If you're in Windsor, Ontario, but would rather be in Detroit, which direction should you head?

To the closest mental hospital.

Ace Frehley's Ghost

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Ace Frehley's Ghost: If you're in Windsor, Ontario, but would rather be in Detroit, which direction should you head?

To the closest mental hospital.

+10 internets! As a Detroit resident I got a kick out of your reply! Now get into my hat, its raining inside!

Alaska has a VP?

I got five of those.

USA! USA! USA!

consciousNOT: Alaska has a VP?

Alaskan VP candidates (as opposed to candidates who are not Alaskan). That wasn't even witty and about as boring as this stupid farking quiz.

tonesskin: about as boring as this stupid farking quiz.

= I couldn't pass this quiz if I had a week to finish and map to look at.

"Sarah Palin for a minute and say I don't believe for a second that she didn't know Africa was a continent"

The Chron writer does know that was completely made up by a comedian posing as a McCain aide.

Popped in to say that #3 was a trick question. Pleased to see I was beaten to it.

Ace Frehley's Ghost: If you're in Windsor, Ontario, but would rather be in Detroit, which direction should you head?

To the closest mental hospital.

*golf clap*

Phoenix_M

Yeah, that was debunked AFTER the election, like so many other false Palin stories.

Doesn't seem to stop them though.

/Gee what a bunch of sore winners.

Speaker2Animals: tonesskin: about as borin=g as this stupid farking quiz.

= I couldn't pass this quiz if I had a week to finish and map to look at.

That's me. I couldn't and wouldn't want to. Who the hell needs geography when you have the internets and GPS'

Plus these questions seem to consist of World History, Geography, and General Knowledge, like I'm on a game show.

47. What, officially, is the difference between a town and a city, and between a village and a hamlet?

To which I answered both "Who the fark cares" and "Hamlet is a play written by Shakespeare, asshat"

36. Which state leads the nation in toxic Superfund sites?


/cue the Farkers posting their awesome scores.

SwallowTheKnife:

47. What, officially, is the difference between a town and a city, and between a village and a hamlet?

A village is a place where people live and a Hamlet is a Ham Lettuce and Tomato sandwich.

That was easy, give me another one.

SwallowTheKnife: cue the Farkers posting their awesome scores.

Like me! I got eleventy-fjord!

Anyone know if Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg Kennedy took the test?

I got #31 wrong. I can't belive I got it wrong! ;-)

2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates



Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.

Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?

Which one dumbass-(D)?

70%,
and #33 was also a trick question.
Wyoming, Colorado and I believe both of the Dakotas as well as Saskatchewan CA have borders which meet a right angles and thus by one legitimate definition are rectilinear and thus at least in that reference frame, rectangles.

11/50

I'll stick with law

Ace Frehley's Ghost: If you're in Windsor, Ontario, but would rather be in Detroit, which direction should you head?

To the closest mental hospital.

You Rock 'n' Roll All Night (And Party Every Day)!

/No love for Detroit Rock City.

Me tell Palin joke!!! Me so fuuuuny...

Hurrr hurrrr, hurrrr

libbynomore2: Me tell Palin joke!!! Me so fuuuuny...

Hurrr hurrrr, hurrrr

Trig in a couple years?


/window please

I wonder if there'd be so many complaints about dumb this is if it talked about WoW geography.

Crude: 2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates

Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.
Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?
Which one dumbass-(D)?


Crude; is that you, Sarah Palin? Wow. When did you get a computer-machine?! Remember; that's a CDROM tray, not a cupholder!

SomeoneDumb: I wonder if there'd be so many complaints about dumb this is if it talked about WoW geography.

I'll stick with complaining bout negligent omissions of the word "how"

tonesskin: yes, of course, it's the quiz that is stupid

Heck, Obama doesn't even know how many states we have.

Dknsvsbl: 70%,
and #33 was also a trick question.
Wyoming, Colorado and I believe both of the Dakotas as well as Saskatchewan CA have borders which meet a right angles and thus by one legitimate definition are rectilinear and thus at least in that reference frame, rectangles.

Nope, you were just wrong.

For the record, I got 18 1/2. I got that Rekjavik is the northernmost capital, but I guessed Johannesburg for the southernmost, so, since I'm scoring myself, I gave myself a half point. I didn't even attempt to mess with the "What 11 nations are crossed by the equator?" one. Oh, and I gave myself a point for saying Timbuktu was in Africa, again, because I'm scoring myself and I can do whatever I want.

/37%-a nice, solid "F." And I'm teaching your children.
//Not geography, thankfully.

I'm pretty damn good at geography, and I did pretty poorly on that test, getting just over 1/2 right. It's a good test, but I'm willing to bet Obama and Palin would do about as well as the other. Biden would probably do worse. McCain? I have no idea, he's pretty well traveled...he'd probably do the best.

Still, it's hardly an indication of intelligence, more an indication of ability to retain information or engage in deductive reasoning.

PapermonkeyExpress: Phoenix_M

Yeah, that was debunked AFTER the election, like so many other false Palin stories.

Doesn't seem to stop them though.

/Gee what a bunch of sore winners.



There were so many "Palin stories" that they didn't have time to get the the false ones until later.

/gee, what a bunch of Palin apologists

Crude: 2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates

Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.

Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?

Which one dumbass-(D)?

Do you get this offended at all Palin jokes, or are you just bent because you submitted this article with a better headline.

Dknsvsbl: 70%,
and #33 was also a trick question.
Wyoming, Colorado and I believe both of the Dakotas as well as Saskatchewan CA have borders which meet a right angles and thus by one legitimate definition are rectilinear and thus at least in that reference frame, rectangles.

If you look closely at the borders of Colorado and Wyoming, there are places where they deviate from a given latitude or longitude. Look at the border between Colorado and Utah, about 1/4 of the way north of the wouth border, and at the border between Wyoming and Montana in the Yellowstone area. Even if the four corners are 90 degrees, the boundaries are still not straight lines (even ignoring the curvature of the Earth.)

...north of the wouth south border...

Dknsvsbl: 70%,
and #33 was also a trick question.
Wyoming, Colorado and I believe both of the Dakotas as well as Saskatchewan CA have borders which meet a right angles and thus by one legitimate definition are rectilinear and thus at least in that reference frame, rectangles.

Lines of longitude are not parallel. And lines of latitude are not straight. If you distort the map, you can get them to look rectangular, but that don't count!

Crude: 2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates



Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.

Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?

Which one dumbass-(D)?

I agree with the point you're making.

Certainly the incoherent rambling nonsense she answered questions with whenever she was interviewed by anything except a fox straight man setting up RNC talking points was the reason to doubt her IQ not those unfair claims and attributions.

Crude: 2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates



Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.

Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?

Which one dumbass-(D)?

Aww, someone's all butthurt.

PapermonkeyExpress: Phoenix_M

Yeah, that was debunked AFTER the election, like so many other false Palin stories.

Doesn't seem to stop them though.

/Gee what a bunch of sore winners.

Not quite. Check out what the NY Times has to say about this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=2&hp&o ref=slogi n

The pranksters behind Eisenstadt acknowledge that he was not, through them, the anonymous source of the Palin leak. He just claimed falsely that he was the leaker--and they say they have no reason to cast doubt on the original story. For its part, Fox News Channel continues to stand behind its story.

So Eisenstadt claiming to be the leak is the hoax, not the Africa/continent story itself. That's not to say that the "anonymous source" is to be believed, but this story is still unverified one way or the other.

Philbigtime: Dknsvsbl: 70%,
and #33 was also a trick question.
Wyoming, Colorado and I believe both of the Dakotas as well as Saskatchewan CA have borders which meet a right angles and thus by one legitimate definition are rectilinear and thus at least in that reference frame, rectangles.

Lines of longitude are not parallel. And lines of latitude are not straight. If you distort the map, you can get them to look rectangular, but that don't count!

Then we all agree. It doesn't matter!

Grr... Fixing link to NY Times story:

Link

SwallowTheKnife: Speaker2Animals: tonesskin: about as borin=g as this stupid farking quiz.

= I couldn't pass this quiz if I had a week to finish and map to look at.

That's me. I couldn't and wouldn't want to. Who the hell needs geography when you have the internets and GPS'


Yeah, god forbid we have a passing knowledge of our world when we can depend on easy answers from electronic devices.

SwallowTheKnife:

/cue the Farkers posting their awesome scores.

I'm a geography trivia buff, and I scored 40/50.

Nonetheless, when I came here to read comments, I was sure there would be plenty of "I got 49 right and I wuz robbed on the other one!". I was very surprised to see posts admitting abject defeat.

It was not a boring quiz. It was actually quite good and made me think. A good trivia quiz has questions that you can either puzzle through in your head or are lodged deep in your mind and need coaxing to surface. This was one of those. I give it a 9/10.

/I hate trivia questions like "Approximately how many cubic meters of salt are in the Pacific ocean?" When I see questions like that, I usually start punching people in the face.
//Obama would smoke Palin on this test. Travel helps inform about geography. Obama is well-traveled. Palin is a provincial retard.

I call BULLSHIAT.

This isn't a test of one's geographical knowledge.

This is B.S. Trivia.

Trivia: insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information.

This test is like saying your knowledge of history is slim, if you don't know Lincoln's birthdate, for example.

If Republicans want to have any credibility, they need to stop pretending Sarah Palin isn't an idiot. Sure, it's been exaggerated, but the woman couldn't even name a single publication that she reads. How hard is that? Sure, Tina Fey gets credit for "I can see Russia from my house", but the reason it's so widespread is that what Palin actually said *is* just as dumb-- that simply being near Russia somehow counts as foreign policy experience. And that wasn't just a one-timer. They tried to defend that remark for at least several days.

And I don't want to hear anyone talk about how 'tough' Katie Couric's interview was. Don't be such a pussy, I've seen tougher parent-teacher conferences. Even in the debate, where she managed not to sound like a *total* jackass, she didn't actually manage to answer any of the questions, she just went through her talking points.

PapermonkeyExpress: Phoenix_M

Yeah, that was debunked AFTER the election, like so many other false Palin stories.

Doesn't seem to stop them though.

/Gee what a bunch of sore winners.

Uh... right. Is that open wound at the moron that you're supporting needing more salt?

You can't "debunk" something that never had proof for it in the first place. All it took was half a brain to realize that the gaffe wasn't her.

Now, on the other hand, your moron did say that the fact that Alaska was so close to Russia gave her foreign policy experience. You can't shuck that one off so easily.

The only one I missed was #31.

Obnox: Crude: 2008 SF Chronicle geography quiz. Not for amateurs or Alaskan VP candidates



Gah huh...you're as funny as you are intellectual, subtard.

Are you referring to Tina Fey saying she could see Russia from her house or the bullshiat lie about Palin not knowing that Africa was a continent?

Which one dumbass-(D)?

Aww, someone's all butthurt.


Probably the President-elect who thinks there are 58 states.

OK, fine. For the record Palin DID know that Africa is a continent. People make a big deal about this, as if this relatively minor error about her proves she's not a complete idiot, and was totally qualified to be Vice President...

Hey Subby. Thanks for your retarded political comments. Maybe the test isn't suitable for the Democratic Vice President-elect either, who thought that during the 30's financial collapse, FDR went on TV to calmly address the citizens. You're as big a Farktard as he is.