Global Literacy Quiz

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  • Posted By: RJ Kruger @ 07/26/2008 5:30:33 PM

    How the Hell do you access it?

  • Posted By: KaySD @ 07/26/2008 3:44:13 PM

    The July 14 Newsweek Print edition "Take your Brain for a Spin" had something besides entertainment as topics, and it gave a wrong answer for #1, How many US Presidents were also Generals. It said (3) and should have said (4), it left off General "Stonewall" Jackson.

  • Posted By: KaySD @ 07/26/2008 3:39:48 PM

    The Julyy 14 print edition "Take Your Brain For a Spin"'s first question, how many US Presidents were a General, had the wrong answer, (3): General Andrew "Stonewall" Jackson, should have made the number (4) along with Washington, Grant, and Eisenhower, Do I get a prize for catching a mistake?

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/24/2008 9:16:14 PM



    OBAMA Takes Credit for passing a new bill and referring to the committee that passed it ( Senate Banking Committee) as HIS committee

    OBAMA was not in any part a member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (which he called HIS committee) when speaking to people on his Rock Tour. Talk about audacity. He has a record in the Senate for taking credit for other legislators work. This blatantly proves that case:

    Oops, NoBoma:
    http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Membership

    Oops, another NoBama:
    http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Information.Subcommittees

    VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjzb61wfyN0

    AUDIO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWNKO982ZEc


    The closest he can claim anything about this new bill passed last week is that it included some provisions that he and 2 other senators in the Iran Sanctions Enabling Act of 2007. That is it. Talk about being bombastic. It is amazing the levels he will go and tactics he will use for political expediency.



  • Posted By: hankjeff @ 07/10/2008 7:50:37 PM

    Contrary to the answer given by Newsweek here, there were 12 presidents who had achieved the rank of general. They were: Washington, Jackson, W. Harrison, Taylor, Pierce, A. Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, B. Harrison, and Eisenhower.

    • Posted By: sroundtable @ 07/21/2008 2:07:53 PM

      You are CORRECT!!! How could newsweek's quiz editors make such a HUGE mistake? Here they are with official rank:

      1) General of the Armies of the U.S. (6-stars): Washington (bestowed posthumously by Gerald Ford in 1976).

      2) General of the Army (5-stars): Dwight D. Eisenhower

      3) General (4-stars): Ulysses S. Grant

      4) Major General (3-stars): Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield.

      5) Brigadier General: Franklin Pierce, Chester A. Arthur, Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Harrison.

      • Posted By: jh35180 @ 07/24/2008 4:25:47 PM

        You are right. The "Newsweek" writers are very stupid.

    • Posted By: sroundtable @ 07/21/2008 2:15:10 PM

      You are CORRECT!!! How could Newsweek's quiz editor mess this up so badly?

      1) Washington achieved rank of Gen. of the Armies of the U.S. (6 stars) when Pres. Ford posthumously promoted him in 1976.

      2) Eisenhower achieved the rank of General of the Army (5 stars).

      3) Grant achieved the rank of General (4 stars).

      4) There were five Major Generals: Jackson, WH Harrison, Hayes, Taylor and Garfield.

      5) There were four Brigadier Generals: Pierce, Andrew Johnson, Arthur and Benjamin Harrison.

      Come on Newsweek!!!! This was a MAJOR error.

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/24/2008 4:36:05 AM

    NewsWeek,
    Time to take down this Quiz and put up another article about your Man, Obama. Or better yet, maybe update this Quiz/communication you posted by setting the story as to those Presidents who were Generals, 4 star generals, etc (based on blogs below that raised questions). I would like to know the truth and a source as to what the real deal is. Thank you. : - )

  • Posted By: ctd3118 @ 07/22/2008 8:27:18 PM

    How does American pop culture constitute global literacy?

  • Posted By: jameskbachman @ 07/20/2008 10:10:25 PM

    Better called trivia quiz

  • Posted By: RoyalRook @ 07/20/2008 3:49:21 PM

    haha that was pure awesomeness

  • Posted By: RoyalRook @ 07/20/2008 3:48:57 PM

    haha that was so cool

  • Posted By: Colorado Voter @ 07/20/2008 11:05:21 AM

    Global ?
    More like Hollywood literacy

  • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/19/2008 5:28:42 PM

    NEWS FLASH

    ABC NEWS

    OBAMA 8 Min VIDEO: Montage of Contradictory Statements on IRAQ

    Subliminal Messaging, or Over-Active Imaginations?
    July 18, 2008 5:54 PM
    By Rick Klein


    EXCERPT:

    There is a longtime tradition in political advertising to look beyond the message to the subtext -- and even to the subliminal.

    In that spirit, a veteran Democratic operative offers an interesting observation of the newly released anti-Obama Web video produced by the McCain campaign. The VIDEO is an EIGHT-MINUTE montage of sometimes CONTRADICTORY statements about the Iraq war made by Sen. Barack Obama. (Continued in full article link below).


    Warning: Make sure you are sitting down before you watch this video. . .you may become dizzy.

    SEE 8 MINUTE VIDEO: Newly released as Obamas makes his trip overseas.
    http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/documentary.htm



    SEE FULL ARTICLE: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/subliminal-mess.html




  • Posted By: martindk @ 07/16/2008 3:38:45 AM

    My comment was not that every American agrees with it's government's foreign policy, it was that America has an insular view. To use the word 'global' to define a quiz in which 90% of the questions are about Americana demonstrates this. This self-important view is what leads a country to act unilaterally without understanding , being curious about, or indeed having respect for what is outside it's borders.

    • Posted By: larrytt @ 07/16/2008 10:33:30 AM

      But the "country" didn't decide to "act unilaterally without understanding," etc. The U.S. President makes these decisions, not the "country." As noted, the large majority of American disagree with the current policies. As to the quiz, that was done by a specific magazine, not the American people. One could just as easily single out a magazine or newspaper from another country and choose to judge that country by that one magazine.
      -Larry Hodges

  • Posted By: martindk @ 07/14/2008 4:39:02 AM

    I have to say is is a typical American definition of the word 'global'.
    Only one of the ten questions (re Francis Bacon) was not America related. Methinks it is this myopia that has led to your foreign policy disasters.

    • Posted By: larrytt @ 07/14/2008 10:18:00 PM

      Let's not jump to conclusions here. American foreign policy is primarily set by the American president. Whether one agrees with him or not (this is not the place to debate that), his popularity level right now is under 30% or so, and even lower in regards to foreign policy. The large majority of Americans do not agree with current American foreign policy.
      -Larry Hodges

  • Posted By: dawn_brady @ 07/12/2008 3:46:24 PM

    I agree with jrgfla.

  • Posted By: jrgfla @ 07/12/2008 3:05:50 PM

    This quiz has nothing to do with literacy. Newsweek has totally lost its way. I had to cancel my subscription last year - after 40 years, because of the significant shift left and towards sensationalism. Are you trying to compete with People and CNN?

  • Posted By: Valentine 1741 @ 07/12/2008 1:18:16 PM

    this is bullshit! maybe if you're in the respective industries, you'd know these trivia. but it is not literacy!

  • Posted By: aminahyaquin @ 07/12/2008 9:53:46 AM

    this is a pop quiz and the mechanizsms are defective for answering. this doesn't measure global literacy but celebrity winnerism

  • Posted By: nancyt @ 07/11/2008 5:57:19 PM

    I agree with gazooby and terrimcm....this was sad, I expected you at Newsweek to be smarter.

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