# Test The Nation on Fox...How'd you do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-on-fox-howd-you-do/180759 "2003-06-10T01:41:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Futile\_Gesture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Futile\_Gesture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Futile_Gesture)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-on-fox-howd-you-do/180759/41 "2003-06-12T21:40:05Z")
1. Compare that with the British BBC one [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=188804) . I found the Fox one easier, more time to do things. But that could be because I was more practiced, which is what I argue in the above thread. Anyways, I really have to complain about the way the online version jumps straight from one question to the next. If you click an answer just as after the time expires not only do you miss out on that question, but it takes your click as the answer to the **next** question. So you miss out on that one too! Grrr. Very annoying. I missed two Questions due to that. Couldn’t they have had a two second pause before it accepts an answer? After all, you can’t possibly be answering until you’ve read the question. And no, I didn’t know what parquet was either. So I went for that on the principle that the others were horizontal ‘ground coverings’. Obviously now I know I was wrong. As usual I sucked at the ‘math’ puzzles. No doubt I could do them, just not at that speed. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-on-fox-howd-you-do/180759/42 "2003-06-12T21:49:07Z")
I missed the first 7 questions, but after seeing the answers I’ll guess that at the worst I would have gotten 4 of them. At best 6 (there was one in there I definitely didn’t know). On the remaining 53, I got 51 right. I printed out the scorecard and marked my answers while doing them on the TV. So if I got 54, that would have been 126, like Screeme. 57 would have been 130. So I’m definitely somewhere in that range. I wasn’t even going to keep track, but then someone said they would beat me so I had to prove them wrong. (They were wrong). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-the-nation-on-fox-howd-you-do/180759.md?page=2)