Teachout Cultural Concurrence Index

Posted on July 12, 2004 in Quizzes

I picked this quiz off Deborama. My TCCI is .57112857. Which means that I am 57% percent in harmony with the tastes of the guy who compiled the list. Which is, well, a little pompous of him perhaps?

1. Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly? Gene Kelly
2. The Great Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises? Great Gatsby
3. Count Basie or Duke Ellington? Duke Ellington
4. Cats or dogs? Cats
5. Matisse or Picasso? Matisse
6. Yeats or Eliot? Yeats
7. Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin? Keaton
8. Flannery O’Connor or John Updike? O'Connor
9. To Have and Have Not or Casablanca? Casablanca
10. Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning? Pollock
11. The Who or the Stones? The Who
12. Philip Larkin or Sylvia Plath? Sylvia Plath
13. Trollope or Dickens? Dickens
14. Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald? Fitzgerald
15. Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky
16. The Moviegoer or The End of the Affair? The End of the Affair
17. George Balanchine or Martha Graham? Martha Graham
18. Hot dogs or hamburgers? Hot dogs
19. Letterman or Leno? Letterman
20. Wilco or Cat Power? no preference
21. Verdi or Wagner? Verdi
22. Grace Kelly or Marilyn Monroe? no preference
23. Bill Monroe or Johnny Cash? no preference
24. Kingsley or Martin Amis? Kingsley
25. Robert Mitchum or Marlon Brando? Brando
26. Mark Morris or Twyla Tharp? Twyla Tharp
27. Vermeer or Rembrandt? Vermeer
28. Tchaikovsky or Chopin? no preference
29. Red wine or white? no preference
30. Noël Coward or Oscar Wilde? Oscar Wilde
31. Grosse Pointe Blank or High Fidelity? no preference
32. Shostakovich or Prokofiev? Prokofiev
33. Mikhail Baryshnikov or Rudolf Nureyev? no preference
34. Constable or Turner? no preference
35. The Searchers or Rio Bravo? no preference
36. Comedy or tragedy? no preference
37. Fall or spring? spring
38. Manet or Monet? no preference
39. The Sopranos or The Simpsons? no preference
40. Rodgers and Hart or Gershwin and Gershwin? R & H
41. Joseph Conrad or Henry James? Conrad
42. Sunset or sunrise? sunset
43. Johnny Mercer or Cole Porter? no preference
44. Mac or PC? PC
45. New York or Los Angeles? Los Angeles
46. Partisan Review or Horizon? Horizon
47. Stax or Motown? Motown
48. Van Gogh or Gauguin? Van Gogh
49. Steely Dan or Elvis Costello? no preference
50. Reading a blog or reading a magazine? no preference
51. John Gielgud or Laurence Olivier? no preference
52. Only the Lonely or Songs for Swingin’ Lovers? no preference
53. Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde? Chinatown
54. Ghost World or Election? no preference
55. Minimalism or conceptual art? no preference
56. Daffy Duck or Bugs Bunny? Bugs Bunny
57. Modernism or postmodernism? Modernism
58. Batman or Spider-Man? Spider-Man
59. Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams? no preference
60. Johnson or Boswell? no preference
61. Jane Austen or Virginia Woolf? Jane Austen
62. The Honeymooners or The Dick Van Dyke Show? no preference
63. An Eames chair or a Noguchi table? no preference
64. Out of the Past or Double Indemnity? no preference
65. The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovanni? no preference
66. Blue or green? blue
67. A Midsummer Night’s Dream or As You Like It? Midsummer 
68. Ballet or opera? opera
69. Film or live theater? film
70. Acoustic or electric? acoustic
71. North by Northwest or Vertigo? Vertigo
72. Sargent or Whistler? no preference
73. V.S. Naipaul or Milan Kundera? no preference
74. The Music Man or Oklahoma? Oklahoma
75. Sushi, yes or no? yes
76. The New Yorker under Ross or Shawn? no preference
77. Tennessee Williams or Edward Albee? Williams
78. The Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove? no preference
79. Paul Taylor or Merce Cunningham? no preference
80. Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe? no preference
81. Diana Krall or Norah Jones? no preference
82. Watercolor or pastel? watercolor
83. Bus or subway? bus
84. Stravinsky or Schoenberg? Stravinsky
85. Crunchy or smooth peanut butter? Crunchy
86. Willa Cather or Theodore Dreiser? Cather
87. Schubert or Mozart? Mozart
88. The Fifties or the Twenties? no preference
89. Huckleberry Finn or Moby-Dick? Moby Dick
90. Thomas Mann or James Joyce? Joyce
91. Lester Young or Coleman Hawkins? no preference
92. Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman? Whitman
93. Abraham Lincoln or Winston Churchill? Lincoln
94. Liz Phair or Aimee Mann? no preference
95. Italian or French cooking? Italian
96. Bach on piano or harpsichord? no preference
97. Anchovies, yes or no? yes
98. Short novels or long ones? short
99. Swing or bebop? bebop
100. "The Last Judgment" or "The Last Supper"? Judgement