Could you pass the latest citizenship test?

[Tisket]

Seems appropriate for the Fourth:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461301/?GT1=43001

I got number 7 wrong. Even though my first instinct was to pick the correct answer. I need to go with my gut dammit!

[Back]

I will take the test in a moment...

This is was in my copypasty buffer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhRUe-gz690&feature=related

[Back]

55%

[The Ponzzz]

You answered 85% of questions correctly.

What I got wrong, I shouldn't have. Oh well.

[Drisco]

40%

[Durgrimst]

I did not do so well....

[Some Rogue]

You answered 100% of questions correctly.

[diethx]

You answered 70% of questions correctly.

I should have paid better attention in poli sci class, I guess.

[Numbers]

The question on Susan B. Anthony seems really out of place.

[Nieninque]

50%

[Drakam]

90% here. both answers I missed I also second guessed and turned up wrong. should have gone with my gut

[Solkern]

45% actually I got 60% but I listened to my GF on a few and got them wrong!

[TheLastShamurai]

55%

[Kembal]

You answered 100% of questions correctly.

[Xaerve]

95%

[Kuyuk]

70%

I didnt know the justice and the stripes /shrug

[Geshron]

I am an illiterate Canadian National.

[Euler]

You answered 125% of questions correctly. Would you be interested in taking an executive position in Alaska? We have an opening.


Holy crap! I won!!!!!!

[Stretch]

95%

Fuck Maine

[Gan]

You answered 90% of questions correctly.

[ElanthianSiren]

95

Screwed up the Susan B. Anthony question.

[Kuyuk]

<<95%

Fuck Maine>>



You just say that because Maine is the whitest state. Fucking racist.


K.

[Mikalmas]

95%

(Missed #7, too, damnit)

[Alfster]

You answered 55% of questions correctly. Here's your rating:

[Androidpk]

65%

[droit]

85%, here. Just made it!

[Jorddyn]

95% - I hate #7!

[Nilandia]

You answered 100% of questions correctly.

Gretchen

[Methais]

You answered 85% of questions correctly.

9. Which of these was NOT among the original states?
New York is not correct.
Maine

19. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States?

Antonin Scalia is not correct.
John G. Roberts, Jr <----Was going with that originally even though I don't think I've ever heard of either of them

20. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Designed and made the original U.S. flag is not correct.
Fought for women’s rights

[Tisket]

I think I only got Susan B. Anthony right because I did a paper on her in H.S.

[Stanley Burrell]

You answered 75% of questions correctly.

C student in the house, y'all.

[ClydeR]

You answered 100% of questions correctly.

I had to make an educated guess at no. 9 about which was not an original state.

I don't know why a person would need to know that for citizenship. The main question ought to be if the applicant is patriotic and god fearing.

[Stanley Burrell]

I don't know why a person would need to know that for citizenship. The main question ought to be if the applicant is patriotic and god fearing.

I lol'd.

[The Ponzzz]

I think I only got Susan B. Anthony right because I did a paper on her in H.S.

I only got it right because her museum was in Rochester NY and I went to it.

I got 14, 16 and 19 wrong. I shouldn't have gotten 14 or 16 wrong, I honestly had no clue on 19 (bad American).

[Some Rogue]

You goddamn communist heathens. You make me wanna vomit.

[The Ponzzz]

Socialism can work.

[StrayRogue]

75%. I watch too many American cartoons.

[Latrinsorm]

Question #11 is incorrect. The executive branch only has the Constitutional power to declare treaties with the consent of the Senate. I got 80% taking that into account.

Kuyuk, how could you not know what the stripes represented given those choices? What did you pick?

[Daniel]

The only one I got wrong was the susan b anthony one. whoops.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<Question #11 is incorrect. The executive branch only has the Constitutional power to declare treaties with the consent of the Senate. I got 80% taking that into account.>>

The federal government prints money, declares war, and declares treaties. The question seems right to me. The executive branch (part of the federal government) declaring a treaty with the consent of the Senate (part of the federal government) is still the federal government declaring a treaty.

[Latrinsorm]

lol yeah I read it wrong. :oops:

[radamanthys]

You answered 100% of questions correctly. Here's your rating:

Simple easy. Honestly, I don't know how anyone wouldn't know any of these, save for maybe the number of congressman in the house- that one made me think for a second.

[Tisket]

I think the reason many people don't do well is because a lot of this information is forced on them during the early years of elementary school and is from that point on hardly ever used in the vast majority of working positions and is never really discussed again in school.

Or they could just be bad Americans who should be deported immediately.

But yeah, grats on having a good memory rada.

And also, it's worth noting that people that take the test for actual citizenship pass it because they study it beforehand.

[Parkbandit]

100%

Took me like 2 minutes.

Seriously.. if you get less than a 65% on the test, do our country a favor and move to Europe.

[Androidpk]

I'd be willing to be a majority of US citizens could not pass that test without studying prior to.

[ElanthianSiren]

I think the reason many people don't do well is because a lot of this information is forced on them during the early years of elementary school and is from that point on hardly ever used in the vast majority of working positions and is never really discussed again in school.

I was going to mention that I don't remember talking about any of this in Elementary School, but then it occurred to me that I couldn't tell you where I learned those things. :(

[Gan]

Social Studies in middle school.
American History and Civics in high school.
History/Political Science in college (undergrad).

[radamanthys]

Most people would not be able to pass that test. That test reflects a basic understanding of how our government works. And a bit of history. I could do without some of the history, unless critical to the basic premise of 'ability to vote'.

No wonder we're in/ we've been in such trouble for the past few years. They're distinterested and apathetic. Nobody cares and they feel it's fundamentally unimportant- like they have no power. Yet they, en masse, refuse to educate themselves about it.

It's really, really, sad to me.

[ElanthianSiren]

Political Science in college (undergrad).

Probably more that actually. HS was more or less a continuance of middle school fuuuuuuuuuuuck all for me. I loved political science in college and took a special studies in criminal justice course when I thought I wanted to go into forensics, so that answers that, thanks :)

[Tisket]

No wonder we're in/ we've been in such trouble for the past few years. They're distinterested and apathetic. Nobody cares and they feel it's fundamentally unimportant- like they have no power. Yet they, en masse, refuse to educate themselves about it.


I like you rada but you are excessively fond of grandiloquent, bombastic, and deeply pessimistic little speeches.

/wrist

[Skeeter]

80% I should've got a 90% but I rushed through it. The senate one pissed me off because I went back and forth on 6 or 4 and guessed wrong.

[Tsa`ah]

100%, though it would have been 95% without double checking. I wasn't paying attention to the first question and read "constitution" ... answering Madison.

[Snapp]

You answered 70% of questions correctly.

[radamanthys]

I like you rada but you are excessively fond of grandiloquent, bombastic, and deeply pessimistic little speeches.

/wrist

I have been these days, haven't I.

But I like trampling people with my high horse. :-(

[Gan]

I have been these days, haven't I.

But I like trampling people with my high horse. :-(

http://n3t.net/humor/motivation/high_horse.jpg

[Mikalmas]

19. Who is the Chief Justice of the United States?

Antonin Scalia is not correct.
John G. Roberts, Jr <----Was going with that originally even though I don't think I've ever heard of either of them



Umm, you're a "Conservative" and don't know who Antonin Scalia is?

[Alfster]

100%

Took me like 2 minutes.

Seriously.. if you get less than a 65% on the test, do our country a favor and move to Europe.

I'd much prefer Canada. The fishing is better...

[Beguiler]

You answered 100% of questions correctly.

But I had to think twice about how many congressmen, and darnit Tisket, I ALMOST blew it because you had me doubting my memory.

Actually, thanks for posting this. I think it doesn't hurt a bit to have to think a bit.

[ClydeR]

Umm, you're a "Conservative" and don't know who Antonin Scalia is?

He ought to be the supreme supreme court judge, and Roberts should be the junior judge.

[Tisket]

I am an illiterate Canadian National.


I'd much prefer Canada. The fishing is better...

http://www.yourlibrary.ca/citizenship/

[Lumi]

80%. I totally spazzed out on number TWO because the previous question had been about the DoI and I was still thinking about that instead of the Constitution.

The other three I got wrong I legitimately wasn't sure of and guessed wrong. Oh, well.

[Bhuryn]

Damnable chief justice!

[Rocktar]

95% correct without google and in under 3 minutes.

[Keller]

95%. Got number 16 wrong (third in line to be POTUS). FML if Pelosi ever becomes President.

[Gan]

FML if Pelosi ever becomes President.

That thought alone would make me want to keep a minimal distance of the Rocky Mountians between Obama and Biden, much less allow them to be at the same place, car, or plane, at the same time.

[TheEschaton]

20. What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Designed and made the original U.S. flag is not correct.
Fought for women’s rights

LOL, got this wrong too: 95%. Who the hell made the flag....






.....20 seconds later, Betsy Ross, damn it.

Edit: I had to help my parents study for this test back in 1991.

[AnticorRifling]

LOL, got this wrong too: 95%. Who the hell made the flag....






.....20 seconds later, Betsy Ross, damn it.

Edit: I had to help my parents study for this test back in 1991. Insert 7-11 joke here. :)

[Allereli]

95

Screwed up the Susan B. Anthony question.

same

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I suck.
You answered 65% of questions correctly.

edit: I also admittedly did it at work and flew through it, but I'm not sure I'd have faired much better had I taken it seriously.

[TheEschaton]

What the hell, Bill.

[Gan]

LOL, got this wrong too: 95%. Who the hell made the flag....






.....20 seconds later, Betsy Ross, damn it.

Edit: I had to help my parents study for this test back in 1991.

Betsy Ross is the popular answer; however, there appears to be some controversy as to the design of the 'first' flag.