{"id":3727,"date":"2016-07-25T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:34:32","slug":"are-you-as-smart-as-alan-cumming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/2016\/07\/are-you-as-smart-as-alan-cumming\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you as smart as Alan Cumming?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Want to find out if you are as intelligent as Hollywood movie star Alan Cumming?  The Hollywood heart-throb recently claimed the UK\u2019s exit of the EU was down to \u201cStupid English People\u201d which begs the question:  Are you as intelligent as the star of the 1991 classic Bernard and the Genie?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s find out.  Simply answer the following questions.  Oh, and don\u2019t forget to give yourself a big pat on the back regardless of whether you\u2019re wrong or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you seen Spy Kids?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 2<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Brexit was caused by Stupid _________ People
\nComplete the following sentence by selecting an appropriate word to fill in the blank
\na) English    b) Pakistani  c)  Poor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How many Yes voters wanted to leave the EU in the recent referendum?
\na) 2      b)  589    or c)  400,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 4<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

1 million Scots voted Leave?  Are they stupid too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 5<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How many English people live in Scotland?
\na) 20,000  b)  50,000   c)  Half a Million<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 6<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Which of these two groups of people are stupid?
\na) Everyone who voted Leave
\nb) Just English people who voted Leave<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 7<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you seen Son of the Mask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 8<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Using the medium of expressive dance please outline the Indyref2 campaign strategy in which you reach out to English no voters by calling their countrymen \u201cstupid\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Have you read Alan Cumming\u2019s 2002 first person novel about a man experiencing a mid-life crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question 10<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Do you read the Sunday Herald with a strong sense that you are one of the good guys?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read this screenshot while we calculate your superiority:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CONGRATULATIONS!<\/strong>  You are officially as smart as Spy Kids 2:  The Island of Lost Dreams star Alan Cumming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May you proceed with an unearned sense of moral superiority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us next week where we\u2019ll be asking who exactly such a front page is meant to appeal to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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httpss:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SFS9HI-T5ik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First posted at Loki’s site<\/a> and reproduced with permission<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The post-EUref blame game continues in a political world darkened by terror and hate. Here Loki pokes fun instead at some crass remarks on the ‘stupid English’ by pro-indy actor Alan Cumming (who now says it was a joke…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-3727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-eu-referendum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}