# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/81 "2008-12-03T23:48:29Z")
I ain’t 'xactly proud of this, but since some of y’all are mentioning your education levels, I’ll fess up. I skipped more days of seventh grade than I attended, way more, and formally dropped out at 16. CMC +fnord! Just so nobody has to go looking for my score. You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 % Missed Questions: Question #27 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/82 "2008-12-04T16:07:08Z")
31 out of 33. I legitimately didn’t know where “separation of church and state” came from, but question 33 was bullshit. In a progressive tax system, which last I checked the U.S. has and isn’t getting rid of anytime soon, taxes can most certainly equal government spending without each person paying an equal share. I realize that the question was apparently just positing that A = B therefore A/C = B/C, but that’s a fourth grade math problem, not an economics question. I’m guessing most people who missed it thought (like me) that “tax per person” meant amout of tax paid by each individual, decided that was wrong, and went for the next best answer, which was “government debt is zero” (still incorrect if there’s standing debt or expenditures not classified as “government spending”, but good enough for test-question theoryland). If this were an actual exam, I’d put up a fight for those points back. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/83 "2008-12-04T17:39:15Z")
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 % Answers to Your Missed Questions: Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/84 "2008-12-05T08:00:30Z")
100%. Food pellet for me. On several of them, I probably wouldn’t have given a good, or even remotely accurate answer if I’d just been asked an open-ended question. Reading through the choices, it was frequently possible to logic my way through. For example, I’ve never studied philosophy, but on the question about Aquinas and Plato only one choice seemed to make any sense. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/85 "2008-12-05T13:31:13Z")
You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 % Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories? Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person The History answers I got wrong I didn’t know and were guesses. The Economics ones- I didn’t really know, but for the most part was able to make logical educated choices- so I ended up doing better there even though I know butkis about the topic. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/86 "2008-12-05T14:26:15Z")
> [@](#): > > You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 % > > Average score for this quiz during December: 74.8% > Average score: 74.8% In my defense, I didn’t learn much of this stuff in school, since I wasn’t here yet. Looks like some of the Canucks beat me though… > [@](#): > > Question #4 - B. Would slavery be allowed to expand to new territories? > Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address > Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/87 "2008-12-05T15:19:20Z")
I got all but two right for a score of 93.94%. I missed questions 29, about public goods, and 33, about taxes, both of which were poorly-worded, I thought. There was more about economics than I would’ve expected in a quiz like this. And my (correct) answer re: Plato and Aristotle was a sheer guess. I was a poli sci honors major and a history minor in college. The only course I flunked (“No Entry” in the academic parlance of the day) was Econ 101. :: shudder :: ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/88 "2008-12-05T17:40:19Z")
100% ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/89 "2008-12-05T19:07:48Z")
I missed 7 & 33, for a score of 31. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/90 "2008-12-05T19:35:09Z")
You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 % Thought I would do better. So now we know how to solve the financial crisis! ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/91 "2008-12-05T20:49:17Z")
> [@CAT\_1](#): > > This Thanksgiving my older sister and I were remembering how our history classes in H.S. always started with Christopher Columbus and pretty much ended at the early part of the Civil war. It was the same every year. Our teacher never went beyond that. Really? That seems pretty stupid. I thought most schoolls had different perioids each year. At my HS, we had a “European history” class in 9th grade that went from the fall of the Roman Empire to Columbus. 10th grade was Columbus to Civil War+Reconstruction, and 11th grade was the good ol’ 20th century. If you wanted more there was AP US History in 12th grade that did everything all over again, really really fast. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/92 "2008-12-05T21:04:08Z")
As the old joke goes, most public-school history teachers find themselves shouting after their students on the schoolhouse steps as they stream out to enjoy summer break, “By the way, we won World War II!” ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/93 "2008-12-05T21:12:01Z")
I had Geography in 10th grade, US History in 11th grade and Government in 12th, but no world history whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/94 "2008-12-05T21:16:35Z")
32 out of 33. I missed #10 because I misread the question. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/95 "2008-12-05T21:37:37Z")
100%, which slightly surprises me, since I had to make an educated guess on a few of them. What’s the issue with #33, though? Something per person always just means that you divide the something by the number of people, not that it has to be the same for everyone. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375/96 "2008-12-05T21:50:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > As the old joke goes, most public-school history teachers find themselves shouting after their students on the schoolhouse steps as they stream out to enjoy summer break, “By the way, we won World War II!” > [@control-z](#): > > I had Geography in 10th grade, US History in 11th grade and Government in 12th, but no world history whatsoever. One black spot on the otherwise excellent High School education I received at the hands of the Marianists was what passed for four years of History. They were: 2 years of the babbling and unpredictably violent WWII vet who could turn a session on the Medici into a discourse on “a place called O-ki-NOW-a”; 1 year of a newly-minted and evidently competent Accounting teacher who somehow got railroaded into teaching US history, a subject he knew little about; 1 year of a dim-witted, bullying Business Law “teacher” who was really hired to be the football coach and who only got saddled with US History when the last real history teacher unexpectedly died just before the start of the year. Hmmm. I’m feeling better about my score now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-know-quiz/475375.md?page=4)