Remember taking the quizzes in Cosmopolitan magazine in your youth? Did you lay on the beach or in your dorm room and read the questions out loud to your friends? Thank goodness these existed! How were we ever to know which Disney Prince was our Soulmate? What type of B*tch am I? Most importantly, how would we know if we were fantastic in bed, if not to ask Cosmo? Oh, how we miss the days of yore when magazines could teach you the essential information for your survival. It’s time we brought back the quiz for us ladies.
The question at hand is: Are you a proud Gen-Xer?
Please answer these questions truthfully as this is a life-or-death game we’re playing here.
1. It is 9P in Mexico, and you are vacationing with the girls. You pass by a dance club blaring P!nk, Meghan Trainor, Drake, and Rita Ora. Right next door is a bar with 80’s tunes spilling out. Which establishment do you enter?
A. Dance Club
B. 80s bar
C. Neither. I go to bed; it’s late.
2. You might have traveled Europe with a fanny pack in your youth. Today, you have chosen to go to an all-day music festival in the wine country. Do you bring/wear a fanny pack?
A. Bring on the fanny pack. I’ll rock my feathered hair and a tube top for the occasion.
B. Never. Whether I wear it on my fanny or my tummy, I’d prefer not accentuate that area.
C. Concerts are loud and make my feet hurt.
3. You had crushes on many teen movie characters. Would you want to meet them if you ran into them on the street today?
A. Are you kidding? I still name my pets after my boy crushes: “Sit Jake,” “Ponyboy do you want some kibble?”
B. That dream died when I finished puberty.
C. They are all dead honey.
4. Your kids’ school auction is coming up, and the dress-up theme is still in question. What is your top pick?
A. “Crazy For You” remains one of my favorite songs. I’d pick an all-Madonna theme with a party favor of black bracelets.
B. Prom. The school auction ends up being just like it; rubber chicken and too much drinking.
C. Miss Manners says you can never go wrong with black-tie.
5. You are flipping the channel and come upon re-runs of The Brady Bunch. Can you identify the episode after watching the first two minutes?
A. Seinfeld has used up all my sitcom memory bank.
B. Hey you guys, oh my nose!
C. The who bunch?
Scoring
We could ask you to give yourself points for each answer and award a score. However, the truth is, you can likely tell what direction you are leaning after question #1. Instead, we can call quizzes what they are, a self-awareness test with built-in entertainment. Do you feel like you know yourself, and your friends, better after having answered these five questions? The next quiz could be shameful and ask “What kind of Mom are you?” Tiger? Drone? Cheetah? We can’t wait to find out.
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