OT: Take test and post your score!
FERRANTE
embarrassed by the ones I missed.
How well will you do?
Mark
---------------------------------------------------------------
(From the web)
Okay you 'red-blooded Americans'.. let's see how you do on this test
24 out of 30 is considered a passing grade. Supposedly 96% of all High
School Seniors FAILED this test... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+%
of all individuals over 50 did too!!
Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know.
http://games.toast.net/independence/
Ed Pawlowski
Most of the questions were fairly easy, but a couple I can see many
people missing. I scored 25 but two were lucky guesses.
sf
<manthony...@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm not surprised HS seniors failed the test. They don't teach that
stuff anymore! And I know how you felt. Me too!
I didn't have noscripts turned off so it gave me a false result at
first. I could check my answers against what it claimed I said by
going "back". After I turned off noscript, wheew... I wasn't *that*
dumb after all. 27/30, but it was pure guess on a couple of them.
--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Default User
29. Missed the one about how many amendments failed to be ratified. Oh
well.
Brian
--
Day 368 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project
Hoges in WA
"FERRANTE" <manthony...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d0spm5hhqpagua9go...@4ax.com...
22
Surprisingly.
bulka
I'm a better guesser than I thought.
Bukla
atec 77
so anyone in the us that gets less than us deserves to be chastised
Food Snob®
I missed 8, 21 and 22. All three had to do with the # of
Constitutional Amendments. Better study up on that stuff.
--Bryan
Stu
I scored 22, not had for a Canadian eh!
The ones with the dates threw me off.
Virginia Tadrzynski
Whoo Hoo!!! I got a 28. And I dispute one of the wrong answers.....the one
on impeachment. I thought they fell like one vote short of impeaching
Andrew Johnson..just saying. The other one I missed was a dumb mistake on
my part.
-g
sf
<bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I missed 8, 21 and 22. All three had to do with the # of
> Constitutional Amendments. Better study up on that stuff.
You knew how many presidents had been assassinated? Congratulations,
I had no clue. If I'd thought about it a long time, I might have said
3.
blake murphy
29. i misread 'who was first vice president' for 'who was first
president.'
your pal,
blake
Food Snob®
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 05:05:17 -0800 (PST), Food Snob®
>
> <bryangsimm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I missed 8, 21 and 22. All three had to do with the # of
> > Constitutional Amendments. Better study up on that stuff.
>
> You knew how many presidents had been assassinated? Congratulations,
> I had no clue. If I'd thought about it a long time, I might have said
> 3.
>
all kinds of stuff about the presidents the Summer between 1st and 2nd
grade (when a normal boy would have been playing baseball or
something). Unfortunately, medical care had improved drastically in
the succeeding 100 years, and the attempt on Reagan (may he rot in
Hell) was unsuccessful.
--Bryan
Kalmia
25. I blew it on the amendment stuff.
I can't believe anyone would miss on a couple of those, like number of
states and current Prez and Veep.
Isn't history a public school subject any longer? Heck, we started in
the 4th grade and it was repeated yearly with additional info.
Civics was also a 7th and 8th grade requirement.
djs...@aol.com
I got 25 correct. I missed questions 22, 23, 25, 28, & 29.
Kelvin
> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> How well will you do?
> Mark
Independence DayQuiz
Your Score is 30
Perfect score! Maybe you should run for President!
Default User
> Whoo Hoo!!! I got a 28. And I dispute one of the wrong
> answers.....the one on impeachment. I thought they fell like one
> vote short of impeaching Andrew Johnson..just saying.
You're wrong. They did impeach Johnson. They did not convict him, just
as they did not convict Clinton. Impeachment is the equivalent of
indictment elsewhere.
Brian
--
Day 369 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project
Default User
> 27
>
> I'm a better guesser than I thought.
For me, some were logic puzzles. I didn't know the answer, but I could
figure it out. Like the one with voting at 18. I knew what the 18th and
19th amendments were, and about when, so that left it pretty easy that
the one higher number would be it. Had they thrown another in, like
27th, I'd had to guess.
Becca
> You knew how many presidents had been assassinated? Congratulations,
> I had no clue. If I'd thought about it a long time, I might have said
> 3.
My score was 26, the ones I missed were on the amendments and how many
presidents were assassinated.
Becca
pure kona
Failure here:( but then I did not have any US History until High
School. We learned Hawaiian History way back then. But to compensate
for my weakness, my own daughter became a High School History
teacher. She must have felt deprived growing up and so found US
History fascinating- you know how that goes-lol.
aloha,
Cea
sf
Wasn't that quiz based on the US citizenship test? Asking who the
Prez and Veep are would make sense.
Arri London
FERRANTE wrote:
>
> I got 23 out of 30, so I don't feel too bad, but I am slightly
> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> How well will you do?
> Mark
27 out of 30. Pretty good for a noncitizen, n'est-ce pas? However there
was admittedly some guessing, eg which president was born in Texas. Knew
it wasn't Bush :)
Confused the term for Representatives with the one for Senators, got the
number of amendments wrong and the one about the Prohibition Amendment.
Terry Pulliam Burd
<manthony...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Okay you 'red-blooded Americans'.. let's see how you do on this test
>24 out of 30 is considered a passing grade. Supposedly 96% of all High
>School Seniors FAILED this test... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+%
>of all individuals over 50 did too!!
>
>Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know.
>http://games.toast.net/independence/
I got a 26 - couldn't have named the amendment setting the voting age
if you'd held a gun to my head, missed the prohibition amendment - a
doh! moment, for some reason I spaced Garfield and McKinley's
assasinations and Andrew Johnson's impeachment (which I should have
remembered b/c I have always thought he got a raw deal from a bunch of
p*ssed off sore winners).
OB: Made a lemon meringue pie today for Himself's lunches this week.
Can't remember the last time I made one.
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
---
"If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines
PeterL1
news:d0spm5hhqpagua9go...@4ax.com:
> I got 23 out of 30, so I don't feel too bad, but I am slightly
> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> How well will you do?
I got 28.
I must admit a couple were pretty good guesses though.
Mainly the Amendment questions.
http://i45.tinypic.com/bfmagy.jpg
Although the 'How many branches' threw me..... and the "when was the last
amendment ratified'.
I studied pretty hard back when I got my Green Card, in case I had to sit a
test, so looks like some of it stuck, but most of it is common DF.
PeterL1
@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
LOL!! I think most non-'Mericans are going to do better than most
'Natives' because we get taught most that sort of stuff in school. And the
rest is picked up general knowledge.
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
Killfile all Google Groups posters.........
Cindy Hamilton
> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> How well will you do?
> Mark
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> (From the web)
>
> Okay you 'red-blooded Americans'.. let's see how you do on this test
> 24 out of 30 is considered a passing grade. Supposedly 96% of all High
> School Seniors FAILED this test... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+%
> of all individuals over 50 did too!!
>
> Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know.http://games.toast.net/independence/
I got a 25. Most of my wrong answers were "history" type questions,
like "how many
presidents were assassinated in office?"
The only one I got wrong on constitutional rules was how long a
representative's
term is. Not bad for someone who hasn't looked at the Constitution in
more than
30 years.
Cindy Hamilton
Food Snob®
Just curious, do you know who your Congresspaerson is, and how long
(s)he's been in office (not exactly, just ballpark)? Some have been
in office for decades.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
--Bryan
blake murphy
> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:54 +0000, Hoges in WA wrote:
>
>> "FERRANTE" <manthony...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:d0spm5hhqpagua9go...@4ax.com...
>>>I got 23 out of 30, so I don't feel too bad, but I am slightly
>>> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>>>
>>> How well will you do?
>>> Mark
>
> 21. I failed all questions about amendments. And that Texan president.
tee-hee. you have to remember that ranchin' george bush is in reality a
new england boy.
your pal,
blake
sf
<blakepm...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> tee-hee. you have to remember that ranchin' george bush is in reality a
> new england boy.
I thought that was one of those "didn't everyone know that by this
time" type trivia.
Cindy Hamilton
John Dingell. I think he was elected to Congress when Washington
was President.
Ok, the real ballpark figure is decades. More than three of them.
Ah. I checked Wikipedia after I made that guess, and it's more
than five decades. (Five is more than three, so I'm ok there.)
Cindy Hamilton
sf
wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:17:44 -0800, sf wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:03:21 -0500, blake murphy
> > <blakepm...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> tee-hee. you have to remember that ranchin' george bush is in reality
> >> a new england boy.
> >
> > I thought that was one of those "didn't everyone know that by this time"
> > type trivia.
>
> Maybe for USA citizens, but I am European. Dutch, living in France...
You don't read rfc enough. I saw it here first. :)
Food Snob®
> On 08 Feb 2010 06:38:43 GMT, Wim van Bemmel wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:54 +0000, Hoges in WA wrote:
>
> >>news:d0spm5hhqpagua9go...@4ax.com...
> >>>I got 23 out of 30, so I don't feel too bad, but I am slightly
> >>> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> >>> How well will you do?
> >>> Mark
>
> > 21. I failed all questions about amendments. And that Texan president.
>
> tee-hee. you have to remember that ranchin' george bush is in reality a
> new england boy.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth. It would be nice if we could
add, "and died with a duct taped gerbil up his ass."
>
> your pal,
> blake
--Bryan
blake murphy
> On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:17:44 -0800, sf wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:03:21 -0500, blake murphy
>> <blakepm...@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>> tee-hee. you have to remember that ranchin' george bush is in reality
>>> a new england boy.
>>
>> I thought that was one of those "didn't everyone know that by this time"
>> type trivia.
>
> Maybe for USA citizens, but I am European. Dutch, living in France...
you still did better than many american citizens would.
your pal,
blake
Dan Abel
<6e659bfd-5fd6-4666...@s12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
Kalmia <tween...@mypacks.net> wrote:
> 25. I blew it on the amendment stuff.
>
> I can't believe anyone would miss on a couple of those, like number of
> states and current Prez and Veep.
Anyone?
> Isn't history a public school subject any longer? Heck, we started in
> the 4th grade and it was repeated yearly with additional info.
OK, so how many provinces and districts are in Mozambique? Who are the
President and Prime Minister?
Perhaps some people on this group studied the geography and government
of the country that they were born, raised and educated in, rather than
the US?
--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA
da...@sonic.net
PeterL1
68-245-199.per.connect.net.au:
> In article
> <6e659bfd-5fd6-4666...@s12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
> Kalmia <tween...@mypacks.net> wrote:
>
>> 25. I blew it on the amendment stuff.
>>
>> I can't believe anyone would miss on a couple of those, like number of
>> states and current Prez and Veep.
>
> Anyone?
>
>> Isn't history a public school subject any longer? Heck, we started in
>> the 4th grade and it was repeated yearly with additional info.
>
> OK, so how many provinces and districts are in Mozambique?
10 Provinces, and 224 Districts...... but the districts are changing all
the time, so there could be more...
> Who are the
> President
Armando Guebuza
> and Prime Minister?
Luisa Diogo
>
> Perhaps some people on this group studied the geography and government
> of the country that they were born, raised and educated in, rather than
> the US?
>
Here in Oz, we actually study a whole raft of other countries as well.
Primary School was mainly Australian History. Studying other countries
started in High School. (Probably along the lines of 'know thine
enemy' ;-)
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrites.
-- Albert Einstein --
sf
> Perhaps some people on this group studied the geography and government
> of the country that they were born, raised and educated in, rather than
> the US?
Perhaps the "test" wasn't formulated for them.
ImStillMags
> I got 23 out of 30, so I don't feel too bad, but I am slightly
> embarrassed by the ones I missed.
>
> How well will you do?
> Mark
> (From the web)
>
> Okay you 'red-blooded Americans'.. let's see how you do on this test
> 24 out of 30 is considered a passing grade. Supposedly 96% of all High
> School Seniors FAILED this test... AND if that's not bad enough, 50+%
> of all individuals over 50 did too!!
>
> Take the test and be surprised at what we don't know.http://games.toast.net/independence/
26.......can't believe I missed what I did.
pure kona
Thanks Dan. (Who would like a test on Hawaiian History:>) Or...Name
our 8 major islands:).
An air of knowing-it-all reigns here at times. I think it is the
diversity of the group that is interesting- at least to me (although I
was fascinated by the number of posters who began in 1994 and got
needled for that interest.)
We did have Hawaiian History until 8th grade I think, where we began
learning about the American Government. Lincoln and Washington were
spoken of but not to the exclusion nor the superiority of our own King
Kamehameha and others.
Just a diverse group. Thank goodness.
aloha,
Cea
--Bryan
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:57:57 -0800, Dan Abel <da...@sonic.net> wrote:
> >In article
> > Kalmia <tweeny90...@mypacks.net> wrote:
>
> >> 25. I blew it on the amendment stuff.
>
> >> I can't believe anyone would miss on a couple of those, like number of
> >> states and current Prez and Veep.
>
> >Anyone?
>
> >> Isn't history a public school subject any longer? Heck, we started in
> >> the 4th grade and it was repeated yearly with additional info.
>
> >OK, so how many provinces and districts are in Mozambique? Who are the
> >President and Prime Minister?
>
> >Perhaps some people on this group studied the geography and government
> >of the country that they were born, raised and educated in, rather than
> >the US?
>
> Thanks Dan. (Who would like a test on Hawaiian History:>) Or...Name
> our 8 major islands:).
>
> An air of knowing-it-all reigns here at times. I think it is the
> diversity of the group that is interesting- at least to me (although I
> was fascinated by the number of posters who began in 1994 and got
> needled for that interest.)
>
> We did have Hawaiian History until 8th grade I think, where we began
> learning about the American Government. Lincoln and Washington were
> spoken of but not to the exclusion nor the superiority of our own King
> Kamehameha and others.
>
> Just a diverse group. Thank goodness.
I tried, then looked on Wikipedia. I had gotten Hawaii, Oahu, Maui,
Kauii, and Molokai, though not all spelled right. I don't think we
ever learned more than that in school. I also knew that Hawaii was
the biggest and Oahu the most populous, and that Honolulu is the
capital, and it is on Ohau. I also knew that Kona is on Hawaii, and
is famous for both coffee and marijuana, and that Maui is also reputed
to grow great weed. That's not too bad.
>
> aloha,
> Cea
--Bryan
Becca
> We did have Hawaiian History until 8th grade I think, where we began
> learning about the American Government. Lincoln and Washington were
> spoken of but not to the exclusion nor the superiority of our own King
> Kamehameha and others.
In Louisiana, we had to study Louisiana history, but we were not
required to study Texas history in Texas. Have I mentioned this
already? See, I am turning into my Aunt Ruby. Ratz.
Becca
pure kona
wrote:
>On Feb 10, 6:47�pm, pure kona <k...@smithfarms.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:57:57 -0800, Dan Abel <da...@sonic.net> wrote:
)snippage...�
>>
>> We did have Hawaiian History until 8th grade I think, where we began
>> learning about the American Government. �Lincoln and Washington were
>> spoken of but not to the exclusion nor the superiority of our own King
>> Kamehameha and others.
>>
>> Just a diverse group. �Thank goodness.
>
>I tried, then looked on Wikipedia. I had gotten Hawaii, Oahu, Maui,
>Kauii, and Molokai, though not all spelled right. I don't think we
>ever learned more than that in school. I also knew that Hawaii was
>the biggest and Oahu the most populous, and that Honolulu is the
>capital, and it is on Ohau. I also knew that Kona is on Hawaii, and
>is famous for both coffee and marijuana, and that Maui is also reputed
>to grow great weed. That's not too bad.
>>
>> aloha,
>> Cea
>
>--Bryan
Great! We also count the smaller islands of Lanai-(the pineapple
island but alas, no pineapples there now) and Niihau which is
privately owned and Kahoolawe which used to be an island the military
used for bombing practices in years gone by. The term is always the
"8 major islands" because we do have lesser ones too.
You could pass the Hawaii test:).
aloha,
Cea
--Bryan
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:44:00 -0800 (PST), --Bryan <class...@brick.net>
I had at least heard of the other two, but had never heard of Niihau.
I would have spelled the one, Kalaui. I used to be a geography nerd.
My boss recently asked me if I could locate all the countries in
Central America on a map. I could easily remember them all but
couldn't locate a few of them correctly.
>
> aloha,
> Cea
--Bryan
gloria.p
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:44:00 -0800 (PST), --Bryan <clas...@brick.net>
> We also count the smaller islands of Lanai-(the pineapple
> island but alas, no pineapples there now) and Niihau which is
> privately owned
That's where the tiny shells come from that make those stunning necklaces.
http://www.niihaushell-leis.com/
gloria p
PeterL1
september.org:
Wow!!!
Stunning is the word!!
The price tags justify the time and intensity needed to make them.
blake murphy
that seems odd. i thought the schools in texas were big on texas history -
the republic of texas and all that. what calendar years and what years of
school, if it's not too rude to ask?
your pal,
blake
sf
Maybe Texas and LA do it in the same year and that's why she missed
it. California history is taught in 4th grade. I don't know if
that's a national model or not. I know I missed a history class that
most college track students took in high school because I attended
three different high schools in two states and each one offered it to
a grade I wasn't in at the time I was there.
Goomba
> that seems odd. i thought the schools in texas were big on texas history -
> the republic of texas and all that. what calendar years and what years of
> school, if it's not too rude to ask?
>
> your pal,
> blake
7th grade when I took Texas history.
Becca
> 7th grade when I took Texas history.
Maybe that is why I missed it, I was in Louisiana in the 7th grade.
Becca