Heads are gonna roll... onto a scale

Remember when, as a little kid, you'd ask your parents some off-the-wall question and then be annoyed when they tried to answer it rationally? "Mommy," you'd say, "wouldn't it be fun if an elephant let you crawl up its trunk and it would swing you around?" And mommy would say, "No, you'd probably suffocate and die." And you'd say, "No! No! I mean, if you didn't suffocate and die." And mommy would say, "But that's what would happen." And so it would go.

Last night, I discovered that I'm now the rational-minded mommy. My girlfriend asked me, just hypothetically, how much I thought my brain weighed, and I responded by Googling it and finding the answer. That bored her, because she was more interested in the guessing than the actual answer. So, I rebounded by turning brain weights into a game. I found this site (but don't go yet!) and quizzed her on which animals' brains weigh more. I thought it was a fun quiz, and so I've sought out some sloppy quiz-making html to recreate a little bit of it for you here.

Ok, here we go:

1. Who has a heavier brain?


sperm whale


elephant



2. Who has a heavier brain?


alligator

rabbit


3. Who has a heavier brain?


green lizard

goldfish


4. Who has a heavier brain?


cat

squirrel monkey


5. Who has a heavier brain?


nurse shark

beaver

Note: When you click on "Grade Me," it'll take you to an answer page on Quizbox.com. Because the page isn't great, I'm also just posting the answers after the jump.

Whee! Fun with brains! How'd you do? Here's the answers:

1. The sperm whale's weighs more than the elephant's.

2. The rabbit's weighs more than the alligator's.

3. The goldfish's weighs more than the green lizard's (but not by much).

4. The cat's weighs more than the squirrel monkey's.

5. The beaver's weighs more than the nurse shark's.

Posted by Jason Feifer at April 28, 2006 11:42 AM