How cultured are you?
How cultured are you?
Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh's 'How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation'' tells us how we can fit in with fancy cultured academics. How many of the names do you recognise?
Thomas W Hodgkinson and Hubert van den Bergh's 'How to Sound Cultured: Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation'' tells us how we can fit in with fancy cultured academics. How many of the names do you recognise?

Do you know who Jean Cocteau is?
Do you know who Edgard Varèse is?
Do you know who Fernand Léger is?
Do you know who Joan Miró is?
Do you know who John Cage is?
Do you know who Josephine Baker is?
Do you know who Marcel Duchamp is?
Do you know who Piet Mondrian is?
Do you know who Albert Einstein is?
Do you know who Virgil Thomson is?
Do you even know who Miley Cyrus is?
Do you even know who Miley Cyrus is?
You're not the type of person to drop names into conversation. Mostly because you don't have any names to drop.
Your knowledge of 'well known' people doesn't go very far - you're too busy focussing on other things.
You can pass for cultured.
You can pass for cultured.
You're pretty well-up on the go-to name drops.
You've read a few books and been to a few art galleries - enough to know your way around intellectual conversation.
You're very cultured.
You're very cultured.
You're the type of person everyone wants to bring to a clever person party.
The majority of people probably think you're talking gibberish half the time, but the really smart ones think you're great.