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Matt Berger, contributor

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Test your woodworking IQ. Take our trivia quiz.

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Can you identify uncommon wood species or spot unsafe woodworking operations in the blink of an eye? Take our trivia quiz and put your skills to the test. We’ll be adding new questions regularly so check back if you manage to master all the questions in short order.

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P.S. If you'd like to share feedback on the game or brag about your score, post a comment below. To suggest a new question for our quiz, send your emails to fw@taunton.com, and be sure to write "quiz question" in the subject line. 

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Comments (13)

oldat45 writes: you mean all this time I could have been using the rear bumper of my truck to polish wood? Man, all this time I've been using pumice as one of the materials to polish close to a third of the projects I've built over the past 20 years. What kind of a maroon (intentional mispelling, not that much of a moron) am I? I cold've just walked out of my shop and been grinding a beautiful piece of cherry on my bumper. What is it's equivalent in grit?
Posted: 11:04 am on August 11th

Jurgen01 writes: I enjoyed the quiz and learned a few things, too. 22 out of 25 will have to do for round 1.
Posted: 11:44 pm on September 2nd

cabsbydesign writes: Ignoring the Americanisms (that nobody this side of the pond understands), this lad did good. Great fun and already looking forward to the next.
When will you guys get with it and go metric...how can anybody get 3" from 12/4 ???
Posted: 6:41 pm on July 10th

rtjny99 writes: Enjoyed the quiz, 22/25 but I have a quibble. Working for decades in mills question 6 is at least ambiguous. Diamond plate is a steel flooring material and pumice is indeed sometimes a honing material;
Posted: 9:07 am on April 9th

GregoryPaolini writes: Matt,

That was kind of fun - I scored 22 of 25, getting the "Traditional wood for Arts & Crafts" Wrong - Just kidding
Posted: 8:40 pm on April 8th

KFox writes: This may just be a semantic issue, but I don't like the wording of question #9. A crooked board is a board that has "crook". "Warp" is the proper general term for dimensional change in wood along the edges, ends and faces. I'm taking my definitions from the revised edition of R. Bruce Hoadley's "Understanding Wood" (p. 123). I'm certainly not sore about getting this one wrong... really.
Posted: 10:52 pm on April 7th

geppetto425 writes: I'm pretty sure the finest steel wool is 00000! Not four ought. (I don't know how to spell ought)
Posted: 3:33 pm on April 7th

Frozen writes: 22/25, and I felt "I shoulda known that!" with two of the others. So why do I screw up so often when actually building anything?
Posted: 2:13 pm on April 3rd

chizler writes: Great quiz! Thanks for the opportunity to check my humbleness quotiant (18 out of 25). I've read Fine Woodworking for a while. I should do better than 18.

Great work FWW! Already looking forward to the next one.
Posted: 11:58 am on April 1st

accentcreate writes: As a non American I was at a significant disadvantage, especially regarding some of the terminology, the 'domestic timbers' and imperial measure.
Is America the only country still using such archaic measurements?
Under the circumstances I'm happy with 17 out of 25.

Since Fine Woodworking is sold and read around the world, I was surprised that an on-line quiz was so blatantly American centric.

Posted: 4:15 am on April 1st

ElaineP writes: I really enjoyed this quiz! It cut a nice, broad swathe across the whole cabinetmaking field.

It's been a few years since I last looked up botanical names, but I'm happy to report 21/25 ;)


Posted: 3:22 am on April 1st

MBerger writes: I guess everyone knows the answer to #3 now!

Sorry about that forwoodonwood. We fixed up the questions. Give it another try.
Posted: 9:26 am on March 31st

Forwoodonwood writes: Matt,

I'm surprised there are no comments yet on the IQ test!

I believe the FWW response to question 3 is an error. Aluminum oxide is an abrasive used in sandpaper and in grinding wheels, yes, but it is neither a diamond paste nor is it a binder used in sandpaper. The binder is usually some kind of resin or other adhesive material.

The automatic response states all three choices are correct.
Posted: 3:15 pm on March 30th

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