# Civic Literacy Test - Mentioned in USA Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078 "2008-04-12T21:04:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/1 "2008-04-12T21:04:39Z")
[Here’s the link.](http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx) I scored a 76% – not great, but better than those little punks at Harvard. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/2 "2008-04-12T21:18:21Z")
75%. I would be ashamed, except I’m not American. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/3 "2008-04-12T21:21:57Z")
I got a 78.33%. Some of those were tough questions! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/4 "2008-04-12T21:22:49Z")
I got bored after the fourth question. ---
**Author:** ![Crescend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Crescend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crescend)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/5 "2008-04-12T21:27:39Z")
95% - Civis Americanus Sum. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it - and I shall point and laugh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/6 "2008-04-12T21:32:23Z")
85%. That was pretty comprehensive. ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/7 "2008-04-12T21:41:55Z")
96.67%. In your face everyone that scored lower than me. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/8 "2008-04-12T21:42:27Z")
83.33%- eat it, Yankees! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/9 "2008-04-12T21:46:10Z")
93.33% I was once a political activist. It would have been higher but I guessed Interest, not social securityon question 60. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/10 "2008-04-12T21:46:23Z")
58 out of 60 or 96.67% - but I’m a 'Merican, and a political junkie. I’m also old enough that I experienced some of the events in the questions. Today I feel old enough to have experienced the founding of Jamestown … ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/11 "2008-04-12T21:47:52Z")
88.33%, with 5 of the 7 I got wrong being questions dealing with political philosophy, something I’ll readily admit not knowing beans about. Well, I guess I have to now, don’t I. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/12 "2008-04-12T21:49:25Z")
73% - I actually thought I’d score lower. I was flying blind with most of the economics questions; I’ve never taken an economics class in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/13 "2008-04-12T21:56:39Z")
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 % I’m Canadian, though, so cut me some slack. Missed 33, 35, 36 and 58. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/14 "2008-04-12T22:02:39Z")
46 out of 60 - considering how much I hated history and civics in school, I find it to be pretty amazing. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/15 "2008-04-12T22:20:46Z")
I got a 90. I did fine with the history questions and most of the economics questions but tanked the political philosophy stuff. I just don’t seem to have the time to wade through Socrates, Aristotle _and_ Thomas Aquinas. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/16 "2008-04-12T22:26:18Z")
Missed 5, and actually surprised I guessed right so many times. I have never been able to remember precisely what the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution does. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/17 "2008-04-12T22:26:40Z")
83.33%, and that wasn’t easy. ---
**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/18 "2008-04-12T22:32:08Z")
90%. Pretty poor for a Doper, but apparently quite decent for a college student 😛 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/19 "2008-04-12T22:38:17Z")
90%. I"m fine with that. ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078/20 "2008-04-12T22:41:15Z")
90% Better than I thought, considering that I’ve never been anywhere near the US. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/civic-literacy-test-mentioned-in-usa-today/445078.md?page=2)