OT: Can you pass the Third Grade?

[AnalBumCover]

Take the test.

hxxp://www.madblast.com/funflash/swf/map_test.swf

I failed. 28 out of 48.

[RPI-Fan]

What's the catch? I got 48-48 in about half time time allotted.

[Ksyrup]

Much like the Bar, I passed it once, and that's all that matters now.

[JeeberD]

That's supposed to be difficult?

[rkmsuf]

thread deletion in 3...2...1...

[Huckleberry]

I got 47 out of 47. The instructions specifically said to drag the State names onto the map. Oklahoma is a territory. I refuse to recognize it as a State. ;)

[Rizon]

I got cooties and died.

[Wolfpack]

[Simpsons reference]
Lisa: Grandpa, that flag only has 49 stars!
Grandpa Simpson: I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missouri!
[/Simpsons reference]

[Coffee Warlord]

Where's Chicago in the list of states? They certainly don't think it's part of Illinois, do they?

[MikeVic]

I don't think I learned this in 3rd grade...

[BreizhManu]

23 out of 48 but hey, I'm french

[SplitPersonality1]

Damn Vermont & New Hampshire. I STILL get them mixed-up after all these years.

[Desnudo]

23 out of 48 but hey, I'm french

BreizhManu, Frenchman: 23

"Educated" American AnalBumCover: 28

Total: 51

Desnudo: 48

So a French bum cover = naked man + 3

[AnalBumCover]

hmmm..... did I type 28? damn fat fingers. i meant uh... 48. yeah.

[tucker342]

uhhh I never had to put all the states on the map to pass the 3rd grade... I got all 48 though

[Chubby]

any 3rd grader would know that there's 50 states...

[Tigercat]

Ok the really really sad part about this thread is I was actually held back the first go at third grade. I got through the second time! Luckily even with my somewhat troubled early school years I have since found myself as a seemingly permanent academic fixture at the university level. The moral of this story: Even if you fail the test because you're an idiot, you can still go on in a few years to being a full time idiot at the university of your choice!

[Desnudo]

any 3rd grader would know that there's 50 states...

Any 3rd grader would read the directions and know that you only had to put 48 on the map to pass.

[MJ4H]

I'm pretty sure I could do this test when I was in kindergarten. 48/48 in like a quarter of the time.

[Desnudo]

Ok the really really sad part about this thread is I was actually held back the first go at third grade. I got through the second time! Luckily even with my somewhat troubled early school years I have since found myself as a seemingly permanent academic fixture at the university level. The moral of this story: Even if you fail the test because you're an idiot, you can still go on in a few years to being a full time idiot at the university of your choice!

I truly believe the hardest part of college is getting in. I think high school was more of a challenge academically because they forced you to be there and you had to take courses outside of your comfort zone.

[Nyarlahotep]

Where's Chicago in the list of states? They certainly don't think it's part of Illinois, do they?


It saddens me to admit it, but I know somebody who actually asked why there were so many people from Illinois in Chicago when another friend let him tag along for a visit to some old stomping grounds.

[QuikSand]

Apparently the upper peninsula of Michigan has been surrendered back to the French.

[finkenst]

Where's Chicago in the list of states? They certainly don't think it's part of Illinois, do they?
Here here!

I got 47 out of 47. The instructions specifically said to drag the State names onto the map. Oklahoma is a territory. I refuse to recognize it as a State. ;)
Well, let's not forget The COmmonwealth of Virginia, the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the commonwealth of Kentucky.

[sterlingice]

I truly believe the hardest part of college is getting in. I think high school was more of a challenge academically because they forced you to be there and you had to take courses outside of your comfort zone.
What slacker major did you take? I'll take another year of useless but easy AP History and English and Calc up against a semester of some of the wicked Comp Sci and Comp Eng classes I want nothing to do with but have to take.

SI

[Buccaneer]

This gives me a chance to tell my two stories again. First, I won a school award in the 2nd grade for not only naming all of the states but their capitals and largest cities as well. Which is perhaps why I became a geographer and cartographer.
Second, when I helped teach Geography of US and Canada in grad school (at UNC), it was my job to give the freshmen taking this course (which was nearly all of the students in the class) a blank map just like the one here and have them write the names of the states in each. I graded this class and combined with others, it led to the famous geographic illiteracy articles and eventually to the Geography Bee and other geographic awareness campaigns (this was in the mid-1980s).

Congrats on those that can get all of these rights. Shame on you that can't.

edit: leaving out words again.

[sterlingice]

Congrats? I finished that even with having my mouse batteries die in the middle of solving it... (tho, it should be noted that I mixed up New Hampshire and Vermont)

SI

[Desnudo]

What slacker major did you take? I'll take another year of useless but easy AP History and English and Calc up against a semester of some of the wicked Comp Sci and Comp Eng classes I want nothing to do with but have to take.

SI

Double major in Microwave Cookery and Art History...no actually Economics. My point was you get to make the choice to major in that area. I took a comp sci course once and realized that I never wanted to see what goes on behind the scenes of a program ever again.

[lcjjdnh]

Just a tip that helps me remember the difference b/w NH and Vermont. Vermont is usually seen as the more "liberal" of the two and is on the left, NH more "conservative" is on the right. After figuring that out, I've yet to mix them up.

[sterlingice]

Double major in Microwave Cookery and Art History...no actually Economics. My point was you get to make the choice to major in that area. I took a comp sci course once and realized that I never wanted to see what goes on behind the scenes of a program ever again.
Well, I'm doing what I want to do. However, I have to take the good with the bad and there are some nasty classes I have to grit my teeth and take. I think, since coming back to school, my GPA outside of engineering is something obscene like 3.9 but they make you work for your degree inside the program.

SI

[Easy Mac]

They teach geography in college? I should have gone ot a school like that.

[Desnudo]

They teach geography in college? I should have gone ot a school like that.

It's where I learned all the "stans" that came out of the former USSR. :cool:

[Easy Mac]

I learned that in Russian Politics (and yes, I've studied Chinese Politics as well, call me comrade :))

[Buccaneer]

They teach geography in college? I should have gone ot a school like that.
Hey. :mad:

Actually, geography was an undergrad jock major at UNC and where I got to assist/tutor/give-them-an-A-for-showing-up many of the athletes including an interesting session with MJ one summer (where I told him he was a slacker).

[Easy Mac]

ah, we still have good old underwater basket weaving here... or environmental ethics, whatever, I got an A.

[sterlingice]

ah, we still have good old underwater basket weaving here... or environmental ethics, whatever, I got an A.
Kent: Scott, things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office. Joblessness is no longer just for philosophy majors. Useful people are starting to feel the pinch.

SI

[Easy Mac]

Trust me, I'm learning how hard it is for a philosophy major to find work, but the poli sci part will surely save me;)

(actually I've got a few job offers, but not in places where I want to live).

[nilodor]

48/48, not too shabby for an outsider. Wonder if you guys could place the names of our 10 provinces and 3 territories.

Sterlingice: I feel you on the load of taking senior engineering courses. I am in one political science course and I am amazed at how little work it is. I think if I was in another faculity I may acctually see the sun once and a while.

[Ryche]

Bah, lets do a real test and name the capitals.

[Buccaneer]

...of all of the countries? I can do that too!

[ahbrady]

any 3rd grader would know that there's 50 states...

51, don't forget Canada.

[ahbrady]

This gives me a chance to tell my two stories again. First, I won a school award in the 2nd grade for not only naming all of the states but their capitals and largest cities as well. Which is perhaps why I became a geographer and cartographer.
Second, when I helped teach Geography of US and Canada in grad school (at UNC), it was my job to give the freshmen taking this course (which was nearly all of the students in the class) a blank map just like the one here and have them write the names of the states in each. I graded this class and combined with others, it led to the famous geographic illiteracy articles and eventually to the Geography Bee and other geographic awareness campaigns (this was in the mid-1980s).

Congrats on those that can get all of these rights. Shame on you that can't.

edit: leaving out words again.

Along similar lines, I teach 8th grade Algebra. A few years ago, a couple of students were arguing about how many states there were before class started. I thought this was sad but thought that surely this was an anomaly. So I asked the entire class how many states there were. A little over half of the class got it right, but many said 48, 49, 51, or 52.

[sterlingice]

Sterlingice: I feel you on the load of taking senior engineering courses. I am in one political science course and I am amazed at how little work it is. I think if I was in another faculity I may acctually see the sun once and a while. It was quite funny the other day. Now, I'm not the best student out there- I'm prone to slacking off in classes that hold no interest to me (which is why I get in trouble gradewise). But I was talking to a friend of mine and the exchange went something like this
(me)"Yeah, but I just can't find a social science class to complete my electives"
"I took Physical Geograpy, it's easy"
"I'm looking at a couple of honors freshman classes since the last three H/SS classes I've taken have been honors"
"You're in the honors program?"
"No, but I want something fun and not trip over a bunch of freshman fodder in a 500 person lecture. Or at the very least, have some willing antagonists, green though they may be, to argue with."
"Man, it sounds like you actually want to learn something here."
"At $120 a credit hour, I damn well better get something out if it, education or at the very least, entertainment"

SI

[nilodor]

51, don't forget Canada.

Bastard :)

[3ric]

I'm too slow. It took me three attempts to get 47/48.

[Sharpieman]

48/48, not too shabby for an outsider. Wonder if you guys could place the names of our 10 provinces and 3 territories.
I know I couldn't, but why would I need to know in the first place? Canada is kinda like that cute little nephew who gets annoying after spending too much time with it.

[Sharpieman]

Dola, and if you can't get all the 48 in the time frame...the terrorists win...


I would love to see some of our elected rep's try this test. I bet a few wouldn't pass it.

[k0ruptr]

This isnt fair for people in hawaii, we dont learn about the rest of the US. I know where to put cali, oregon, washington, florida, and nevada. thats all.


I can arrange all the hawaiian islands tho.

[Sharpieman]

Yea, and why didn't they include 'Rico, Afganistan or Iraq?

[k0ruptr]

true dat

[Huckleberry]

This isnt fair for people in hawaii, we dont learn about the rest of the US. I know where to put cali, oregon, washington, florida, and nevada. thats all.


I can arrange all the hawaiian islands tho.

You don't know where to put Texas? Someone get a rope.

[Wolfpack]

nilodor: don't challenge me like that...

East-to-west, starting with Newfie (not looking this up, honest):
Newfoundland-Saint John's
Nova Scotia-Halifax
Prince Edward Island-Charlottetown
New Brunswick-Saint John (different from Saint John's)
Quebec-Quebec City
Ontario-Toronto
Manitoba-Winnepeg
Saskatchewan-Regina
Alberta-Edmonton
British Columbia-Victoria

And the three territories, east-to-west:
Nunavut-Iqaluit
Northwest Territories-Yellowknife
Yukon-Whitehorse

Just gotta show off a skill I never get to use... :)

[cody8200]

I like geography. Got a 48 out of 48. Giove me a world map. Bet I could do pretty damn well on that too.

[nilodor]

nilodor: don't challenge me like that...

East-to-west, starting with Newfie (not looking this up, honest):
Newfoundland-Saint John's
Nova Scotia-Halifax
Prince Edward Island-Charlottetown
New Brunswick-Saint John (different from Saint John's)
Quebec-Quebec City
Ontario-Toronto
Manitoba-Winnepeg
Saskatchewan-Regina
Alberta-Edmonton
British Columbia-Victoria

And the three territories, east-to-west:
Nunavut-Iqaluit
Northwest Territories-Yellowknife
Yukon-Whitehorse

Just gotta show off a skill I never get to use... :)

Not bad, just one mistake, well two if I'm picky. Fredericton is the capital of New Brunswick and Winnepeg is Winnipeg. However props for spelling Saskatchewan correct so 24.5/26.

[Wolfpack]

Argh. I can't believe I brain-farted on Fredericton. I guess I had Saint John on the brain because of Saint John's, NF and trying to show that I knew the difference between the two. Such is the reward for hubris. :)

[sterlingice]

For those of us south of the border, how does the provinces/territories thing work? I always figured the provinces were just like states, but what are the territories?

SI

[nilodor]

Province - Created by constitution
Territory - Created by federal Law

Territory has no government, which means the feds have direct control over it.
The provinces have their own government as well as alot of rights, given to them in the constitution of 1867 and 1982. So the provinces control their health care, natural resources and several other things, while territories do not. Those are the major differences.