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Offline MaSonZ

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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #15 on: March 18, 2012, 02:38:31 PM »
Quote from: uptown on March 18, 2012, 02:00:39 PM
69.70% just as I suspected....i'm the dumbest one here  :(
I got 60%....
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #16 on: March 18, 2012, 02:49:35 PM »
no bwayno.
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #17 on: March 18, 2012, 03:21:43 PM »
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Some of the questions allowed the use of inference to make an educated guess.  :noid

The three I missed - must've been reading comics in class that day, no excuse really, lol.

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Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:

Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of Congress
Correct Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views.

Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

Your Answer: Declaration of Independence
Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address.

Question: The Puritans:

Your Answer: were Catholic missionaries escaping religious persecution
Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity.
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #18 on: March 18, 2012, 03:29:49 PM »
Quote from: Shane on March 18, 2012, 03:21:43 PM
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Some of the questions allowed the use of inference to make an educated guess.  :noid

The three I missed - must've been reading comics in class that day, no excuse really, lol.

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Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to:
I went through high school in 2 states, spent nearly a decade on and off in college, I only ever even HEARD of that in last few years....educators simply don't cover stuff that makes revered figures like FDR look bad
Your Answer: override the Supreme Court’s decisions by gaining three-quarter majorities in both houses of Congress
Correct Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views.

Question: What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?

Your Answer: Declaration of Independence
Correct Answer: Gettysburg Address.

Question: The Puritans:

Your Answer: were Catholic missionaries escaping religious persecution That's what I always remembered as well
Correct Answer: stressed the sinfulness of all humanity.
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #19 on: March 18, 2012, 03:52:50 PM »
Yeah, I was torn between those two definitions for puritans... I just didn't see puritans believing everyone is baaaaaaad... they were being hounded, they were Seperatist.  meh. <edit> actually, the puritans were vehemently opposed to catholicism, so the whole question was meh. </edit>

Ditto on the FDR - but in defense of the main question - increasing the number of Justices on the SC (or decreasing for that matter) as an executive strategy (probably requiring the cooperation of Congress) was a day I must've missed. I'm sure it's right there in the Constitiution. Yes, by inference again:

Article III - The Judicial Branch
Section 1 - Judicial powers

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Meh.  :noid

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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2012, 04:15:31 PM »
Dangit, I was trying to do the red, and it refused!
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2012, 04:18:12 PM »
Quote from: uptown on March 18, 2012, 02:00:39 PM
69.70% just as I suspected....i'm the dumbest one here  :(

Knowledge and intelligence are two separate abilities. ;)
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2012, 04:25:15 PM »
Quote from: PR3D4TOR on March 18, 2012, 04:18:12 PM
Knowledge and intelligence are two separate abilities. ;)

So... is he ignorant or stupid? Or both?  :rofl
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2012, 04:27:04 PM »
Judging someones intellect from this test is stupid and ignorant.
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2012, 04:31:41 PM »
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2012, 04:38:14 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on March 18, 2012, 04:27:04 PM
Judging someones intellect from this test is stupid and ignorant.
<cough cough> says the guy with the D average <cough cough>
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2012, 04:40:13 PM »
and I got a 90 on the one Shane posted, which is the same questions but only about the government. Judging someone intellect by a test is stupid, and unreliable.
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #27 on: March 18, 2012, 04:44:02 PM »
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2012, 04:45:13 PM »
Quote from: Tupac on March 18, 2012, 04:40:13 PM
and I got a 90 on the one Shane posted, which is the same questions but only about the government. Judging someone intellect by a test is stupid, and unreliable.
Well....you were ready for them this time!
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Re: Test your knowledge!
« Reply #29 on: March 18, 2012, 04:47:16 PM »
Some of us arent old enough to have lived through everything on that test.
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