This is really good as it tests your memory, those high school civics/American History classes & practical knowledge of how our government is set up.
As noted below, college professors averaged 55% on this test; the test site notes that average Americans scored 49%. How did you do?
I got 27 of 33 for a 81.84% score.....Lets see how much you Really know.
http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692
31...the avg American scored 49%? I figured the number would have been much lower
Not too great 78% 26 of 33
If one just randomly picked answers the average would be 25%, so it would not take much to get to a 49% average.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 % I biffed on the Puritan question, The Roosevelt Supreme Court question, the philosophers question and the quote from the Gettysburg Address.
30/33, 90.91 This test is probably unfair to Democrats because it asks a lot of Constititutional questions:) which weren't always historical questions.
33 of 33 = 100%
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This Canadian got 23/33, 69.7% but some of the questions were trick economic questions with a distinct Republican/Harper Conservative bent so I don't feel bad about getting those wrong:
QUestion: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because: Correct Answer: the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
The only knowledge the Wall Street banksters really had was how to rip people off.
Question: If taxes equal government spending, then:Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average.
What kind of a simpleton answer is that!!
That is the apolitical answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Relayer76
32/33 here and feeling pretty good about it!
I concluded long ago that most DYes-ers are history buffs so better results here aren't surprising.
24/33.
I'm a bit disappointed, but not much; civics was never a personal strong point, although I would classify some of the questions as historical, and one of them as philosophical.
The fact that educators scored much lower is no consolation for me, as I already believed that most educators are specialists who know damned little outside of their area of expertise, and I don't mean that as an insult so much as a blunt declaration of my opinion.
tunnel vision by experts is part of why little works anymore - few look beyond their own interests to see their role in and impact on the big picture
I got 32/33 - partially because I saw the bias and corrected for it, partially because I didn't see the right answer to the Levee question [[hey, it's early)Quote:
Originally Posted by Relayer76
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
NEAT! :D
Flubbed these:Quote:
Originally Posted by Detroitnerd
Incorrect Answers
- Question: Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because: Your Answer: more tax revenue can be generated from free enterprise Correct Answer: the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
- Question: If taxes equal government spending, then: Your Answer: government debt is zero Correct Answer: tax per person equals government spending per person on average
28 of 33. I missed that Puritan question too, and since my 8th gt grandparents were on the Mayflower, shame on me! Interesting quiz; thanks for posting that link, searay.
I got the last question wrong. The correct answer just didn't sound right to me.
27/33...not too bad.
18/33 54% or something like that. Not terrible coming from Canada
25/33 = 75%
It would be interesting to see which question were missed the most. I doubt people realize how much their thinking is influenced by political talking points and don't see how it influences the answers they choose.
32/33 - not bad. Some really odd questions. Had to back into the correct answer on about 1/3 fo them.
Current events and the multiple choice structure of the test are two interesting factors. Essay answers in a closed book [[no google or wiki etc...), timed classroom environment would probably drive scores down.Quote:
Originally Posted by lilpup
28/33 here. I missed the levee, FDR's threat to Supreme Court, taxes = spending, didn't read Bill of Rights question right, and the inalienable rights.
So check this out....I had UM School of Engineering grad cousin take it for shits and giggles...
The guy got 11 right with a good amount of effort
Yeah, but I'll bet he can still work a slide rule, something that booted me out of Engineering way back when. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Patrick
I should have taken that into consideration, my bad. I ended up getting 28 out of 33 for an 84%.Quote:
Originally Posted by rb336
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Detroitej72... I too got your score...
When I saw the comment about what "college Professors" got... It set of a small warning bell... then did some reasearch on the folks doing this survey... and surprise surprise... it's an conservative group.... well that at least explains their comments about college professors. Although I wonder how many history and civics professors [[or some of the armchair "experts" on this forum) remember how to solve their college math or storybook physics problems.... ;)
20 out of 33...60.61%
Here's what I know about the history of the U.S. Government:
1. From 1776 to 1900 U.S. Congress debate to have Native American Tribes to live off the land in reservations and don't pay taxes. Otherwise let them live on claimed land with a house, farm and surplies and pay taxes. The result: the government give Native Americans a mantra warning. Either you put away your teepees, bows and arrows to live with the white man's land or we will put you all into reservations. Failure to comply will have them all killed. So some Native Americans live on the white man's land and pay their taxes. Others live on reservations and do their customs.
2. From 1776 to 1860 U.S. Congress debate about the use of negro slaves; especially in the southern states. Some say slaves are 1/3 human and should remain as domesticated pets. Othere say the negroes are not slaves, but human beings and should be freed. That long debate cause our nation to split. The Union and Confederates fought in the American Civil War, the north won, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, negroes are free [[but not giving any civil rights) Southern whites formed the Klu Kux Klan, Jim Crow Laws were established and more civil right protest and race riots loomed.
3. From 1890s to the present U.S. Congress debated about upcoming corporate greed and how to regulate to degragulate certian monopolies:
The result is More monopoly laws were established, government committees asking folks from G.E. Westinghouse, Radio Corporation of America, and later Monsato and other automobile companies to work for them by means of 'Capture Theory'. The Government gave corporations the same rights to be treated as human beings more results to bailout of billions of dollars. Corporate contributions to politicians for their favors today we called Plutomony and Kleptocracy.
4. From 1917 to present U.S Congress debated to install a Liberty Bond Act. To get people to buy war bonds and get more money back. This would allow the U.S. Treasury to borrow more money from public companies and corporations through certian taxations and investment ventures. A debt limit would be in place to keep the U.S. Treasury from borrowling and spending more money. The result is creation of public and interntional debt that would last forever! A possible lowing the U.S. credit rating, A possible credit loan default would lead to absolute bankruptcy. Most services like Food Stamps, welfare checks, medicare, medicaid, veterans benefits, section 8 subsidize housing, national park services, military benefits and yes Supplemental Security Income and Social Security will be cut off and the rest of world ecomony will be in shambles!
5. From 1933 to 1941 U.S. Congress debated with President Franklin Roosevelt to end the Great Depression be issuing ' The New Deal' to install government work programs for the unemployed, The Federal Deposit Insurance Committee to issue money back to the people's bank accounts up to $100,000. Install the Social Security, SSI, Welfare Act and Food Stamp Act of 1935 to suplement those who can't find work. The result lead to stagerant job creation, limits to welfare and food stamp funding to states. This would cause states to set certian laws and limits of those who had assistance programs.
6. From 1930 to 1968 to present. U.S. Congress debate to set up a socialist radio program call National Public Radio to get people to listing to shows created by amateur nobodies who one day become somebodies. Later congress ask The Ford Motor Company and Rockefellers The National Science Foundation to create National Eductional Television later became Public Broadcasting Systems. This socialist program will assist public televisions stations along with ' viewers like you' to bring educational shows to people of all ages and color with non-commercial programming. This would lead to the creation of the Children's Television Workshop and Jim Henson creation of sapient puppets with no strings called 'Muppets' This is lead to creation of Sesame Street which it broke the eductional gap between the rich and the poor. The result: The Republicans want to cut funding to PBS. People will have to donate more money or esle PBS will be off the air for good. So PBS have to ask corporations to reach into their greedy pockets and contribute. This would lead to pre-commercial programming before the non-commercial programming.
7. In 1950 to 1958 U.S. Congress agreed with Sen J.P. McCarthy to start a witch hunt to find would be communists or those who worked pr supported for the Soviet Union. The communists would be arrested, jailed and taken to Washington D.C. to be question in front of House of Un-American Committee. Then communitst individuals would be blacklisted and possibly deported to any communist nation [[ if they're immgrants) or never work in America again. The result would lead to people questioned their government and rest of society. This would lead to hippie and flower children counterculture movement.
8. From 1950 to 1953 to present U.S. Congress debated to end communist takeover of all of Korea. So the sent some troops to kill Korean communists along with their Soviet and Chinese allies. The result as a truce that split Korea into two. The Communist North Korea and Democratic-Republic South Korea. The war is not over yet.
9. From 1952 to 1965 U.S. Congress debated whether segreagation in most southern states should be unconstitutional. The result is Dr. Martin Luther King's non-violent protest that led to the signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1965 and Malcolm X's 'let's blame the white man' protest speeches. The assassination of both of them led to race riots in most U.S. cities, uprising of Black Panther Party and other African Liberation Armies in the 1970s which later died to the flow of crack, heroine and marijuana flowing from rich communities to the ghettoes of every last inner cities in the America. Which lead to the slow collapse of African American families and single black women getting fast on black men, have sex, make babies and crying to state, other social service agencies for welfare checks, WIC and food stamps. This also lead to black men slowly turning away black women who are too fast and looking at white women for slow love.
10. From 1963 to 1973 U.S. Congress and President John F. Kennedy debated to sent to troops to Vietnam to end communist takeover of the Vietnamese people. The result is more American troops are being killed more in the thick jungles, The formation of the Hippie and Flower Children movement begin. Which led to yuppie movement and the development of personal computers, cell phones and social networking sties. Congress still denies that the Vietnam War is not justified for our country.
11. From 1979 to 1980 U.S. Congress debated with Governor of Michigan Milliken and Detroit Mayor Coleman A. Young and CEO of the Chysler Corporation to create a Chrysler Loan Guarantee Act of 1979 to end Chysler's banrkuptcy and further collapsing Detroit's automobile industry. The result Chrylers creditors gave their monies to the companies in return for consessions and profits. If Chrysler fails the government would pay back the money out of taxpayer's expense [[ This is considered to be the first bailout of corporations). The plan worked. Chrysler is doing good on its profits, its creditors got their money back. The result the matter is the destruction of Poletown in Detroit's East Side near the Hamtramck Border for the Dodge Main Plant in 1980 and the sucess of the first Sports Utility Vehicle called the Dodge Caravan in 1983. This is would lead to furture corporate bailouts from Wall Street, banks and automobile corporations. I'm glad Ford didn't jump in.
From 1984 to 1988 U.S. Congress agreed with Texes Senator Charlie Wilson to load supplies of our military gear to Aghanistan to assist the Mujihadeen headed by Osama bin-Laden to defeat the Soviets during their invasion of their homeland. The Aghanis had our weapons and the Soviets started to retreat. The result Osama bin-Laden started his terrorist network called Al-Qaida and made plots of blow up any American involvment in Middle-Eastern businesses. This lead to September 11th 2001 bombing of the World Trade Towers and The Pentagon. This lead to a war against the Taliban Government in Afghanistan and tighten security from airports to schools.
From 2002 to 2011 U.S. Congress agreed with President George W. Bush Jr. and other poor military intelligence to declare war against Iraq because dictator Saddam Hussien claims he had weapons of mass destruction and other biological chemical agents. Congress send their troops, ' Shock and Awe' the Iraqis and we find no 'smoking gun!' no chemical agents. So the War in Iraq was a blunder without any diplomatic solution and Saddam Hussien was killed.
That's what I know about our government and history of the U.S.
Dear Danny, This was supposed to be a fun post, not a launch point for your ranting manafesto. If you can't keep it fun, start your own post on the subject. While I can appreciate your first ammendment rights......try to respect the intent of the poster. Thank you!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Danny
27 of 33. Seems odd. I thought for sure that I knew more about everything than anybody on here. Maybe the test was flawed.
I would love to see what a current high school kid would score on a test like this. My bet would be it would be lower than most of us.
I was wondering about that and tried looking up some info about it. I ran across one article about a group of 1000 high school students [[2009 I believe) were asked basic history questions. Only 1 in 4 could name the first president of the U.S. I read a similar article a few years ago that talked about high school students naming states on a map of America. I can't remember the details but it was amazingly bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by firstandten
I also looked up the questions for the test to become an American citizen. I'd have a problem with that one.
57.88 better than the over paid prosfessors.
you would be surprised what these kids are learning in high school now. my high school senior is taking several ap classes and government is one of them. although i started but did not finish the test, he knew the answers to the one's i wasn't sure about. my high school government class [[30 years ago) was a tough one for me.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by firstandten
none of that was particularly new. I don't think civics is even required in high school anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by old guy
[[when doing that "name the states" test -- where you name as many as you can in x seconds, I always get 49. I can never remember Arkansas.)
Not bad for a non-US citizen!
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Ditto :) You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
Here's a question not on the test: who was the two-time Congressional of Medal winner who was recruited to build our own brown shirts and march them to the White House to demand that FDR step down from the Presidency? Smedley Butler. Quite a quy.
“I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second Lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
“I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
“Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
“During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.” Major General Smedley Butler [[July 30, 1881-June 21, 1940), former US Marine Corps Commandant and twice the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in a speech delivered in 1933.