Thursday, April 10, 2008

Civics Quiz - Can You Answer these Questions?

1. What is "Rendition"?

2. Name a country that borders Israel? (there are four)

3. What country is the city of Kabul located?

4. Which of the following countries are democracies: Cuba, India, Japan, China

5. What years was the U.S. Civil War fought?

6. What is the most populous Islamic country?

7. The case Roe v. Wade is about what?

8. How many justices sit on the Supreme Court?

9. What year did the U.S. drop a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Japan?

10. Who is the Secretary of Defense?

These are question asked to college students, most could not answer the questions above. See this article: click here What has happen to civics in school? Are we so connected to our machines, that we ignore the world?

Here are the answers:

1. the process of taking terror suspects to foreign countries for interrogation purposes, countries where U.S. law will not apply.

2. Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon

3. Afghanistan, it's the capital city

4. Japan and India

5. 1861-1865

6. Indonesia

7. the seminal case on Abortion

8. Nine

9. 1945

10. Robert Gates

2 comments:

Nicole Hernandez said...

Nikki got 7 out of 10 correct. I didn't know the Sec of Defence, "Rendition", and I thought there were more than 9 Supreme Court Justices.

Serena Potter said...

I'm going to give the test to MaCall and see how she does...