Take This Quiz to Find Out Your Chances of Survival

Distorted Stu

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I got a decent score on my first go, i have a very cool head when it comes to panic/chaos and i know a fair few tricks of the trade when it comes to survial due to camping and hunting. I struggeled with the tornado and flood answers, because that stuff never happens in my area and i would be damned if it did.

Also, no bears here! The only tip i know in how to deal with them is to go into the fetal possition and then get carried away or kick it in the balls when it steals your fish... TV may not be the best source of information when dealing with bears... (cookies if you get the refrences)

I ended up taking for ever to get 100% just because i wanted to know the proper answer, to read the info it came with and to know how to live when/if that shit happens to me.
 

hopeneverdies

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Well I got 60% first try and 75% my second. Watching Les Stroud probably helped.

So I'm a happy camper. In theory. In the real world, I'd probably die pretty quickly.
 

Littlee300

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Nocta-Aeterna said:
shirin238 said:
30% xD damn, and here I thought my scout experience would save me...
Yet in my defence, Holland doesn;t have any bears soo :p
We would have floods twice a day without our dams. Oh and the wolf is apparently coming back through the German border.

OT. isn't it true that drinking your own urine causes you to dehydrate more due to the high ureum concentrations?
And you will have to chug it because it attracts bacteria quick.
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Corpse XxX

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And here I thought that watching all those episodes with Bear Grylls would get me the 100% score. *goes back and tries again*
Exactly what i thought.. But i would rather put my money on Bear Grylls in a survival situation than Editor in chief Russ Pitts..

I somehow feel that i would be safer with Bear, also i has the same name as him, Bjørn.. That is norwegian for Bear..
 

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Corpse XxX said:
But i would rather put my money on Bear Grylls in a survival situation than Editor in chief Russ Pitts..
Pretty much... No offense to Mr. Pitts, but I have a feeling he wouldn't want to eat a gigantic worm like Grylls does when the going gets tough.

Also, you sir have a fantastic name, and an equally awesome avatar.
 

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I call bullshit!

A number of these are trick questions.

But a child surviving in the wilderness is an outright lie!

The only situation that would be true in would be if rescue arrived in the next 3 hours, according to your own facts:

The child will do nothing to ensure his own survival, so he will not build a shelter meaning if he isn't rescued that day, he's dead. A soldier, mountain climber, or even a business man will take some action to improve his chances. A small child sitting still in the woods may as well be a needle in a haystack.

Excepting my rant, I actually had fun with this quiz, the facts displayed at the end were interesting reads, even if I didn't agree with them all. If you do this again you should make the answers you got wrong viewable as well. I had to do the quiz a couple more times to find all the right answers.
 

garfoldsomeoneelse

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Former boyscout, been in several wilderness survival scenarios and I've got a few gripes that are absolutely driving me crazy.

1) Number eighteen. Climb a tree? Seriously? I'm guessing this answer sounded the best in the realm of speculation, but any survival manual that advocates this would be pulled. By climbing a tree, you're exponentially increasing your chances of serious injury, and you're wasting energy you would be relying on while waiting for rescue. Starting a fire was the answer I went with initially, because it is correct, as a plume of smoke is about as good a signal you'll be able to give off without a flare gun on hand. Get a fire burning hot enough, throw some green vegetation on there, and at the very least, someone will be sent out to investigate a potential wildfire. As noted in the explanation for the "correct" answer, the number one objective is to stay put and be rescued, and this is how it's done.

Furthermore, there's a couple of other problems: most forests consist of trees that are pretty uniform in height, so good luck seeing anything but more treetops. Secondly, the higher up you go on a tree, the thinner and weaker the limbs become. There is no real way to get to the very top where you'd need to be, and the higher you go, the better your chances become of un-surviving due to a deceptively fragile limb... which is kinda the opposite of what you're trying to accomplish. And lastly, assuming you made it to the very top, saw a distant landmark, and climbed back down safely, a visual approximation is not going to do you very much good, as humans are not natural orienteers. We have compasses because we're generally very bad at traveling in a straight line without guidance, and every human being has a tendency to constantly turn to either direction as they travel; given a long enough required travel distance, this can lead to lead to them missing the mark by miles, and having no idea which direction their target is from where they stop and reassess the situation, making the whole thing an exercise in unnecessary (and highly penalizing) exhaustion. This is why you need somebody else to come out and get your stranded ass in the first place, otherwise people wouldn't get lost.

2) A child does not stand a better chance of surviving in the woods than a soldier. I don't know if you've ever seen the Army's official wilderness survival guide, but there are things in there that children need to know, but won't, whereas a soldier will. How to find food, how to identify poisonous plants, how to build a shelter, how to maintain one's own health and perform necessary first aid, all those things. It's a romantic notion that children would be more in touch with nature since they're an empty glass, but I'd happily wager that a soldier would be the one to come out of that situation without his flesh transformed into buzzard droppings. I don't know about you, but I hear a lot of stories in the news about kids running away from home and being found dead due to exposure.

3) The purest and most readily available source of water is condensation, which could be captured using a dew trap. Your urinary tract is used in purging your body of toxins and chemicals; you can drink it, but it will hurt your health. You'll have more water drinking your own piss, sure, but you can survive on condensation without ingesting the crap your body decided to throw out with the bath water, so to speak. Running water from a stream would also be preferable if boiled and/or (if possible), strained through multiple layers of cloth (such as bandanas or clothing).

4) As was mentioned by someone else, a tent is an all-in-one elemental guardian. Modern tents (the only kind anyone is likely to have on hand anymore) are basically tarps stretched over metal skeletons, and they not only provide cover from insects, rain, wind, and having your heat leeched by the ground, but they're also very effective at containing heat would've escaped through natural radiation from the body.

Everything else was on the money, but those four really drove me nuts. Especially the first.

Note: I'm not trying to be anal or a know-it-all, but someone, at some point, could be in this very situation and may rely on what this quiz informed them was the correct thing to do; much in the way I imagine a little girl could cost herself a limb by putting a tourniquet on an appendage with a minor laceration because she read about it in Twilight, the would-be survivor could end up being their own worst enemy.
 

kebab4you

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20%*20%*20%*20%= 1.6% survival rate, good luck with that ^^
OT: 20%... guess i won't make it far.
 

AbnormalFetus

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Fun quiz.
But i have to say some of the answers are extremely questionable. A child is in no way more likely to survive. Even with the reasoning presented. And you wound be a idiot if you pick a hat over a jacket in a survival situation. The shear amount of fabric in a jacket meens you can use it to make a hat and still have fabric to spare. Standing in the woods with no jacket and a hat will not increas you odds of survival.
Climbing a tree is an ok awnser for beeing lost but it is likely an unnessesary risk. Finding high ground would be the more correct answers and in a lot of situations even making shelter / a fire is safer then starting to climb up trees potentaly falling and breaking a leg. Broken leg = probably dead if you are lost. So i would not recoment climbing trees unless you are trained to do so.
Aslo drinking urin is not really a good option. Dew is usualy a safe source of water and if you are so sett on drinking piss, you can make a still and cleanse it before drinking. Id take morning dew or a stream any day though.
 

Kaymish

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well that was inaccurate i remember teaching people survival and i got an exact 50% on the first try i aslo remember being dumped off the side of an Iroquois and told to wait to be picked up im still here
and finally got 100% after 6 at least i finished it in 11:00 min

and the business person one was just plain insulting none of the business people i have met think they are superior to people and the ones who did were bad at their jobs
and many soldiers and mountain climbers are trained in survival techniques since troops are expensive it makes no sense to kill them
 

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65%: Happy Camper <.<

Pretty subjective though ... I know I wouldn't drink running water if there was a flood. Try to find bottled water if possible. But lets say if you're out in the middle of the woods and knew it might be DAYS before somebody finds you, drinking running water is eventually going to be your only resort because you'll eventually just destroy your kidneys if you drink urine ALL the time.

One thing you should do however if you need to retain water, and conserve water, is to add a small amount of salt to every glass you drink ... otherwise you'l just piss it out all the time due to your henley's loop trying to maintain K+ and NaCl levels.

And yes that might mean that you have to piss into fresh water if you have no salt, but everybody knows to bring salt in an emergency because it's useful for all sorts of things (from cleaning utensils to preserving game that you may have to hunt to survive). It's also good for dealing with leeches if you live in such an environment where leeches are rife <.<

Oh yes, and if you can keep them dry, horde cigarettes <.< They make useful commodities of which you can use to barter with people addicted to nicotine ... if anything people may tell you stuff you might not know for a couple of smokes.

And NEVER EVER group together .... if you have found a place in which has a diverse amount of natural fauna and flora, or has access to certain provisions then keep them for yourself. Do not share, do not attract attention. The more people you congregate with the greater the distances your group of people will have to wander to procure foodstuffs and essential supplies ... not to mention the strain it causes on clean water sources which will attract animals.
 

ProtoChimp

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Demon ID said:
Jack and Calumon said:
A Warning to others...

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Calumon: Oh here he goes again... >.<
Same, I only got 20%. Me and you should never team up on anything important.
Same here. The members of the escapist are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked if anything happens. Not just disasters I mean ANYTHING.
 

Mumorpuger

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ProtoChimp said:
Demon ID said:
Jack and Calumon said:
A Warning to others...

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Calumon: Oh here he goes again... >.<
Same, I only got 20%. Me and you should never team up on anything important.
Same here. The members of the escapist are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked if anything happens. Not just disasters I mean ANYTHING.
I would say that we're pretty much screwed if the internet goes down. How will we talk to each other? And how will we bombard Russ with messages asking to follow him around and save us all??

We're doomed I tells ya! DOOMED!