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fostert
· 1 year ago
I only got a 25. I guess that's why I'm an engineer and not an historian. That question about which president was born in Texas really stumped me. I knew Bush was born in Connecticut, but I had no idea about the others. And Eisenhower never struck me as a Texan. I guess I was wrong.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
He spent his formative years in Abilene, Kansas--"the man from Abilene" was one of his campaign themes and his presidential library is there--so he was a Kansan for all intents and purposes.
annetteboardman
· 1 year ago
A Kansan, yes, but not a Jayhawk (a native-born Kansan).
sherifffruitfly
· 1 year ago
Mine was 6 pages, and I passed with a 23.
CSStrowbridge
· 1 year ago
I got 25. Not bad for a Canadian.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I got a 27, but I guessed right on a couple.
Deacon_Blues
· 1 year ago
26 for me as well. I could have sworn I got the Patrick Henry question right. Damn Diebold.
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
LOL
Nigel Elliott
· 1 year ago
Phew! I got 26 too.
Jessica54
· 1 year ago
I got a 28, even though I just guessed on a few.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
So why do all the people who would have gotten a 9 get elected in this country?
unpoetaloco
· 1 year ago
27
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
I have a better test for patriotism.
Q: Do you think the current administration is guilty of HIGH CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS as well as WAR CRIMES and deserve to be Impeached and subject to jurisdiction under the International Court to stand trial for the torture and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents?
Ans: Yes (the 19-26% who answer NO are not patriots - history doesn't mean squat if you can't apply it to the present)
FunMe
· 1 year ago
13 comments ... where is everyone?
Oh yeah, on vacation. it is June.
Well at least I can walk to the beach and save on expensive gas. In a week i will start bicycling to work (2 miles).
Got rid of TW cable and my phone is not with "those" telecoms. I think I am doing pretty good beating them at their own games.
Gotta go - beach is waiting. :-)
brian
· 1 year ago
I got 27 out of 30. I guess those on the right should stop calling me unpatriotic and a traitor,
tbhull
· 1 year ago
27 here. missed the impeachment number, the year of the last amendment and the # of times Congress has proposed to amend the Constitution.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
27 for me. But I did just take a guess on a couple of them. And I was very tempted to say Cheney was president and Bush was VP, but I didn't
nonsanaementis
· 1 year ago
29 here -- only missed the one about 6 amendments being passed by congress but not ratified. Got damn lucky with the one about a Prez born in TX
TheOriginalLiz
· 1 year ago
I got a 26.
Miket298
· 1 year ago
27 for me, couldn't remember the voting one, currently ratified amendment, and the number of presidential assasinations
TampaZeke
· 1 year ago
26 for me too.
ChrisM70
· 1 year ago
I scored a 28, and one of the ones I missed was "how many senators are there?" I got too cocky, and answered 50, when I KNEW it was 100!
So, technically, I only missed one (at least that was the only one I didn't know the answer to.). It was the one where the answer was about transporting liquor across state lines...
A couple of the others I got right were ones that I wasn't 100% sure on, so I suppose they were educated guesses.
I guess this makes me a good citizen?
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Not unless you have a yellow ribbon magnet on your SUV.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
28....missed the 6 amendments passed by congress and completely misread the one about the first vice president. I thought it read president and chose Washington. That'll teach me to rush through online quizes!
renoliberal
· 1 year ago
29... missed that same one.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
Bullshi* You folks stop jackin' up those scores. The majority of you scored under 20 on the test. I barely passed with a 24. Geez, at least I'm honest about it. Only congress can declare War! So then, why in the hell did we allow Bush to take us into Iraq?
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
We be a smart crowd over here at Ablog!
24? (snicker)
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
Actually, all of you are. Proud to be a part of the group:) Yep---24. But then, that doesn't stop me from making over $200,000 a year.....(snicker).
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
In that case,
Brother can you spare a dime? :)
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Ha!
I was going to ask the same thing.
I hope he's at least maxing out his political contributions.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
I hope so too but since he only got a 24, he might accidentally give some of it to McCain. ;)
(I kid of course)
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
When you break even on your rating....I'll think about it...chuckle.
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
All 30 right here - the only guess (between 6 or 12) was on unratified amendments.
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
It may be a generational thing - back in my school district in the mid 1960s, you couldn't get out of Jr. High with much less than a perfect score on the Constitution. Where presidents were born might not have come up, but just about all the rest did. Same thing applied to the state constitution - that was a lot tougher.
annetteboardman
· 1 year ago
Me too. 30 out of 30. And I don't do this for a living. I guessed on a couple (Eisenhower was the big one). And I knew there was one amendment after the 18 year olds voting. But wasn't sure exactly which number it was. But I would have thought John would beat me hands down. He must not have been paying attention when he took it.
Chipmaker
· 1 year ago
28/30.
Missed the unratified amendments and the importation of alcohol (didn't realize that was part of the Prohibition repeal).
shanobama
· 1 year ago
This was probably the law Cindy McCains father broke for the Las Vegas/Phoenix mafia boss, Kemper Marley.
Hensley did some jail time for illegal liquor sales. Probably Az/Nevada border confusion....
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
James Henley's crimes were committed in the mid to late 1940s, and had nothing to do with prohibition, which ended in 1933.
Plus, there was barely a Las Vegas during prohibition, much less a Mafia there. The mob came to Arizona post-war as well.
Andrew A. Gill
· 1 year ago
I missed 4:
- The one about Prohibition - The one about the number of unratified amendments (I could only recall one, so that's what I answered, despite thinking that the number was probably higher) - The one about how many presidents had been impeached (for some reason, I thought Johnson's impeachment never passed the full House. I swear I'm smarter most days...) - The one about who was born in Texas. (Somehow got Yorba Linda confused with Corpus Christi. Like I said, I'm usually smarter)
Hannah
· 1 year ago
27 correct, though I guessed on about 6 or 7 of them (two wrong, the rest correct with some thinking). And I would have had a 28 but also missed reading the word "vice" in the question on the first president.
AngelaChanning
· 1 year ago
How did a rube like me score a 28? LOL. I got the # of amendments proposed but not passed and the year of the last amendment passed wrong. The early 90s is a blur. LOL. Thank you for listening.
Andrew A. Gill
· 1 year ago
and the year of the last amendment passed wrong.
I could never forget that one.
The 27th Amendment passed congress in 1789, but was not ratified until 1992.
They don't let amendments do that anymore. Ever since the Equal Rights Amendment, all amendments have expiration dates. If the states don't ratify them by that date, the bill dies.
Indigo
· 1 year ago
27!
toes
· 1 year ago
John, I got 29 out of 30. I missed the last one but actually I disagree with the test. I interpreted "impeached" as meaning removed from office (correct answer "0") Of course, anyone who knows American history knows that only Presidents A. Johnson and Clinton have been impeached and none convicted.
Personally, I think this is a trick question.
hopelesspedant
· 1 year ago
Impeach is another way of saying indicted. Any confusion about that should have been cleared up in the 1990s. Before then, maybe it was a trick question, but not after.
comsympinko
· 1 year ago
28/30. That one about proposed amendments was pretty obscure. I also got the interstate liquor one wrong.
In New Jersey in my age group 24 people scored a zero. My guess is that these were Clownhall readers.
toes
· 1 year ago
Interesting commentary on civics education in this country that Canadians had higher average scores than any American state. State education officials who are responsible for social studies in their states should be ashamed of these results.
Inevitable result of dumbing down of our public education system and our popular culture in general.
Tenderfoot
· 1 year ago
29. I always get Patrick Henry and Nathan Hale confused.
clytemnestra
· 1 year ago
I get them confused too. But this time I picked Patrick and got it right
shell
· 1 year ago
I got a 26. I never remember numbers, as in, "Which amendment was ....?" Who cares? haha I just know that there IS such an amendment.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Wow, all of us did very well. I got a 27, and at 67, my memory got the best of me. : )
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
Well I am embarrassed I only got 25...I always fuck up that liquor amendment
FatRat
· 1 year ago
Got 24, so I passed by the skin of my teeth. I didn't like "Why did the Pilgrims come to America?" question. They made their exodus to the Netherlands, they didn't make a beeline to Plymouth Rock. They weren't persecuted in Amsterdam, so the answer "to find religious freedom" isn't accurate. But what the heck, I answered "religious freedom".
CSStrowbridge
· 1 year ago
Exactly. They came here to become the religious persecutors again, which they were in England before they were kicked out of power.
FatRat
· 1 year ago
"I got 25. Not bad for a Canadian." Dang beaten by a single point, by my neighbor from the north.
I seriously doubt that I'd get over 5 points, if the questions were about Canada!
All I know about Canada was obtained from "The Kids in the Hall", "You Can't Do That on Television" and the MST3K Canada song. lol
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Q: Do you think the current administration is guilty of HIGH CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS as well as WAR CRIMES and deserve to be Impeached and subject to jurisdiction under the International Court to stand trial for the torture and slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocents?
Ans: Yes (the 19-26% who answer NO are not patriots - history doesn't mean squat if you can't apply it to the present)
Oh yeah, on vacation. it is June.
Well at least I can walk to the beach and save on expensive gas. In a week i will start bicycling to work (2 miles).
Got rid of TW cable and my phone is not with "those" telecoms. I think I am doing pretty good beating them at their own games.
Gotta go - beach is waiting. :-)
So, technically, I only missed one (at least that was the only one I didn't know the answer to.). It was the one where the answer was about transporting liquor across state lines...
A couple of the others I got right were ones that I wasn't 100% sure on, so I suppose they were educated guesses.
I guess this makes me a good citizen?
24?
(snicker)
Brother can you spare a dime?
:)
I was going to ask the same thing.
I hope he's at least maxing out his political contributions.
;)
(I kid of course)
Same thing applied to the state constitution - that was a lot tougher.
Missed the unratified amendments and the importation of alcohol (didn't realize that was part of the Prohibition repeal).
Hensley did some jail time for illegal liquor sales. Probably Az/Nevada border confusion....
Plus, there was barely a Las Vegas during prohibition, much less a Mafia there. The mob came to Arizona post-war as well.
- The one about Prohibition
- The one about the number of unratified amendments (I could only recall one, so that's what I answered, despite thinking that the number was probably higher)
- The one about how many presidents had been impeached (for some reason, I thought Johnson's impeachment never passed the full House. I swear I'm smarter most days...)
- The one about who was born in Texas. (Somehow got Yorba Linda confused with Corpus Christi. Like I said, I'm usually smarter)
I could never forget that one.
The 27th Amendment passed congress in 1789, but was not ratified until 1992.
They don't let amendments do that anymore. Ever since the Equal Rights Amendment, all amendments have expiration dates. If the states don't ratify them by that date, the bill dies.
Of course, anyone who knows American history knows that only Presidents A. Johnson and Clinton have been impeached and none convicted.
Personally, I think this is a trick question.
In New Jersey in my age group 24 people scored a zero. My guess is that these were Clownhall readers.
Inevitable result of dumbing down of our public education system and our popular culture in general.
Dang beaten by a single point, by my neighbor from the north.
I seriously doubt that I'd get over 5 points, if the questions were about Canada!
All I know about Canada was obtained from "The Kids in the Hall", "You Can't Do That on Television" and the MST3K Canada song. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RHVoFpncgA
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Canada song
Representative's term in office - I knew it was two years, but second-guessed myself and said six.
and then three in a row about the amendments (22, 23 + 24)