Every four years around the time of the inaugural I post a presidential Quiz! I do that today, and I will post the answers on Monday. I am tempted to joke that I am posting it AFTER Joltin Joe gets sworn in just in case something happens; however, I always posted it after the prez is sworn in.
The quiz is here: quiz
GRADING CRITERIA
33 questions, 3 points each, and 1 free point.
If the answer is a list of L elts and you get x correct, you get x/L points. If any are wrong then 0 points.
You can take the quiz one of three ways.
1) Take it WITHOUT using the web and see how many you can get right. Take 3 hours.
WARNING- its a hard quiz so this may not be fun.
2) Take it and use the web and try to do it fast. Stop when you want. Your Score is as follows:
If R is the number if points and T be how many minutes you took, your score is
(180R/T)+ 1.
If you get all 33 right in 60 minutes then you get a 100. You could get more than 100 if you do it faster.
3) The answer key has all kinds of other information in it and is fun to read. So do not take the quiz and enjoy reading the answers on Monday. That's what I did.
I was curious if Joltin Joe would be sworn in by Joseph or Joe. I was routing for Joe so he would be the second president sworn in by his nickname (Jimmy Carter was the first--his real name is James). When I am sworn in as president I will use Bill and hence join the nickname-club. Lance does not have a nickname, so my veep will be sworn in by his actual name. Would we win? Is America ready for a 2-Phd ticket?
I wondered why the hint that Jefferson didn't get any patents was there until learning he opposed patents until he started to support them and then as Secretary of State he was involved in granting them.
ReplyDeleteActually I put in the hint just because a while back when I gave out this quiz everyone guessed that Jefferson got a patent on the Swivel chair (which he did invent).
ReplyDeleteIts a good guess, but incorrect.
However, THANKS for that info, which I did not know!
I will include that in the solution set.
which generally has MORE in it then the question asked.