How much of a wota are you?
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How much of a wota are you?
So the other day Hello! Online posted translations of the Haroten Certification exam. H!P held a couple of events where they gave a 100-question exam to fans. They had an hour to complete it. Over 2000 fans took the quiz, and about 50 got perfect scores. So how well can you do?
http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=...e&topic=694
The questions are multiple choice and listed on the page there. Keep track of your answers in Notepad or something, and then grade yourself and post your score here (and there, and thank them for posting it and the translation!). The answer key's at the bottom.
I haven't taken it yet, but hopefully I'll have time to take it tomorrow. I didn't want to take it now because, you know, I didn't want to intimidate you guys.
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http://www.hello-online.org/index.php?act=...e&topic=694
The questions are multiple choice and listed on the page there. Keep track of your answers in Notepad or something, and then grade yourself and post your score here (and there, and thank them for posting it and the translation!). The answer key's at the bottom.
I haven't taken it yet, but hopefully I'll have time to take it tomorrow. I didn't want to take it now because, you know, I didn't want to intimidate you guys.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
A kind of interesting (and sad) side note, at concerts for the couple months before this test, they were selling "Drill books" or basically, study guides for this test at 900 yen per book. That explains why there were some perfect scores, but still, to devote a bunch of time studying it as if it were a school exam or something? Jeez.
They'll think of any way they possibly can to get the wota to spend money, won't they?
They'll think of any way they possibly can to get the wota to spend money, won't they?
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
57/100!
This test is suuuuuuper hard if you're not a Japanese wota. For real, what American fan knows about the goods? =(
This test is suuuuuuper hard if you're not a Japanese wota. For real, what American fan knows about the goods? =(
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
51/100. Not too bad a score considering that clusterfuck. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... nceman.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lmfao:' />
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
49/100
Jeez!! You really need to be a wota for answering some of the questions.
And there are some question that non-japanese people would be unable to know, as merchandise or fanclub events.
Besides I'm not a Berryz fan, but that's just me, haha.
Anyway I'm self-satisfied cuz I answered all the MM related questions correctly <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... joyful.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lmfao:' />
Jeez!! You really need to be a wota for answering some of the questions.
And there are some question that non-japanese people would be unable to know, as merchandise or fanclub events.
Besides I'm not a Berryz fan, but that's just me, haha.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
I got 45/100. You really had to study to get some of those questions.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
42/100
I did better than I honestly thought I would. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... nfused.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lmfao:' /> And I feel pretty lame being able to answer some of those.
I did better than I honestly thought I would. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... nfused.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lmfao:' /> And I feel pretty lame being able to answer some of those.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
[quote name='The☆AEUGNewtype' post='57233' date='Jan 21 2009, 02:53 PM']A kind of interesting (and sad) side note, at concerts for the couple months before this test, they were selling "Drill books" or basically, study guides for this test at 900 yen per book. That explains why there were some perfect scores, but still, to devote a bunch of time studying it as if it were a school exam or something? Jeez.
They'll think of any way they possibly can to get the wota to spend money, won't they?[/quote]
Plan to go through and take it sometime but I'll let you know I bought that drill book X_x. Thought I'd sign up to take it but then after studying for the JLPT was beat with studying and so didn't send in the application. One flip through the drill book told me how friggin hard it was going to be.
They'll think of any way they possibly can to get the wota to spend money, won't they?[/quote]
Plan to go through and take it sometime but I'll let you know I bought that drill book X_x. Thought I'd sign up to take it but then after studying for the JLPT was beat with studying and so didn't send in the application. One flip through the drill book told me how friggin hard it was going to be.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
I got to question 10 before I said fuck it. I'm not a wota. I will never be a wota. I WISH I had enough free time to be a wota.
But this test accomplished two things. It gave UFA more cash upon which they will use to wipe their ass and not give the girls a budget. It also lets the wota pretend to have street cred. Oh, how the people who got perfect scores must feel! "I know everything there is to know and how the others must be jealous!" No longer is being a noob a problem, they must take the test as a right of passage into the wota world.
But this test accomplished two things. It gave UFA more cash upon which they will use to wipe their ass and not give the girls a budget. It also lets the wota pretend to have street cred. Oh, how the people who got perfect scores must feel! "I know everything there is to know and how the others must be jealous!" No longer is being a noob a problem, they must take the test as a right of passage into the wota world.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
This is going to sound like bragging but it was down to some lucky guesses,
65/100, woot im such a spod.
Made the wife take it as well, again with some lucky guesses she got 39/100, not bad for some one who is not a fan
65/100, woot im such a spod.
Made the wife take it as well, again with some lucky guesses she got 39/100, not bad for some one who is not a fan
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
55/100. It's probably more accurate to say something like 45-50/100 since I guessed on probably half of the questions. It was so weird how some of the questions were really easy for anyone who follows H!P semi-casually and others were so rediculously detailed you'd never know them without one of those study books. Like not people who just pick up the releases occationally, but someone who checks each MM release out and watches some of their TV appearances would know "What generation is Konno Asami in" and "What's Kaori's nickname on Utaban." And then the next question would be like "Who's 5th from the left on this Ongaku Gatas single." Whaaat.
Were there prizes for this? Or were crazy wota just studying for the...wota notoriety?
Were there prizes for this? Or were crazy wota just studying for the...wota notoriety?
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
52/100. Yikes, I did some nice guessing there. I swear I knew like only 10 of those questions with 100% confidence.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
62/100
Pathetic, isn't it? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ryalot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
Pathetic, isn't it? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ryalot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
66/100 <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... ek3run.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
I didn't think I knew that many (some were guesses), but I kinda wish I actually didn't
I didn't think I knew that many (some were guesses), but I kinda wish I actually didn't
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
I just finished and got a 57. It sucks not having a program made to take the test, cause its a pain to write down answers and such, but I got about what I figured I would, and I don't think I really got any of my blind guesses right. A vast majority of the stuff I got right was the stuff I actually knew off the top of my head.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
68/100.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
What the fuck guys. I thought I would be one of the higher scoring ones. >:[
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
[quote name='Special Needs Tricycle' post='57295' date='Jan 21 2009, 07:02 PM']What the fuck guys. I thought I would be one of the higher scoring ones. >:[[/quote]
Some people are better guessers than others and some may have looked up some of the more "god I know this answer if I just saw one thing" questions, but I refrained and treated it as an actual test situation as if I was sitting at a desk taking it.
Some people are better guessers than others and some may have looked up some of the more "god I know this answer if I just saw one thing" questions, but I refrained and treated it as an actual test situation as if I was sitting at a desk taking it.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
48/100
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Damn HPK <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... dammit.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
Haha, good job Sadude!
I got 50/100. Lucky guesses, probably! It was weird, the range of the questions. Some were so simple, others were bizarre.
I got 50/100. Lucky guesses, probably! It was weird, the range of the questions. Some were so simple, others were bizarre.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
I'm 50/100. I'm oddly proud to know which animal was in Makoto Ogawa's photobook.
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[quote name='Baron American' post='57306' date='Jan 21 2009, 06:17 PM']I'm 50/100. I'm oddly proud to know which animal was in Makoto Ogawa's photobook.[/quote]
I was really proud of figuring out who wasn't on the cover of the first fanclub thing. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... hahaha.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
I was really proud of figuring out who wasn't on the cover of the first fanclub thing. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... hahaha.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':whistling:' />
Re: How much of a wota are you?
[quote name='sadude' post='57289' date='Jan 21 2009, 05:28 PM']68/100.
WHO WANTS TO TOUCH ME? <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... >/perv.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D/' />[/quote]
66/100. Who wants to touch me after?
2pts. less wota means I'm slightly cleaner, SO THERE!
I'm really proud of answering the "MKB with sunglasses on the CD jacket" question correctly. They thought they could trick me, but I know better!
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66/100. Who wants to touch me after?
2pts. less wota means I'm slightly cleaner, SO THERE!
I'm really proud of answering the "MKB with sunglasses on the CD jacket" question correctly. They thought they could trick me, but I know better!
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
[quote name='Petit Melon' post='57251' date='Jan 21 2009, 10:00 AM']I got to question 10 before I said fuck it. I'm not a wota. I will never be a wota. I WISH I had enough free time to be a wota.[/quote]
I got to question one and didn't know the answer. Before looking at the options I was like "Oh it's the 9th... fuck!".
I'm a lousy fan.
I got to question one and didn't know the answer. Before looking at the options I was like "Oh it's the 9th... fuck!".
I'm a lousy fan.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
I scanned the first 10 or so questions and knew the answers to 2 of them for sure. That's as far as I went.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
Just glancing through the entire quiz, I think that there were about 12 that I knew with certainty.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
49/100 ^^ I'm pretty happy with that considering I haven't been following them with as much intensity the past few years. Fun but some of the questions are ridiculous! I am wondering who on earth could ever get 100 percent on some of those really difficult questions.
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Re: How much of a wota are you?
51/100
Dammit, I was out wota-ed.
And yet I got quite a few of the fanclub correct from randomly having heard about things from friends, but I couldn't remember who made up Aa or ZYX for certainty and think those were a couple of the ones I got wrong. I don't know for sure as I just jotted stuff into Microsoft word and then erased the ones I got wrong as I went along so I could count how many I got right better.
I could've swore Love Machine was the 6th single as I was just watching that first half of Asayan and know it was the one released on 9/9/99 but didn't count correctly for how many that would make it from all the eps I'd watched. Heh and most of what Tsunku wanted to happen came true, but the 9 members of morning musume for 9/9/99 didn't. Hindsight is fun.
And for those of you that think studying for something like this is ridiculous and you would have to be some super wota living in a basement, think about the fact that all of the people who took the test had to go through years and years of school doing the same thing. So studying a about 1000 question book with definite answers, versus memorizing all the crap they had to up until they got into college is probably a helluva a lot easier.
Dammit, I was out wota-ed.
And yet I got quite a few of the fanclub correct from randomly having heard about things from friends, but I couldn't remember who made up Aa or ZYX for certainty and think those were a couple of the ones I got wrong. I don't know for sure as I just jotted stuff into Microsoft word and then erased the ones I got wrong as I went along so I could count how many I got right better.
I could've swore Love Machine was the 6th single as I was just watching that first half of Asayan and know it was the one released on 9/9/99 but didn't count correctly for how many that would make it from all the eps I'd watched. Heh and most of what Tsunku wanted to happen came true, but the 9 members of morning musume for 9/9/99 didn't. Hindsight is fun.
And for those of you that think studying for something like this is ridiculous and you would have to be some super wota living in a basement, think about the fact that all of the people who took the test had to go through years and years of school doing the same thing. So studying a about 1000 question book with definite answers, versus memorizing all the crap they had to up until they got into college is probably a helluva a lot easier.
Re: How much of a wota are you?
Got 56 right. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... umbsup.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':danceman:' /> I guess that's pretty high for mm-bbs, but why would I honestly care what Chisato ate backstage in one of the concerts? (That was one of the questions, right?) <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':dammit:' />
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