jsp I'm afraid the trend is to teach that we must get rid of borders, that we are one world and countries are bad. Trump is for having a distinct country, America, and Hillary and the Democrats are globalists. In the Wikileaks of Podesta emails, Hillary says she is for eliminating national borders. She does not believe in America.
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump, If you don't like our president just go away from our country. You Trump haters are a small minority, and you are really bad people, and nobody likes you.
This was a super simple quiz, it’s incredible that 90% failed it. I asked my coworkers if they knew who won the civil war and only one person knew the correct answer!! Most of them answered, “We did, the Americans.” They might have confused it with the Revolutionary War, but the word “Civil” in Civil War should have been a big clue. I work in an office with professionals in a law firm! That is sad!
If it makes you feel any better, I was doing clinicals in an ER and asked who fought in the War of 1812 and got France and England! At least they knew the Napoleonic Wars, just not by name!
There was a time in this country that a well rounded eduction was the norm. 4 years after Sputnik we had the best secondary education in the world. We are now 23rd and the students of Costa Rica are 22nd........according to what i read on the web. We have fallen are are still falling, it's enough to bring an old man to tears. The quiz was something like we used to see in 5th grade. I remember a 5th grade test where we had to write the names of all the states on a map and name the state capitols [ these we didn't have to place on a map ] . There is probably one person in 1000 that can do that today.
Amongst an area of street performers in Chattanooga I did a geography quiz for passersby and gave out regional bbq sauces from the south to people that scored 10 out of 15 or better. All of the questions were only about the South such as, "Memphis lies at the tri-state point of what three states?" and "the highest point in elevation in the eastern half of the contiguous US is in which state?" Virtually everyone who took the quiz was southern. I gave out 3 bottles of sauce that evening. About 50 people took the quiz. Sad.
I learned all of the above in 'Geography' in primary and secondary school. Maybe your primary and secondary schooling was different and it had a distinct class for each and every discipline, but most schools do not and amalgamate learning under one umbrella term.
Maybe we should take the definition of geography as the National Geographic Society means it: "To show the world and all it encompasses". Well, then it's simply science :-) - and this test is therefore very very limited. On a stricter geographical level, it is also unbalanced with half of the questions relating to territories, and a third about hydrography - not much left for all the other parts of geography... (I passed at least 5/6 - not sure about the lake form: not being an English native speaker, I don't know how such lakes are called in English, so I simply translated the French usage into "horseshoe").
A lot of the comments here are indicative of lack of geography knowledge. Things to do with the distribution of rivers, coastlines, mountains, and other physical features and how and why they are located where they are IS geography. Things to do with atmospheric phenomena to include climate also fall under geography. For example, I have a degree in geography with a specialization in climatology. Sadly, most Americans think geography is simply, "what's the capital of X".
90% failed ? That goes to show how well government schools are teaching our children. I'm not the smartest man ever but I didn't need multiple choice and made 100%
Somebody explain how the Aurora Borealis is Geography? It's an aerial phenomena NOT geography! And it can appear in more than one area. So THAT question needs to be changed or thrown out completely!
It's an atmospheric question. What science is that? Astronomy?
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kragseven - Your definition is from wikipedia, which is NOT an academically accredited authoritative source. Websters sez .... Geography definition is - a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface. Key word being 'surface'. Obviously wikipedia suffers from a lack of a disciplined approach to collecting information. Any idiot can edit wikipedia.
+ Red Car: And yet, the Oxford Dictionary says - "The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities." But whatever any dictionary says, it is the case that all the subjects in the quiz could be covered by a high school geography class.
Everent, the "regions" listed in Q1-3 are usually called countries, and Q6's choice C should be just "Aurora", since just looking at a picture doesn't determine what part of the world it was spotted, since "Borealis" is the Northern Hemisphere, and "Australis" (think Australia) is in the Southern Hemisphere. 100% without breaking a sweat. People with an ounce of sense, or who didn't forget everything they learned in school on graduation night, should know this stuff. It's basic.
It's because those who only answer 1 question correctly get 10 points and can feel good about themselves. How would you feel if you only got 1 miserable point? Yeah! Like a fucking loser! Feelings matter! Everyone has to be a winner nowadays, even losers!
I didn't even have a geography class. It was eliminated from the curriculum before I was in school. I don't think they have reinstated Geography either. In the USA. I love geography though so I got them all right.
Whoever set this test got some thing wrong. The Aurora Borealis refers specifically to the northern lights. Aurora Australis refers to the southern lights. The generic name of the phenomena show is aurora. Anyone with half a brain could heave deduced thee from the capitalised words. I am shocked that Everent failed to pick that up himself.
Just an FYI the last question could be two possible answers the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) or Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) as they are both very similar in appearance to my knowledge Ps . I know you've probs been bugged about this before :P 6/6 btw
I beg to differ with Minna Minna and agree with TomCos. The Aurora Australis can be viewed from many places which include lake and forest settings. In the southern hemisphere the Aurora has been seen as far north as mainland Australia and this includes being viewed from the island of Tasmania in its entirety. The question is therefore ambiguous.
You are given 4 alternatives from which to give your answer. One of those is Aurora Borealis which is correct. It does not ask whether there are other answers that may also be correct.
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I'd be staggered if anyone failed on any of them - they're easy (oh, and it's difficult to tell with the last one whether it's aurora borealis or aurora australis... and that's not a geography question anyway)
@@dundonrl out of the answers, the only possibly correct one is Aurora Borealis. But it's only possibly correct, not definitely so - it could be that none of the answers is correct, for the reasons I gave above.
There are five main themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. It could also be a relative location, where a place is described relative to its environment or its connection to other places. - National Geographic Society
6/6 nice refresher for a seasoned globetrotter like me. :-) despite the fact that many questions not relatet to regions, rather to sovereign countries.The Aurora question is completely misplaced.
It is primarily geography, because it is called the NORTHERN LIGHTS. Only can see it in some northern latitudes and countries like Norway. I missed the Oxbow lake. Don't know where that is.
Oxbow lakes are pretty common wherever a river's course is relatively flat. The meanders gradually silt up, changing the river's waterway and cutting off bends & corners to form these crescent-shaped lakes. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps for some examples here in New England: 42.293469, -72.624927 and 42.854130, -72.332573. (If you follow each river north for a bit, you'll see even more.)
I got 6 out of 6 correct. If 90% of the people failed this test, I must be the smartest one in a room more times than I originally thought. I do know that I often feel like I'm an Einsein in a sea of incompetents, and this test with a 90% failure rate pretty much confirms my suspicions.
The answer to question 5 would probably be applicable only in the USA. In Australia it would be called a billabong, as in "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong..." It's where a section of a meandering river has for whatever reason cut off a bend.
Agreed this is the ONE question I got wrong too ... were never taught this in school. And honestly the shape of that lake would have fit a horseshoe and a u shape lake to a novice. I too think it belongs in Geology rather than geography. Otherwise great quiz.
Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a landscape by Thomas Cole. It's a beautiful painting. You should check it out. I'm one of the aforementioned American idiots. ;)
Actually BOTH answers are correct. In the UK we were told it was an Oxbow but that in the US it was a Horseshoe, and I am also 62. The FACTS have not changed just the person who sets the questions, obviously not old enough. Kids nowadays know so little!
Just Me, are from the Holyoke area or currently live there? Just curious if Mount Tom has been getting enough snow in recent years for the ski lifts to be open again?
LOL! What a moronic statement. You do realize that if 90% of adult Americans failed the test, that would encompass and include the people who voted for Hillary and Bernie as well as Trump since greater than 10% of eligible voters did not vote. I guess that Ignorance is your profession and stupidity is just a hobby. Or would that be vice versa!
Hudson Pall Gudmundsson I'm American and I can tell you 95 % of the country's in this world and their capitals ! I'm 46 and I learned it in 5th grade and have never forgotten !! Answer this when did Yugoslavia break up give me the year ! And what country's came from the downfall ... Tell me smart ass !
I've always enjoyed maps and globes. This test was fun if not ,much of a test. In 1969 I decided to enlist rather than carrying a rifle in the Army.The Air Force test was multiple choice. I scored 400/400. in 45 minutes. We were allowed 3 hours. The recruiter offered me a job interpreting russian radio transmissions. My worst subject in high school? Languages. The recruiter called many, many times. Then Nixon announces the draft. I gambled and was quite pleased. The moral? I scored 50 because I'd never seen the 'oxbow, They were doing their best to get recruits.
Third question is silly: multiple choice questions should challenge you by providing at least 2 choices which are in the same ballpark... for this question, the 4 choices might have been for example: Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Krygistan and Ohio. The last one is thrown in just for comedy. Krygistan is eliminated easily also, since it's on the other side of the Caspian Sea... leaving you to remember which of the remaining 2 is on the top and which is on the bottom of the trio of "stans" stacked on top of each other on that side.
High School level? I was taught most of this by the 4th grade, in the non-unionized public schools of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Florida, in the 1950's. And without a federal Department of (Mis) Education.
I graduated high school in 1961. All questions had the same answers then as they do now. My score 100%. I did not over analyze the beginning comments (ie: geography test) and answered each question based on the associated questions written for them.
Oh dear! The setter couldn't recognise that horseshoe lesser used alternative to an oxbow, possibly I suspect more commonly used in the US than elsewhere. In the previous question about meanders, you could see where an oxbow lake was about to form.
This test is easily passed by those who were born as baby-boomers (Americans). It is also categorized as geography by someone who probably would fail it...
I'm dutch and answered every question correctly within 2 seconds, while painting my nails!! This can't be a serious 90% fail, must be chosen as a title to make people in USA feel smart when they answer 3 of those correctly.
The aurora only occurs In the northern hemisphere due to the fact that the earth tilts on its axis with the northern hemisphere facing the sun, which means that it is subject to high amounts of radiation which is blocked by the earth's magnetic field protecting the earth from the sun's radiation and thus creating an AURORA
The correct answer to question five is “A” Oxbow lake. There are a numbers of lakes around the world named Horseshoe Lake, but “oxbow” is the name of the category of that type of lake.
Anyone who used pause after number one is only guessing at the answer. Multiple choice answers having both oxbow and horseshoe? Source: www.nationalgeographic/encyclopedia - "An oxbow lake gets its name from the U-shaped collar placed around an oxs (sic) neck... It can also be called a horseshoe lake..."
First, and what I hope was most obvious at the end to everyone is that this is NOT a geography test. Geography by definition is about where any given place is located on a map, not can you name a type of river, a type of atmospheric phenomenom or a type of lake. Also, the first 3 questions were about countries, not regions.
Well I got 5/6 right. Never heard of an oxbow lake before. Years ago my husband got a haircut in California. The stylist asked us where we were from. We said the city she had never heard of it before..we then Alberta she had no clue where that was either. We stared at her incredulously! We then stated CANADA! Oh she replied. I asked her don't you take geography in school? She said they only took USA geography up to grade 12 then took world geography in college! I was DUMBFOUNDED!! I told her Canadians take geography in grade 3 then world geography in grade 6! Sh was stunned! No wonder Americans think the world revolves around them! But it sorta does anyways because it's the largest properly founded country in the world as it was founded by the God fearing Quakers
All I can say is...there's a lot of uneducated people in the USA, that can't pass this simple test. I'm 78 and haven't been in a school since 1957...but I haven't stopped learning and teaching myself. This test to me was too easy. It's common knowledge of geography...if you're curious enough to know where other countries are on this earth. The name of which you hear or read every day on the news.
im a former geography teacher and i never heard of a classification for rivers or lakes like this. And identifying the Aurora is hardyl a geography standard.
An aurora isn’t a geographical feature. And yes, 90% of today’s high school students would probably fail. Those of us who went to school when we were actually educated passed with flying colors.
One thing is for sure, whoever made this video failed. Miserably. ✋😆
Why?
Ridiculously easy. "90% FAIL!" = click bait.
i agree
Unless they selected a bunch of stereotypical Americans
This test fails the geography test. Those are not regions, they are sovereign countries.
watutman Yep, and the river and lake questions are geology.
Yes, whoever wrote this needs to go back to school and learn what a country is, because they failed!
jsp I'm afraid the trend is to teach that we must get rid of borders, that we are one world and countries are bad. Trump is for having a distinct country, America, and Hillary and the Democrats are globalists. In the Wikileaks of Podesta emails, Hillary says she is for eliminating national borders. She does not believe in America.
Vladimir_Bone Spur_tRump, If you don't like our president just go away from our country. You Trump haters are a small minority, and you are really bad people, and nobody likes you.
"Those are not regions, they are sovereign countries."
Semantic argument: countries are geopolitical regions.
I wish all my geography tests at school were like this one
4/6, except questions 4-5 that havent learned cuz i cant understand english so good. Those countires are for elementary school though.
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The aurora borealis isn't a geographic location. It's an atmospheric phenomenon.
Chris Chris Geography isn't just about location!
But, it is only in northern hemisphere
Don't they have a similar phenomenon, Aurora Australis, in the southern hemisphere?
@ yooneeque1 "Aurora Australis"
Yes, you'r right.
Geomorphology, Climatology, and Human Geography
This is like the easiest geography test ever.
agreed
Im Ten and i past with 40 points
But failed spelling, Jack! It's "passed." 8-D
Really easy. But I,m not from USA.
spevoljub I pity you.
This was a super simple quiz, it’s incredible that 90% failed it. I asked my coworkers if they knew who won the civil war and only one person knew the correct answer!! Most of them answered, “We did, the Americans.” They might have confused it with the Revolutionary War, but the word “Civil” in Civil War should have been a big clue. I work in an office with professionals in a law firm! That is sad!
If it makes you feel any better, I was doing clinicals in an ER and asked who fought in the War of 1812 and got France and England! At least they knew the Napoleonic Wars, just not by name!
There was a time in this country that a well rounded eduction was the norm. 4 years after Sputnik we had the best secondary education in the world. We are now 23rd and the students of Costa Rica are 22nd........according to what i read on the web. We have fallen are are still falling, it's enough to bring an old man to tears. The quiz was something like we used to see in 5th grade. I remember a 5th grade test where we had to write the names of all the states on a map and name the state capitols [ these we didn't have to place on a map ] . There is probably one person in 1000 that can do that today.
@@journeyman553 I remember that too. I think the system wants young people to be dumb so they are easier to manipulate.
The timer isn't even accurate, its 2x slower
Amongst an area of street performers in Chattanooga I did a geography quiz for passersby and gave out regional bbq sauces from the south to people that scored 10 out of 15 or better. All of the questions were only about the South such as, "Memphis lies at the tri-state point of what three states?" and "the highest point in elevation in the eastern half of the contiguous US is in which state?" Virtually everyone who took the quiz was southern. I gave out 3 bottles of sauce that evening. About 50 people took the quiz. Sad.
Not really a geography test, since half the questions were not about geography. Three were science related ( geomorphology and atmospheric).
This things is part of geography ;) so this is geography test.
I learned all of the above in 'Geography' in primary and secondary school. Maybe your primary and secondary schooling was different and it had a distinct class for each and every discipline, but most schools do not and amalgamate learning under one umbrella term.
All this was taught in high school geography in my day. Whether it still is I haven't a clue. Where does one study geomorphology in high school?
would you repeat that please.
Maybe we should take the definition of geography as the National Geographic Society means it: "To show the world and all it encompasses". Well, then it's simply science :-) - and this test is therefore very very limited. On a stricter geographical level, it is also unbalanced with half of the questions relating to territories, and a third about hydrography - not much left for all the other parts of geography...
(I passed at least 5/6 - not sure about the lake form: not being an English native speaker, I don't know how such lakes are called in English, so I simply translated the French usage into "horseshoe").
This looks like one of the most easiest test i ever seen i know ever country and im 14
I am younger and got most right
Same
I was hold back by language... We learn this river and lake stuff, just not in english.
Omg me too 🤣🤣
Most easiest? Exactly how do you quantify most easiest?
6/6, easily
Everent Tnx man
I got them all but would have done poorly if it were not multiple choice.
i also got 6/6 how is this difficult? and oxbow lake is literally translated horseshoe lake in my country but still got it
Koen Knoef haha Netherlands got all of them right too
Viktor Bijdezee I know right
A lot of the comments here are indicative of lack of geography knowledge. Things to do with the distribution of rivers, coastlines, mountains, and other physical features and how and why they are located where they are IS geography. Things to do with atmospheric phenomena to include climate also fall under geography. For example, I have a degree in geography with a specialization in climatology. Sadly, most Americans think geography is simply, "what's the capital of X".
Douchebag!
90% failed ? That goes to show how well government schools are teaching our children. I'm not the smartest man ever but I didn't need multiple choice and made 100%
Somebody explain how the Aurora Borealis is Geography? It's an aerial phenomena NOT geography! And it can appear in more than one area. So THAT question needs to be changed or thrown out completely!
It's an atmospheric question. What science is that? Astronomy?
kragseven - Your definition is from wikipedia, which is NOT an academically accredited authoritative source.
Websters sez .... Geography definition is - a science that deals with the description, distribution, and interaction of the diverse physical, biological, and cultural features of the earth's surface. Key word being 'surface'. Obviously wikipedia suffers from a lack of a disciplined approach to collecting information. Any idiot can edit wikipedia.
+ Red Car: And yet, the Oxford Dictionary says - "The study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources and political and economic activities."
But whatever any dictionary says, it is the case that all the subjects in the quiz could be covered by a high school geography class.
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Everent, the "regions" listed in Q1-3 are usually called countries, and Q6's choice C should be just "Aurora", since just looking at a picture doesn't determine what part of the world it was spotted, since "Borealis" is the Northern Hemisphere, and "Australis" (think Australia) is in the Southern Hemisphere.
100% without breaking a sweat. People with an ounce of sense, or who didn't forget everything they learned in school on graduation night, should know this stuff. It's basic.
Why can't each correct answer just give you one point?
Woafy It's also secretly a maths quiz
It's because those who only answer 1 question correctly get 10 points and can feel good about themselves. How would you feel if you only got 1 miserable point? Yeah! Like a fucking loser! Feelings matter! Everyone has to be a winner nowadays, even losers!
Because a perfect score is 60. If you only got 6 points you would fail the test even though you answered them all right.
Robert Matthews You don't understand the question
Jack Challenge You don’t understand my answer.
I've got them all right and I failed my high school Geography in the 1970's
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I didn't even have a geography class. It was eliminated from the curriculum before I was in school. I don't think they have reinstated Geography either. In the USA.
I love geography though so I got them all right.
Whoever set this test got some thing wrong. The Aurora Borealis refers specifically to the northern lights. Aurora Australis refers to the southern lights. The generic name of the phenomena show is aurora. Anyone with half a brain could heave deduced thee from the capitalised words. I am shocked that Everent failed to pick that up himself.
Just an FYI the last question could be two possible answers the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) or Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) as they are both very similar in appearance to my knowledge
Ps .
I know you've probs been bugged about this before :P
6/6 btw
Because of the lakes and forests these are Aurora Borealis from north Finland/Norway/Sweden. Are is called Lappland.
good thing aurora australis wasnt one of the choices huh?
I beg to differ with Minna Minna and agree with TomCos. The Aurora Australis can be viewed from many places which include lake and forest settings. In the southern hemisphere the Aurora has been seen as far north as mainland Australia and this includes being viewed from the island of Tasmania in its entirety. The question is therefore ambiguous.
What do the Northern Lights have to do with geography? I scored 6/6 btw.
You are given 4 alternatives from which to give your answer. One of those is Aurora Borealis which is correct. It does not ask whether there are other answers that may also be correct.
There is no such thing as a High School Geography test. It is no longer taught in High School.
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@@ayaanwahab826 No, it isn't. What's more, a majority of states do not require geography courses in middle school or high school.
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About 25 years ago, in a a poll of Harvard grads, 90% could not explain why the sky is blue.
Ah- Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
This was the easiest geography test ever. I got all but Oxbow lake, that doesn't even make sense for geography. 50/60
Lol
It's not an oxbow lake. An oxbow is an island formed by a river changing course due to erosion of the bank with the swiftest current.
Aurora Borealis?! At this time of the year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen?
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I'd be staggered if anyone failed on any of them - they're easy (oh, and it's difficult to tell with the last one whether it's aurora borealis or aurora australis... and that's not a geography question anyway)
Out of the answers, which is it..
@@dundonrl out of the answers, the only possibly correct one is Aurora Borealis. But it's only possibly correct, not definitely so - it could be that none of the answers is correct, for the reasons I gave above.
I’m colorblind and couldn’t tell if I was wrong or right lmao
There are five main themes of geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. It could also be a relative location, where a place is described relative to its environment or its connection to other places. - National Geographic Society
Thank you. Are you enlightened now.
6/6 nice refresher for a seasoned globetrotter like me. :-) despite the fact that many questions not relatet to regions, rather to sovereign countries.The Aurora question is completely misplaced.
5/6 Geography is great!
Everent I'm 9 and I got 5/6
Same score here. Which one did you miss? I couldn't tell Kenya from Ethiopia...
I missed the last question under protest. That's more astronomy than geography.
It is primarily geography, because it is called the NORTHERN LIGHTS. Only can see it in some northern latitudes and countries like Norway. I missed the Oxbow lake. Don't know where that is.
Oxbow lakes are pretty common wherever a river's course is relatively flat. The meanders gradually silt up, changing the river's waterway and cutting off bends & corners to form these crescent-shaped lakes. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps for some examples here in New England: 42.293469, -72.624927 and 42.854130, -72.332573. (If you follow each river north for a bit, you'll see even more.)
2 questions were not geography
That was fun. I got 3/6. I don't get out much and I don't remember being taught things like that in school back in the 70's/80's. Cool video. =D
I got 6 out of 6 correct. If 90% of the people failed this test, I must be the smartest one in a room more times than I originally thought. I do know that I often feel like I'm an Einsein in a sea of incompetents, and this test with a 90% failure rate pretty much confirms my suspicions.
Michael Hittson. sadly
Michael, you are right. but do check out how Albert Einstein signs his name. I hope that your reference was a typo..
wow i'm in 6th grade and know ALL of them this is too easy
Zakaria N so am I, I knew all of them except the river one and I got it by guessing
Zakaria N It’s easier for a kid, you were just taught this stuff, I’ve had forty years to forget it!
Shut up, Fool~
6/6 and I'm still in middle school I've known most of these for years
Cool test :)
The answer to question 5 would probably be applicable only in the USA. In Australia it would be called a billabong, as in "Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong..." It's where a section of a meandering river has for whatever reason cut off a bend.
Why do you say its a geography test? It's just random questions. Just google geography general knowledge and then make question slides.
Im 12 and this was really easy apart from the last one which got me
I think this was targeting americans
I Got 40 Points.
Pass, Above Average.
5/6 Dunno lakes
Karl Anthony Adonis Yeah I was never taught about lakes in school
Ditto, I guessed right but any of the 4 were possible.
"Dunno" is a commonly used contraction, found in any decent English dictionary, and perfectly acceptable for informal comments on UA-cam.
Agreed this is the ONE question I got wrong too ... were never taught this in school. And honestly the shape of that lake would have fit a horseshoe and a u shape lake to a novice. I too think it belongs in Geology rather than geography. Otherwise great quiz.
its USA based, you have to be able to speak bastardised USA english lol
I'm a 63 year old Canadian. 90% of adults failed? Is an 18 year old still considered an adult?
Funny how the test has 3 questions of greography, and others are hydrology, anecdotal, and about atmospheric phenomenon.
i got them ALL right and im in 5th grade😂😂😂 I surprised myself
Everent thanks!
I'm in 4th :O
Gaby Bibse You're not the only one
Gaby Bibse if you're in 5th grade I'm in 5th grade.
Sean Martin Umm, Third??
I'm 62 been out if high school quite a while and score was 5/6 . Dam Oxbow , my day it was a fxxxing horseshoe . 😘✌️
Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm, commonly known as The Oxbow, is a landscape by Thomas Cole. It's a beautiful painting. You should check it out. I'm one of the aforementioned American idiots. ;)
Clarification... this isn't Thomas Cole's Oxbow, I was merely using his as an example of an oxbow in a river...
Actually BOTH answers are correct. In the UK we were told it was an Oxbow but that in the US it was a Horseshoe, and I am also 62. The FACTS have not changed just the person who sets the questions, obviously not old enough. Kids nowadays know so little!
Just Me, are from the Holyoke area or currently live there? Just curious if Mount Tom has been getting enough snow in recent years for the ski lifts to be open again?
6 out of 6 , coz I am not educated in the USA
6 of 6, and I AM educated in the USA. Stop being so smug you asshole foreigners.
No matter what kind of questions they are, I, as an American with no college education, got a 100%.
Aurora borealis at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country localized entirely within your kitchen.
This was way too easy... Makes sense though since I'm a geography nerd...
I suck. I got 4/6. I missed. #5 and #6. Before taking this I thought I was good at geography
Bruh I'm in sophomore year right now, and I have *NEVER* learn/heard of #4 & 5.
dtorr_1 5/6 me
6/6 yes i love geography but i am kid
same
How many questions did you google before answering?
Any adult who failed this test is probably someone you wouldn’t want to hang out with.
If 90% of adults failed this simple geography test then they must be really thick.🤪
90% fail of American adults
PEDJA 6 So were going to ignore the fact that the average American IQ is 98.
@ A quick goggle search on IQ rankings will show you.
The adults in the USA who failed this test are the same ones who failed by voting for Trump.
v. domo Sir, you have a very bad case of TDS-Trump Derangement Syndrome.
So I geuss bomming economies is bad.
U mind explaining me the correlation between voting for trump and knowing a pointless test
5/6 and I voted for Trump
WRONG. Trump WON, so voting for him is a victory. Only a complete asshole would vote for Killary.
LOL! What a moronic statement. You do realize that if 90% of adult Americans failed the test, that would encompass and include the people who voted for Hillary and Bernie as well as Trump since greater than 10% of eligible voters did not vote. I guess that Ignorance is your profession and stupidity is just a hobby. Or would that be vice versa!
The 90% that failed this test never enjoyed looking at earth globes and paper maps.
Where is Paris? American ; isnt it in London?
Hudson Pall Gudmundsson I'm American and I can tell you 95 % of the country's in this world and their capitals ! I'm 46 and I learned it in 5th grade and have never forgotten !! Answer this when did Yugoslavia break up give me the year ! And what country's came from the downfall ... Tell me smart ass !
I've always enjoyed maps and globes. This test was fun if not ,much of a test. In 1969 I decided to enlist rather than carrying a rifle in the Army.The Air Force test was multiple choice. I scored 400/400. in 45 minutes. We were allowed 3 hours. The recruiter offered me a job interpreting russian radio transmissions. My worst subject in high school? Languages. The recruiter called many, many times. Then Nixon announces the draft. I gambled and was quite pleased. The moral? I scored 50 because I'd never seen the 'oxbow, They were doing their best to get recruits.
Third question is silly: multiple choice questions should challenge you by providing at least 2 choices which are in the same ballpark... for this question, the 4 choices might have been for example: Kazakstan, Turkmenistan, Krygistan and Ohio. The last one is thrown in just for comedy. Krygistan is eliminated easily also, since it's on the other side of the Caspian Sea... leaving you to remember which of the remaining 2 is on the top and which is on the bottom of the trio of "stans" stacked on top of each other on that side.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
Hey, I took the test just now and scored 60, all correct. I am an adult, left school about 50 years back. What does it indicate?
High School level? I was taught most of this by the 4th grade, in the non-unionized public schools of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Florida, in the 1950's. And without a federal Department of (Mis) Education.
Japan, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan are countries, not regions. #6 isn't Geography, it's Astronomy.
I graduated high school in 1961. All questions had the same answers then as they do now. My score 100%.
I did not over analyze the beginning comments (ie: geography test) and answered each question based on the associated questions written for them.
6/6 means that I know 6 things, not that I have "vast knowledge of geo". I'd add that none of that knowledge has been useful to me.
Your basic premise for the test is wrong. (I got 6/6) the flaws are already pointed out below.
I agree 💯% regarding the flaws contained therein. I too got 6/6.
Good to know that I'm not amongst the 90% of the world's dummies HaHa
Ok, Japan, is a COUNTRY, not a REGION. A region is like the Middle East.
I think the reason that they say "90% fail" is because only 10% say a region and 90% say a country.
Do y’all really not have geography anymore? We have it mixed in with world history(freshman year of high school)
person, woman, man, camera t.v.... that's amazing sir, how did you do that?
Oh dear! The setter couldn't recognise that horseshoe lesser used alternative to an oxbow, possibly I suspect more commonly used in the US than elsewhere. In the previous question about meanders, you could see where an oxbow lake was about to form.
This test is easily passed by those who were born as baby-boomers (Americans). It is also categorized as geography by someone who probably would fail it...
I'm dutch and answered every question correctly within 2 seconds, while painting my nails!! This can't be a serious 90% fail, must be chosen as a title to make people in USA feel smart when they answer 3 of those correctly.
What is the sense of a test if the questions are incorrect to start with?
That was easy, would love to have a conversation with the people who didn't pass.
6/6 that’s called the British GCSE education for you.
The aurora only occurs In the northern hemisphere due to the fact that the earth tilts on its axis with the northern hemisphere facing the sun, which means that it is subject to high amounts of radiation which is blocked by the earth's magnetic field protecting the earth from the sun's radiation and thus creating an AURORA
The correct answer to question five is “A” Oxbow lake. There are a numbers of lakes around the world named Horseshoe Lake, but “oxbow” is the name of the category of that type of lake.
Anyone who used pause after number one is only guessing at the answer. Multiple choice answers having both oxbow and horseshoe? Source: www.nationalgeographic/encyclopedia - "An oxbow lake gets its name from the U-shaped collar placed around an oxs (sic) neck... It can also be called a horseshoe lake..."
5 right, missed on oxbow lake but how are countries regions?
First, and what I hope was most obvious at the end to everyone is that this is NOT a geography test. Geography by definition is about where any given place is located on a map, not can you name a type of river, a type of atmospheric phenomenom or a type of lake. Also, the first 3 questions were about countries, not regions.
Well I got 5/6 right. Never heard of an oxbow lake before.
Years ago my husband got a haircut in California. The stylist asked us where we were from. We said the city she had never heard of it before..we then Alberta she had no clue where that was either. We stared at her incredulously! We then stated CANADA! Oh she replied. I asked her don't you take geography in school? She said they only took USA geography up to grade 12 then took world geography in college! I was DUMBFOUNDED!! I told her Canadians take geography in grade 3 then world geography in grade 6! Sh was stunned! No wonder Americans think the world revolves around them! But it sorta does anyways because it's the largest properly founded country in the world as it was founded by the God fearing Quakers
WTF ids an oxbow!? That's not a geo question, that's a topographical question
Anyone who failed that is a complete spaz.
The title of this video should say "90% of Americans fail." Us Brits get taught this stuff in secondary school. (11-16 year olds)
The last question was not a geography question. You asked what the lights were called--not what continent or hemisphere they are seen above.
I did not know that the Shapes of Lakes were given special names.
What the hell is an Oxbow anyway ???
Was anyone else irked that the results were only for 0-50 points?
60 points / PASS, PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY
All I can say is...there's a lot of uneducated people in the USA, that can't pass this simple test. I'm 78 and haven't been in a school since 1957...but I haven't stopped learning and teaching myself. This test to me was too easy. It's common knowledge of geography...if you're curious enough to know where other countries are on this earth. The name of which you hear or read every day on the news.
Which country is called Red radish ?
How does one choose the answer? It would be helpful to know that. . . . . . . . .
The answer to question #6 could have been "Aurora Australis", but my guess is that whoever put together this trivial quiz wouldn't know that.
im a former geography teacher and i never heard of a classification for rivers or lakes like this. And identifying the Aurora is hardyl a geography standard.
Go to Harvard and give this test to random students. THEN the 90% failure will likely occur.
this really was too easy - is there any way to make it interactive and not show the answers until the end?
An aurora isn’t a geographical feature. And yes, 90% of today’s high school students would probably fail. Those of us who went to school when we were actually educated passed with flying colors.
Is this a test for 5 year olds?
The last question was a strange question, because it asked if that was the Aurora Borealis, whereas it could well have been the Aurora Australis