Can you pass eighth grade?

[dog428]

Eight-question, eighth-grade quiz on AOL.

I managed 6 of 8, although I will admit that one was pure luck. The Romeo and Juliet question and the last one got me. Area of the triangle was a complete guess.

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[imjustagirl2]

Um, I got three.

:-[

 

[Chi City 81]

Six out of eight. I missed the two science ones.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Damn. I was humming along with the first 7 right and feeling my oats and then question 8 might as well have been written in aramaic. I still don't have a clue. 7 of 8.

 

[Clubber_Slang]

two...

:'(

 

[alleyallen]

Got 6 of 8 right, but the two I missed were the triangle one and the Romeo and Juliet question. That being said, we hadn't studied Romeo and Juliet by the end of eighth grade (not until 10th) and the triangle math we definitely didn't do until high school.

 

[Starman]

6/8. The Romeo and Juliet one nailed me too. Of course, I haven't touched it in 30 years.

I'd also be shocked if the average U.S. 8th grader reads any Shakespeare. I went to a very, very good school district, and we never touched it until high school.

The name of the primeval continent got me too -- when I was in school, the theory of plate tectonics was new stuff, and they hadn't established the names for the protocontinents they have now.

Of course, when I was in high school, the ideas that the moon was formed as the result of a planetary collision, and the dinosaurs became extinct because of a meteor impact, were considered outlandish.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Hell,  you give me a picture of Europe and I can MAYBE find Italy.

Maybe.

Then again, on a map of the U.S. I can place, at most, 10-15 states. The end.

 

[The Big Ragu]

6/8. The Romeo and Juliet one nailed me too. Of course, I haven't touched it in 30 years.

I'd also be very, very, very, very shocked if the average U.S. 8th grader reads any Shakespeare. I went to a very, very good school district, and we never touched it until high school.

The name of the primeval continent got me too -- when I was in school, the theory of plate tectonics was new stuff, and they hadn't established the names for the protocontinents they have now.

So that was a geology question? No wonder I didn't have a clue. I certainly didn't study geology in 8th grade. I think they were still teaching us that the earth is flat.

 

[Yodel]

That pangea one has changed since I was in eighth grad :-\

Or else my memory is getting bad.

Or else my memory is getting bad.

 

[imjustagirl2]

I thought it was Pangaea too.

What's Pangaea then?

 

[alleyallen]

Hell,  you give me a picture of Europe and I can MAYBE find Italy.

Maybe.

Then again, on a map of the U.S. I can place, at most, 10-15 states. The end.

Not to crack on you IJAG, but this is a common lament. My dad, a former geography/history teacher (my teacher, in fact, on two occasions) used to be frustrated by the number of people who thought Houston or Dallas was the capital of Texas and New York was the capital of the U.S.

As an aside, my girlfriend tested me on the states and capitals and I'm proud to say I got 99 out of 100.

Simple math equations? Eh, I'm a moron in that regard.

 

[Satchel Pooch]

Damn. I was humming along with the first 7 right and feeling my oats and then question 8 might as well have been written in aramaic. I still don't have a clue. 7 of 8.

Exactly what he said. Ken Jennings would have missed No. 8.

I had to do process of elimination on the sexual reproduction one and take a 50-50 on Romeo and Juliet.

Which one did you miss, A-A? Did you do the old, "I'll label both of these Vermont?"

When my dad used to drop me off at elementary school every morning we'd go through the state capitals in the car.

By March it was like, "What's the capital of Kansas?"

"Overbearing father?"

God, I love that guy.

 

[BYH]

Hell,  you give me a picture of Europe and I can MAYBE find Italy.

Maybe.

Then again, on a map of the U.S. I can place, at most, 10-15 states. The end.

Not to crack on you IJAG, but this is a common lament. My dad, a former geography/history teacher (my teacher, in fact, on two occasions) used to be frustrated by the number of people who thought Houston or Dallas was the capital of Texas and New York was the capital of the U.S.

Wait, it's not? [/NYSportsJournalists.com]

I hate math and science with every fiber of my being. but I loved my US geography. I might not get 99 out of 100 (showoff!) but I'd do far better than most.

 

[Gold]

I got six of eight, but I made a lucky guess on the Romeo and Juliet question. I got both science questions wrong, and I never heard any of the answers on number eight.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Got five of eight.

I got question 8, but it was a pure guess. Missed the geometry one, the science one and the Romeo and Juliet one.

 

[joe]

Three. And one of those was a guess.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Thank god for you joe! I'm not alone in Stupidtown.

 

[Freelance Hack]

6 of 8 as well. Missed the Romeo & Juliet question and would have bet the house Pangea was No. 8.

 

[User 1019]

Eight of eight, *******.

Rodinia existed about a billion years ago. Pangea broke up about 250 million years ago.

I'll admit, I sort-of guessed on the R&J question