This 'little quiz' could become addictive !!!

I "tested" one of my coworkers today, also an "American", is about 55 years old, as educated as me, upper management-type, and he first scored 13 out of 20 and got a good laugh at the explanation of his knowledge at the end of the quiz. He played it until he FINALLY got 19 out of 20 and then the explanation for his success was rather nasty and condescending to 'Americans'.

What's a "Blinkered"? At the front page it says "Blinkered" isn't even in my dictionary or... maybe I'm just stupid - or maybe my 'American' dictionary is stupid. hehehe..

Saludos, MadridMan

Hey Madridman,
if you inverse "American dictionary is stupid"
you have "Stupid is American dictionary."
WEIRD!

12/20 Arrrrggg!

I'd just like to say that the test obviously originates in England and that I felt the questions were "British centric". I got 15/20 just doing it once. To me the site is insulting and the Authors obviously would love it if all Americans were stupid. It would reinforce their world view. I hope we can trust the results.

Just another meaningless test that has absolutely nothing to do with the real world, and takes the time to slam the U.S. one way or another. The authors of the test failed, spelling "realize" wrong in their "evaluation" if they were intending to make it sound "unbiased," and equal for Americans.

Of course that never was their intent, was it? So who gives a rip?
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You answered 19 questions correctly out of 20.

You have an impressive understanding of the world for an American. It is likely that you feel intellectually isolated in your home country, and often have to hide your opinions from others. Deep down, you realise that your country is the single biggest threat to world peace in modern times, but you have not yet summoned up the courage to emigrate.

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Wolf

15/20 Hey! No Fair! I tanked on the math questions. That's why I'm a Spanish teacher. Duh!

Gloria

Check out the comments on the main page, it shows how (most) people out there can take a joke but also recognize that the site is irrational and immature in it's attitudes towards Americans.

Another thing, a person in Great Britain registered the domain name which hosts the site. Aha!

Happy Holidays, Everyone! Saludos, MadridMan

Many years ago, when I was in college, and had just recently completed an IQ test, a professor stood in front of us and gave us our scores. When he was through he told us that we did very well. In fact we were the highest scoring class he'd ever had.

Then he smiled and said; "Your test results prove you know a lot about things that don't mean a damned thing!"

I found out, as time went on, that he was right. We were just in the beginning of our learning curve, and whether you get a low or high score on general knowledge doesn't mean anything if you don't have the real skills needed to learn something of substance. After all, how many jobs do you know out there that people spend their time taking general knowledge tests?

Still, they should be fun, and this one was because of that pesky bar at the top that made you think quick or start to hyperventilate!

Wolf