Is there a secret Freemasons' lodge in your workplace? Quiz

Is this your office? Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

1. The people in your office favour:

   1. Hugs.

   2. Air kisses.

   3. Curious handshakes.

   4. Those peculiar chest bumps practised by young people.

2. The men in your workplace wear:

   1. Skinny jeans.

   2. Ill-fitting leisure wear.

   3. Overpriced designer clothes.

   4. Dark suits with trousers that are a bit on the short side.

3. If you mention the word blindfold, they associate it with:

   1. Blind man’s buff.

   2. Long-haul flights.

   3. Peculiar initiation rites concerned with the journey from light into darkness.

   4. Fifty Shades of Grey.

4. If you ask them who the Great Architect is, they reply:

   1. Frank Gehry.

   2. Richard Rogers.

   3. Zaha Hadid.

   4. The Supreme Deity who created the world and instilled in it a moral purpose.

5. When the people in your office meet someone for the first time, they say:

   1. “Hello. What do you do for a living?”

   2. “Very nice to meet you. Would you like a Peroni?”

   3. “Jolly cold for this time of the year.”

   4. “Whence come you and whither are you travelling?”

6. Your colleagues tend to carry:

   1. Rucksacks.

   2. Neat little rectangular cases.

   3. Small suitcases on wheels.

   4. Mulberry bags.

7. The men in your office wear aprons:

   1. Sometimes.

   2. Often.

   3. Only when they cook.

   4. On other unmentionable occasions.

8. The people in your office consider Dan Brown:

   1. A terrible novelist.

   2. An excellent thriller writer.

   3. An important truth-teller exploring the secret networks that control the world.

   4. A deranged conspiracy theorist.

Solutions

1:C, 2:D, 3:C, 4:D, 5:D, 6:B, 7:D, 8:D

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   Your office is stuffed with Freemasons. Consider keeping a robe or apron handy in case you need to blend in at Christmas parties.

2. 7 and above.

   Your office is stuffed with Freemasons. Consider keeping a robe or apron handy in case you need to blend in at Christmas parties.

3. 6 and above.

   There may be a small cabal of Freemasons in your workplace. Confuse them at meetings by shaking hands using a master mason pass grip.

4. 5 and above.

   There may be a small cabal of Freemasons in your workplace. Confuse them at meetings by shaking hands using a master mason pass grip.

5. 4 and above.

   There may be a small cabal of Freemasons in your workplace. Confuse them at meetings by shaking hands using a master mason pass grip.

6. 3 and above.

   You’re not surrounded by Freemasons. Stonecutters, perhaps

7. 2 and above.

   You’re not surrounded by Freemasons. Stonecutters, perhaps

8. 0 and above.

   You’re not surrounded by Freemasons. Stonecutters, perhaps

9. 1 and above.

   You’re not surrounded by Freemasons. Stonecutters, perhaps