I find it disturbing that 11% of Americans couldn’t find the United States on a map of the world. (Only 3% of Mexicans couldn’t find Mexico.) I got 18 of 20. How did you do?

No, But my planet looks like this from space!

My country? I was born in Germany, I am Iranian, and I was raised in the US. So I guess I m from more than one country.

The Mexicans are pretty clueless according to that survey.

i learned two things today...

i'm not as smart as i think i am (16/20)

and

Swedish people are VERY smart.

lillith said:

I'd be proud of 16/20, I only got 14.

I missed the religion question only because I really don't give a damn.

Other than that, PERFECT.

i missed the first one ... then i went on a roll !

(altho a couple of the ??? coulda been harder (if they put sweden and finland in the multiple choices, for example)

suomynona said:

What's a map?

Missed 3.. One being US population I pushed it up

Oops this is a test. I missed 5.

WE ARE HERE, WHERE ARE YOU, EVERYBODY ROCK TO THE NEW BOOGIE GROOVE!

Piece of Piss 20/20

I got 18/20 correct. I am not surprised that many people in the U.S. don't know much about other countries. I was educated in Canada and we are taught quite a lot about history and geography in other countries. I have heard that the U.S public school system bascially teaches their own and not much about any other country.

chemmie said:

same exact thing with me

18 of 20. I underestimated the U.S. population and had a blond moment in which I thought Afganistan was slightly farther west.

20 out of 20. Who da man?

lillith said:

yeah, if i have kids (as if that's ever gonna happen), they're going to sweden for their education...

suomynona said:

I´m from Sweden and I got 20/20. I think it´s because it´s such a small country and we´re bound to look beyond our borders sooner rather than later.

I don´t want to pick on the Americans, but I must admit that it got me a little worried that 40% of them don´t know where Russia is (it´s rather hard to miss!) and a whopping 60% don´t know where Japan is!

Swedes were bad at knowing where Argentina is though and that isn´t exactly the smallest country in the world. So maybe I should keep my mouth shut...

18/20 :S
[This message was edited Wed Dec 3 2:53:41 PST 2003 by garganta]

20/20

But that was not hard, Israel, Sweden, even Afghanistan could have been much harder if the alternative choices were at least in the same continent!!

Sweden is one intelligent country!!

19/20. I didn't know which two countries had a population over a billion. I said China and Russia, but turned out to be China and India. Didn't know they could squeeze that many people into India.

20/20

This is all primary level geography (or at least it was when I was in primary school).
What's happening to our education systems ?

r1ghteousone said:

read again!3% of Mexicans are clueless while 11% of Americans are clueless.

LittlePill said:

i think its a thingie that shows different kind of thingies on it.

GermanHottie1981 said:

Oooh, yeah, I know what those thingies are! Thanks Hottie! What would us stupid Americans do without you Germans!!?
[This message was edited Wed Dec 3 8:16:47 PST 2003 by LittlePill]

i did awesome on th3 map ones...it was the other current event questions that got me

im not sure how many i got out if 20...i couldnt fins that part? (i know im an idiot)

This is why statistics can be skewed to one viewpoint or another.

Is this ALL Americans, or just Americans over 18?


If you count children, the developmentally disabled, Alzheimer's patients, brain dead (hehe obviously), etc., then that 11% doesn't seem very outrageous.

I got 19 out of 20... not bad...

violett said:

it doesn't tell you how many you got wrong... i just remembered that i missed #1 and #20 you're hardly an idiot