17/20. Missed the CSI question, Population growth due to immigration (went with 5%, guess they were counting illegal immigrants as well?) and biggest exporter in dollars (also thought it was China).
I think the most telling question was the one about the most widespread spoken language. Over 70% selected english.
For those people who read the rest of the page it answered this question. The idea was not that CSI is important but rather it was to show what kids knew (i.e. more knew the CSI answer than most of the other answers, etc.).
Besides the scores, I'm finding it interesting to see how many people misread the questions (i.e. reading comprehension).
Likewise, but I guessed too high, 54% when the answer was 33%.
As for Mandarin, just consider that over and above the 1.2-1.3 billion Chinese in China itself, there are another 350 million or so ethnic Chinese scattered around the world; not all speak Mandarin, but I'm sure many do. Although the point about "primary" language is quite a fair one: I do wonder myself how many Chinese nationals consider Mandarin, rather than a regional dialect, their primary language.
At least there's no mystery here. Unless you're quoting out of context some bit from a movie, this post is offensive. This board may be populated largely by a (North) American audience, but come on, man. Not for nothing is it called the "World" wide web. Cheers.
It's a reworking of a song from Team America, and it reads to me like a slam on America, not India or China. If someone wants to slam America, I wish they wouldn't do it in response to one of my posts.
Thanks for the clarification, Greg. I've had this movie on the shelf for greater than a year now and I've yet to watch it. And upon re-reading the post with which I took issue, I think I've been a little thin-skinned; it indeed reads like a poke at the ravenous appetites and incredibly expanding belt-lines of some (North) Americans, so apologies to TV55. Cheers.
I got 20/20 though the percentage of immigrants to the US population was a guess between the 20s and the 30s.
The "dollar value" of exports was cleverly written since I'm sure most of the respondents were thinking that the US has a trade deficit and we buy a lot from China.