Could you become a US citizen?

[Desnudo]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13442226/

70%. Maybe enough for a green card?

[Young Drachma]

95%

[sabotai]

95%.

Didn't know the INS form question.

[ScottVib]

Missed the form number to become a naturized citizen.

[biological warrior]

95% was throwin' a no hitter until the last batter.

[Barkeep49]

Got everything except the one about what form immigrants fill out.

[Greyroofoo]

95

[Ben E Lou]

95%.

Didn't know the INS form question.Same here.

[bosshogg23]

95%, picked The Senate on the Supreme Court Justices question instead of the President. I was thinking who confirmed the person not who nominated the person, doh!

[henry296]

Missed the form question. That question is probably one of the easiest for the applicants since they had to complete it to apply for citizenship.

[miami_fan]

100%!

Thank God for having to go through all the immigration paperwork for the wife

[Buccaneer]

95% by misreading the "selecting" the SC justices. That was a trick question otherwise I would have gotten 100% since the form question appears to be common sense.

[Groundhog]

35%

Guess I had better hold off on that move to the US...

[ThunderingHERD]

95. Missed the form question, but only because everyone here was saying they missed it so I figured the most obvious answer must be wrong.

[cuervo72]

w00t, 100%!

[Rizon]

80%, I am still legal.

Although question 14 isn't worded clearly.

[SackAttack]

100%. Woo.

[cuervo72]

appears to be common sense.

Thomas Paine!

[Raiders Army]

100%, but then again I totally guessed on the INS question. I would think that had I done poorly I would've done better if I were applying for citizenship. If someone were applying for citizenship, I would hope that they would study a little. None of the questions seemed out of left field and they all seemed to be pretty much on target with what I would want naturalized citizens to know. I'd probably want them to know more about how the government works and what rights they have according to the Constitution and Amendments than who said "Give me liberty or give me death."

[Buccaneer]

Thomas Paine!

He lived down the lane from me.

[tanglewood]

90%

Guess I would be able to get in then. Not that I would ever think of applying any time soon. :)

[Passacaglia]

Got everything but one -- I thought the President could declare war.

[cuervo72]

He lived down the lane from me.

Hehe.

[saldana]

yeah baby yeah....100%

[SackAttack]

Got everything but one -- I thought the President could declare war.

Now, see, that's the interesting thing.

For a formal state of war to exist, Congress must declare such.

However, in terms of actual warmaking powers, Congress delegated much of that to the office of the President in the War Powers Act, although there are certain restrictions under which the President must operate during time of conflict if war hasn't been declared formally.

[clintl]

100% - including the question about the naturalization form, which I completely guessed on.

[terpkristin]

95%.

Didn't know the INS form question.

Ditto.

/tk

[Pumpy Tudors]

75%

[ISiddiqui]

100% - guessed on the the naturalization form.

[jamesUMD]

70%

[duckman]

95%--missed the naturalization form.

[kcchief19]

I missed the ever-popular INS question ... then stumbled over which amendment didn't deal with voting rights. When I realized that my brain only had so much storage space for information, I decided I could forget about some of our non-sense Constitutional Amendments. Poll tax my ass.

[sterlingice]

95% - Missed the immigration form one, too.

SI

[oliegirl]

85%

[JS19]

65%.....I PASSED!!!!!!!

[NoMyths]

100% ... guess I get to stay.

[duff88]

45% :(

But I guess most people around in would get as poor or even worse.

[Drake]

100%

Yay, me.

[Swaggs]

80%

I need to brush up on my constitution knowledge.

[Radii]

95. Missed the form question, but only because everyone here was saying they missed it so I figured the most obvious answer must be wrong.

heh, same.

[Poli]

Awwin Buwhh!

[JeeberD]

85%

I fell like an idiot after seeing how most of y'all did...

[bselig]

90%, form and 14. The President doesn't select justices, he 'nominates' them, right? Though I'm sure many Presidents wish it were so.

[Zippo]

You answered 35% of questions correctly.

[Mustang]

Awwin Buwhh!

*L*

Hope I'm not the only one that got that... funny what humors you after Midnight...

[mckerney]

95%, missed #8.

[vex]

60%

[AlexB]

60%

Ditto, although would have gotten 55% if the answer to the number of amendments wasn't in an earlier question :)

[Marc Vaughan]

You answered 40% of questions correctly. Here's your rating:

25-40%: Mmmm. Do you really want to be a citizen? This kind of performance isn't going to impress those nice immigration folks.

(probably just as well I'm english ...)

[Joe]

5%

[Grammaticus]

Whew, I'm in!

[AlexB]

5%

:eek: That must be the president, not the FOFC poster ;)

[Bonegavel]

95% Damn form question.

[KWhit]

100%.

Woohoo.

[John Galt]

100%, but I'm a lawyer. It's funny how many questions about citizenship are "law" questions. I guess that makes sense, but I still find it strange.

[clintl]

90%, form and 14. The President doesn't select justices, he 'nominates' them, right? Though I'm sure many Presidents wish it were so.

Yeah, that question wasn't phrased very well. But the president was the best answer, because the Senate doesn't select them either - it just approves the president's nominations. Nomination is closer in meaning to selection than confirmation is.

[King of New York]

I got 17 out of 20 correct:

"You answered 80% of questions correctly."

WTF!?!? Last time, I checked, 17 out of 20 was 85%. Thanks to a technical glitch in the computerized scoring, I have been denied citizenship.

I missed questions 8, 14, and 19. I only feel badly about 8; 14 was worded badly, and 19 was the form question.

[John Galt]

For those complaining about the clarity/wording of the war declaration and supreme court appointment questions, they make much more sense if you look at the text of the constitution (as opposed to thinking about how things actually get done).

For war powers, Article I, Section 8 reads: "The Congress shall have Power ... [t]o declare War."

For the Supreme Court appointment, Article II, Section 2 reads: "[The president] . . . with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court." In modern times, "advice and consent" has been taken to mean a vote by the Senate (although recess appointments are a questionable exception to that rule), but the president is vested with the appointment power.

[Passacaglia]

For those complaining about the clarity/wording of the war declaration and supreme court appointment questions, they make much more sense if you look at the text of the constitution (as opposed to thinking about how things actually get done).

For war powers, Article I, Section 8 reads: "The Congress shall have Power ... [t]o declare War."

For the Supreme Court appointment, Article II, Section 2 reads: "[The president] . . . with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court." In modern times, "advice and consent" has been taken to mean a vote by the Senate (although recess appointments are a questionable exception to that rule), but the president is vested with the appointment power.

Yeah, I knew that officially, Congress had the power to declare war, but damn if that's not who actually does it all the time. I guess it's one of those theory/practice things. Then again, the Declaration of Independence wasn't really signed on July 4, 1776, either, so maybe I shouldn't get my panties in a wad about it.

[clintl]

Yeah, I knew that officially, Congress had the power to declare war, but damn if that's not who actually does it all the time. I guess it's one of those theory/practice things.

That confusion probably comes from the fact that the last we actually declared war was World War II. We dispensed with the formalities in all the wars we've fought since.

[RendeR]

85%


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[MalcPow]

Missed the voting amendments one. But I would have missed a couple others if it wasn't multiple choice and I was being asked in an interview.

[MIJB#19]

55% - "Not too bad, but you really need to break out the civics books again -- word is, the INS is looking for an 80 percent score."

Oh well, I wasn't planning on leaving my homeland anyway. :)

[Terps]

30%

[sterlingice]

5%

:D

SI

[nilodor]

85% I'd like to thank the simpsons for my stellar performance.