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Quiz: How Well Do You Know World History? (60 questions) (Original Post) ailsagirl May 2016 OP
Missed one. n/t sarge43 May 2016 #1
That was fun liberal N proud May 2016 #2
78% TexasBushwhacker May 2016 #3
92% correct! csziggy May 2016 #4
87% applegrove May 2016 #5
Same here. femmocrat May 2016 #17
It was easy to eliminate some of the multiple choices as wrong. applegrove May 2016 #18
90% LiberalElite May 2016 #6
95% Ron Obvious May 2016 #7
You guys did really great!! ailsagirl May 2016 #8
97% correct Kaleva May 2016 #9
Wow! We Dems don't mess around when it comes to brains!! ailsagirl May 2016 #10
I missed one, but still think I was right... First Speaker May 2016 #11
Yeah, that one had poorly chosen answers cemaphonic May 2016 #12
Same here. sarge43 May 2016 #14
I did terribly on the ancient stuff, guessed on many of those, but it still said I'm a genius! Rhiannon12866 May 2016 #13
95% World History Genius CottonBear May 2016 #15
Oh the Humanities! MowCowWhoHow III May 2016 #16
100% Wolf Frankula May 2016 #19
95% kairos12 May 2016 #20
I gave up about halfway through krispos42 May 2016 #21
Freaked out over the ads libodem May 2016 #22
Irritating. each question took a long time to load, and loaded in spurts. krispos42 May 2016 #23
Same here libodem May 2016 #24
I hear you ailsagirl May 2016 #27
Too slow to load for me. WinkyDink May 2016 #25
Your Score: 77% World History Genius You really know history! trueblue2007 May 2016 #26

liberal N proud

(60,338 posts)
2. That was fun
Sat May 28, 2016, 07:12 PM
May 2016

Your Score: 77%
World History Genius
You really know history! You should teach a class or give a talk.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,204 posts)
3. 78%
Sat May 28, 2016, 07:21 PM
May 2016

I missed a few because I didn't go with my first choice.

I did better than I thought I would. My background is in science.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)
4. 92% correct!
Sat May 28, 2016, 07:57 PM
May 2016


The questions I missed - except for one - were because I was zipping through.

I took the geography quiz afterwards and got 100% on it.

I swear I could take a multiple choice test in Russian and get a passing score - and I know about two words in Russian. One of those is "Nyet."
 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
7. 95%
Sat May 28, 2016, 08:26 PM
May 2016

I missed the age of Stonehenge because I thought that recent discoveries had brought that date back further. Either the quiz or I was wrong.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)
8. You guys did really great!!
Sat May 28, 2016, 08:47 PM
May 2016

KUDOS!!

I found some questions easy and others not-so-- I don't know much about pre-WWII stuff, some I guessed at and flopped, some I guessed at and was right. I got 80%

It is fun to take those kinds of tests. I've another I'm going to post: Can We Guess Your Highest Education Level??

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
11. I missed one, but still think I was right...
Sat May 28, 2016, 10:59 PM
May 2016

...the English Renaissance was at its height under Elizabeth, and "Renaissance" is as good an answer as "Golden Age"...sue me...

cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)
12. Yeah, that one had poorly chosen answers
Sun May 29, 2016, 12:37 AM
May 2016

Golden Age was indeed used for that period, but it also gets used as a general purpose phrase for lots of different periods. And you're right - the English Renaissance was in full flower around Elizabeth's reign.

I missed the computer one, because even though they weren't consumer hits like the early Apple and Texas instruments home computers, there were definitely several microcomputers being built and sold in the late 60s.

sarge43

(28,941 posts)
14. Same here.
Sun May 29, 2016, 05:19 AM
May 2016

I've never seen that period called The Golden Age. A golden age maybe. It's always Elizabethan Age

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)
15. 95% World History Genius
Sun May 29, 2016, 06:41 AM
May 2016

That was fun mental exercise early on Sunday morning!

Y'all have great day!

Peace, CB

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
21. I gave up about halfway through
Mon May 30, 2016, 08:48 AM
May 2016

The ads blocking where I needed to touch the answers and the lag time simply got too irritating. I got one wrong legitimately, one wrong because I was trying to close a damn ad, and one wrong because the screen jumped as I was trying to touch "Austria" for Hitler's birthplace. Made me hit "Poland", for God's sake.

Must be like voting on a Deibold machine...

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
23. Irritating. each question took a long time to load, and loaded in spurts.
Mon May 30, 2016, 10:59 AM
May 2016

And I was trying to answer questions around the pop up ads. The one time I tried to close the ad, the x was so small I missed it and answered wrong.

Did not work well in my phone..And I'm on Wi-Fi.

Ymmv.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
24. Same here
Mon May 30, 2016, 11:07 AM
May 2016

I second guessed myself too much and missed several. I had the baseball one by a process of elimination but poked Thomas Edison at the last second.

I admit a few foolish moves in the time lag.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)
27. I hear you
Mon May 30, 2016, 04:40 PM
May 2016

I've got Adblock Plus-- it's free and it gets rid of ads. The only down side is that web pages load
more slowly-- but I'd rather have that than looking at those damn ads!!

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