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You think you know your govt????
« on: January 20, 2011, 11:41:00 AM »
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This is a quiz on our govt. I'm embarassed to say I scored a 66.67% I must admit though that I do question a couple of their answers. POWDERMAN.  :o :o
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2011, 12:37:12 PM »
I scored a 78.79%. I guess that's not to bad. Couple that I missed, I thought that several answers in the question might be right, so I picked what I thought was the best one. Guess I better go back to school. gypsyman
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2011, 12:41:47 PM »
72.73% looks like I got some work to do.Gonna have too put my nose into my bookcase.

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2011, 12:49:03 PM »
84.85%, shocked that I missed that one on the Puritans although I might quibble and say there were 2 right answers  ;D
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2011, 01:15:45 PM »
90.91 need to brush up on the ancient philosophers, government taxes, spending, and Lincoln.

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2011, 02:55:20 PM »
66.67% need to go back to school

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2011, 04:53:34 PM »
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2011, 06:05:46 PM »
You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2011, 06:33:53 PM »
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2011, 02:44:22 AM »
81.82% I guess that is ok for a redneck.
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2011, 03:11:42 AM »
You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

Average score for this quiz during January: 76.0%


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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2011, 03:14:53 AM »
You answered 27 out of 33 correctly — 81.82 %

Heather cheated. :o



HEH, She's a girl, and you expected what???? POWDERMAN.  :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2011, 03:38:09 AM »
84.85%, shocked that I missed that one on the Puritans although I might quibble and say there were 2 right answers  ;D

I agree with you about the Puritan question. I think technically they were not missionaries. But they were fleeing persecution from the Church of England. It seemed there were two answers to that one when I read them. But they must have tricked me into giving a half true answer. I should have gone for the no brainer answer.......What was I thinking!

I only got a 69.70%. It appeared that there were some tricky worded questions with some trick answers like the Puritan one.
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2011, 04:33:21 AM »
Like saddlebum, I only got a 69.70%.   Not much on who said what and when they said it. :D
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2011, 05:16:41 AM »
Wow - Mrs Lewis, my 8th grade civics teacher would be proud of me ......(not really -  I got lucky with a bunch of guesses).  
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2011, 09:23:02 AM »
69.70 here as well,  also got befuddled on the Puritan question as well.  guess not bad for a 21 year old.
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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2011, 09:56:18 AM »
No cheating here, except maybe if you consider studying Government and Economics in depth in order to be able to properly teach it to my children cheating!  ;)

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2011, 11:15:21 AM »
No cheating here, except maybe if you consider studying Government and Economics in depth in order to be able to properly teach it to my children cheating!  ;)

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Re: You think you know your govt????
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2011, 05:08:39 PM »
84.85%, shocked that I missed that one on the Puritans although I might quibble and say there were 2 right answers  ;D
same score but mre than one question has 2 correct answers. If government spending matches taxes then government debt is zero is also true
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