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How extreme is your life? Take the test

Do you know what a carabiner is? What do the letters in BASE jumping stand for? And when did you last go skydiving? Find out whether you’re GoPro or go slow with our handy quiz
  
  

Is this your morning commute?
Is this your morning commute? Photograph: Roberto Mettifogo/Getty

  1. Isolated athlete cyclists

    A friend asks if you’d like to go for a bike ride at the weekend. Do you …

    1. Accept, but suggest upgrading to a car ride?

      Add a point in A

    2. Accept and propose a nice leisurely 60km?

      Add a point in B

    3. Tell them how you built all four of your bikes until they remember that, actually, they already have plans?

      Add a point in C

  2. New generation portraits

    What is a carabiner?

    1. A crab-flavoured cordial.

      Add a point in A

    2. Something you use to connect ropes and harnesses.

      Add a point in B

    3. Something you use as a nosering.

      Add a point in C

  3. Toasted bagel with peanut butter

    What would be a typical breakfast for you on a weekday?

    1. A choc ice.

      Add a point in A

    2. Half a wholemeal bagel with peanut butter.

      Add a point in B

    3. Fourteen raw egg whites.

      Add a point in C

  4. shoulder pins

    Where are your metal pins?

    1. In my pin cushion.

      Add a point in A

    2. In my collarbone.

      Add a point in B

    3. Hang on, I’ll just go and get the x-rays…

      Add a point in C

  5. Wingsuit jumper is getting ready to jump down

    How do you get to work every morning?

    1. Segway, car, Segway, train, Segway, lift, Segway, desk.

      Add a point in A

    2. A quick triathlon.

      Add a point in B

    3. Wingsuit.

      Add a point in C

  6. Hunting knife

    What did you do with your children during the summer holidays?

    1. Cinema, Minecraft, board games, a bit of everything really.

      Add a point in A

    2. Camping, swimming, Pokemon Go.

      Add a point in B

    3. Left them naked in a forest with a knife.

      Add a point in C

  7. bearness

    You agree to run a charity marathon with some of your colleagues. How do you prepare for the race?

    1. Hire a bear suit, show it round the office laughing, then pay some kid to put it on and run in your place.

      Add a point in A

    2. Controlled diet, 10km daily run, building up the distance as the race approaches.

      Add a point in B

    3. Stockpile clean urine samples.

      Add a point in C

  8. Base jumper in wingsuit  jumping off cliff high above Gudvangen near Voss.

    What does the acronym Base jumping stand for?

    1. Best Attempted by Someone Else

      Add a point in A

    2. Building Antenna Span Earth

      Add a point in B

    3. Bugger All Safety Equipment

      Add a point in C

  9. Skydive freefly team heading down flying together

    How often do you go skydiving?

    1. About as often as I go snowboarding.

      Add a point in A

    2. Most weekends.

      Add a point in B

    3. I’m skydiving right now.

      Add a point in C

  10. Camera Action Cam on a white background.

    What do you use a GoPro for?

    1. Oh, so many things, I lose count. I don’t know how I ever lived without whatever it is. It’s a camera, right?

      Add a point in A

    2. Recording mountain bike routes and studying other people’s technique.

      Add a point in B

    3. So strangers can watch me nearly dying on YouTube.

      Add a point in C

Buckets

  1. A

    Your life is extremely ordinary.

  2. B

    Your life is extreme.

  3. C

    Your life is almost over.

 

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