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Started by Syt, December 02, 2015, 07:30:47 AM

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Syt

December 02, 2015, 07:30:47 AM
http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2015/dec/02/how-well-do-you-really-know-your-country-take-our-quiz

I was ranked 7 and was fairly off on a few things (age groups, working women, obesity). :blush:
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katmai

#1
December 02, 2015, 07:39:39 AM
Said I was 4th. Most off answer was % of women in House of Representatives
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garbon

#2
December 02, 2015, 07:42:19 AM
I ranked 2. Most off was population outside of major city, people who have internet, people who live with their parents and obesity (as I missed bit that it included the overweight as well -_-).
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Liep

#3
December 02, 2015, 08:00:27 AM
Ranked 1, and it was for Sweden because the drunken British didn't include Denmark. Only questions I was off by more than 20% was about the obese (I was too low) and atheists (I was too high). I think too fondly of my neighbours.
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#4
December 02, 2015, 08:23:42 AM
Quite a fun quiz, edumacational too  :cool:

Rank 1.

My worst score was for immigrants where I said 8% but it was actually 14%. The odd thing about that being that I knew it was 14 but then subtracted for students, temporary workers etc etc  :lol:

Grey Fox

#5
December 02, 2015, 08:29:46 AM
Quebec, not on the list. :angry:
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Syt

#6
December 02, 2015, 08:34:17 AM
Since Austria is not on the list I took the quiz for Hungary and got rank 1 :lol:

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Duque de Bragança

#7
December 02, 2015, 08:39:57 AM
No Portugal on the quiz so France. Got Ranked 2. Spectacular fail on obese and overweight, I thought France had still some time to catch up with the US, UK and Germany.  :Embarrass:

Valmy

#8
December 02, 2015, 10:23:00 AM
I ranked 1. Huh I thought I was pretty off on everything.

I was way under on obesity because I guess I missed 'overweight'. Hell I am surprised it is not 90%.
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#9
December 02, 2015, 10:30:49 AM
Ranked #3.  Interesting.
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garbon

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December 02, 2015, 10:37:01 AM
Quote from: Valmy on December 02, 2015, 10:23:00 AM
I was way under on obesity because I guess I missed 'overweight'.

:hug:
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garbon

#11
December 02, 2015, 10:37:27 AM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DGuller

#12
December 02, 2015, 10:46:50 AM
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.

Syt

#13
December 02, 2015, 10:47:31 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 02, 2015, 10:46:50 AM
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.

Did you do it for Russia or US?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

DGuller

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December 02, 2015, 10:48:24 AM
Quote from: Syt on December 02, 2015, 10:47:31 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 02, 2015, 10:46:50 AM
I'm #1. :yeah: I've got 8 of those 11 questions almost dead on, within 1-2%.

Did you do it for Russia or US?
:mad: US of course.
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