QUIZ. How well do you know your country?

Bird · May 10, 2016

Must be gettin' old nd forgetful; only got 22 right.:ashamed:

Sodo · May 10, 2016

I got 19. One question I thought was pretty silly - I knew the answer was capitalist but 65 million US citizens accept social security (who wouldn't)? Crazy to ignore that it's a HUGE part of our economy, a huge player in the economic flow. Bill O'Reilly knows that and should have offered Socio-Capitalist as a choice seeing as one in every 5 citizens are accepting money from social security. Perhaps MORE than 1 in 5 on TBN....I bet social security buys a lot of lawn tractors....

My parents are on Social Security and it's pretty darn important. They have a decent quality of life.

Others I just couldn't remember :ashamed: but will try to get that back in order. Thanks for the prod.

HillStreet · May 10, 2016

21 of 25, I'm OK with that.

k0ua · May 10, 2016

Sodo said:
I got 19. One question I thought was pretty silly - I knew the answer was capitalist but 65 million US citizens accept social security (who wouldn't)? Crazy to ignore that it's a HUGE part of our economy, a huge player in the economic flow. Bill O'Reilly knows that and should have offered Socio-Capitalist as a choice seeing as one in every 5 citizens are accepting money from social security. Perhaps MORE than 1 in 5 on TBN....I bet social security buys a lot of lawn tractors.... My parents are on Social Security and it's pretty darn important. They have a decent quality of life.

Others I just couldn't remember :ashamed: but will try to get that back in order. Thanks for the prod.

I see social security as the possibility of getting some of my own money back that I have paid into for decades. If that money had been wisely invested I would now be very wealthy. But it wasn't .

buckeyefarmer · May 10, 2016

When i draw SS, i'll be getting my money back.....

hawkeye08 · May 10, 2016

25/25, but then again, I am not from Australia (not picking on you, but pointing out it is really a US based set of questions)...

oldpilgrim · May 10, 2016

Anyone who grew up in the 50's knew all of that stuff by the 4th grade. I remember my 4th grade teacher, Mrs Maley, drumming it all into my head in 1955-56.

And I remembered all of it. 25/25. She did a good job.

dickfoster · May 10, 2016

I got them all.
It's too bad no one ever asks who the father of the constitution was. Everyone knows about Jefferson and the decleration of independance but few know that James Madison was the principal author and drafter of our constitution. Madison was almost Jefferson's neighbor as Montpelier is just the next county away from Monticello. Monroe was Jefferson's next door neighbor as Highland aka Ash Lawn is just next door to Monticello. We can thank Monroe for the bill of rights as he was one of the principals of the group insisting on its inclusion before they'd ratify the constitution. It's worth the trip to visit all their homes. It was quite a neighborhood.

Sodo · May 10, 2016

I want to see Monticello. I'm a Jefferson fan. Now I want to see Madison & Monroes too.

dickfoster · May 10, 2016

Sodo said:
I want to see Monticello. I'm a Jefferson fan. Now I want to see Madison & Monroes too.

Well you can do them all in a single day if you want. When you do Monticello you're already at Ash Lawn and Montpelier is just a short drive away up hwy 20. I've always been a big Jefferson fan too. Jefferson is my favorite president and Madison is number 2 for me. I could look out the window and see the grounds of Monticello from my 1st grade classroom. Virginia is known as the mother of presidents. There's lot's of history in that state.