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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1151404  United States01/15/2011 02:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That was fun, so thanks for posting the quiz...here is my score You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 % Average score for this quiz during January: 74.7% |
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| Jessica6 User ID: 1228530  Canada01/15/2011 02:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3 out of 30 were wrong. Not bad considering I only spent 2 years in the American school system and that was over 30 years ago... Last Edited by Jessica6 on 01/15/2011 02:56 PM The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - HL Mencken |
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| Anonymouse Coward User ID: 1081790 United States01/15/2011 03:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I don't think Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, or 80% of the others in DC could pass this test. I'd pay to see their results! Quoting: Epic Beard GuyI have always wished that a nationally televised Jeopardy-esque game show focused on civics, American history, and foreign affairs were a routine part of presidential elections. I think the quality of potential candidates would be VASTLY improved! Can you imagine Palin's score? Ha! My score was 88%. The write-up on WND was fascinating; I can understand missing some of them (the economics questions were phrased a bit oddly, but the ones they missed! Congress critters don't know what the electoral collage is? Don't know they have the right to declare wars!? We're fucked..... |
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| Jessica6 User ID: 1228530 Canada01/15/2011 03:03 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 3 wrong Quoting: TobieQuestion #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories? Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views I blew 7&8 too, along with #29, which I found a bit vague. The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - HL Mencken |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 813550 United States01/15/2011 03:04 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Answers to Your Missed Questions: Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories? Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends Question #31 - A. an increase in a nation’s productivity Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1199865 United States01/15/2011 03:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The results on this site are abnormal, most people would definitely fail this. I don't recall ever covering a lot of material in that test, even in government/social studies classes. They're so watered down now. I have a BA as well, still failed it. Anything that I did know was mostly self taught. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1231226 United States01/15/2011 03:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 32/33 Missed #15 “wall of separation” between church and state appears in______ But I almost chose the correct answer ;) Some of the economics-related questions are almost "opinions", but it wasn't too hard to figure out which answer was supposed to be right. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1231063  Venezuela01/15/2011 03:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 90.91%. Missed three: Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views Question #31 - A. an increase in a nation’s productivity Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person #8, never heard about it #31, over the long term, I disagree. A country with abundant resources and skilled people will not gain in the long term by exporting their resources. They might gain money until the resources are depleted. #33, bullshit phrasing. I thought it was a pretty good test, but the Keynesian slant really messed it up. Economic dogma has no place in a civics test. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 1229933  Germany01/15/2011 03:19 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Scored little over 75%.. didn't tell you what was missed though..but i passed it.. looks like we have dumber then average politicians.. if they can't make a passing grade they sure don't need to be running the country... Every one of them should have to pass a test like that. |
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| Rey Rogers User ID: 1230748  Spain01/15/2011 03:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You answered 23 out of 33 correctly — 69.70 % Average score for this quiz during January: 74.7% Pretty good for a foreigner no?  Time field researcher Dr David Anderson and his websites are missing. Why? Please discuss. Thread: Spacetime manipulation and the Dr David Anderson Enigma: Opening the road to time travel and limitless energy |
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| Seamus User ID: 1211095 United States01/15/2011 03:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 31 of 33; 93.94%... missed #7 (answered Declaration of Independence) missed #14 (answered 'Believed in Religious Freedom) 'When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.' Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law' 1850 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." JohnSwinton, 1830-1901, Former chief-of-staff New York Times ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has wantonly produced ... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United States), or the establishment of another like it." Andrew Jackson (December 2, 1834) |
| Northforker User ID: 1230300 United States01/15/2011 03:39 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That, and some of the questions/answers were terrible. Quoting: Joshua Flynn 1230882I was expecting something a lot harder, like; Name every single president: Name the 4th president in the US: Name the 9 people who signed on the (don't know what it's called) Independence bill: Name all of the amendments: Who found [not founded!] the US? Who were the first settlers? Aside from Britain, name four other countries who had people who emigrated to the US: Which countries fought for power in the US? Name three neighbouring countries: Why was the hoover dam built? Which president was in power during WWI? Name two American inventions: etc etc That would be a history test, not a civics test. Calling an illegal alien an undocumented alien is like calling a drug dealer an unlicensed pharmacist. I just realized... they aren't saying, "Keynesian Economics" they're saying "Kenyansian Economics". Grass Huts for everyone! Herbert Spencer, originator of the term, "Survival of the Fittest," said it best - "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." |
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| Seamus User ID: 1211095 United States01/15/2011 03:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 82% here. Quoting: H823PUTTAnd I agree, the answer for question 33 is wrong... 33) If taxes equal government spending, then: A. government debt is zero B. printing money no longer causes inflation C. government is not helping anybody D. tax per person equals government spending per person E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent I answered A. There answer assumes that the gubbment will spend the same $$ on every individual. That's a joke. And yes: Thanks for a meaningful post OP. And thanks to the MODS for the pin. (I have problems too with this question and the way it was written) but... No, govt debt would not necessarily be Zero... Rather the govt's DEFICIT for that specific period of time would be zero. America could, in say 2012, spend ONLY what it takes in thru taxes. But America's debt would still be $99999999999999999999 Quadrillion Dollars (or whatever the hell it is today) 'When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.' Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law' 1850 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes." JohnSwinton, 1830-1901, Former chief-of-staff New York Times ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has wantonly produced ... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United States), or the establishment of another like it." Andrew Jackson (December 2, 1834) |
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