I suppose some of you are still reeling from that nasty-ass quiz on the Periodic Table last week. Look at it this way: just how often do you really need to know about the atomic weight of Gallium anyway?
This quiz should make you feel a little better. It’s a geography quiz appearing in the St. Louis Dispatch based on the 2006 National Geographic survey of geographic literacy among Americans aged 18-24 (a.k.a “The Dumbest Generation”). There are only eight questions, and I would expect anyone who is a regular reader here to be able to answer all eight correctly. If you do, pat yourself on the back that’s you’re smarter than those damn youngsters even if you can’t spell Molybdenum.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
Oh. Shut. Up.
Missed Afganistan “by that much” chief.
Did equally well/poorly on the Dead Quiz.
“That is why the infidels have so much trouble finding me.”
HAHAHAHAHA!
p.s. I only lost an arm, going by random choice. That’s not very dead, I think.
p.p.s. re: above: I wasn’t laughing at you, GLS – it just struck me as very, very funny. I must need coffee or something…
weren’t the kids allowed to use google, or something? i got all 8, but only because i cheated. anyone who’s ever driven anywhere with me can tell you geography is not my strong point.
Several of those questions had nothing to do with geography (which is probably why I got some of them right, whereas I couldn’t place Afghanistan and I blew the fortified border question.) I’m with GLS: Shut. Up.