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Post by guitardevil on Mar 26, 2011 9:18:12 GMT -5
by the skin of my teeth, 12/20 hungover.
when i saw the title of the thread i was simply going to say, we're the ONLY country that calls the most popular sport in the world by the wrong name, dumb.
Post by LoveLuckLaughter on Mar 26, 2011 11:38:33 GMT -5
Passed 16/20. Unfortunately, I am well aware of the Speakers name, as my fellow Ohioans seemed to have had a collective "dumb moment" come over them when they elected him into the House.
However, I also answered nuclear threat for the Cold War question, was unable to state 435 for the number of Reps, although I was close. Etc Etc.
As for the dumb vs ignorant vs apathetic. The reality is that we've all learned most of this information in high school government class. Some of us then retouched on the subjects in college related courses. We then either placed the info into long-term memory or dumped it in favor of information more relevant to our own daily lives. For those who have a special interest in history or politics, that info was retained for easy recall. For those who do not, it was replaced with other information, or shoved off to far away corners.
In fact, we all "knew" the answers to all but 2 of those questions at some point because we learned it back in the day. Whether or not we remembered it, or could recall it easily today for this particular quiz, now that's a different story. So really it's more like "able to remember info vs unable to remember" for the most part.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
^^^ I know what you mean and I totally agree that generally we only retain what is important or pertinent to our daily lives. And there's nothing wrong with that. I can hardly remember anything about trig and I was a math major (for a brief period of time).
I get a little skeeved though that with the growing political vitriol garnering headlines and feeding blogs that it would be better if many of those people needed to remain silent until they passed the quiz.
I get a little skeeved though that with the growing political vitriol garnering headlines and feeding blogs that it would be better if many of those people needed to remain silent until they passed the quiz.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
A few of these were oversights, like Pelosi for speaker not Boehner. Hehe. Highest law of land, I said Supreme Court when they really interpret the Constitution. Some of these are tough, if you haven't had a government class for awhile. Such as number of Amendments and number of Representatives. But overall, i'm not shocked people scored low. I'd say half of immigrants would fail, not meant to be offensive. Just saying it takes a quite a long time of immersion to know some of these. And people who absolutely have no interest in politics would probably do poorly. I count the people on my hand who knows who signed the Federalist Papers.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
This is House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, explaining how newly-proposed GOP legislation would make the House's budget bill become law despite lack of action from the Senate (or president, for that matter) before a deadline imposed by the House.
Yes, you read/heard that right: Cantor says the House bill will become the "law of the land" without action from the other branch of Congress or president's signature.
We all passed the test... did the House Majority Leader?