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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsQuiz: How Well Do You Know World History? (60 questions)
http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz/16629?tr=recirc/recirc-bottom-click/17094////,1464473968,99g18jj5sarge43
(28,946 posts)liberal N proud
(60,352 posts)Your Score: 77%
World History Genius
You really know history! You should teach a class or give a talk.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,249 posts)I missed a few because I didn't go with my first choice.
I did better than I thought I would. My background is in science.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)The questions I missed - except for one - were because I was zipping through.
I took the geography quiz afterwards and got 100% on it.
I swear I could take a multiple choice test in Russian and get a passing score - and I know about two words in Russian. One of those is "Nyet."
applegrove
(118,889 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Some lucky guesses and some stupid mistakes!
applegrove
(118,889 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I missed the age of Stonehenge because I thought that recent discoveries had brought that date back further. Either the quiz or I was wrong.
ailsagirl
(22,906 posts)KUDOS!!
I found some questions easy and others not-so-- I don't know much about pre-WWII stuff, some I guessed at and flopped, some I guessed at and was right. I got 80%
It is fun to take those kinds of tests. I've another I'm going to post: Can We Guess Your Highest Education Level??
Kaleva
(36,394 posts)ailsagirl
(22,906 posts)First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...the English Renaissance was at its height under Elizabeth, and "Renaissance" is as good an answer as "Golden Age"...sue me...
cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Golden Age was indeed used for that period, but it also gets used as a general purpose phrase for lots of different periods. And you're right - the English Renaissance was in full flower around Elizabeth's reign.
I missed the computer one, because even though they weren't consumer hits like the early Apple and Texas instruments home computers, there were definitely several microcomputers being built and sold in the late 60s.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)I've never seen that period called The Golden Age. A golden age maybe. It's always Elizabethan Age
Rhiannon12866
(206,676 posts)CottonBear
(21,597 posts)That was fun mental exercise early on Sunday morning!
Y'all have great day!
Peace, CB
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)92%
Not bad for a STEM bod.
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)Missed none.
Wolf
kairos12
(12,896 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)The ads blocking where I needed to touch the answers and the lag time simply got too irritating. I got one wrong legitimately, one wrong because I was trying to close a damn ad, and one wrong because the screen jumped as I was trying to touch "Austria" for Hitler's birthplace. Made me hit "Poland", for God's sake.
Must be like voting on a Deibold machine...
libodem
(19,288 posts)70%.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)And I was trying to answer questions around the pop up ads. The one time I tried to close the ad, the x was so small I missed it and answered wrong.
Did not work well in my phone..And I'm on Wi-Fi.
Ymmv.
libodem
(19,288 posts)I second guessed myself too much and missed several. I had the baseball one by a process of elimination but poked Thomas Edison at the last second.
I admit a few foolish moves in the time lag.
ailsagirl
(22,906 posts)I've got Adblock Plus-- it's free and it gets rid of ads. The only down side is that web pages load
more slowly-- but I'd rather have that than looking at those damn ads!!