Name that Celebrity's Religion

A Pajiba Quiz / Dustin Rowles

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I woke up this morning, and for some inexplicable reason, I thought it’d be fun to create a quiz. So, I created a quiz.

It’s pretty simple. I give you a celebrity name, and you tell me if he or she is a Kabbahlist, a Mormon, a Scientologist, or None of the Above. The quiz is timed, so the faster you answer the question, the more points you get. There are no prizes, just bragging rights (you can post your score in the comments). However, should enough people take the quiz (it’s fairly easy, and will take you less than five minutes), and if there’s enough interest, I may create more quizzes in the future where prizes will be awarded.

I know. Your undies are moist now.

Have fun.

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I think I got 3 right, but I didn't know who 17 of these people were.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 20, 2008 4:08 PM

That was easily the best three minutes of my life.

Posted by: DemonWaterPolo at October 20, 2008 4:10 PM

My method of random guessing is not really paying off well. The only one I actually knew (before I became bored) was Jon Heder, and only because I went to High School with his older sister, and Jon was in my brother's class. South Salem High was heavily populated by Mormon kids.

Posted by: Lindsey at October 20, 2008 4:10 PM

Ugh only an 805. And here I thought I knew my crackpot celebrities and their hokey religions!

Posted by: Rorny at October 20, 2008 4:11 PM

1116 out of 2000. I seem to identify the Scientologists better than the Mormons or the Kabbahlists. Maybe they like the publicity better than the others, or maybe they are just crazier, thereby garnering more publicity/infamy.

Posted by: rlr260 at October 20, 2008 4:12 PM

296 out of 2000, I am such a failure. Also: the title picture is extremely misleading.

Posted by: the_wakeful at October 20, 2008 4:12 PM

747.

I kinda suck but it's still the high score for the moment.

Posted by: Sean (Llama) at October 20, 2008 4:13 PM

905! Woot!

Posted by: Erin at October 20, 2008 4:13 PM

I scored a weenie 837.

But I feel so edumacated on the religious stylings of the rich and famous.

Posted by: Alabamapink at October 20, 2008 4:14 PM

PS Jason Dohring? Say it ain't so

Posted by: Erin at October 20, 2008 4:14 PM

PS Jason Dohring? Say it ain't so

Posted by: Erin at October 20, 2008 4:15 PM

485/2000 . . . Pretty much statistically right for guessing randomly. I didn't know who most of these people are, and I don't really care which flying spaghetti monster people believe tuck them in at night.

Posted by: stipe42 at October 20, 2008 4:18 PM

Ricky Shroder is a fucking Mormon?

pfffft

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 20, 2008 4:18 PM

623 I suck!

But I have to call shenanigans Rowles, we all know rainbow killer is no Mormon. It is a known fact that she is the high preistess of the church of killing puppies and making babies cry.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 20, 2008 4:20 PM

I didn't score too well as I kept looking at Ms. Parker in her undies. Damn this attention deficit!

Posted by: QED at October 20, 2008 4:23 PM

900-something'ish. Jason Dohring makes me sad, as does Beck, which I only guessed correctly on him and Giovanni Ribisi because Beck is married to the Ribisi sister and I knew she was a Scientologist.

Posted by: feramones at October 20, 2008 4:25 PM

OK, 637. Obviously I'm not up to date on my random celebrity religions. I'll be ready for the next quiz!

Posted by: Ping at October 20, 2008 4:26 PM

Having been a Mormon most of my life I know that there is nothing more that excites them when they think a celebrity, politician or ESPECIALLY sports stars is one of the rank and file. When Ricky Shroder converted a few years ago, there were stories all over the Utah newspapers about it. And Jon Heder gets lots of support from his faithful, too, even though he's in movies that are not exactly the type that Mormons are supposed to see.

Posted by: memikeyounot at October 20, 2008 4:29 PM

I have this minimized 'cause I'm supposed to be working. At first glance and with the picture of MLP, I thought the title of the article was "Name that Celebrity's Region, which is actually quite a different game...

Posted by: Lainey at October 20, 2008 4:33 PM

563 - And I am totally okay with that.

Seriously, I am.

Posted by: Arr Matey at October 20, 2008 4:35 PM

I don't think David Beckham is actually a Scientologist... I think he and Posh were just getting a little infected by Tom Cruise and Katie-Bot. Why do I know that? Ugh.

Posted by: b at October 20, 2008 4:37 PM

My score disappeared before I could write it down, but I did awful. I only got the obvious ones. Maybe 1/3 of them correct? Thanks for the quiz, though. It was fun and informative. (I had at least one new Scientology disappointment to add to the list.)

Neil LaBute is technically Mormon and defines himself so to my knowledge, but he did get in a lot of trouble on the BYU campus for the content of the plays he wrote.

Lindsey>> Coincidence - I'm one degree of dating from Jon Heder.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 20, 2008 4:37 PM

607 out of 2000. I definitely didn't know who a few of those people were. But finding out that Greta Van Susteren is a Scientologist explains a lot for me . . . . .

Posted by: SCG at October 20, 2008 4:38 PM

What happened to the old picture? That was hot.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at October 20, 2008 4:38 PM

Being a mormon, I guess I'm a little offended that Mormonism is lumped in with Scientologists and Kabbalahists... but, I know if I really get my feathers ruffled I'll just get yelled at via other commenters.

Posted by: Tanner at October 20, 2008 4:40 PM

I got 670 out of 2000. I didn't recognize the name Jon Heder until I had clicked the wrong button. I didn't recognize several of the names at all, but the ones I did recognize, I knew.

Posted by: Kat at October 20, 2008 4:41 PM

I don't even know who some of those people are.

Posted by: Cindy at October 20, 2008 4:44 PM

Oh yeah. Aaand I scored like 640 something. Lump me in with the suckies.

Posted by: b at October 20, 2008 4:45 PM

I think I liked this quiz better when the photo was dirty and the title was "Name that Celebrity Region" and I thought we'd have to guess the name that went with the ass or boob photo.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 20, 2008 4:46 PM

You've just inspired the idea for the next quiz, BWeaves. -- DR

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at October 20, 2008 4:49 PM

I got over 1000. Should I be pleased?

Posted by: TLynne at October 20, 2008 4:55 PM

734. Beck's a Scientologist???? And Skank Cancer is a Mormon?

Posted by: Nicole at October 20, 2008 4:56 PM

Who got Heder wrong, honestly? Didn't they make a big enough deal out of the fact that Napoleon Dynamite was a mostly-Mormon production?

Posted by: Eep at October 20, 2008 4:56 PM

Oh. Pajiba, you are a cruel mistress. I come expecting a small respite from my Monday gong show to see what the other 'jibans have scored on your quiz and what am I greeted with...?

Mr. Rowles you will be receiving a bill for drycleaning the vomit out of my clothes as well as a replacement keyboard. This one doesn't work very well any more. I expect payment in 2-3 weeks.

Posted by: Admin11 at October 20, 2008 4:56 PM

Woo! I still have the the low score. Suck it, bitches!

Posted by: the_wakeful at October 20, 2008 4:58 PM

Hahaha. 668. I don't know anything about celebrity religion. And I don't care.

Posted by: dsbs at October 20, 2008 5:00 PM

964. I suck.

Posted by: Julie at October 20, 2008 5:03 PM

OH, it DID say region! I think my brain auto-corrected and I didn't notice it after the first glance.

And yes, that was a much better picture.

Posted by: Jay at October 20, 2008 5:05 PM

I swear to Godtopus I was trying:

Score: 65
Number correct: 1/20

Clearly I'm out of my depth. I demand more quizzes! Quizzes actually about movies!!

Posted by: sansho1 at October 20, 2008 5:12 PM

978. Woo to me.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at October 20, 2008 5:13 PM

I don't see a link to the quiz! ;-(

Posted by: amanda47 at October 20, 2008 5:22 PM

Darth: 1 degree huh. OK, I'll play the 'I almost got to meet a celebrity' game (Future Diversion Topic anyone?). My brother (the same one who went to SSHS with Jon Heder) almost married a girl whose family lives next door to Gillian Anderson's parents. That's right, we almost married into Agent Scully's neighbor's family. They would have come to the wedding and everything because they were good friends. Soooo close! Close to exactly what I don't know, but still...

Oh, and my ex-Husband bagged Tom Skerrit's groceries once. Now THAT is a brush with fame. /sarcasm.

Posted by: Lindsey at October 20, 2008 5:22 PM

I PROTEST!!
u rowles, you cant do this to people, you cant give them a super sexy marie louise parker and then replace her with rainbow killer! U CANT!
You first got my sexual libido all open up and then you do that??
man you are so evil you would make dick cheney run in a corner and cry like mary ingalls gone blind. what's wrong with you man? I feel violated.

Posted by: rio at October 20, 2008 5:23 PM

um...I got a 666 (not kidding). Apparently I am a Satanist. Where's the button for THAT one?

Posted by: max at October 20, 2008 5:32 PM

You score pretty well by clicking Scientologist each time. Creepier.

Posted by: Adam at October 20, 2008 5:36 PM

Lindsey, I'll do you one better. My dad went to college (in Switzerland) with none other than Sly Stallone. Dad said he was a wannabe-actor and full-on douche even then.

My husband also almost got run over by Sharon Stone as she sprinted for the buffet table at a fundraiser. Up close, both her skin and her crazy are flawless.

Posted by: sweetpea at October 20, 2008 5:36 PM

Dustin: Now that I've got your attention, where's my James Bond trailer?

Stace is going to run it in tomorrow's Pajiba Love, BWeaves. -- DR

Posted by: BWeaves at October 20, 2008 5:39 PM

>>Being a mormon, I guess I'm a little offended that Mormonism is lumped in with Scientologists and Kabbalahists...

Posted by: Adam at October 20, 2008 5:41 PM

846. Most of it consisted of lucky guesses since I've no idea who most of those people were. Also why is it crazier to be a scientologist believing in aliens than a Khabbalist who believes in the power of a red string?

Posted by: Joker at October 20, 2008 5:41 PM

I suck, I only got 600and something, ahh well I guess I will have to stick to my dayjob.

Posted by: Alli at October 20, 2008 5:43 PM

Kabbalahism is a religion now? You're fucking kidding me. I thought it was just a stupid bracelet worn by non-Jewish people who think it's trendy to hijack a serious religion's quirky bits.

Posted by: PaddyDog at October 20, 2008 5:46 PM

Sweetpea:

You win!
See? I think this could be a fun Diversion topic.

Posted by: Lindsey at October 20, 2008 5:59 PM

Meh, I got 772. Laura Pepron and Jason Lee definitely just lost major points with me.

Posted by: VeinsRHiways at October 20, 2008 6:01 PM

391.

I am AWESOME.

Posted by: Raisin'Cookies at October 20, 2008 6:07 PM

In 1994 (during the NFL season in which the 49ers last won the Super Bowl), my friend's mother almost ran over Jerry Rice in the parking lot of Safeway. On consecutive weekends.

Posted by: stipe42 at October 20, 2008 6:14 PM

I've got an idea for a quiz! I do, I do, I do! I'll send ten photos of various rashes, scars, burns, moles and deformities on my body and you gotta guess where it is, and what it's from! Hell yeah! What's the prize? I send you 8x10 signed glossies of whichever one(s) you want!

• Self-inflicted knife wound from trying to carve a gourd while drunk.

• Burn from tripping onto grill while drunk.

• Indentation from getting booted by a goat while drunk.

• Bullet wound from PDiddy.

• Scar from razor-talon in a Guatemalan cock-fight while drunk.

• Self-inflicted electrocution scar from trying to be handy while drunk.

• Herpes (not where you'd think it'd be!)

• Multiples stab wound(s) inflicted by Girl Scout Troop #837 - I was sober when it happened, but the wounds were inflicted as a direct result of something I did while I was drunk.

• Cigar burn from a Carnie in Wisconsin.

• Half-developed conjoined twin named Wendel.

Oh, this should be fun!

Posted by: Skitz at October 20, 2008 6:16 PM

Dustin: COOL! Thanks. That trailer gave me a serious nerdgasm.

Posted by: BWeaves at October 20, 2008 6:19 PM

10,000 scored FTW!

yeah...

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 20, 2008 6:25 PM

That trailer gave me a serious nerdgasm.

The "Push" trailer?

Posted by: Jay at October 20, 2008 6:36 PM

Meh. My usual response to the question "Do you know what religion So-and-So is?" is "Who the fuck cares?"

Posted by: The Wanderer at October 20, 2008 6:37 PM

477 and I didn't know who roughly two-thirds of the people were. Also, I don't give a hot damn who the fuck Zac Efron prays too, I just hope his God smites him before I have to.

Posted by: Roaddog at October 20, 2008 6:38 PM

1087. Wooo. Or aw, maybe, for my lack of life.

Posted by: Shiva at October 20, 2008 6:44 PM

Lindsay - I wish I could say that I've met celebs because I'm the cool kid who gets invited to all the parties. Nope, instead it was my job each year to grovel and thank them for being a volunteer for our annual fundraiser. My lips were so calloused and puffy from all the asskissing that I looked like Angie Jolie. You know, except shorter, squishier around the middle, older, and with less kids.

Posted by: sweetpea at October 20, 2008 7:00 PM

Dustin,

You made a mistake on one....Katherine Heigl is a cunt, not a Mormon....her innate cuntiness supercedes any religious beliefs.

Then again, she could be what Madonna is....she is her heir apparent in the world of clueless self absorbed C U Next Tuesdays.......

Posted by: Rubble44 at October 20, 2008 7:03 PM

1064. Ummmm..Yeah?

What the flaming flying hell do you mean I have to wait until tomorrow to see the utter hotness that is Bond? You sick bastards.

Mmmmm....Bond...Mmmmmmm....Daniel Craig....

Posted by: Melody at October 20, 2008 7:41 PM

And speaking of Bond, that Solace clip they're playing lately is tits, awesome, huge...tits.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 20, 2008 7:47 PM

235. I'm... sort of proud, actually!

Posted by: zarahruth at October 20, 2008 7:51 PM

And for all that wanted to know, I pray to a head of lettuce named Ralph....Oooommmmmm lacck lacck ooommmmmmm

Posted by: Rubble44 at October 20, 2008 7:51 PM

Skitz: Girl Scout Troop #837 got you too? Those little shits are vicious. I still have a thin mint embedded in my chest wall. The surgeons said it was too close to my aorta to safely remove.

Posted by: stipe42 at October 20, 2008 8:07 PM

I think I would have scored better if I just guessed scientoligist for everything. I'm ashamed of myself.

I did know Jason Heder was a Mormon, but Katherine Heigl? Neil LaBute? Next you'll tell me my friend isn't lying about the My Little Pony stageshow in Japan.

Posted by: Robert at October 20, 2008 8:18 PM

Almost 1200, is that good? I never wrote the SATs.

Posted by: Jo 'Mama' Besser at October 20, 2008 8:52 PM

821

by the seat of my non-star struck heiny...

They forgot to ask who Barack Obama is?

Posted by: sushi at October 20, 2008 9:17 PM

737...and although I knew about Dohring, every time I'm reminded of it, it just breaks my heart all over again. I was never a big Logan fan, being the scenery chewer that he was, but it just brings down the awesomeness of Veronica Mars in general.

Posted by: Austin at October 20, 2008 9:22 PM

And can we have more quizzes please? That was the most fun I've had all day.

Posted by: Austin at October 20, 2008 9:23 PM

1240/2000...
I have no idea how I scored that high. Apparently knowing Beck is a Scientologist can take you far.

Posted by: Zuzu at October 20, 2008 9:28 PM

1176, which makes me kinda sad. I'm definitely up for more quizzes-- fun way to put off doing work.

Posted by: Sycamore at October 20, 2008 9:35 PM

599 and damn proud of it! I think it strikes just the right balance between demonstrating a degree of superficial pop culture knowledge and not looking like a celebrity-obsessed social zombie (or a lucky guesser, which carries its own "Chauncey Gardiner" stigma). I also concluded that just hitting the "Scientologist" button mindlessly would have resulted in a much better(?) score...

Posted by: Tanner at October 20, 2008 4:40 PM

I don't think you're oversensitive about this, Tanner. Mormons hoe a tough social row, but in the final analysis they're a hell of a lot closer to the mainstream than any of the others -- including "None of the Above".

Posted by: Che Grovera at October 20, 2008 9:53 PM

999- I'm the devil doing cartwheels!

Posted by: Amanda47 at October 20, 2008 9:53 PM

I only got 623... I didn't know who a lot of those people are! :(

But more quizzes and definitely in order! I need something to do at work damn it!

Posted by: BrisVegasBec at October 20, 2008 9:57 PM

4-something-something...I forget exactly, but it wasn't good. Huh, I thought I knew my celebrity trivia, but I guess not so well as I thought. Fun quiz, though!

Posted by: meaux at October 20, 2008 10:08 PM

"Do you wear Jesus Jammies? If the answer is yes, you're lumped appropriately."

Nice. Next can we ridicule people who wear turbans, kesa, yarmulke, crucifixes, nike t-shirts and Jimmy Choo shoes? Sweet. Take that Dalai Lama and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Posted by: moonsover at October 20, 2008 10:13 PM

Got 333----makes me half a satanist? I answered wrong really fast! Who are some of those people anyway?

Posted by: Mrs Smith at October 20, 2008 10:14 PM

909. And I should note, for accuracy's sake, that Heigl is not a practicing Mormon (she may still be on the church's official rolls, though). And LaBute definitely renounced his membership because his fellow Mormons were too judgmental of his "sinful" movies.
Yes, I am a Mormon.
No, I am not particularly proud of any of the Mormons named in this quiz.
Also, who is Ricky Schroder?

Posted by: Pen Dragon at October 20, 2008 10:48 PM

Silver Spoons Biaaaaatch!

Posted by: Admin11 at October 20, 2008 11:09 PM

"Next can we ridicule people who wear turbans, kesa, yarmulke, crucifixes, nike t-shirts and Jimmy Choo shoes?"

Ummmm, Yeah, are you new? Equal opportunity mockery is kind of the whole point around here.

And Rick Schroeder was pretty good on NYPD Blue I thought. Perhaps that will ring a bell to the under 30 crowd? No?

Posted by: Lindsey at October 20, 2008 11:17 PM

My score was 944. That's really nothing to be proud of! If you'll excuse me I'm going to go question my life.

Posted by: B. at October 20, 2008 11:35 PM

1266

Which makes me, what, some sort of celebrity genius? Should I NOT admit that I actually knew two of the questions I got wrong, but accidentally hit the wrong button? Whoops. Too late.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at October 20, 2008 11:49 PM

Incidentally, who is Jason Dohring?

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at October 20, 2008 11:51 PM

Maryscott, Jason Dohring is Logan Echols in "Veronica Mars". He's super dreamy even though he plays a total fucktard. I can't even really explain why...

Posted by: Lainey at October 21, 2008 12:04 AM

Lainey, thanks. Never seen Veronica Mars. Never will. Far too late now. My dance card is overfull as it is. Though I do love me the fucktard characters.

Posted by: Maryscott O'Connor at October 21, 2008 12:41 AM

800. Fine by me.

Posted by: Adere at October 21, 2008 2:27 AM

"IMPIETY, n. - Your irreverence toward my deity." - Ambrose Bierce (the Original)

Twain / Bierce '08

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at October 21, 2008 5:14 AM

I scored 3/20.

I am fine with the result of celebrity religions, since I know so little about mine these days.

I know my religion currently involves grown men diddling pre-teens to teen-age boys in a pedophilic shell game. The game goes on until the music stops and the priest is left without a confessional to hide in and is eventually turned over to the authorities. Nothing like Catholicism in the 21st century.

Posted by: richmac at October 21, 2008 9:13 AM

I'm upset that my knowing that Val Kilmer is a Christian Scientist didn't score me any points on this quiz.

Posted by: Noelle at October 21, 2008 9:35 AM

Scored somewhere in the 1100's. But the screen changed before I could commit to memory. Some of those people I had never heard of.

Posted by: wsapnin at October 21, 2008 9:40 AM

Hot damn! I totally guessed on Zac Efron (he seemes like someone who would really like a colorful little bracelet) and at least two people that I've never heard of, and I managed to get a high score -- AND beat all of my lame coworkers (that's right, guys -- you are LAAAAAAAAAME!).

Of course, that kind of wild luck probably means that nothing good will happen to me for the rest of the day... I used it all up...

Posted by: PaleoLithchick at October 21, 2008 11:18 AM

It froze on question #12, and I think I had scored maybe 300 by then. I hate my work computer.

Posted by: Kolby at October 21, 2008 11:18 AM

858, viva la Godotopus! I guessed Jason Dohring based on his participation in Moonlight: Scientologists make terrible decisions, generally.

But it made me oh, so sad to be be right.

Posted by: Brook at October 21, 2008 12:36 PM

1274

*clears throat*

SUCK IT, SUCK IT, SUCK, SUCK IT!

Posted by: Sofía at October 21, 2008 2:39 PM

So, does 522 mean that I suck or that I should be proud that I have devoted my energy to more noble pursuits?

Posted by: Catherine at October 21, 2008 7:24 PM

You suck.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at October 21, 2008 7:27 PM

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