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GIFTED PEOPLE DON’T NEED KICKERS
Are You as Gifted as I Am?
Or just average, like my husband?
A little message came up on my phone yesterday. It said that if I could answer 50 questions correctly, it would prove I had a high IQ. I’ve always wondered about my IQ, so I decided to check.
I only got one question wrong. But it was the very first one. I think it was supposed to be the easiest.
The question was: What are baby frogs called?
Where I grew up, we called them froglets. But that wasn’t one of the four answer options. So I decided it was an American quiz and went with the only other sensible option: hatchlings.
At the end of the quiz, I discovered the correct answer was a tadpole. According to whatever idiot set the test.
And I got all harrumphy and went to find my husband, Roger.
“Roger, what is a baby frog called?”
“A tadpole.”
Oh my god. I’ve married an idiot.
“Roger, in the lifecycle of a frog, a tadpole is the larval stage. After that, you get the teeny-weeny baby frogs that are only as big as fingernails, and then, if they’re lucky, they grow up to be adult frogs. If the answer is tadpole, the question should be: ‘What…
