# How much do you know (quiz) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375 "2008-12-02T19:07:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/41 "2008-12-02T22:33:40Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I missed Question 33 for a score of 96.97% My results exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/42 "2008-12-02T22:47:21Z")
> [@](#): > > You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 % Missed questions 4 and 33. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/43 "2008-12-02T23:21:12Z")
Missed 5 for 84.85%…#'s 7,8, 9, 15, 30. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/44 "2008-12-02T23:27:44Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > I obviously haven’t retained much since 1977. I got the same score as you, but graduated in 1999! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/45 "2008-12-02T23:34:23Z")
90.91%. I can live with that. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/46 "2008-12-02T23:38:11Z")
32 out of 33. Missed #29. ---
**Author:** ![shantih](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@shantih](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shantih)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/47 "2008-12-02T23:39:47Z")
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 % Average score for this quiz during December: 75.1% Average score: 75.1% ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/48 "2008-12-02T23:50:17Z")
93.9%. I got 2 wrong: the statement of the first amendment (I can’t remember their order and I only really remember the Second and Fifth amendments by numerical reference), and the last question that I answered too quickly (I interpreted the first answer as the same meaning as the right answer, which I agree on re-reading more carefully is a mistake). Quibble: how does knowing what _Sputnik_ was (a Soviet creation) end up on a US Civics quiz?! ---
**Author:** ![Caveat\_lector\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@Caveat\_lector\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caveat_lector_1)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/49 "2008-12-03T00:09:13Z")
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 % I missed 29 because I just didn’t know and 33 for the same reason as \*\*Rigamarole \*\*and **gigi**. ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/50 "2008-12-03T00:37:39Z")
31/33, or 93.94%. I missed 33, like many people, and the one about the anti-Federalists. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/51 "2008-12-03T00:53:32Z")
Another 29/33 - 87.88% I anticipated being too embarrassed to report my results, since civics is not my strong suit, so I’m happy with my score. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/52 "2008-12-03T01:20:57Z")
81.82%. Not bad considering how poorly I did in history/poli sci classes in high school and college. ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/53 "2008-12-03T02:16:12Z")
This was posted on another board I post on last week, then I got a 76%. I read up on the questions I missed and when I retook it just now, I got a 96.97%. My teachers always used to say you always remember facts you miss on tests. I guess it’s the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/54 "2008-12-03T02:48:44Z")
31 out of 33. Both of the questions I missed were history questions. I’m okay with that. I’m a public policy grad student, I would have been seriously embarrassed if I had missed one of the civics or economics questions. ---
**Author:** ![Euryphaessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Euryphaessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euryphaessa)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/55 "2008-12-03T02:52:52Z")
72.73 % It’s better than I expected I would get! I redeemed myself with some of the economics questions, since I don’t know a lot about US history. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/56 "2008-12-03T04:31:31Z")
32 out of 33, for 96.97%. Not bad for a Canuck. (Missed question 29.) > [@robardin](#): > > Quibble: how does knowing what _Sputnik_ was (a Soviet creation) end up on a US Civics quiz?! When the Soviets launched Sputnik, it triggered the [Space Race](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Race) between the USSR and the USA: > [@](#): > > The Space Race effectively began after the Soviet launch of Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957. The term originated as an analogy to the arms race. The Space Race became an important part of the cultural, technological, and ideological rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Space technology became a particularly important arena in this conflict, because of both its potential military applications and the morale-boosting social benefits. > … > On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, thus beginning the Space Race and making the USSR the first space power.[1] Because of its military and economic implications, Sputnik caused fear and stirred political debate in the United States, spurring the Eisenhower administration to enact several initiatives, including the formation of NASA. At the same time, the Sputnik launch was seen in the Soviet Union as an important sign of scientific and engineering capabilities of the nation. > … > Before Sputnik, the average American assumed that the United States had superiority in all fields of technology.[citation needed] In response to Sputnik, the United States launched a huge effort to regain technological supremacy, including revamping the school curriculum. Within less than a year, the United States Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, the most far-reaching federally-sponsored education initiative in the nation’s history.[citation needed] The bill authorized expenditures of more than $1 billion for a wide range of reforms including new school construction, fellowships and loans to encourage promising students to seek higher education, new efforts in vocational education to meet critical manpower shortages in the defense industry, and a host of other programs.[3] This reaction is now known as the Sputnik crisis. ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/57 "2008-12-03T04:43:38Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I missed Question 33 for a score of 96.97% > > A pretty fair and comprehensive quiz considering its brevity. Yeah, #33 is tricky. Since that’s the one I missed. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/58 "2008-12-03T05:37:18Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > 81.82% I thought that was pretty good until I saw the rest of your scores. Now I feel like a slacker… I had the same score, and the same thought. Of course, I learned a long time ago that I’m not the smartest Doper out there… ---
**Author:** ![UncaStuart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uncastuart/32/404_2.png) [@UncaStuart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncaStuart)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/59 "2008-12-03T05:53:44Z")
One more who missed #33. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/60 "2008-12-03T06:55:02Z")
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