Embrace Your (Cleaning) Geekness Day
Hamilton, OH – July 13, 2013 has been designated as “Embrace Your Geekness” Day.
Geek is now chic. Buy what does this mean for cleaning professionals?
Embrace Your Geekness Day could be a great time to acknowledge that you may have more cleaning geekiness in you than you realize.
To see if you are a cleaning geek, Kaivac, developer of the No-Touch® and OmniFlex™ Crossover Cleaning systems, has put together the following cleaning geek quiz. Take the quiz, check the answers below, and then rate your level of cleaning geekiness with our geek scale.
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1. Which superhero most closely shares your world view?
Iron Man
Spiderman
The Brawny Man
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2. Real (cleaning) men wear:
Leather jackets
Gloves
Muscle shirts
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3. When sharing anecdotes with friends, your stories are usually about:
Flying to the moon
The battle between Jake and Colonel Quaritch in Avatar
Cleaning grout
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4. In your free time, you’ve been known to write:
Computer programs
Lists of the supplies necessary to stock a well-equipped janitorial cart
Love letters
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 5. Which idea frightens you the most?
 A robot uprising
 An android rebellion
 A vacuum cleaner malfunction
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 6. What’s your preferred workout?
 High and low dusting
 Yoga
 Kickboxing
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7. What’s your best excuse to stay home from work?
My dog ate my suit and tie
The Martians have landed
It’s raining mops and buckets
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8. Who would star in your dream movie?
Mark Wahlberg
Jennifer Lopez
Dr. Charles Gerba
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9. Quick! Choose a memorable four-digit pin:
1138, from George Lucas’ first movie, THX 1138
2009, the year Avatar was released
2150, the model number of a no-touch cleaning machine
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10. What is your dream car?
An Aston Martin DB5 with an ejector seat
A Delorean DMC-12 with a flux capacitor
A Chevy van
11. What is your preferred footwear?
Nikes
Going barefoot, like my Hobbit friends
Nonslip shoes
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12. Who's the best role model for young girls?
Ruth Travis, former head of the IICRC
Wonder Woman
Miss Piggy
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13. What do you remember most about the last restaurant at which you ate?
 The paper towels in the restroom
The steak
The waitress
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Answers:
1. The Brawny Man
2. Gloves
3. Cleaning grout
4. Lists of the supplies necessary to stock a well-equipped janitorial cart
5. A vacuum cleaner malfunction
6. High and low dusting
7. It’s raining mops and buckets
8. Dr. Charles Gerba
9. 2150, the model number of a no-touch cleaning machine
10. A Chevy van
11. Nonslip shoes
12. Ruth Travis, former head of the IICRC
13. The paper towels in the restroom
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Geek Scale:
8 to 11 answers correct:
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Congratulations, you are a true cleaning geek!
5 to 7 answers correct:
You are a “near” cleaning geek—keep working on it!
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3 to 5 answers correct:
You have very limited cleaning geekiness.
1 to 3 answers correct:
You, my friend, are not a cleaning geek.
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About Kaivac
Headquartered in Hamilton, Ohio, Kaivac, Inc. delivers complete, science-based cleaning systems designed to produce healthy results and outcomes while raising the value of cleaning operations and the professionalism of the worker. The originator of No-Touch Cleaning® and the OmniFlex(TM) Crossover Cleaning System, Kaivac offers an integrated portfolio of environmentally friendly cleaning products designed to remove the maximum amount of soil and potentially harmful biopollutants in the most cost-effective manner possible. For more information, visit www.kaivac.com.
Company contact information:
Tom Morrison, Vice President of Marketing
Kaivac, Inc.
401 South Third Street
Hamilton, OH 45011
Phone: 513-868-4227
Email: info@kaivac.com
