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Botany

(70,501 posts) Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:42 PM Dec 2013

Are you smarter than a Fox News viewer? How about a CNN viewer? Take our quiz to find out.

C.S. Monitor quiz good way to kill 3 minutes.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/1221/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out/Are-you-smarter-than-a-Fox-News-viewer-How-about-a-CNN-viewer-Take-our-quiz-to-find-out

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I missed one. Botany =

Average score is a 60%

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Are you smarter than a Fox News viewer? How about a CNN viewer? Take our quiz to find out. (Original Post) Botany Dec 2013 OP

Because of a technical situation, where the web site hung up, I "missed" two of the answers ... zbdent Dec 2013 #1

Web site problem? Botany Dec 2013 #2

Thanks, Botany! Iggo Dec 2013 #12

I'm smart enough not to click on their 20 pages of ad space for them. Orrex Dec 2013 #3

22 trackers pintobean Dec 2013 #5

got two wrong treestar Dec 2013 #4

So buggy. Don't bother seattledo Dec 2013 #6

Yeah, five of my answers didn't register JHB Dec 2013 #9

I got two wrong dsc Dec 2013 #7

Yep, got that one wrong too for the same reason. nt stevenleser Dec 2013 #10

Two wrong, and those were more from overly-hasty reading... JHB Dec 2013 #8

Missed 2. silverweb Dec 2013 #11

Not a "smarter" test so much as a gage of how well one has learned to regurgitate media noise, Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #13

Missed 3. Iggo Dec 2013 #14

zbdent

(35,392 posts)

1. Because of a technical situation, where the web site hung up, I "missed" two of the answers ...

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:49 PM

Dec 2013

and the site applied one answer incorrectly when it "caught up".

Of the ones I answered, I had 8 out of 9 correct; I would have had 10 of 11 correct.

Botany

(70,501 posts)

2. Web site problem?

Reply to zbdent (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 12:55 PM

Dec 2013

not child friendly

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

12. Thanks, Botany!

Reply to Botany (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 05:10 PM

Dec 2013

Orrex

(63,207 posts)

3. I'm smart enough not to click on their 20 pages of ad space for them.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:18 PM

Dec 2013

The whole thing could have been handled on one page and lost nothing except page views. No thanks!

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

5. 22 trackers

Reply to Orrex (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:30 PM

Dec 2013

and the pages wouldn't load.

treestar

(82,383 posts)

4. got two wrong

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:24 PM

Dec 2013

average fox viewer likely gets them all wrong.

seattledo

(295 posts)

6. So buggy. Don't bother

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:32 PM

Dec 2013

JHB

(37,159 posts)

9. Yeah, five of my answers didn't register

Reply to seattledo (Reply #6)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:43 PM

Dec 2013

In the summary at the end they appeared as if they'd been skipped.

dsc

(52,160 posts)

7. I got two wrong

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:33 PM

Dec 2013

but I think I only really got one wrong in that the quiz is old and the Afghanistan answer has changed. I think by now we have actually lowered the number of troops since the withdrawl has begun.

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)

10. Yep, got that one wrong too for the same reason. nt

Reply to dsc (Reply #7)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:45 PM

Dec 2013

JHB

(37,159 posts)

8. Two wrong, and those were more from overly-hasty reading...

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 01:41 PM

Dec 2013

...than from not knowing the answer.

silverweb

(16,402 posts)

11. Missed 2.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 05:02 PM

Dec 2013

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The one about the auto bailout and the one about the Chamber of Commerce. Still 82% correct, much better than average.

Egalitarian Thug

(12,448 posts)

13. Not a "smarter" test so much as a gage of how well one has learned to regurgitate media noise,

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 05:15 PM

Dec 2013

and from which fountain of lies one chooses to drink from.

Iggo

(47,552 posts)

14. Missed 3.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun Dec 15, 2013, 05:17 PM

Dec 2013

Car Maker Bailouts
Chamber Of Commerce
Afghanistan

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