
The
Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai?
UHF?
Do you remember...?
King of Hearts?
Do you have a copy?
Have you watched...
Dr. Who?
Can you name
The Five Doctors?
Can you name
all seven doctors? (bonus points for eight!)
In order?
Do you have a Tom Baker scarf? And wear
it?
Red Dwarf?
Dark
Shadows?
Do you know how to speak...
Klingon?
Elvish?
Have you watched
The Princess Bride?
More than once?
Do you quote from it, in conversation?
Have you memorized...
any entire
Gilbert & Sullivan operettas?
any entire Broadway musical?
before you were 8 years old?
before you were 5 years old?
the closing song of the musical
Chess, just because the history of Chess and its players fascinated you?
Each game of chess means there's one
less variation left to be played... (who, me? ;-)
And for the "final Jeopardy" question... (drum roll, please...)
Would your {spouse / significant other / friends} answer yes to
a bunch of these questions, too?
Yup, you belong!
copyright © 2004 Carolyn K.
Last updated December 01, 2020
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