Thread: OT: Take test and post your score!

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:29:40 -0600, FERRANTE
<[email protected]> 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
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>(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/


Most of the questions were fairly easy, but a couple I can see many
people missing. I scored 25 but two were lucky guesses.

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:29:40 -0600, FERRANTE
<[email protected]> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> (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'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.

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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> (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/

29. Missed the one about how many amendments failed to be ratified. Oh
well.



Brian

--
Day 368 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project

"FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
>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/

22
Surprisingly.

27

I'm a better guesser than I thought.

Bukla

Hoges in WA wrote:
> "FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> 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/
>
> 22
> Surprisingly.
>
>
Same here and I am not a yankee
so anyone in the us that gets less than us deserves to be chastised

On Feb 5, 11:15*pm, Ed Pawlowski <e...@snet.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:29:40 -0600, FERRANTE
>
>
>
>
>
> <manthonyferra...@yahoo.com> 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
> >---------------------------------------------------------------
> >(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/
>
> Most of the questions were fairly easy, but a couple I can see many
> people missing. * I scored 25 but two were lucky guesses.

I missed 8, 21 and 22. All three had to do with the # of
Constitutional Amendments. Better study up on that stuff.

--Bryan

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:15:30 -0500, Ed Pawlowski <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:29:40 -0600, FERRANTE
><[email protected]> 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
>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>>(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/
>
>
>Most of the questions were fairly easy, but a couple I can see many
>people missing. I scored 25 but two were lucky guesses.


I scored 22, not had for a Canadian eh!

The ones with the dates threw me off.

"FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
>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/

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

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 05:05:17 -0800 (PST), Food Snob®
<[email protected]> 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.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:32:42 -0500, Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> "FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>>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/
>
> 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

29. i misread 'who was first vice president' for 'who was first
president.'

your pal,
blake

On Feb 6, 9:28*am, sf <s...@geemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
The one people would likely have forgotten is Garfield. I memorized
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

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.

On Feb 5, 11:29�pm, FERRANTE <manthonyferra...@yahoo.com> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> (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 25 correct. I missed questions 22, 23, 25, 28, & 29.

"FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
>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

Independence DayQuiz

Your Score is 30
Perfect score! Maybe you should run for President!

Virginia Tadrzynski wrote:

> 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

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Day 369 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project

bulka wrote:

> 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.



Brian

--
Day 369 of the "no grouchy usenet posts" project

sf wrote:
> 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

On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:00:54 GMT, "Hoges in WA"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>"FERRANTE" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]. .
>>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/
>
>22
>Surprisingly.
>
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