How would you have fared on 21? Try these authenic questions
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iPadCary — 12 years ago(July 03, 2013 06:19 AM)
I'll admit it was pretty surprising to see that
"Glass-Looking-Outside-To-Crowd" thing on the "Today" show was done in the 50s.
I thought that was a new thing the morning shows started.
Anyway, to say that people aren't dumber now than in the 50s is rediculous.
I've seen FAR too many cases of people in high school legitamately saying
Viet Nam was one of the countries we fought in World War II, not knowing who the Beatles are,
and
sophomores in beep college
never hearing of
George Washington
.
No, my friend: in 1989, a concerted effort was started to destroy people from the inside out
the whole grunge thing, the Clinton administration, wierd camera-angles in TV & movies,
reverse-cadenced, deliberately-made annoying "music", unfiltered sunlight h
[notice how pale & white, and not golden warm, sunlight's been since the 90s?], tattoos,
heroin chic, school mass shootings [guns were just as freely available before the 90s
as they are now, but we never had insane things like a Columbine not only not happen before,
but happen on a fairly regular basis .
], the adding of who-knows-what into school food
make kids develop faster but be far, far stupider, etc., etc. and the not knowing of people of
basic common facts is just a single manifestation of that effort.
And to the quiz itself, I got 12 outta 12 right.
What do I win?
B . I . L-L-T . E-T-L-E-YYYYYYY Bill Tetley! -
frog-34 — 21 years ago(February 10, 2005 11:22 AM)
I got four of them wrong: 4, 8, 11, and 12.
And I think on the whole we are getting dumber as a country. Ten and twenty years ago on "Jeopardy" you'd see categories like "The American Revolution," "The Old Testament," "World Literature," "Word Origins," and so forth. I watched "Jeopardy" every day when I was a kid back in the '80s knowing that I would learn something. Today you get categories such as "Teens in the News," "2005 Cinema," and "If Shakespeare Wrote for the WB" (read, of course, by The Clue Crew).
Remember those "Celebrity Jeopardy" pieces they had on SNL a few years back with categories like "Things That Rhyme With the Letter S"? Not too far off the mark were they?
"[M]y fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended."George W. Bush, 1 May 2003 -
mark-1589 — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 09:44 AM)
To be honest, I knew some (Nos. 7, 8, 12) from the film and from watching parts of the original clip on YouTube, but I would not have known them otherwise. Other than that I got questions 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, and 10 right. Not so bad.
