Can you pass Thomas Edison's Employment test?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

@Steve:
Can't you SEE Pike's Peak from Utah if you just look east?

Uh, no.

Not from where I'm at, anyway. Of course it doesn't help that for some reason I thought it was in California. Funny part is, I know who Zebulon Pike was.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Funny part is, I know who Zebulon Pike was.

He was the Captain of the Enterprise before Jim Kirk right?

[August]

You guys are looking at this test with 21st century eyes when it was designed for (an early) 20th century man. Bet they wouldn't have done so well.

[Herr-Berbunch]

14/17 Do I pass

Did not know what cotton gin was, most disappointed to find out it's not a drink made from juniper berries!

Nor did I know the second-smallest state.

Nor did I know the largest state in '21 (that's 1921 for those looking from beyond 2021).

If I was American I may have known them, but then I wouldn't have thought I'd known about the other countries.

[RickC Sniper]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

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Funny part is, I know who Zebulon Pike was.

Odd but interesting how our brains decide to retain "this" piece of information but not "that" piece of information.

[August]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

Odd but interesting how our brains decide to retain "this" piece of information but not "that" piece of information.

Zebulon Pike is a hard name to forget!

[CaptainMattJ.]

i missed "where was the tierra del fuego" as i was going to put argentina, but thought against it

also missed pikes peak and the badlands.

I was actually amazed i knew all the other stuff though. My history teachers hardly taught me anything, as either i knew it all already or they kept babbling on about the emotions and whatever nonsense that could've obviously been inferred or they ranted about things that really didnt matter.

Thats why i really didnt like my English classes. They forced you to read (at least in my case) some painfully dull books. And they would rant about how every paragraph of the book was symbolizing the world in some way. Instead of simply reading the book and Maybe every so often ask those types of questions, they would try to break the story down page by page and get lost in flurries of tangents that, in all honesty, didnt make sense anyway.

But i think that little history quiz in the link was easy as pie.

THEN AGAIN, those old timers had to just know itby heart, without multiple choice. Mightve gotten a couple more wrong..., and they couldve marked off answers that were partly right but didnt fit a certain criteria

[soopaman2]

That would have killed the average American of the time.

Give it 10 years, it will kill that generation too. If you keep letting them blame teachers (and police and firefighters) for deficits (like here in NJ)