Adventure Quotient Test

Nature

• Hurricane - note that this is a flat 1 point if you were in any hurricane
• Tornado
• Earthquake
• Volcano
• Tsunami (tidal wave)
• 1 point per escape from fire, flood, or other life threatening disaster
• 1 point per extended survival situation not scored elsewhere, such as a plane wreck, being lost in the woods for a week, etc.

Men

• Military
• Police
• Criminals
• IRS
• FBI
• CIA
• KGB
• Psycotic/dangerously insane individual.  Drug induced insanity counts.
• You were in a war zone
• 1 point if you were in more than one war zone
• 1 point for a year or more in a war zone
• Joined military, police, or other dangerous organization
• 1 point per divorce (3 points max)
• 1 point per child custody dispute (3 points max)
• 1 point per lawsuit or other penalty fraught courtroom escapade not otherwise scored (3 points max)
• You committed a felony (2 points if more than 10 felonies)
• You went to jail
• You are a parent
• Industrial or other espionage not scored elsewhere
• 1 point per individual or organization who meant to kill you not scored elsewhere (3 points max)
• Unpleasant encounter with an organization that had the power to make your life miserable (if not otherwise scored). 2 points for 3 or more such organizations, 3 points for 10+.

Sport (just doing it once doesn't count in this section)

• Deep scuba diving
• Skydiving
• Free climbing above 30+ ft drop
• Full contact fighting sport
• 1 point per other very dangerous sport (3 points max)

Finances

• Owned business
• Homeless
• Bankruptcy (unless scored elsewhere)
• Foreclosure (unless scored elsewhere)
• You owed the IRS money for 10 years or more (unless scored elsewhere)
• Unsecured debt greater than $100,000 (a loan with collateral, such as a mortgage, is a secured debt)

Travel

• Went to a foreign country
• 7 or more foreign countries visited
• 20 or more foreign countries visited
• Immigrated
• Deported
• Had to cope with living in a completely different culture

Unusual phenomena

• Miracles
• Demons
• Experienced dangerous or disturbing supernatural occurrences not otherwise scored
• Unusual dangerous or disturbing natural phenomena not otherwise scored, such as ball lightning
• Experienced many unusual phenomena

Health

• An immediate family member died or narrowly escaped death
• 1 point per escape from death not otherwise scored (no max)
• 1 point per serious illness, maiming, disfigurement, etc. not otherwise scored (3 points max)

Wrap-up

• 1 point per hair-raising escape, whether scored elsewhere or not (3 points max)
• You have done some amazingly stupid things and somehow survived, if not scored elsewhere.  Do not score if you only had one major indescretion.  Do not score any indescretions with a high probability of survival.
• You should also score things not listed here, such as dangerous voyages of exploration, fearing for your life from an unlisted danger, etc.

Scoring