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Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:51 am
by ShogunTX
As funny as this clip is on the surface, it's truly sad that we have folks walking around unable to logically deduce simple questions. "What religion are Buddhist Monks?" "Name a country that begins with the letter U?" "KFC originated from what state?"

The General Public: A quiz on world knowledge. :stupid

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:29 am
by 95FZR600
We will make a big blast crate out the f*ck middle east! Lol, Damn red necks!

OMG! Thats not funny at all that our fellow americans can not even guess that our country starts with a "U"!

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:31 am
by megaloxana
True or False...star wars is based on a true story :no

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 7:57 am
by old_school
Dude, it's just sad!!! I was traveling with a guy to Mexico city.. He said he didn't like leaving America during times for political unrest.. :whistle

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:30 am
by corks67
im kinda scared the the clip that shows a american identifying australia as iraq :yikes:

please point nukes further north and west please :tks:

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:20 am
by haunter
corks67 wrote:im kinda scared the the clip that shows a american identifying australia as iraq :yikes:

please point nukes further north and west please :tks:

send me an FZR250 and I'll get that taken care of :whistle

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:20 am
by djimass
Sad...

Here in Canada, we were always told Americans were not too aware of what goes on outside of their own country, but this is mind-boggling... On the other hand, The TV show is going to make sure to show only the worst/funniest answers. I've lived in the U.S. for 2 years (partial athletic scholarship), and I can say that most of the americans (the ones in college at least) were not that stupid...

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:26 pm
by old_school
First welcome to the site Djimass!

I couldn't agree with you more.. They are looking for the stupid responses.. It makes it funnier but the sad fact is many don't know some pretty important basic facts about world knowledge.. There are 23 countries in "america" not including the caribbean..

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:01 pm
by YAM93
What's sad is that none of those people technically qualify as mentally retarded. There are autistic people who can't tie their own shoes who are more intelligent than these idiots. We used to tell people like that, "the best part of you ran down your mother's leg when were born". Sounds cruel but damn is it true.
:no

No wonder they call George Bush "King of the Idiots".

Apparently the movie "IDIOCRACY" has come true. screwy

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:52 pm
by ShogunTX
There is a lot to be said about the media and such, and it's funny. By adulthood with our first world education system, anyone that shows ANY American a map with Australia renamed Iraq (or any country) should be laughed at and corrected. I could understand some of the smaller countries like Sri Lanka even Italy for some folks, but damn to not recognize a continent is inexcusable for anyone with a High School education in America.

The are a few videos linked from that one that perform the same stlye test with British citizens and the results are fairly similar, still a good laugh.

"If you are in a race and you overtake the person in second place, what position are you in?" ---> Number one answer on the board: First Place :-)

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:00 pm
by billy_awesome
LOL, i just saw this link, I had it added to my facebook, too funny.....

I feel sorry for you select americans that are smart and know world knowledge......

Re: Embarrassing American World Knowledge

Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 10:07 pm
by old_school
billy_awesome wrote:LOL, i just saw this link, I had it added to my facebook, too funny.....

I feel sorry for you select americans that are smart and know world knowledge......

They are subtle and I don’t know who is picking up on them.. :whistle