Civics 101: Most Americans can't pass this test!

[BodyWizard]

Consider it a more grown-up verison of "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth-Grader?"

Frankly, I thinks some of the answers are debatable, but overall, I think any reasonably well-informed citizen ought to be able to ace this - are you up to the challenge?

Civic Literacy Report - Civics Quiz

 

[Rugger]

I wouldn't consider most of those questions "Civics101" level. Maybe 4-5 of them, at most.

 

[BodyWizard]

True, true: the civics they taught me in grade-school was considerably more in-depth, and maybe a third of this is really more current-affairs than civics, strictly speaking, but overall, it should be doab;e, don't you think?

How'd *you* do, BTW?


[edit: like your new avatar]

 

[moklepaul]

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

Not bad for a Canadian

 

[BodyWizard]

Way to go, Paulie! Be interesting to see who hits your mark!

 

[Rugger]

I got 29. Missed the abortion one, the Lincoln one, the specialization one (which is highly debatable) and one more I don't remember.

 

[TheMyth]

55%, damn I suck!

 

[BodyWizard]

I got 29. Missed the abortion one, the Lincoln one, the specialization one (which is highly debatable) and one more I don't remember.

Good job, dude!

Yeah, several of them @ the end are IMO frankly debatable (as opposed to matters of fact) - I missed three of those, myself.

 

[RoadBlocK]

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

Not bad for a Canadian

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.6%
Average score: 77.6%


No comment.

 

[b unit]

You answered 16 out of 33 correctly — 48.48 %

i'm a dumbass but in my defence i live at the bottom of the south pacific in new zealand :lol:

 

[CDB]

31 out of 33, 94%. Missed 4, concerning the topic of Lincoln's debates. Missed 33 too. Their answer was D, which is easily shown to be bullshit.

 

[EasyEJL]

damn, I already closed the window, it was 74-75%, I can't recall exactly

 

[papapumpsd]

I hate politics with a passion (and civics bullsh!t too):

You answered 17 out of 33 correctly — 51.52 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%

I scored much higher than I thought I would. I should be a social studies teacher.

 

[RobInKuwait]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Missed these two:

Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #17 - D. manmade satellite

 

[RobInKuwait]

31 out of 33, 94%. Missed 4, concerning the topic of Lincoln's debates. Missed 33 too. Their answer was D, which is easily shown to be bullshit.

Wow, I just read question 33 and I see how you may have read into that. It should have read:

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. average taxes paid per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent

Even so its still not factoring long term debt, ect.

 

[Rugger]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Missed these two:

Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #17 - D. manmade satellite

u no know sputnik? u no watch oktobr skai?

 

[human]

You answered 14 out of 33 correctly — 42.42 %

I suck

 

[nofx4110]

81.82
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
Question #15 - E. Thomas Jefferson’s letters
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

 

[nemo]

Let's just say I slept through that class!!!!

 

[Jayhawkk]

Missed 4

 

[Omen]

You answered 18 out of 33 correctly — 54.55 %

Don't understand the government, don't like it either.

 

[RobInKuwait]

u no know sputnik? u no watch oktobr skai?

I was thinking sputnik was a manned flight for some reason.

 

[RoadBlocK]

I was thinking sputnik was a manned flight for some reason.

:icon_lol: Haha, damn you got all the tough ones right, your smarter than me but you missed the easy sputnik one, tsk tsk, shame on you:stick: