xxx

I've always felt that memorizing state capitals was sort of a useless exercise.

missed

Got 19-20 and missed the religion question.<BR><BR>I did pass the how to put a condom on a banana question which is what US public schools are teaching our kids instead of geography!

Jim Rosenberg

There is a pattern developing here on the religion question. Do we have grounds for a challenge?

xxx

I'm from Canada and the only one I got wrong was the population of the USA.

Sue

I didnt say immigrants in general I said the one's who don't teach their children English before they enter school and then the kids have to catch up. I know what I am talking about, I have seen it. <BR>It is the school system and the parents who dont encourage intelligent curiousity.

european

americans are so stupid!

zzz

Hey &quot;European&quot;: no need to start acting up. That will only get the thread deleted.

jules

I also missed only the religion question. Shame!<BR><BR>According to adherents.com, the top five list is:<BR>Christianity: 2 billion<BR>Islam: 1.3 billion<BR>Hinduism: 900 million<BR>Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 850 million<BR>Buddhism: 360 million<BR>Their footnote: these are approximate estimates, and are here mainly for the purpose of ordering the groups, not providing a definitive number.<BR>

Chloe

Fun little test. Been about 20 years since I was 20. I guess this shows we should be giving more subscriptions of NG to the kids we know. <BR><BR>When I was in grade school (in N. Calif.)we spent almost no time of geography. Many of these q's had to do with general knowledge, current events, and a couple with common sense.<BR><BR>I did find it very scary that so many 18-24 year olds in the US didn't know the Taliban and al-Qaeda were based in Afghanistan considering the US's ongoing involvement there. What's up with that???

Kath

I'm from the states and I missed only the religion question. I love maps and Geography though! Boy, those Swedes have got it down don't they?

Elaine

I majored in Geography (30 years ago) so getting 20 out of 20 is what I hoped to get (and did, thankfully). I could tell these would be difficult questions for those who do not travel. Geography is just not taught like it should be.<BR><BR>As far as Christianity, Catholicism itself is highly entrenched in all of Latin American and big in North America and Europe. Then put Protestants on top of that and yes, it beats out Islam. However, the world is a changing place and Islam is sure growing.

Spider

I thought the test was easy (20/20 correct), and I was educated in US public schools. Who are all these dumb kids that they find to take these tests? I think that almost everyone in the school that I went to would have passed this test easily. Where is the Pacific ocean? How could ANYONE get that wrong? Maybe I was just lucky...<BR><BR><BR>

kavey

Hmmm<BR>I got 19/ 20 and also missed the religious question.<BR>I did the test before reading anything but the first post in this thread.<BR>Interesting...<BR>Didn't find the map bit difficult at all...<BR>I do have an interest in travel though, and presumably so do most here.<BR>I know many people at the place I used to work at (a travel company) who would have scored very low.<BR>I didn't necessarily expect people to have heard of Tallinn but I did at leasy expect them to have heard of Estonia even if they couldnt place it on a map!<BR>Kavey

Art

20 out of 20. Had my son take it and he also got all 20. He is a polysci major going for his PHD though. Since most people on this board are travelers or interested in travel, I would expect that most would get most of all of them.

globe

If one can extrapolate the result of Iraq question, less than 15% of Americans could locate Iraq on the world map, to those who are for or against the war with Iraq, does it mean many people are enthusiastic about the war cause which they don't even know an elementary knowledge like their location?

eh?

Hey globe, try it once again, this time in English. What does &quot;many people are enthusiastic about the war cause which they don't even know an elementary knowledge like their location&quot; mean exactly?<BR>

uncle sam

Globe,<BR><BR>Regardless of challenged geographical skills, or in your case challenged English skills, Americans are smart enough to recognize a bad actor regarless of geographical location!<BR><BR>US<BR>

uncle sam

I believe that the Christian number is over inflated. Obviously it depends upon how they define Christian. <BR><BR>I would suggest that they quite possibly looked at &quot;Christian&quot; countries and extrapolated the numbers. They may have even counted christenings and such, which quite frankly has absolutely nothing to do with being a Christian.<BR><BR>US

samehere

I only missed the religion question as well. I had to guess at a few of them but it was more a common sense choice and I was right every time. <BR><BR>I was definitely under the same impression that it was NOT christianity for the #1 in the world considering all of the other countries with extremely large populations that do not practice Christianity.

20/20 too

what I found truly scary was that, except for Germany, the majority of respondents could not find Afghanistan on a map. In the US, the figure was 17%, in Canada 21%, UK 28%.<BR><BR>By contrast, almost everyone knew where their oil comes from (81% for the US).<BR><BR>