Can you pass eighth grade?

Eight-question, eighth-grade quiz on AOL.

I managed 6 of 8, although I will admit that one was pure luck. The Romeo and Juliet question and the last one got me. Area of the triangle was a complete guess.

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Um, I got three.

:-[

 

Six out of eight. I missed the two science ones.

 

two...

:'(

 

Got 6 of 8 right, but the two I missed were the triangle one and the Romeo and Juliet question. That being said, we hadn't studied Romeo and Juliet by the end of eighth grade (not until 10th) and the triangle math we definitely didn't do until high school.

 

6/8. The Romeo and Juliet one nailed me too. Of course, I haven't touched it in 30 years.

I'd also be shocked if the average U.S. 8th grader reads any Shakespeare. I went to a very, very good school district, and we never touched it until high school.

The name of the primeval continent got me too -- when I was in school, the theory of plate tectonics was new stuff, and they hadn't established the names for the protocontinents they have now.

Of course, when I was in high school, the ideas that the moon was formed as the result of a planetary collision, and the dinosaurs became extinct because of a meteor impact, were considered outlandish.

 

Hell,  you give me a picture of Europe and I can MAYBE find Italy.

Maybe.

Then again, on a map of the U.S. I can place, at most, 10-15 states. The end.

 

That pangea one has changed since I was in eighth grad :-\

Or else my memory is getting bad.

Or else my memory is getting bad.

 

I thought it was Pangaea too.

What's Pangaea then?

 

Not to crack on you IJAG, but this is a common lament. My dad, a former geography/history teacher (my teacher, in fact, on two occasions) used to be frustrated by the number of people who thought Houston or Dallas was the capital of Texas and New York was the capital of the U.S.

As an aside, my girlfriend tested me on the states and capitals and I'm proud to say I got 99 out of 100.

Simple math equations? Eh, I'm a moron in that regard.