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Hosakawa Tito
09-20-2008, 17:50
It's 1920 and your looking for employment. Do you have what it takes to work for the great inventor? Take his employee's test here: >TEST< (http://www.nps.gov/archive/edis/edifun/quiz/quizhome.htm)

Remember that one has to think of the world as it was in 1920. The best I could manage was a 70 so it looks like it's back to the farm/sweatshop/dockyards for me.:laugh4:
Crazed Rabbit
09-20-2008, 19:25
83% on the 30 Q test. Missed 1 or 2 I should have gotten.

CR
Monk
09-20-2008, 19:46
66% on the 30 q sampler.. I have a feeling i woulda done much worse on the full 150. A couple of them threw me off due to being 1921 questions, but I can't say that even if I got those right, i likely would not have been higher than 70% :shame:
Sasaki Kojiro
09-20-2008, 19:52
76% on the 30q...I shouldn't second guess myself lol.
woad&fangs
09-20-2008, 21:37
66% on the full test.
shlin28
09-20-2008, 21:51
59% in the 30Q...

Would have got more if I knew more about America :shame:
Martok
09-20-2008, 22:22
Taking the sampler version, I got 83%.

I missed 1-2 questions because I didn't go with my first choice (as a former Knowledge Bowl geek, I really ought to know better :embarassed: ), but there were still at least a couple that I had no idea of the answer regardless. Talk about semi-obscure knowledge. :dizzy2:
Ferret
09-20-2008, 23:13
Yes! XYZ is the best score right? :clown:
Thermal
09-21-2008, 02:52
i did brilliantly i got full marks!

(well all but most of the questions)

50% onsampler but shhhh, dont tell anyone

:shame:
seireikhaan
09-21-2008, 02:56
56% on the 150 question version.
Crazed Rabbit
09-21-2008, 03:09
Taking the sampler version, I got 83%.

I missed 1-2 questions because I didn't go with my first choice (as a former Knowledge Bowl geek, I really ought to know better :embarassed: ), but there were still at least a couple that I had no idea of the answer regardless. Talk about semi-obscure knowledge. :dizzy2:

You were in knowledge bowl too? Awesome!

CR
TevashSzat
09-21-2008, 03:47
59% on the 30 question sampler
Mouzafphaerre
09-21-2008, 04:11
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All the what's produced where/how much got me bored after about the 60'th question. Got all historical, geographical etc. ones correct (except a couple USA based details) but my average was struggling not to sink about 50%.

Down with Tommy! :end:
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naut
09-21-2008, 04:18
Taking the sampler version, I got 83%.
Same. Would have been better if I knew more about the US.
Hosakawa Tito
09-21-2008, 04:19
Yeah Mouza, coming from a different cultural perspective could make that test doubly hard. Some of the answers are based on global conditions during the early 20th century, things have changed a bit in the last 100 years. Considering they claim that only 6 percent originally passed I guess we aren't doing too bad.
Husar
09-21-2008, 06:01
49% or so on the 150 questions, considering I'm neither a native speaker of the language used(some words I didn't know :shrug: ), not from america, have a cold and am generally stupid, that is not too bad I guess. :dizzy2:
Kekvit Irae
09-21-2008, 08:23
50% on 150
Louis VI the Fat
09-21-2008, 15:49
83% on the 30 question sampler.


Absolutely clueless on some of the science questions. :freak:
Up until two minutes ago, I would've sworn 'Diamond Lathe' was a kind of coffee. :dunce:


Got the history and geography questions mostly correct. ~:idea:
Quintus.JC
09-21-2008, 19:19
52% on the 30 sampler.
Martok
09-21-2008, 19:52
You were in knowledge bowl too? Awesome!

CR
Yep; I was the geography/history/music/mythology "specialist". Our team made it to the state tournament our junior and senior year. :clown:
edyzmedieval
09-21-2008, 20:47
79%. Kind of bad...
Crazed Rabbit
09-21-2008, 22:16
Yep; I was the geography/history/music/mythology "specialist". Our team made it to the state tournament our junior and senior year. :clown:

Nice. I was the history/geography/current events guy.

We made it to the state tourney in my junior and senior years as well. But we got fourth and third in state. :beam:

CR
_Tristan_
09-22-2008, 10:57
79% on the 30Q...

I consider this not to bad as it is an American-oriented test (and I am not...:beam:)
Mithrandir
09-22-2008, 13:13
48%, I'm quite proud of the fact that on most questions I got wrong, I had to try all 4 answers before getting the right one.
JR-
09-22-2008, 17:11
66% on the 30q sampler.
Martok
09-22-2008, 18:00
Nice. I was the history/geography/current events guy.
Cool. Always nice to meet a kindred spirit. :2thumbsup:



We made it to the state tourney in my junior and senior years as well. But we got fourth and third in state. :beam:

CR
Heh. Well you've got me beat there. :bow: Our team never even cracked the top ten either year.