On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:44:35 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:05:45 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:24:07 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:03:48 -0700, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:56:51 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:18:18 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Here's something to get your minds off of insults and name calling.

33 question Civics test.

Average score by Americans is 49%
Average score by college professors: 55%

I surprised myself. Apparently not as dumb as I thought I was. I scored
84.8%

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3...3-072BB31E2692

Eisboch


96.97%


http://gfretwell.com/ftp/civics%20test.jpg


I never took philosophy.

96.97% here. I wasn't alive during FDR.

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
CongressCorrect Answer: appoint additional Supreme Court justices who
shared his views

Interesting one to miss. I thought everyone knew about FDR threatening
to pack the court.

Must be a generational thing. The Socrates thing tripped me up.

That's surprising, given that you were alive then? LOL sorry.

Socrates and Plato were before my time but Aquinas was in my modern
European History class in high school.
It was all about the how uncontrolled debt and ill thought out foreign
adventures caused the fall of the Romans. ;-)

The Republicans were in charge during Aquinas' time? Wow.