What Do You Know About Civics?

No, not a Honda quiz:

http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/take-the-quiz-what-we-don-t-know.all.html

Take the challenge and report your results, if so inclined.

For me, 19 of 20 correct; missing one pee'd me off.

19/20. Missed the Speaker of the House being next in line, thought it was the Secretary of State.

damn, 18/20, although it is amazing how many people don't even know about this, especially in the younger generation of today, mainly because the history class is garbage

what do I know about Civics? They look awesome with lambo doors and were really fast in the Fast and the Furious

I missed; federalists, # of supreem court justices, current speaker.

18/20, missed the number of supreme court justices and number of constitutional amendments.

19/20. Missed the number of voting Representatives in the House. Shame on me!!! The real shocker to me was how many people didn't know what economic system we use. Yikes.

I missed WWI president and number of Amendments (I thought we had one fewer.)

18/20. Couldn't remember Woodrow Wilson, abd thought we had 26 Amendments.

19/20 Got the number of admendments wrong as well.

19/20 -- Couldn't remember the number of Representatives...

16/20, but only because I think I may have over thought it. I thought there were more more amendments and more authors to the federalist papers.

oldsaw wrote: No, not a Honda quiz: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/take-the-quiz-what-we-don-t-know.all.html Take the challenge and report your results, if so inclined. For me, 19 of 20 correct; missing one pee'd me off.

20/20.. Cause I'm awesome.

16/20: # of Ammendments, # of Reps, WW1 Pres, and Current Speaker.

Yeah, I'm pretty bad with names and numbers.

mtn wrote: 19/20. Missed the Speaker of the House being next in line, thought it was the Secretary of State.

Didn't you learn anything from Al Haig?

Woody wrote:

mtn wrote: 19/20. Missed the Speaker of the House being next in line, thought it was the Secretary of State.

Didn't you learn anything from Al Haig?

Well, no... I was born in 1990, nine years after Mr. Haig made his comments.

I'm assuming Haig was Reagan's Secretary of State, this was just barely mentioned in my government class so my memory could be wrong.

18 as well I couldn't remember John Boehner's name and I too thought the Federalist papers had more authors.

WTF login required?

Publius!

mtn wrote: 19/20. Missed the Speaker of the House being next in line, thought it was the Secretary of State.

Funny story, a speaker at my University years ago was the Secretary of Education. He was invited to a black tie affair in DC, but at the last minute the Secret Service came and told him he was not allowed to attend because he was the last guy on the line of succession. For security reasons, the entire line could not be in the same place at the same time.

According to Wiki, there are two below that post, but it may have been different in the late 80's.

President of the United States - Barack Obama
1 Vice President of the United States - Joe Biden
2 Speaker of the House - John Boehner
3 President pro tempore of the Senate - Daniel Inouye
4 Secretary of State - Hillary Rodham Clinton
5 Secretary of the Treasury - Timothy Geithner
6 Secretary of Defense - Robert Gates
7 Attorney General - Eric Holder
8 Secretary of the Interior - Ken Salazar
9 Secretary of Agriculture - Tom Vilsack
10 Secretary of Commerce - Gary Locke
11 Secretary of Labor - Hilda Solis
12 Secretary of Health and Human Services - Kathleen Sebelius
13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Shaun Donovan
14 Secretary of Transportation - Ray LaHood
15 Secretary of Energy - Steven Chu
16 Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan
17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Eric Shinseki
18 Secretary of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano

There was no Secretary of Homeland Security in the 80's.

pinchvalve wrote:

mtn wrote: 19/20. Missed the Speaker of the House being next in line, thought it was the Secretary of State.

Funny story, a speaker at my University years ago was the Secretary of Education. He was invited to a black tie affair in DC, but at the last minute the Secret Service came and told him he was not allowed to attend because he was the last guy on the line of succession. For security reasons, the entire line could not be in the same place at the same time. According to Wiki, there are two below that post, but it may have been different in the late 80's. President of the United States - Barack Obama 1 Vice President of the United States - Joe Biden 2 Speaker of the House - John Boehner 3 President pro tempore of the Senate - Daniel Inouye 4 Secretary of State - Hillary Rodham Clinton 5 Secretary of the Treasury - Timothy Geithner 6 Secretary of Defense - Robert Gates 7 Attorney General - Eric Holder 8 Secretary of the Interior - Ken Salazar 9 Secretary of Agriculture - Tom Vilsack 10 Secretary of Commerce - Gary Locke 11 Secretary of Labor - Hilda Solis 12 Secretary of Health and Human Services - Kathleen Sebelius 13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Shaun Donovan 14 Secretary of Transportation - Ray LaHood 15 Secretary of Energy - Steven Chu 16 Secretary of Education - **Laura Roslyn** 17 Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Eric Shinseki 18 Secretary of Homeland Security - Janet Napolitano

FIFY --> now where are those dammed cylons?

They're made by Honda and I do NOT like them.