Well, I passed with a score of 24, even though I missed at least one question just from being careless -- 100 senators, not 50 -- but you know what? This test, God help us, is totally irrelevant in 2009.
What matter which state Dwight Eisenhower was born in or how many Constitutional amendments are not yet ratified when the current elected government of the USA cares not about any particular aspect of the US Constitution? And a thorough knowledge of the types of information tested by the quiz is, I fear, going to be pretty useless in the coming years and the crisis now facing the USA. Please don't take this for disrespect for American history and our Constitution, though.
A more relevant quiz, in my opinion, might be asking things regarding US and global energy policy, carbon chemistry and the myths of anthropomorphic global environmental changes, health care costs, government entitlements, monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Bank, interests rates, monetizing debt, global economy, the "basket of currencies" likely to replace the US dollar as the denominator for barrels of oil, and what the total collapse of the US dollar will mean for the "New World Order".
It is the answer to hard questions like those, and not how many President's that have been assassinated, that will determine how US citizens will fare and that will chart the course of this nation in the coming years for our children and their children. We ought to be asking hard questions about going forward, not about our past.
