CAN YOU GUESS MY ACCENT?

Language Trainers Group, a language training course, has a video trivia game online where people from around the world read a brief piece of literature and then ask you to guess their accent. It’s fun, though I personally did not do so well. Shockingly, I was unable to detect one woman’s thick Lithuanian accent as she read an excerpt by Rudyard Kipling.

100 MOST COMMON WORDS

Trivia game gives you 5 minutes to guess the 100 most common words used in the English language. Surprisingly neither blogosphere nor Dark Knight were on the list, so the game may be bogus…

THE BEER PONG BACKLASH

Time magazine article discusses the War Against Beer Pong. Apparently colleges around the country are beginning to ban drinking games in general from campuses. Obviously they aren’t allowed to ban people from drinking altogether, however they are limiting people’s ability to have fun while doing it.

Even the Frat Party Games Series by JV Games has had to make some changes to their Beer Pong game for the Nintendo Wii. They’ve received so many complaints and legal threats that they’ve been forced to change the name to “Pong Toss”. They also now show cups filled with water instead of beer. In other words, the game totally sucks now!

via Time

TEST YOUR NERD IQ

Now’s your chance to put all that pop culture knowledge you’ve spent so many years honing to use. This site has endless trivia games where you have to fill in the list in an alloted time.

Some of the challenges, to name a few….

SIMPSONS CHARACTERS

MATT DAMON MOVIES

HOTELS ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP

via Sporcle.com

Professional Puzzler

This is a blog by a guy who makes his own crossword puzzles which seems like it would be harder than just filling one out. Guy does weekly contests and sends out prizes to the winners.

(Helvestine Find)