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.
