National Geographic Quiz

[Cibo]

http://geosurvey.nationalgeographic.com/geosurvey/templates/question_1.html

I got 16/20 right. Not bad I don't think.

 

[Guest]

Interesting test Cibo......I fell down on the S. American countries. I thought the results were telling.......

 

[LukkyKnight]

I got 16/20 right. Not bad I don't think.

I got #16 right, too, but the other 19 were damn tricky.

 

[Guest]

18/20. I would be very depressed if most Americans didnt get question #11 right.

 

[Guest]

I was quite interested in taking the test until I saw ''I don't know'' option.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: National Geographic Quiz

I got #16 right, too, but the other 19 were damn tricky.

LOL

You are funny.

 

[LukkyKnight]

18/20. I would be very depressed if most Americans didnt get question #11 right.

It was rigged.

I didn't have my glasses on.

I didn't sleep well last night.

I thought it said "underground."

I was hurrying.

The phone rang right when I was about to click.

 

[Guest]

It was rigged.

I didn't have my glasses on.

I didn't sleep well last night.

I thought it said "underground."

I was hurrying.

The phone rang right when I was about to click.

I guess my PM went to the wrong address, then.

It's a holiday season. Can't be helped.

Apppologies.

 

[Guest]

I thought it said "underground."

LOL, that made me chuckle

 

[scrymettet]

19/20

 

[Azwed]

My god my country is stupid.

Only Great Britian got a lower percent correct on the question that asked where the US was.

 

[Azwed]

19/20 but i contend that question two is wrong. How many of the people who say they are what the correct answer was are actually that devoted to their relgion?

 

[Guest]

19/20 but i contend that question two is wrong. How many of the people who say they are what the correct answer was are actually that devoted to their relgion?

Good point, actually.

 

[Valdimer]

19 out of 20 for me.

 

[crappie master]

19/20 but i contend that question two is wrong. How many of the people who say they are what the correct answer was are actually that devoted to their relgion?

That is the one I missed (I said Islam) 19/20 here too

 

[Texan]

I also agree that their answer to number 2 is wrong.

Also, the results by country that they quote are not the results that they are getting from this survey on the internet. They are quoting results from some test that was given around the world by some other methods. I didn't read all the stuff at the end of the quiz to get the details, but a LOT of things could impact how each country rated. The U.S. is probably one of the most difficult countries to get a random cross-sectional sampling of. If you test 18-24 year olds in south Arkansas or east LA, you're going to find very few that know where Sweden is. If you get a sampling from the burbs of most any city, you'll get pretty decent result.

One other little point. If someone from the U.S. wants to go to almost any other country to do business, then they can pretty well expect that business will be done in english. If someone from another country comes to the U.S. to conduct business, they MUST be prepared to do business in english. The reason so few Americans learn other languages and know very much about the "rest" of the world, is because in the U.S., it's just not necessary. (Not an adaquate reason, in my opinion, but factual.)

 

[Ishmael]

20/20 But I admit that the Christianity vs. Islam was a coin toss.

Ishmael

 

[Guest]

20/20 Ishmael

I've expected as much. Tex, good point on language.

I do hear that Islam is the fastet Growing religion currently. I wonder how much % of new recruits are naive or dumb to brain washed into fundamentalism...

I ain't dissing the moslem. There are prenty of dumb Jews and Christians who are into fundamentalism.

Go Zen.

Or, Hindu and worship cows.

Anybody believe in God can go to hell.

 

[kotori]

I missed on #2 too.

 

[Weird Harold]

The map questions were made much easier than they should have been with only one choice in the right general area -- even if you can't remember which side of the penensula is Sweden and which is Norway it's easy when only one choice is in the right general area.

 

[bknight2602]

18/20 Missed where afghanistan was and Christianity as the biggest population.

 

[Freya]

Wow. 18/20. Guess I'm not as dumb as I look.

 

[bknight2602]

Wow. 18/20. Guess I'm not as dumb as I look.

I never thought of you as dumb, either mind or looks!

 

[MNGuy]

Woo hoo 20/20!!

 

[Sillyman]

I missed the population and religeon question.