Quiz: The US presidency

[Darat]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3403467.stm

7 right, got 2,3 & 5 wrong.

Don't think that is too bad for a UK 'citizen'.

[Otther]

I got 9...

The first question got me... *sigh*

Anyways, what was the point of this?

[Cain]

I missed the assassination one. The last question is actually incorrect as the President's yearly salary has been doubled to 400,000. (Perhaps that pay raise has not yet taken effect.)

[ceo_esq]

Originally posted by Cain
I missed the assassination one. The last question is actually incorrect as the President's yearly salary has been doubled to 400,000. (Perhaps that pay raise has not yet taken effect.) I also missed the assassination one (who the heck remembers President Garfield?), but I noticed the mistake in the presidential salary question too. Clinton signed that pay increase into law in 1999 (a gift to future presidents, although he could not benefit from it), so I'm pretty sure it's taken effect. My recollection is that Bush reported $400,000 in salary on his last tax return.

[Troll]

I missed the middle east policy one.

[Darat]

Originally posted by ceo_esq
...snip... (who the heck remembers President Garfield?),

...snip...

What the only US president to successfully enter the entertainment business after leaving office and you forgot him (http://www.garfield.com/) ? I'd have thought he would be one the most well remembered former presidents...

[Darat]

Originally posted by Otther
I got 9...

The first question got me... *sigh*

Anyways, what was the point of this?

Bit of fun.

[Tricky]

WOO HOO! Ten for ten! I admit I made an educated guess at the mideast policy one.

[Troll]

Originally posted by Tricky
WOO HOO! Ten for ten! I admit I made an educated guess at the mideast policy one.

dude, educated guess means you have an education of some sort.:p

[aerocontrols]

9/10 - I missed the first one.

A little bit of stealth editting going on here. The answer to question 3 now says:

President Truman had an 85% approval rating at the beginning of 1945, but that sank to a little over 30% in the wake of the Korean War and domestic problems.

earlier it said

President Truman had an 85% approval rating at the beginning of 1945, but that sank to a little over 30% after he ordered two atomic bombs to be dropped on Japan.

Which is, of course, wrong.

[Tricky]

Originally posted by Troll

dude, educated guess means you have an education of some sort.:p
Yup! I'm whatchamacall an Alabama scholar. Done finised the tenth grade. :D

Actually, I knew Israel came into existance in 1947, so I figured our interest in the Mid East came shortly after that.

[Darat]

Originally posted by Tricky

Yup! I'm whatchamacall an Alabama scholar. Done finised the tenth grade. :D

Actually, I knew Israel came into existance in 1947, so I figured our interest in the Mid East came shortly after that.

I tried to use that nugget of knowledge when I was trying to answer it but then didn't know the dates of Wilson & Eisenhower's presidencies.

[aerocontrols]

Also, there is no correct answer to #3. George Bush, whose highest approval rating got up to 89% (His son has gotten slightly higher at 90%) had a low that went down to 29% (http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/bios/41pbush.html).

Truman's low was pretty low, lower than BBC says: 23% (http://www.gallup.com/poll/focus/polls_this_century_quiza.asp)


This quiz looks like some British guy wrote it or something...

[Theodore Kurita]

Ten out of Ten! :)

[Crossbow]

Only 7/10 for me.

Ugh!

I should have given more thought to question six and I could have gotten at least 8/10.

[BTox]

9 out of 10. Missed the Truman one.

[PygmyPlaidGiraffe]

6 correct

I got 3,5,6 and 8 wrong

I am British born, Canadian citizen now.

[davefoc]

7 of 10

[Zep]

4 / 10, which was better than I expected. :D

And I'm sure I read somewhere that the next in line after the President and Vice-president is the Secretary of State...then the Speaker of the Representatives. Oh well.

[Ian Perez]

Yay, Zep, now I'm not the worst! Thanks!

Five out of ten; I got questions 1,3,5,6, and 10 wrong. Says I need a running mate.

[charley_bigtime]

8/10

I'm not American, but have seen a couple of Audie Murphy films.

And that thing with the monkey.

[Cecil]

9/10. Who's ever heard of the Lincoln Bedroom? :confused: :confused:

[Bluegill]

I got 10 out of 10, although I really didn't expect to. A few of those were educated guesses, and by "educated" I mean "shot-in-the-dark."