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Fink Angel
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2008.03.17 20:40:00 -
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Edited by: Fink Angel on 17/03/2008 20:42:15
No, not "pew pew news" ! 
I just did this quiz on US related news and did better than 48% of the general public. Thing is, I'm from the UK, so that's not too bad. 
Anyone else fancy having a go at it, no cheating!
Edit: Er, the link would be handy I guess! 
http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/
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Imperator Jora'h
Hedion University
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:05:00 -
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69% here but honestly I should have scored better. Only one of the questions I got wrong was I totally clueless about. One I had down to a 50/50 chance and guessed wrong (and the guess was damn close). One I dunno what I was thinking...I definitely knew it.
Ahh well, I still scored better than any demographic listed.
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Micia
Thrace Inc
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:08:00 -
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76
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Orion Eridanus
Dark Nova Crisis
Chain of Chaos
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:16:00 -
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91% and I don't even follow the news or politics 
Originally by: Paulo Damarr
That is a most Excellent Drake fitting, you are lucky to have survived.
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Kyanzes
Utopian Research I.E.L.
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:18:00 -
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A serious 23  I basically knew everything that's connected to Europe and Asia and happened to know Rice. I don't know the varios committee presidnets and similar stuff. I don't feel that ashamed actually.
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Tarminic
Forsaken Resistance
The Last Stand
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:26:00 -
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76% I IS SMART.
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Tarminic - 33 Million SP in Forum Warfare
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Sephra Star
The Galactic Collective
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:36:00 -
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I got a 76, but one of the questions I got wrong was the number of US service members dead from the war.
It is an old test from back when the count was 4,000 and I answered current at 6000.
The reality is that it is far more than the official numbers anyway. For instance they don't count you as a casualty if you make it to Germany and die.
Also it is against the law to keep track of the bodies returned home to America. You get arrested for taking a picture of a flag draped coffin these days. That may sound absurd, but it is true.
I missed the Senate Majority Leader and the DOW average.
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Magnus Nordir
Asimov Industries
Zeroth Continuum
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:43:00 -
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65%, and I couldn't care any less about the US&A.
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Everything is possible for him who believes.
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Fink Angel
The Merry Men
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:45:00 -
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No matter how hard I try, I can never remember who are Democrats and which bunch are Republicans. Is there an mnemonic or anything that helps?
I would have got the Dow index right if it was today rather than a couple of months ago, and wrong again if it's tomorrow! 
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Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2008.03.17 21:54:00 -
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83%, and I'm British
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Dark Shikari
Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2008.03.17 22:05:00 -
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97th percentile, got them all right.
Haruhiists - Overloading Out of Pod discussions since 2007. |
Sephra Star
The Galactic Collective
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Posted - 2008.03.18 01:56:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
97th percentile, got them all right.
No you did not. The test answer was wrong on the casualties from Iraq.
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Dark Shikari
Sharks With Frickin' Laser Beams
Mercenary Coalition
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:09:00 -
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Edited by: Dark Shikari on 18/03/2008 02:10:49
Originally by: Sephra Star
Originally by: Dark Shikari
97th percentile, got them all right.
No you did not. The test answer was wrong on the casualties from Iraq.
Wrong.
"As of January 10, 2008 3,431 of the 4,228 total coalition military deaths were by hostile fire. 3,201 of the 3,921 total U.S. deaths were by hostile fire."
Unless we've had at least 1000 deaths or so in the past two months, the answer is still correct.
Haruhiists - Overloading Out of Pod discussions since 2007. |
Admiral Pelleon
White Shadow Imperium
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:17:00 -
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Originally by: Magnus Nordir
65%, and I couldn't care any less about the US&A.
Just remember, our economies are linked in many ways.
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Originally by: Tarminic
I believe your mother should have re-rolled her birth control.
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Sephra Star
The Galactic Collective
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:21:00 -
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Originally by: Dark Shikari
"As of January 10, 2008 3,431 of the 4,228 total coalition military deaths were by hostile fire. 3,201 of the 3,921 total U.S. deaths were by hostile fire."
Unless we've had at least 1000 deaths or so in the past two months, the answer is still correct.
Would you be interested in buying some farmland in the Everglades, or perhaps a couple of bridges? If you take it as a package deal I might be able to throw in a Great Lake, or two and make you a real good price.
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Orion Eridanus
Dark Nova Crisis
Chain of Chaos
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:28:00 -
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DS theres no point in arguing with Sephra, he's one of those people that refuses to be brainwashed and creates their own facts to fit his own personal beliefs
Originally by: Paulo Damarr
That is a most Excellent Drake fitting, you are lucky to have survived.
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Brea Lafail
Center for Advanced Studies
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:33:00 -
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69%, not american, and haven't watched TV in ages. Got all the non-US questions right...
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Sephra Star
The Galactic Collective
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Posted - 2008.03.18 02:39:00 -
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Edited by: Sephra Star on 18/03/2008 02:39:59
Originally by: Orion Eridanus
DS theres no point in arguing with Sephra, he's one of those people that refuses to be brainwashed and creates their own facts to fit his own personal beliefs
Really? Why not add in the walking dead to the casualty figures. Something they did not do in the first Gulf War.
Depleted Uranium Death Toll among US War Veterans Tops 11,000
Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story
by James P. Tucker Jr.
Global Research, October 29, 2006
American Free Press
The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony PrincipiFs departure as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.
This view was expressed by Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.
Read it and weep...
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Admiral Pelleon
White Shadow Imperium
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Posted - 2008.03.18 04:16:00 -
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Originally by: Sephra Star
Edited by: Sephra Star on 18/03/2008 02:51:25
Originally by: Orion Eridanus
DS theres no point in arguing with Sephra, he's one of those people that refuses to be brainwashed and creates their own facts to fit his own personal beliefs
Really? Why not add in the walking dead to the casualty figures. Something they did not do in the first Gulf War.
Depleted Uranium Death Toll among US War Veterans Tops 11,000
Nationwide Media Blackout Keeps U.S. Public Ignorant About This Important Story
by James P. Tucker Jr.
Global Research, October 29, 2006
American Free Press
The death toll from the highly toxic weapons component known as depleted uranium (DU) has reached 11,000 soldiers and the growing scandal may be the reason behind Anthony PrincipiFs departure as secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department.
This view was expressed by Arthur Bernklau, executive director of Veterans for Constitutional Law in New York, writing in Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter.
Read it and weep...
P.S. As a side note right at the time Falluja hit and we began having the largest influx of wounded Americans returning home; for some strange reason x6 Veterans Hospitals were closed down nationwide and some 50,000 Government Doctors and Nurses were laid off.
Which shows you what, that the government is actively TRYING to kill it's own soldiers? Sure they are.
Also, link all of this information, with corresponding information showing how many new hospitals were opened in the same period and then you MIGHT have a case.
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Originally by: Tarminic
I believe your mother should have re-rolled her birth control.
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Sephra Star
The Galactic Collective
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Posted - 2008.03.18 05:25:00 -
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Edited by: Sephra Star on 18/03/2008 05:32:15
It is pretty easy to look up the continuing yearly VA Hospital budget cuts. Do your own Googling. The latest gift to Veterans was to slash the contruction budget for 2009 in half and another 10 billion in other areas over the next 5 years when it will be needed the most.
Of course to save the troops from lack of health care we have devised an ingenious solution, which is to just let them continue in combat tour after tour after tour after tour. Then after they come home the fallout from their depleted uranium exposure will likely have all of us aglow.
Its not all bad though. The funding for cemeteries was increased.
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:24:00 -
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Edited by: Akita T on 18/03/2008 07:27:16
Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.
Hooray for Romania \o/
Although I must admit, I merely guessed (process of elimination first) for a couple of them.
P.S. The one I got "wrong" was obviously the one so heavily disputed in here, number of alleged Iraq casualties.
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Sqalevon
Masuat'aa Matari
Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2008.03.18 07:48:00 -
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Edited by: Sqalevon on 18/03/2008 07:50:57
scored 7/12
not bad from someone from the netherlands who doesnt even watch the news.
EDIT:
LOL on every question, men did better, except the Oprah Winfrey question :o)
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Ch Tang
Ch Tang Corp
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Posted - 2008.03.18 08:25:00 -
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97%. Current events is a hobby.
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Adonis 4174
White Wolf Enterprises
Harmonious Ascent
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Posted - 2008.03.18 11:34:00 -
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I got the political slant in it if that helps?
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Avon
Black Nova Corp
Band of Brothers
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Posted - 2008.03.18 11:47:00 -
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Being the stupidest person in all of Eve, I managed to fail to answer any question correctly.
Then again, I didn't actually do the test anyway, so maybe not so dumb afterall?
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Kyanzes
Utopian Research I.E.L.
Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2008.03.18 11:55:00 -
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Originally by: Adonis 4174
I got the political slant in it if that helps?
Also with an obligatory Federal Reserve reference.
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Kirjava
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.03.18 11:57:00 -
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48%, admittedly if it weren't multiple choice I wouldn't have done so well.
Haruhiists - Overloading Out of Pod discussions since 2007. |
Chainsaw Plankton
IDLE GUNS
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Posted - 2008.03.18 17:33:00 -
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You correctly answered 10 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 83% of the general public.
woo!
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