Saturday, November 22, 2008

Civics Quiz

There was a news report about a civic knowledge that we did poorly on as a nation. AVerage score was 49% for regular citizens, and 44% for elected officials.

OUCH!

Here's the test.

Here are my results. Good luck, the country needs you!

/salute
/Theme music from G.I. Joe

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Average score for this quiz during November: 77.8%
Average score: 77.8%

You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average.

If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.

You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.

Where to from here?

Friday, November 21, 2008

Signs of Impending Doom

-Election of a "Black" President

-The impending release of Chinese Democracy

-Martian Glaciers

-I discovered the inventor of Popeye's Chicken was a white guy

I don't know if we'll make it to 2009...