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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
In response to the "Dumb American" quiz, I have made up my own little set of questions. I'll only post the questions for now and I ask that you say how many you think you know (no googling until after you are done) and maybe comment on easy and hard questions. I'll post what I believe to be the correct answers once activity settles down.
Here goes:
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
What is "CE"?
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
"Common Era"---It's secular for A.D.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts |
Never mind... That's what folks use so they don't have to acknowledge the possibility of the existence of God...
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Question 2: you mean first elected FEMALE, don't you?
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I thought the same thing Balducci...shame, if they can't ask the question right what value can one give to the answers? If it helps I know pretty much all of the answers including number 2 if you mean female. I don't know number five.
I'm not a citizen of the world by the way, no one is. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
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On 2009-05-25 21:16, balducci wrote: I did not know one could be elected female.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Yes, I did mean the first elected female president or prime minister. Sorry.
But how about the questions? How are we doing in our knowledge of the world outside our own borders?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
My niece elected to go male....
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RicHeka Inner circle 3999 Posts |
Global? I am a proud citzen of the United States...and an enquiring traveler of the Cosmos.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
It's amusing how many non-Americans are willing to take the "America" quiz. So far, Santa and Balducci the only ones who indicate that they've given the questions any consideration. And only Santa estimates his score.
Curious. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
I guess my score was 7 out of 10. I was in the dark on two of the questions. The other, it was between 2 choices. But I should get a bonus mark for first identifying the mistake in Q2.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
OK 8/10 for Balducci. (Pending review, of course.)
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Actually it wasn't difficult and I think it is a very fair test at least to me. Remember I spent 20 years in international trade so I kept track of what was going on and I remember the most useless information but if I meet someone I'll likely have no clue what their name is 20 minutes later. At two of the answers were found by elimination, such as the state in Australia.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Thank you. I was trying to match the difficulty of the "Smart American" quiz.
John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Ha! you did it!
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
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On 2009-05-25 21:06, ClintonMagus wrote: Really? When Jewish people refer to the Gregorian calendar, they use CE and BCE, and last time I checked, they professed a belief in the same god as Christians. Since we're discussing smart global citizenry here, I should point out that the CE/BCE scientific notation is more widely used terms than BC/AD, which is probably why the question was phrased as it was. |
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Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
I think 8 unless my slightly educated guesses for 3 and 5 pay off.
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
I say the Nobel Prize sucks!
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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts |
...especially when they call you to tell you you've won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry at 3 AM, and you're still struggling with college science!
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