Take this fun civics test

email | July 5, 2011

[upchuck]

Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?

Take the test. 33 questions. It's not easy. Be sure to check out the table at the end of the quiz that shows the incredible spread between the scores of citizens and politicians.

Post your score below.

Enjoy!

Link.

[upchuck]

Ahem... I scored 72.73%, getting 24 correct out of 33.

[Mom MD]

91%. 30/33 correct

[radiohead]

30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

[jocon307]

32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %

WOOO HOOOOO!

And the one I got wrong was not one I thought I got wrong.

Some of them were a little wiggly.

Thanks for posting this and allowing me to elevate my self-esteem.

[Othniel]

87.88%! And I teach nine year olds, thank you very much!!

[upchuck]

Excellent! Blows me out of the water :)

[johnpannell]

100%... honest.

[Lucas McCain]

31/33

[An American in Turkiye]

You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

Not bad, but after they showed me which answers I flubbed, I learned quite a bit.

[exDemMom]

81.82%, or 27/33 right.

[Frank_2001]

31/33

Wonder how Obama would do?;)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

32 out of 33 - and I’m not convinced I really got the one wrong.

[upchuck]

FReepers are the best!!

Y’all are killing the politicians that took the quiz. Did you check out that table? Disheartening to say the least.

[Mom MD]

The sad thing is we both blew the educators out of the water!

[Red6]

93.94%, 31 of 33.

[musicman]

Well I tried:

“You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %”

[upchuck]

Not bad, but after they showed me which answers I flubbed, I learned quite a bit.

That was the best part of the test for me. Not only learning which questions I missed, but why and what the correct answer was.

[April Lexington]

I just took the test and scored 100%. The mind blower is that so many elected officials are clueless. Our freedoms are at great risk...

[upchuck]

Wonder how Obama would do?;)

Well, since he's a constitutional scholar, I suspect he'd do fine. </s>

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

84.85% — 28/33. Not bad for a foreigner, I'd say.

Here's the note about one of the questions I got wrong:

Question: What part of the government has the power to declare war?
Your Answer: the president
Correct Answer: Congress

My question: has anyone told this to Obama?

[drjimmy]

Also 31/33. Interesting how the questions went from purely fact based to ones that were a little more, how shall I say it, “interpretive,” based on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s ideology.

[MtnClimber]

I scored 96.97% correct 32/33. The questions were fairly easy I thought. I went to hick schools in small town Florida, but I do read Free Republic from time to time.

[GenerationY]

Thanks, that was fun!

31/33

Interesting that the 2 questions I missed were related to Lincoln.

[constitutiongirl]

84.85%

[ExTxMarine]

I answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85%!!

Woo-Hoo!!!

[upchuck]

The sad thing is we both blew the educators out of the water!

I agree that's sad. But is that really surprising since most "educators" have RAT leanings?

Bet they all scored 100 on the question about a progressive tax :)

[eastforker]

21 out of 33

[gaijin]

I scored 32/33. College educators scored 55%? OMG..!!

[donmeaker]

Results

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You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

[Jeff Winston]

“You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %”

I missed:

Question: What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?

and

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

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

93.94%

[Billthedrill]

32 out of 33 - and I’m not convinced I really got the one wrong.

Same here. Mine was the one on decreasing both taxes and government spending in order to stimulate economic activity. A Keynesian would say that increasing government spending would have a multiplier effect; however, it also increases public debt and withdraws that portion of money which would have a similar multiplier effect in private hands without increasing public debt. Harrumph.

[RonDog]

You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %

[unkus]

O got 28 of 33 - 84.85%

[FredZarguna]

33/33. There are potentially two questions that are a bit subjective. Even allowing for that by saying 93% is the best objective grade, if you can’t score 80% on that test you really need to read more — and spend more time on FR. It’s not very difficult.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Two of them I was wrong, the other I would argue about.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Yes, that was the one I missed too.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Obviously this test has Palin Derangement Syndrome.

[unkus]

Wonder how Obama would do?;)

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He’d get all the Socialist answeres right. And there were a lot of choices that were pure Socialist.

[Babalu]

26 out of 33 correct ... 78.79%

[Bud Krieger]

I scored 29 out of 33. I graduated from high school with a C grade point average and spent one year at a community college, 15 years ago. So I feel pretty good about that score.

[upchuck]

Grin.

[navysealdad]

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My question: has anyone told this to Obama?

Yes. He is not interested since he is not calling it a "war". It is a Kinetic Military Action (KMA) no, I am not kidding.

BTW the president can commit the troops for 60 days if he is convinced that it is necessary before going to Congress for a Declaration of War or, what seems to be the equivalent now days, Authorization of the Use of Force. This was meant for times of emergency such as the British or Canada invading while Congress was out of town.

It was not meant for how Obama is using it.

[dpa5923]

96.97% (32 out of 33)

[FredZarguna]

You were inattentive. The question was an historical one, not a theoretical one, to wit:

Which of the following fiscal policy combinations has the federal government most often followed to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?

The answer given, to decrease taxes and increase spending is the one typically pursued (incorrectly in one aspect, as you correctly -- but irrelevantly -- point out.)

[TennesseeProfessor]

31 / 33 (93.94%).

[Randy Larsen]

You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

[WVNan]

29 of 33. Embarrassed that I missed those 4.

[MtnClimber]

That is the question I got wrong too.