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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCan you ace this US history quiz?
Found on HuffPo:
http://definition.org/are-you-a-us-historian/?utm_source=Huffpo&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=DEF_US_D_Huffpo_33867_8232&utm_content=318117&mvt=i&mvn=e6203d4c01b24a529c941048888a9d53&mvp=NA-HUFFPOST-11235841&mvl=APage+-+News+2
I didn't do so well. I got: "You are two brain cells away from being a mushroom. You must have spent your middle school years examining your belly button lint during history classes. Perhaps you should move to Russia."
That's kinda' harsh!
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)Some of those questions are obsure
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)I guess I get to brag to my professor which would also be my mother.
CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)"Hum okay, not bad. Looks like you made it through Middle School history classes. Try again!"
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Much harder than most of these on-line tests
TexasBushwhacker
(20,202 posts)Polly Hennessey
(6,799 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)I had to guess on about 6.
On the campus of JMU in Harrisonburg, VA, there is a life size statue of Madison. He was a pixie.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)But why would knowing that make anyone a history expert?
I'm not sure we were taught that. Maybe it's mentioned in history books???
Then there is the statue...
FSogol
(45,488 posts)I don't feel I'm an a history expert, just well read and well traveled.
BTW, I'm probably due beer and travel money and many experiences....
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,549 posts)Are You a U.S. Historian?
I got 21 of 30 right
Really nice! Make sure you brag to your professor.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)There wenre a couple I should have know. But there was a couple I thought were silly and why would I know this.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Wolf
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Thank goodness for google (thought it was an open book quiz?)
Of course with google at my fingertips, I shoulda got 100%
lunatica
(53,410 posts)but that's because I answered correctly when the answer was in the question, like "What color was Napoleon's white horse?"
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)In high schools. Most of these idiotic questions would never be asked. At least I wouldn't ask them..
so that is my opinion...if it is worth anything....!!!!
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Vice President at a certain time......NOW GIVE ME A BREAK...THAT ONE IS .."STUPID"..as stupid is..
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Stuart G
(38,436 posts)There was only one that surely would be asked. How much was the Louisiana Purchase?
....that is all folks...
UrbScotty
(23,980 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)An off day for me.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Interesting set of questions. I had actually forgotten that Woodrow Wilson won the Nobel Peace Prize. And I had NO idea what Grover Cleveland's first name was. Thanks for posting it!
Throck
(2,520 posts)3catwoman3
(24,007 posts)...by the quiz description. Some of those questions were really trivial and things I never remember even hearing about, let alone forgetting.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Hum Okay, not bad, looks like you made it through middle school history. Try again. Well, I never was good at stuff that I had to memorize.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)I think they counted wrong.
denbot
(9,900 posts)Teddy Roosevelt was pretty tough.