I came up with a short 20 question quiz which should help to kill some time during your busy workday. I tried to pull questions from every aspect of the Prepper Pyramid, and incorporated a few situation based (read: subjective) questions as well. These questions were not meant to be slow moving softballs lobbed at you, but rather somewhat challenging in nature. Once you are through with the quiz scroll down to the bottom of the page for the answers. Enjoy!
Prepper-Resoures.com Quiz
- What should the minimum distance be (in feet) from a water well to a septic tank to ensure the water does not get contaminated?
- You and your family of 3 are trapped in your home with no possibility of Bugging out due to one of your family members being extremely ill. You know that (from listening to your radio) roaming bands of armed looters will make there way to your location within a few hours. What is your best course of action?
- Potatoes should be harvested before ground temperatures drop below ___ degrees to minimize bruising.
- Having items which contain calcium in your food storage is very important in order to maintain healthy bones and teeth. For the average male, age 19-50 years old, what is the recommended daily calcium intake in mg?
- When considering chickens for food, about how long does it take a Heritage Chicken to reach market weight?
- Reference using dry ice for food storage containers, 1lb of dry ice will produce ___ cubic feet of carbon dioxide gas.
- If possible what should your first long term goal for food storage be?
- For a man between the ages of 19-50 performing hard work/exercise daily, how many calories are recommended?
- FEMA recommends ___ drops of bleach per quart of water for treatment purposes.
- Typically what is the minimum amount of fresh water a person should have for daily consumption?
- If you could capture all of the rainwater off of a 20×30 foot roof after a storm dropped 1/10 of an inch of rain, how many gallons would you have collected?
- When re-constituting dehydrated food, you typically add ___ times the amount of water to the dry fruit, vegetable, meat.
- What is the sustained rate of fire for the M4/M16 rifle?
- You are in a firefight and moving from one covered position (something hard that can stop bullets) to another when you spot two targets out in the open at 50 meters, what do you do?
- When fired from an M16, the M855 (62 grain) 5.56NATO round travels at ____ft per second
- What is the most popular rifle round (based on sales) in the world?
- You can catch E. coli person to person when someone doesn’t wash their hands after a bowel movement. Some of the symptoms are bloody diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and cramps. These usually start within…
- What medicinal plant is good for breaking a fever (promotes sweating) as well as stopping bleeding when applied rather than ingested?
- What is considered a simple knot used to tie a rope to a post?
- When considered for bartering, what is the most popular style of liquor?
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Answers
- 50 Feet
- Make your home appear as if it has already been looted. Tear the door off the hinges, break the windows, toss stuff out into the yard. A home that looks like a fort will only attract attention, letting people know there is something inside worth taking. Besides in this example you only have 4 people total (one of them is sick), not the best odds if taking on an armed band of looters. Best to keep a low profile and hope they move on, while still remaining vigilant (prepared to fight) just in case. An armed and fortified community/neighborhood is a different story altogether, but that’s a topic for another post.
- 55 Degrees
- 700mg
- 16 weeks
- 8.3 cubic feet
- 1 year supply of food, capable of providing 2,000 calories for each person in your family.
- 3000 Calories
- 4 drops
- 1 Gallon
- 37 Gallons
- 3 times
- 12-15 rounds per minute
- Continue moving to cover, make a mental note of the targets but do not stop to engage. While it might seem enticing, stopping in the open to engage targets also means that you are now a target. At 50 meters your chances of hitting 2 targets while moving are slim, if you stop to engage the 2 targets you see you now are a full sized/motionless target for the 4 or 5 enemy you don’t see. Best to get to cover first and then re-asses. Doing the stuff you see in movies only gets you wounded or killed.
- 3,050 fps
- 22LR
- 3-4 days
- Catnip
- Clove hitch
- Vodka
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Ranger W
September 25, 2012 at 10:26 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wont even give a score for myself… I did horrible. Thanks for collecting some of the hard research facts we should have all already known… Keep up the good work PJ. Luckily we all have the wonderful interconnected tubes of interwebs to further our knowledge. Hopefully I can stay away from useless reading on random wikipedia topics and focus my efforts more efficiently now!
PJ
September 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Glad you enjoyed the quiz. Lots of knowledge to be had out there, you just have to find it!
JD
January 28, 2013 at 5:56 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This is good stuff PJ…. I have to admit I’ve been a regular at your site a for a while now. At first just to check back on the posts for interaction, but I’ve been exploring lately and you’ve got some great stuff on here.
Enjoyed your podcast on gun control as well. I’ve got another client who has a site dealing with that issue right now as well so it was interesting to hear some more about it.
-J.D.
BTW – I scored horribly on this quiz….
PJ
January 28, 2013 at 7:12 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
JD
The kind words are very much appreciated. If you do spend a little time digging on the site there is quite a bit more information, not all of it written by me. The struggle continues to find daily items to write about but with people like yourself contributing it does make it a bit easier. Additionally scaling back and not posting on the weekends has been a great help, everyone needs time off!
Glad you like the Podcast too, sometimes I feel like I focus too much on gun control but we really are witnessing events which directly impact our ability to prep. Thus I choose to highlight many of the issues and contribute my thoughts.
Thanks again and I’ll work up another quiz here soon.
PJ
Gail
March 12, 2013 at 1:23 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Really enjoyed this (though I did really, REALLY(!!!) bad!) Lets me know how much I don’t know!!! Would like to see more of this.
PJ
March 13, 2013 at 12:26 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thanks Gail, I’ll try to work up another one here soon.