Take the test. It's freaking long !!!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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QUIZ: Can We Guess Your Education Level Based On The History You Know?

Your Score: 96%
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How do you think Trump would score , his acolytes ?

[dalton99a]

1. Which American president was "eliminated" on November 22, 1963?

Weird phrase

[WhiteTara]

3. Cambridge Analytica's Russian media spies

that tap into these profiles in order to manipulate the individual and friends.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. They didn't ask for personal information.

If they collect cookies I suspect a lot of sites do.

[WhiteTara]

21. They don't have to ask, they already have it

Spectrum Health, Trump Tower and Alpha Bank collected everything, coordinated with and paid Facebook and you are a trapped mouse along with all your friends. But don't worry about that, soon China will have all your data too. All you have to do there is buy a great cheap, cheap, cheap ZTE cell phone and the spider has you, you little fly, wrapped tightly in its web.

[cyclonefence]

13. I think you're exactly right

and they don't need personal information to compile profiles. I wouldn't participate in one of these again for anything.

[hlthe2b]

5. Seriously? Gawd, I'll stay clear... despicable.

[Tipperary]

2. Is this one of those things that is going to grab all your info when you participate?

I remember my friends did these things on fb. And when I saw the first question was from what country did the US seek independence - um, that sounds kind of simple.

[cwydro]

4. This is too funny.

This “test” could be aced by my dog.

[Le Gaucher]

15. True.. But I wonder what the median score for Trump voters might be

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. When they do these "people in the streets" history quizzes people got stumped...

When they do these "people in the streets" history quizzes people got stumped by what we would say are glaringly easy questions.

I bet Trump wouldn't do well on that quiz.

[malaise]

23. I agree - way too easy

Your Score: 96%
History PhD!
You know everything there is to know about history!

[bearsfootball516]

7. I got a 96 percent, but wow it was 109 questions

And most of the questions are overwhelmingly obvious.

For example: Which of these four states was not one of the original 13 colonies?

-New York

-Virginia

-Georgia

-California

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Was it 109 or 120 questions ?

And you're competing against your fellow Americans, not Mensa members.

I suspect the questions we dismiss as laughably easy would stump a majority of Americans. I would make book a majority of Americans can not name the AXIS powers.

[Ms. Toad]

39. Technically, you're not competing against anyone.

You are given a percentage score at end (recognition of the quantity you got correct), not a percentile score, (recognition of where you rank against whoever else has taken the quiz)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. I understand that.

Everybody on this board who has taken the test has answered 96% of the questions correctly or more . I would be willing to wager 96% would not be not the mean, median, or mode if the test was given randomly to American adults.

[Ms. Toad]

43. You're probably correct about where DU would fall against the rest of the country -

but the test results don't compare you to anyone else (so no competition).

I work with testing, and with an educated population that largely is not mathematically inclined, and most of them don't understand the difference between percentage and percentile. Your comment about competition (which can only be measured by an individual result if that result is a percentile) suggested you might have confused them, as well.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

45. I understand.

Everybody here has answered 94% or more of the questions. That's different than saying everybody has scored 94% or higher than all the people who have taken the test. The latter number would actually be more useful as would the median and mean of the test takers.

[Brother Buzz]

14. But, but, California was the 31st state admitted to the union

So I'm thinking dyslexic test takers should get partial credit.

[shanny]

8. 100%

Not too proud though: test was totally lame.

Who conquered England in 1066?

William the Conqueror
Harold the Flatulent
Steve the Mildly Competent
Aethelred the Unready

[Yavin4]

20. "Harold the Flatulent" the conqueror no one wanted to be around.

Which was the secret behind his victories.

[shanny]

30. +1

[lapucelle]

37. Before he was William the Conqueror...

...he was William the Bastard. That might wake up bored students in a classroom.



https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-I-king-of-England

[OldHippieChick]

53. My favorite answers as well.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Well, I missed two

Your Score: 98%
History PhD!
You know everything there is to know about history!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. It took a long time just to reload the pages and I have a 110 MBPS connection

[Dave Starsky]

12. I got bored after five questions.

This is, like, Schoolhouse Rock stuff.

Anyone who aces this test should congratulate themselves for not falling asleep in the third grade.

[Tipperary]

16. Lol, the question about what president was in charge in the Civil War?

Lincoln or Roosevelt. And they have a picture of Lincoln.

[malaise]

24. I almost stopped after 50

because I got them all.

[C_U_L8R]

17. Every click is a bunch of ad views for them

Stupid scammy nonsense.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. But why?

[Codeine]

22. That was silly and entirely too easy.

Your Score: 100%
History PhD!
You know everything there is to know about history!

But it was something to do while watching Formula1 practice.

[mcar]

25. Got 1 wrong

QUIZ: Can We Guess Your Education Level Based On The History You Know?

Your Score: 99%
History PhD!
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[oberliner]

26. A new set of ads with every click through

Literal clickbait.

[Tipperary]

27. Exactly. Fb drivel.

[vlyons]

28. Far too easy

I got bored

[drray23]

29. i got two wrong..

I answered astecs instead of inca for the largest south american empire and I
forgot that the us fought with england during war of 1812..

Most of those are just basic knowledge everybody should have.

[SomethingNew]

31. I quit after 50.

A 10 year old should score above a 90% on that. Every question had only one possible answer and then something stupid as the other choice. Pretty sure even Trump could come close to acing it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

33. I would literally wager there are more than a dozen questions your average America can't answer.

Maybe more.

It is hard to measure Trump's intelligence. His academic achievements suggest he is much smarter than he sounds.

[Shrike47]

32. I got 100% but the loading took so long, they've probably read all my e-mails and reviewed

my Urban Dictionary searches. Not to mention scanning my bank info.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. Congrats.

I got the Inca question and two others wrong.

I don't think that site can get your passwords. If sites like that could we would all be cooked.

[Sneederbunk]

35. Stopped at 20. Found it insulting as should

any Jr. high student.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

36. I live about twenty miles from Hollywood

I could get a camera crew, ask random people who were our opponents in the War of 1812, and less than half could supply the correct answer. Ditto for who were the Axis powers, and a lot of others.

[Tipperary]

41. Sooo,

This idiotic 5th grade test makes you feel smart?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

42. I will be the bigger poster, take the high road, and not respond with an ad hominem of my own.

I will be the bigger poster, take the high road, and not respond with an ad hominem of my own ,for now.

[Tipperary]

46. Very good.

This means you are very, very smart, as your test online showed you to be.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

48. Our exchange also shows that I don't make puerile insults over the internet.

" ."

[Tipperary]

49. But you had to send me a pm.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

50. The PM. Verbatim

I responded to your poisoned missive

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10660066


Be thankful this is a moderated board.

Love,
DSB

I wanted to make sure you saw it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

60. Please see Post 59.

Thank you in advance.

[Ms. Toad]

38. Last history class was in 1974, in high school.

Our history classes were all taught by coaches, so we never had class on Fridays (didn't want to tire the boys out) or on Monday (either celebrating or mourning). I never took my book home (in any history class), and never got less than an A.

The experience soured me on history, so when I needed sociology or history to satisfy my distribution requirements for my teaching certificate I took sociology.

But, according to this test, at 94%, I have a PhD in history. Guess I deserved the PhD as much as I deserved the A in high school all those decades ago . . .

[neeksgeek]

44. I design tests and surveys. This one stinks.

Most of the wrong answers are totally out of context. The sort of thing I use on college exams to spot someone who simply didn’t study in the first place. Only a person with zero familiarity with the topics would miss most of these.

For the record, I got a 99%, I missed one. I genuinely did not know there had ever been a female Emperor (empress) of China.

[Tipperary]

47. The op here was so offended by my saying this was a stupid test, that he/she sent me a pm.

Snowflakes abound.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

51. " Snowflake " - Using the lexicon of a Trumper.

Tipperary (2,299 posts)

The op here was so offended by my saying this was a stupid test, that he/she sent me a pm.

Snowflakes abound.

P.S. I'm trying to wrap my mind around the incongruity of using an Alt-right pejorative on a progressive board. Not everybody who holds himself or herself out as one is one. If I am a snowflake is DU my safeplace ?

Another thing in your post that is evocative of Trump is your unfamiliarity with the truth. You implied I was stupid, not the test. I couldn't care less about the latter, I do care about the former.

Trump.

[Tipperary]

56. Nice.

You are transparent. And obviously very vulnerable.

[rzemanfl]

57. I have used "snowflake" here to refer to particular Repukes where it seemed to fit,

e.g., Huckleberry Pearls having the sads about being called a liar. The Urban Dictionary says it has lost its political meaning. I'm not defending the poster, just my use of the word on this board.

[Tipperary]

58. Many of us have used it. Apparently I just hurt this person's feelings so now they call me a troll.

I am not in the least worried. I am a yellow dog Dem from WAY back in the day.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

59. You gratuitously insulted me from the anonymity of a internet connection.

That seems to be your forte. I guess we all have to be good at something.

[Tipperary]

61. Lol.

Ad hominem much?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

62. I was only fulfilling the promise I made in Post 42

[Tipperary]

64. You posted this silly fb test for one reason. You seem to think you need this to be seen as smart.

Most of the responses on this thread show how that really did not work. Sorry.

You seem to be an intelligent poster most of the time; why put this fb crap out there trying to be smart? Hell. You did not even get them all right. Yikes.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

66. I posted a test, nothing more or nothing less.

If anybody and I use that term as broadly as possible took that as an opportunity to attack me I will defend myself vigorously. Pacifism has never been a virtue I have laid claim to. If it's a cross to bear it's my cross to bear.

Of course the lion's share of the questions were glaringly easy but some weren't. That explains the paucity of perfect scores posted here. I assume the person/persons who designed the test assumed if all the questions were difficult the respondents would have have seen their answers were mostly incorrect and quit.

I didn't for a moment think the posters here wouldn't excel at this test, having been here a long time, and seen how they excel at other online tests.

[rzemanfl]

54. bookmarking n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

63. Please elaborate, compadre.

Who knew linking a history test would invoke such passion?

[Tipperary]

65. You really think this is a history test?

Did you attend college?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

68. Now you're patronizing me. The hits keep coming.

You really think this is a history test?

Did you attend college?

-Tipperary

Now you're patronizing me. First a predicate. My dad dropped out of school in the ninth grade. He died at the ripe old age of fifty eight putting up road signs in the Central florida sun. My mom was in Rapid Advance and graduated from high school at fifteen. She went to work as a bookkeeper to support her widowed mother and younger brother. I was the first person in my family to go to college. In fact I have a Master's degree in Political Science and did post grad work in Government at Florida State University.

Since the assertion embodied in your question is that I am somehow ill educated maybe you can share your educational achievements with the rest of us.

Thank you in advance.



P.S. I'm going out soon. I will be sure to check My Posts to see what invective , subtle or not so subtle, you have in store for me.

[rzemanfl]

76. In my best Robert DeNiro, "You talking to me?"

You are responding to a message directed to yours truly. I hope that was a mistake. In case you are talking to me, yes I have three college degrees. I probably got two of them, maybe all three, before you were born. I would be pleased if you shared your attainments with rest of the board since you brought up the topic.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

81. I added the video

[rzemanfl]

82. Thank you very much. n/t

[MicaelS]

52. Got 98%. Only missed two. Not too bad.

But that use of the word "elimination" rather than "assassination" is really weird.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

67. 100%

Though some of the questions I guessed the answer correctly.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

69. I had to stop at "which president was eliminated on Nov 22, 1963"

Eliminated?

[MineralMan]

70. On a clickbait site? No thanks.

Not even a chance.

[murielm99]

71. 98%

This was a stupid test, a waste of time.

[Takket]

72. 99%, 1 wrong about the spanish armada, but there were 4 or 5 lucky guesses lol

[smirkymonkey]

73. 98%

Steve the Mildly Competent?

[yonder]

74. lots of energy here.

[meadowlander]

75. I only finished it because I thought it would show a scale of results

compared with other participants. No joy so more or less a waste of time.

Anyone with a high school diploma who scored less than 90% on this should be embarrassed.

It would be more useful to answer your question and get a picture of American ignorance by looking at a study. For example:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/most-americans-fail-basic-civics-test/

"Today, only a quarter of Americans can even name the three branches of government; nearly a third can’t name even a single one."

"A 2012 survey by Xavier University found that “one in three native-born citizens failed the civics portion of the naturalization test,” compared with the 97.5 percent pass rate on the civics portion among foreign-born applicants reported by USCIS in 2010. Furthermore, the survey noted that if the minimum score required to pass the exam were 70 percent rather than 60 percent, then half of native-born Americans would have failed."

[oberliner]

79. It's clickbait

[cwydro]

83. It was silly.

No idea why the OP thinks this is some kind of valid test.

[applegrove]

77. 97% PhD.

[Buzz cook]

78. Very easy and boring.

The vast majority of answers were obvious.

I missed one question, which was larger, the Aztec or Inca empire?

[Demovictory9]

80. too many questions!