Citizenship attained, with distinction

[telophase]

Are You Smart Enough to be a (U.S.) Citizen? Theoretical citizenship test. I managed to score a 50, barely scraping into the "With Distinction" area, thanks to vague memories of middle and high school classes in American history and government. It didn't break down what I got right and what I got wrong, and I suspect all the middle-aged white men on the Supreme Court blended into one another. (I don't think it's fair to provide me with photos of Supreme Court justices and ask me to ID them from that, as I get most of my news from NPR in the mornings! Which is National Public Radio, for the non-USians reading this.)

ETA: I found the link at the bottom which leads to a page that tells you what you got right and wrong, and yup, my biggest point deductions were from mixing up middle-aged white guys on the Supreme Court.

Comments

[torachan]

Heh, I got 30 points. Citizenship attained by the skin of my teeth!

There was a lot I didn't know, and a lot of the stuff that I got right was less from knowing than being able to make a good guess based on the answers provided. (I would have done much worse if it wasn't multiple choice and I had to come up with the answer entirely on my own.)

With the judges, for example, it was very easy to identify Clarence Thomas, then Sotomayor was the latina woman, Bader-Ginsburg was the older woman, and by process of elimination, the other woman was the remaining female name, even though I don't think I've ever heard of her. ^_^;; (And with the white guys, I was at least able to get Scalia because I was like, well, this guy looks Italian... XD) But if you'd asked me off the top of my head to name supreme court justices I probably could have given you Thomas and Sotomayor and maybe not much else.

[movingfinger]

Who cares what a Supreme Court Justice looks like? They should have asked us to sort them into the typical 5-4 split.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

64! Got all the questions right. Did the male supreme court justices who weren't Scalia, Roberts, or Thomas by age; knew Breyer was the longest serving and Alito the most recent, so old guy, youngish guy, other guy. But I've always been good at anything multiple choice-y.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My voting record made up for my mistakes elsewhere. XD

[chomiji]

I mixed up a couple of the old white guys and couldn't claim but one instance of benefiting the community. Also, the Mr. helped me in a couple of places.

(And duh, my score was 48.)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

53, thanks to mixing up Breyer and Kennedy. I'm not sure how many voting points I could've gotten because I'm not sure if Town Meeting votes count, I just put in state elections.