US Citizenship test...could you pass?

BEAT

Thought this was interesting:

http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_14/U_S_Citizenship_Test_Could_You_Pass.html?GT1=4244

I got 8/11 ...guess I am safe

Mac daddy

I won't get in - rather not live there anyway
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U.S. Citizenship Test: Could You Pass?
Pretty Good
(Note: In the actual test, answers are given in sentence format; here we've changed the format by offering multiple-choice answers.)
You got 3/11 correct.
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bug

U.S. Citizenship Test: Could You Pass?
Pretty Good
6/11
amazing the useless facts you absorb without knowing

Victor

I thinks it's trying to tell me something

"You got 9/11 correct."

Kev

I got 9/11, hand over your passport.

StickyMcGinty

same as yourself...

bet the yanks wouldnt even know half them questions

joe_chicken

5/11


bullsh!t test

the questions should be more like

"Do you hate commi bastards?"

"How many ragheads have you killed/shot/seriously injured?"

"Do you like shooting things?"

"Is America :
a) Number 1
b) Number 1
c) Number 1"

GuanYin

7/11, just as well I never had to take a test :dunno:

Lemming

7/11

Got questions 5, 8, 10, & 11 wrong

Err..

Don't feel bad if you get this one wrong:

Who becomes president of the United States if the president and the vice president should die?

When Reagan was shot, Bush snr (vp) wasn't in DC, and Aleander Haig (sec. of state) announced to the press that he was now in charge and had to have it pointed out to him that in fact Tip O'Neill (speaker) was in charge.

Capt'n Midnight

You got 9/11 correct.
why do those numbers sound familiar ?
did Bush get 9/11 correct ?

ChipZilla

4/11, but who would want to be an American citizen anyway?

JohnK

I got 9/11 aswell. What caught me were:
Q1 - What do the stripes on the flag mean?
Q10 - In what year was the Constitution written?

mike65

You got 9/11 correct.

WHOA!:eek:

Just realised I should have got 10/11, question six - I hit wrong button..oh well!

Mike.

sceptre

I got 11:p.
(took a guess from the two possible options for 50th state)

Apparently I am now qualified to blow George Bush.

Originally posted by Err..
When Reagan was shot, Bush snr (vp) wasn't in DC, and Aleander Haig (sec. of state) announced to the press that he was now in charge and had to have it pointed out to him that in fact Tip O'Neill (speaker) was in charge.

This I remember (having seen a pretty bad made for TV movie about it last year). Obviously unknown to Haig Secretary of State wasn't second in line after the veep since just after WW2 (they moved the house Speaker and the Senate President back above the position on the list) but that didn't stop him blustering like the big guy. So Dennis Hastert is now "the guy" if a sharpshooter takes out Bush and Cheney in one fell swoop, followed by Stevens, Powell and the assorted gang of corporate whores and leftover nutters from the Nixon administration. The list of acsendancy is under 20 places so they like to hide one of them on big occasions like inaugurations just in case.

Badbonez

Originally posted by ChipZilla
4/11, but who would want to be an American citizen anyway?

Lots and lots and lots and lots of people. Our foreign policy may be detestable at the moment but there's no denying that life in the states is better than many other places. (Certainly not Ireland! )

I got 10/11. The one I missed is so embarrassing I won't say! :rolleyes: But not bad for a yank, eh?

Concorde

I got 4/11 too. How many do you have to get right to gain citizenship?

flogen

5/11... whoop!! plenty of pure guesses, especially the years and dates and that..:D

flogen

weemcd

5/11 all learned from the simpsons

l3rian

11/11 :cool:

Bard

11/11

Not impressed, but not entirely surprised.

smoke.me.a.kipper

You got 8/11 correct. its actually amazing the ammount of crap that you absorb everyday.

SantaHoe

5/11
/me gets deported

The test makes an interesting point though, how many americans would fail that test?
How about questions about sit-coms and street lingo?
Citizizzle shizzle fo' fizzle?

Straight Flush

2/11. Ouch! None of my guesses with right, how unlucky!

rymus

Originally posted by weemcd
5/11 all learned from the simpsons

same here

irishgeo

You got 6/11 correct.

Aren't the british bringing one of these in?

Should we have one, if we did what questions would you have.

l3rian

Should we have one, if we did what questions would you have

1. How many other countries did you travel through before you claimed asylum here?
2. Where is your local social welfare office?
3. When is your baby due?

aidan_walsh

9/11, only the one about the Constitution date and the presidence list wrong... And I knew the Presidential presidence one, but changed my mind...

Originally posted by syke
7/11, just as well I never had to take a test :dunno:

Its ok, I hear a lot of their employees don't pass the first time

CyberGhost

2/11

eh screw them anyway!

The Real B-man

Originally posted by weemcd
5/11 all learned from the simpsons

same,
You got 5/11 correct.

irishgeo

Originally posted by irishgeo
Should we have one, if we did what questions would you have.

Give this its ownthread

Moriarty

11/11.

Yay. or something.

Squall

9/11

But who needs a test

DEmeant0r

7/11

ChipZilla

Originally posted by Badbonez
Lots and lots and lots and lots of people. Our foreign policy may be detestable at the moment but there's no denying that life in the states is better than many other places. (Certainly not Ireland! )

I got 10/11. The one I missed is so embarrassing I won't say! :rolleyes: But not bad for a yank, eh?

That's right, I forgot there were 300 million of you. it's not just your foreign policy that's detestable. Your domestic policies are as well. What about the Patriot Actas an example? Robbing people of their rights in the name of security? Very patriotic.

It reminds me of Germany in the 1930s TBH...

blondie83

Originally posted by doodle_sketch
9/11, only the one about the Constitution date and the presidence list wrong...

Same here, just had a lot of lucky guesses really, and knew a few from the Simpsons. Does anyone know how many you actually need to get right to become a citizen? It would be interesting to find out what the average American scored on this test:cool:

Badbonez

Originally posted by ChipZilla
That's right, I forgot there were 300 million of you. it's not just your foreign policy that's detestable. Your domestic policies are as well. What about the Patriot Actas an example? Robbing people of their rights in the name of security? Very patriotic.

Hopefully we'll get our country back in November.

It reminds me of Germany in the 1930s TBH...

Well, there's the end of this thread. :rolleyes:

ChipZilla

Originally posted by Badbonez
Hopefully we'll get our country back in November.

I hope so too, but it'll be interesting to see if the Patriot Act etc is repealed.

Originally posted by Badbonez

Well, there's the end of this thread. :rolleyes:

I dunno, i'd like to see more discussion on similarities like:
Indefinite detention without trial. The US has banged up it's own citizens in Guantanamo and military prisons within the US. Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla are two names which spring to mind. These guys had not been captured fighting against US forces anywhere in the world, unlike John Walker Lindh who at least got a trial.

Read Bruno Bettelheim's "The Informed Heart" sometime, and tell me it's no different from what we see happening in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib today.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140137165/qid=1088879276/sr=8-4/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i4_xgl14/103-9719900-6440641?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Citizens being so distracted, disinformed and complacent they allow the perpetration of hate against "different" sections of the population. In Germany's case it was the communists and then the Jews. The US has it's "illegal combatants" and Muslims.

The similarities between the Patriot Act and The Nazi Party's Enabling Act are scary. The CIA now has the power to spy on it's own citizens. Now, where did that happen before? The FBI and police can now investigate any citizen they choose simply because they use their First Amendment rights to express dissent with the "mainstream" view. Sound familiar? And here's what they planned for a follow-up to the Patriot Act:

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/bannedbks/censorbybigbro.html#070203c

And so on... Lets discuss, or move to the Politics forum if anybody would prefer?

Mossy Monk

6/11

most of what i know is from the simpsons

Hobbes

If your from Afganistan all you need to do is hand over some terrorists and you get a passport.

Stephen

5/11.

If bush is re-elected I'll cry. Maybe he'll cheat again.

Evil Genius

Question 12.

Complete the following popular chant at international sporting events.

U.S.....
(a) A
(b) B
(c) C
(d) D


7/11 btw...

Silverfish

11/11

Now I'm going to see if they'll let me into the marines as well.

Badbonez

Originally posted by ChipZilla

And so on... Lets discuss, or move to the Politics forum if anybody would prefer?

Yeah, I'll look in the politics section to see if there's anything interesting. But I can't defend the patriot act and it seems you're looking for a good debate. Sorry, I can't. The act itself is 342 pages, mostly changing previous laws which are only mentioned by section number. Anyone who is not a US constitutional lawyer and claims to understand it fully is full of ****. And although I haven't read it (and I suspect, neither have you) I still disagree in principal with the idea that law enforcement needs fewer checks and balances. So you won't get a debate out of me.

But if a lively discussion crops up in politics, I'd check it out.

sceptre

Originally posted by Badbonez
I still disagree in principal with the idea that law enforcement needs fewer checks and balances.

it isn't the quantity of checks and balances that are at issue. It's the quality of checks and balances that are at issue. And the presentation of the whole thing as a panacea. A series of electric fences guarding a field is fine in principle. It may even be fine if there's a rabbit hole the size of a pig at one end, though it's obviously less useful. What potentially makes it almost worse than a simple system is when it's presented, even with a pig-sized rabbit hole, as an actual solution. Or even as a significant part of a solution if you're in fear of rabbits. And it must be annoying when you still have all those rabbits getting in the hole (or capable of getting in the hole) when the front gate is barricaded up and you have to take special steps to get out when you want. In other words, you've essentially given away something big in exchange for something small that realistically shouldn't even help you sleep better at night. At least we know what the price of freedom roughly is. 3000 people, two buildings, some considerable inconvenience and a truckload of paranoia, some of it fuelled internally.

Politics forum if you like, take it over there and I'll look on Monday. I haven't read all of the Patriot Act as I can't stand the USC reference system but I've read a reasonable aount of it. Either way, as you might expect, most people's views of it probably depend on their definition of what "freedom" is, which parts of that definition they're not prepared to sacrifice and which parts they're willing to sacrifice to keep the bits important to them. Discussion on the latter part probably belongs in Humanities, it's a tad more laid back and less doom and brimstone over there.

Victor

Originally posted by Silverfish
11/11 Now I'm going to see if they'll let me into the marines as well.

Nah, sorry, you look to intelligent to be a jarhead

Moriarty

Originally posted by Victor
Nah, sorry, you look to intelligent to be a jarhead

So you'll fit right in then?

Sleepy

9/11 got the one about the year the constitution was written and the number of ammendments to it.

Seems like I've about as much regard for their constitution as their government does. Does this mean I get president?