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| Are you smarter than a politician?; Take this civics test | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 11 2012, 02:26 PM (234 Views) | |
| George K | Feb 11 2012, 02:26 PM Post #1 |
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Finally
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http://www.isi.org/(X(1)S(0hhmq2jdpl15sd4551q2q445))/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 Here's how politicians did: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/2008/additional_finding.html ![]() Here's how I did:
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Mikhailoh | Feb 11 2012, 03:37 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I got em all. Does that mean I've been elected? |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| somebody else's sock | Feb 11 2012, 03:38 PM Post #3 |
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Middle Aged Carp
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Nah. It means you're overqualified. |
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| jon-nyc | Feb 11 2012, 05:08 PM Post #4 |
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Cheers
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Didn't we do this a few months ago? |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| George K | Feb 11 2012, 06:08 PM Post #5 |
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Finally
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Probably, but I thought the questions were different. But then again, maybe I need some of that cancer drug to be sure. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Dewey | Feb 12 2012, 09:38 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's amazing - actually, no, it really isn't - that the general public so consistently beat the elected politicians. And the issues that the politicians did the worst at are appalling. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Klaus | Feb 13 2012, 02:00 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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You answered 23 out of 33 correctly — 69.70 % I seem to be a totally average American ![]() I was totally at loss regarding many questions about the constitution and other formalities of the US government. And somehow my brain skipped the "our" in the question "Name two countries that were our enemies during World War II." and, thinking about the Xinjiang war, ended up checking China and Russia Unless others made the same error, I have a hard time believing that only 70% knew that Germany and Japan were enemies of the US in WW2. Edited by Klaus, Feb 13 2012, 02:11 AM.
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| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| jon-nyc | Feb 13 2012, 03:09 AM Post #8 |
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Cheers
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You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 % Just like last time, same questions too. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Riley | Feb 13 2012, 09:49 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Same! I've never taken any sort of American history class, the answers I knew were a combination of things I've read from various sources including TNCR. |
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| Kincaid | Feb 14 2012, 08:45 AM Post #10 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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OTOH, you may be the only person here that's heard of the Xinjiang war. I never had. I was right on 31 of 33, missing questions about "Gov't of the people, by the people, for the people" and the question about the public good in regards to a flood levee. Better than I thought I'd do. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| ivorythumper | Feb 14 2012, 09:32 AM Post #11 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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| ivorythumper | Feb 14 2012, 09:38 AM Post #12 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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That works for WWII as well.
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