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About This Quiz
Tanks have existed in various forms for centuries, but our modern conception of the tank began with the "Water Carrier" project under Winston Churchill, so named to keep the true purpose of the production secret. Tank production evolved throughout the war, and was further redefined by the Cold War.
The Cold War was really a strategic dance without a war, and the steps that dance demanded that tanks be placed in strategic locations all over the world. Doing this meant that trains needed to fit on C-130 aircraft, on flatbed train cars and on flatbed trucks. They needed to withstand new and evolving kinds of projectiles, and with the advance of computer technology, foresee threats like IEDs before they strike. During the war in Iraq, an Israeli firm invented something called The Trophy System, which used a radar guided computer to shoot down rocket propelled grenades with a shotgun. Truly, the advance of the tank has been about a lot more than how many miles of enemy territory it covers. Tanks have adapted to needs and challenges unlike any other war engine, creating a huge family tree of tanks in every color of the rainbow.
When the red mist rises, and one's skin burns with rage, one feels like a tank: explosive, deliberate, and destructive. Which tank are you when you get mad? Take this quiz and find out!
How do you react when someone stops in place on the street without warning, to check their phone or something?
Barge into them
Tell them off
Give them a stern look, and point
Demand they apologize
What happens in the moments after you get chewed out by your boss?
I calculate what just happened.
I consider how I might prank them.
I think of a way to show them up.
I feel very bad.
How do you handle it when someone accuses you of yelling when you feel you aren't raising your voice at all?
I take it in stride.
I raise my voice, a lot.
I simply explain I'm not raising my voice.
I say we should switch to writing things, so I can't be accused of this.
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Which of these circumstances makes you feel cornered?
Being asked to do something outside my wheelhouse
When my neighbor complains about me to a third party
When I'm ganged up on
When someone accuses me of not keeping up with the times
What would you do if a stranger walked up to you out of the blue and shoved you in order to provoke you?
Take it with total stoicism
Throat punch them
Warn them, slowly
Take it, apologize, and curl into a ball
How do you react when you realize you've made a mistake that will sabotage your own work?
I beat myself up for ages.
I curse myself in the moment and remind myself of it under any similar circumstances.
I laugh.
I cry.
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What would you do if you saw someone kick a puppy?
Nothing, if it's not my puppy.
Call the police. That guy needs to be stopped!
Make a citizen's arrest, and call the ASPCA.
Run to help the puppy!
What set you off when you were a teenager?
Calling me names
Criticizing my clothes
Lying about me
Getting bad grades
How were you bullied, when you were growing up?
Every way imaginable
It was mostly verbal.
It was mostly psychological, but also physical.
I wasn't bullied.
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How would you react if you were in a theater watching a long-anticipated movie and the person in the seat in front of you turned on their phone in full brightness, holding it up to film the screen, partially blocking your view?
Take the phone
Throw candy
Get an usher to kick them out
Politely ask them to stop
What do you do when you're walking down a crowded or narrow flight of stairs and someone in front of you stops to take a phone call?
Criticize them, close enough that the person on the other end of the phone can hear what I'm saying
Shove them out of the way
Tap them on the shoulder and sternly ask them to step aside
Meekly ask them to move
How do you respond when you're driving and someone in front of you doesn't respond to the light turning green in five seconds?
Wait
Honk
Flash my brights, then honk
Try to go around them
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How would you react if you saw someone vandalizing your property?
Manhandle them
Tear their clothes
Record them doing it, then confront them
I'd try to avoid them so I don't start trouble.
How does it make you feel if a stranger curses at you?
I don't care at all.
Insulting, but not anger-making
It really gets my goat.
It terrifies me!
What would you do if someone cut you in line at the post office, and refused to go to the back of the line?
Push past them
Toss across the room whatever they were going to mail
Step on their shoelaces and do not move when the line moves
Beg someone else to do something
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How do you react when a stranger on the street approaches you to get you to convert to their religion?
I laugh in their faces.
I tell them to keep their opinions to themselves.
I tell them my God can beat up their God.
I politely take their literature and assure them I'll be in touch.
How do you act when someone seated next to you on an airplane does not stop talking to you, after you ask them not to?
Pretend to sleep
Put on headphones
Spill something on them
Ask to move seats
What do you do when you get mad at a politician on TV?
Shoot the TV
Tweet about it
Become an activist and take their seat
Consider writing a strongly worded letter
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You've just been overcharged by a plumber. What next?
Destroy them on Angie's List
Break the plumbing in their house
Pay for a competitor's billboard across the street from the plumber
I live with it.
You were served an uncooked pizza in a restaurant. How do you react?
Send it back, with orders to cook it.
Take it home and cook it.
Demand to speak to the manager.
Eat it anyway ... it's pizza.
You were in a battle with another bidder for a house, and you just found out it was your friend, who knew, and won. What do you do next?
Burn the house down
Buy a better house
Buy the neighbor's house just to let it become an eyesore
Be happy for my friend
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You trace a nasty rumor about yourself back to your ex. What do you do?
Nothing, since I don't care.
Spread a nasty rumor about my ex
Publicly burn all the presents he or she gave me
Publicly refute it on all social platforms
What do you think of people who use magic tricks to convince people that they are somehow a representative of God on Earth?
They're like the witches in the Bible.
They're monsters.
They're little more than criminal con artists.
They're cool!
You booked a seat on a packed flight months ago, and on the day of they switch you into the most uncomfortable seat on the plane, without warning. What do you do?
Spend the whole flight kicking the seat in front of me
Take it out on the flight attendants
Demand the people at the gate fix it or compensate me
Meekly cry all the way to my destination
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On those days you get home from work feeling angry, what do you do to cool off?
Play Red Dead Redemption 2
I spend some personal time with my boo.
Beer
I eat my weight in ice cream
How badly would someone have to mess up your shirt before you demand they pay to have it fixed or replaced?
Total destruction
A large ink stain
A small food stain
I would never ask them to do that.
How would you react if someone cut someone in line ahead of you, and the person ahead of you said it was OK without checking with you?
I'd tell the person ahead of me to let me cut or we're going to have a problem.
Claim they pushed me and throw them out
Spill something on them so they have to leave to get cleaned up
Ask them how long they've been friends with this other person
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How would you confront a coworker who stole your idea and used it to get ahead?
Steal their idea and get ahead
Frame them
Pour paint stripper on their car's hood
Seduce them, make them fall in love with me, then cheat on them rampantly
What do you do when someone talks to you like you can hear them when you obviously can't?
Pretend I heard them
Ignore them
Mime that I can't hear them
Stop what I'm doing to find out what they said
What do you say when someone steps on your foot without apologizing?
I step on their foot.
I ask them if they plan on apologizing.
I tell them the polite thing to do is to apologize.
I clean my shoe.
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