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15/15: One for our side! Joel Send a noteboard - 01/10/2010 01:05:11 PM
The title "US Religious Knowledge Quiz" is regrettably ambiguous. Is it about American knowledge of religion, or knowledge of American religion? Apparently the latter, based on the last five questions, which are the only really difficult ones. That said, there are enough variations of two of the possible answers to the nirvana question that I think either of them ought to qualify, though it is more closely associated with one of them. And if you'd paid more attention to my oft stated reasons for admiring a certain US politician (until he was proven a liar) the last one would've been much easier. :P It's definitely Americocentric though; I wouldn't have gotten one of them if I hadn't graduated from a US public HS. Heck, for most of this decade the fundie right insisted that kids were being kicked out of school for reading their bibles silently. Aaaah, it's like having my heart ripped out cell by cell.... :[
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Religious quiz - 01/10/2010 10:58:44 AM 1466 Views
Yeah, the last one is hard. - 01/10/2010 11:03:46 AM 982 Views
Hah! Athiests 1 Religion 0! - 01/10/2010 11:14:36 AM 888 Views
Atheists 2! - 01/10/2010 11:54:42 AM 922 Views
Go team atheist! *NM* - 01/10/2010 12:00:07 PM 428 Views
I think that from this scientific experiment - 01/10/2010 12:08:22 PM 1125 Views
I got it and I usually skipped the Great Awakening in my history classes - 01/10/2010 11:32:47 AM 932 Views
I think in history classes outside the US the topic is omitted altogether. *NM* - 01/10/2010 11:36:41 AM 426 Views
I'm fairly sure it isn't seen as a must know in the British educational system *NM* - 01/10/2010 11:42:07 AM 466 Views
Quite. And certainly not in New Zealand. *NM* - 01/10/2010 11:55:27 AM 448 Views
I'm sure you're right, but it shouldn't be, because the formative influence was/is huge. - 01/10/2010 01:15:09 PM 1157 Views
Well, in university level American history courses, I'm sure it's mentioned. - 01/10/2010 01:20:56 PM 1053 Views
I think when a country becomes a world power you need to cover more of its past. - 01/10/2010 02:00:54 PM 1081 Views
Depends on how much that past mingles with yours. - 01/10/2010 02:08:35 PM 1108 Views
Seems more like it depends on how the present mingles. - 01/10/2010 02:21:56 PM 999 Views
Well. Not so much. - 01/10/2010 02:28:55 PM 953 Views
I can see NZ taking that view, sure. - 01/10/2010 03:11:21 PM 1100 Views
But more important, I would stay, is understanding your own country - 01/10/2010 02:34:22 PM 1166 Views
That last certainly seems to be NZ's point of view. *NM* - 01/10/2010 02:34:59 PM 482 Views
Either New Zealand is a head of the game - 01/10/2010 02:36:25 PM 912 Views
Always. Which country was it gave women the vote first? Hmmm? - 01/10/2010 02:38:39 PM 1090 Views
Quit ruining my sneering at New Zealand *NM* - 01/10/2010 02:39:59 PM 443 Views
Yeah, I worry about Oceania. - 01/10/2010 02:55:23 PM 1002 Views
NZ and China have a good relationship. *NM* - 01/10/2010 02:56:39 PM 425 Views
There's little cause for them to argue at present. - 01/10/2010 03:15:18 PM 1023 Views
Certainly. - 01/10/2010 02:48:50 PM 967 Views
The last one is probably the most Americocentric. - 01/10/2010 12:54:30 PM 1172 Views
Protestant Americocentric. - 01/10/2010 01:19:20 PM 1004 Views
True. - 01/10/2010 01:32:58 PM 1263 Views
They're a bunch of fucking Calvinist heretics. - 01/10/2010 09:33:56 PM 983 Views
Which, historically, have produced a LOT of revolutionaries. - 01/10/2010 11:09:52 PM 1181 Views
15/15: One for our side! - 01/10/2010 01:05:11 PM 932 Views
I'd say it is the last 6 which are Americocentric - 01/10/2010 01:17:44 PM 929 Views
Ya'll get your share of Mormons, I believe. - 01/10/2010 01:37:40 PM 1081 Views
I never even heard of mormons 'til I was 18-20. - 01/10/2010 01:46:04 PM 1051 Views
Yes, but you live at the North Pole. - 01/10/2010 01:54:57 PM 1069 Views
Even if they have to do it by baptising every graveyard in the UK? - 01/10/2010 02:47:40 PM 1103 Views
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do. - 01/10/2010 03:19:24 PM 975 Views
It is jsut a general rule not to do it to the dead - 01/10/2010 03:24:51 PM 1109 Views
Right, you're supposed to be baptized FOR the dead. - 01/10/2010 03:31:50 PM 1043 Views
13/15 - 01/10/2010 02:03:36 PM 1152 Views
It is on Saturday, but Jewish religious days start at sunset of the evening before. - 01/10/2010 02:08:10 PM 873 Views
Darn, beaten by a technicality! - 01/10/2010 02:10:42 PM 822 Views
I think christianity used to as well? - 01/10/2010 02:38:48 PM 953 Views
Some denominations still do. - 01/10/2010 03:28:48 PM 1042 Views
Re: Calendars - 01/10/2010 03:37:59 PM 1074 Views
Godless commies.... - 01/10/2010 03:47:17 PM 1010 Views
I guessed a couple but only missed the last one *NM* - 01/10/2010 02:32:26 PM 411 Views
I did not get 15, so one more for the atheists. - 01/10/2010 02:43:41 PM 1105 Views
Excellent - 01/10/2010 03:10:27 PM 1040 Views
Holla! *NM* - 01/10/2010 03:10:30 PM 419 Views
15 - 01/10/2010 02:49:04 PM 909 Views
13. Not surprised on the two I missed. didn't like that buddhism question. - 01/10/2010 03:10:54 PM 1010 Views
Yeah, that one I had to think about for a second. - 01/10/2010 03:44:53 PM 1057 Views
14 of 15 - 04/10/2010 02:44:17 AM 1297 Views
cake and pie - 01/10/2010 03:18:14 PM 903 Views
14/15 - 01/10/2010 04:46:44 PM 920 Views
See? - 01/10/2010 04:52:47 PM 897 Views
Also 15/15 but the last one was lucky - 01/10/2010 06:01:36 PM 1193 Views
I'm pretty sure team athiesm wins by some distance - 02/10/2010 12:27:40 AM 970 Views
15 out of 15 *NM* - 01/10/2010 06:07:08 PM 438 Views
Seeing as how I took the full test and got them all right... Episcopower! - 01/10/2010 06:07:37 PM 868 Views
Especially when you then whine about how Obama is a Muslim. *NM* - 01/10/2010 06:34:57 PM 489 Views
It's because he was born in Kenya. - 01/10/2010 06:39:13 PM 909 Views
he is? - 01/10/2010 06:43:53 PM 903 Views
nonsense. he's TERRORIST!! *NM* - 01/10/2010 10:28:34 PM 432 Views
15/15 maybe too easy for a theologian *NM* - 01/10/2010 09:49:22 PM 485 Views
Yes, you cheated by being a theologian so I'm marking you down - 02/10/2010 12:40:40 AM 954 Views
Ahh boo! Not fair - 02/10/2010 07:32:27 AM 921 Views
14/15 - 01/10/2010 10:08:59 PM 838 Views
15/15. Those weren't that hard. *NM* - 01/10/2010 11:27:25 PM 398 Views
yes but no one likes you... Dang show off - 02/10/2010 12:25:06 AM 949 Views
14/15. - 01/10/2010 11:55:49 PM 920 Views
12/15 - 02/10/2010 01:53:56 AM 1213 Views
15/15 for me too - 02/10/2010 02:43:00 AM 1013 Views

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