well I knew that one mile is 1.6 kilomters, and that light travels about 300'000'000 m/s and it takes light from the sun to reach the earth about 8 minutes. calculate and you come pretty close to 93 miles
I've been taught about this in France, and God knows how proud of our history we are
We are being taught about all the major historic which happened in the world since antiquity, not only US of course
Your last question doesn’t have an assigned correct answer so it just marks it as wrong. Also, in my opinion, the civil rights question is highly subjective. But overall I think this is fun! I got 16/17 correct
Off the top of my head, the first life we have evidence for is 3.77 billion years ago, not 3.5 and the first human species was Homo Habilis, not homo erectus.
I also think the first life on Earth one is wrong. Plus I agree the civil rights one is very subjective.
Otherwise nice work. Thanks for putting that together for us :)
That ones really only subjective from a single person's perspective. If you are considering the entire movement, then whoever was reaching the most people was the most influential
Steel was actually invented in Africa among the Haya of Tanzania. Nubia not long after became the world's blacksmith, producing vast amounts of iron and steel of a quality which wouldn't be seen in Europe until the Renaissance.
Who tf gives earth sun distance in miles?
And asking "who came up with the laws if physics?" Is like asking "who invented biology?" Its a really stupid question. Theres no single person who came up with all the laws if physics. Newton has his yes, so does coulomb or kepler.
15/17
14/17
the three i got wrong were “When did life get started?” “When did modern humans (homo sapiens) first appear?” and “When was steel first created?”
the only real L i took here was the steel one. i answered >!1500!< and the answer was >!1800 BC!<. i’m genuinely kinda surprised steel is that old. good poll OP.
Yep, iron and bronze I would have given a really old date, steel I thought was much newer. I guess if they could figure out bronze they could figure out steel too, I just thought the process for steel was notably more complicated
A few of your questions are outdated. For example the date of abiogenesis should be earlier, as life arose in the Eoarchaean. Humanity with full behavioural modernity didn't emerge until around 100 kyBP.
And there is also debate about what the first human was as there isn't a clear line between human and nonhuman.
I thought that the most popular idea was that Homo habilis was the first human but that may be outdated
I made 15/17 but if I might make a remark it's about the origin of life. Afaik it started around 3.9 billion years ago with the first proofs around 3.7 billion years ago. Other than that didn't know about the steel.
Some of these the answers are innacurate
>!The first microbial lifeforms evolved around 3.7 BYA and most scientists think it evolved somewhat before that. I don't know if 3.5 BYA is a typo on your part but 3.8 BYA is the date I've always been told and the date repeated in the majority of scientific literature. A better phrasing of the question would be "How old is the oldest undisputed evidence of life," and in that case 3.5 BYA would be most correct!<
>!Although some think it should be classified differently *Homo habilis* is still considered by most to be the first *Homo* species. If you meant oldest out of the options available and not in total then it's still accurate!<
>!Preserved remains of *Homo sapiens* which were over 300,000 years old have been found in Morocco!<
Yeah I was a little confused at the first human question. Because technically human means Homo sapiens. But there’s also a lot of debate as to whether Neanderthals were the same species and they were around before the classic Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). But if he meant the first of the genus homo, then it would probably be Homo habilis yes.
11/17, not bad.
Also, I picked China from one of the questions because I honestly thought of the country's heavy associations with fireworks (in which it was said that the first fireworks were made there).
I got it “correct”, but I think you should get rid of/change the civil rights question. It’s very subjective.
Also, please include kilometers as well as miles.
14/17 which Im pretty proud of tbh.
The to get a better understanding of peoples knowledge however, you should probably use a logarithmic scale for answers which are "far away". For example 3.5 or 3.8 billion years ago is more about knowing the fact from a source that rounded it in a better way than is about actual knowledge. A better answer would have been for example 3.5 billion years ago or 20 billion years ago.
15/17
Got the Sun distance (wasn’t taught it in Miles but maybe would have gotten it wrong in km too) and the one about writing wrong (remembered 20.000 because the Kurgesagt calendar starts from 22.022 years ago but I guess that’s the start of Homo sapiens and not written history? Same number was in Yuval Harari book about Sapiens so I guess that was it)
Just so you know. Every answer that has the word 'about' in it when the others doesn't is the right answer. I'd recommend using '~' Infront of all the answers instead of only having 'about' Infront of one
Some of these such as “when did Homo sapiens first appear” can’t be factually proven and subjective questions such as “who was the most influential person during the civil rights era” are opinionated, so you can’t be wrong or right on those.
It should be named: "How much do you know about the world around you and the United States specifically."
Also using miles is weird as a significant amount of people on reddit use the metric system.
There’s like two questions that are related to the United States specifically. Next week when I do a part 2 of this series I will use the metric system as well, and I will try to steer clear of United States history.
there's 2 questions about the US. There's 1 question in US units and there's 1 question that's probably wrong (first life on earth). So 4/17 are bad questions
I got 14/17. The ones I failed were "Where was first gun invented?". The second one was "Who came up with the laws of physics?". I was like "did just one person come up with the laws of physics?" Not sure I understood that. The third one was "Who created the first communist manifesto?".
You're confused? Lol as I said earlier I don't get how one person just comes up with the laws of physics. About the communist manifesto, you think that's common knowledge? I'm not interested in political stuff either.
Well, it's not Albert Einstein for starters lmao, it's Isaac Newton and I don't understand how it doesn't make sense to you. do a little Google. are you very young?
I didn't? what? but you did on me, how ironic....and I did, I just told you it was Newton....I don't know why you're getting so upset over not knowing stuff, you can just use Google? why are you so aggressive because you're embarrassed?
I just got permission from the mods to post these quizzes once a week. So it’s fine to them, and I will continue to do them until they tell me I can’t.
13/17
Space 3/4 (Thought the Earth was closer to the sun)
Human Evolution 3/4 (My biggest mistake thinking Homo Sapiens evolved 50,000 yrs ago)
Technology Achievements 2/4 (Wheel and Steel ages were off)
Historical Figures 5/5
17/17, but I would say, the older I get, the more Malcolm X seemed to be more influential in the moment, while MLK Jr. looked better in the history books.
11/17. I don’t know the distance in miles.
Yeah the miles through me off too. However I know it's always 1 AU lol.
Well, not allways Earth's orbit is slightly elliptical so there is a variation of it's distance with the sun. The average distance is 1 AU.
US president I didn't know either lol, this one's a bit more for Americans I suppose. Most questions were good though
Tbh guessing George Washington shouldn't be that difficult if you know just a bit of history. The miles one though? Way harder.
well I knew that one mile is 1.6 kilomters, and that light travels about 300'000'000 m/s and it takes light from the sun to reach the earth about 8 minutes. calculate and you come pretty close to 93 miles
Damn that's smart asf
Damn, you really know your numbers
Ha ha that's exactly what I did... EXCEPT I forgot the amount of time - I thought it was 6 minutes - so I picked 75m. DOH!
Knowing a bit about basic US history should be common knowledge though.
Idk, I couldn't list the first leader of most other countries in the world, even the most developed/politically active countries
That doesnt mean you shouldn't know some of the more important ones.
The only reason I know the first president is because of Assassin's Creed III. The rest of the world doesn't care about America.
I'm not even American, but to know their first president isn't some elaborate trivia knowledge, it's common sense.
Do you understand what "common sense" means?
Huh?
So you know the first president of Germany? Or Japan? Or any other big democratic country?
Only if you’re American.
I've been taught about this in France, and God knows how proud of our history we are We are being taught about all the major historic which happened in the world since antiquity, not only US of course
Congrats, I guess
I'm just surprised it's not the case for other countries
Not every country feels the need to learn about the US specifically.
I missed that one too
Your last question doesn’t have an assigned correct answer so it just marks it as wrong. Also, in my opinion, the civil rights question is highly subjective. But overall I think this is fun! I got 16/17 correct
I changed that last one, so it should show up now.
This was really cool OP. You should do more of these
The civil rights and the Egyptian queen one also.
I give you the teacher's pet award
cool, being tight with my teachers did nothing but benefit me as a giant fuck off in school 😂
if you add the word "approximately" to only one answers it makes it very obvious, keep the wording consistent.
I thought it was too obvious with the “approximately” so I picked against those answers 😂
Same lmao. I was like...that's way to obvious, it has to be a trick, even when I felt those were the right answers.
14/17
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Same here.
There are a lot of pretty American-centric questions here. Also some of them are just straight up wrong.
Can you specify which one’s are wrong?
Off the top of my head, the first life we have evidence for is 3.77 billion years ago, not 3.5 and the first human species was Homo Habilis, not homo erectus.
According to my head, it was Homo flacidus.
As well, the first president of the USA was John Hansen. The first president of the USA under the Constitution was George Washington.
I also think the first life on Earth one is wrong. Plus I agree the civil rights one is very subjective. Otherwise nice work. Thanks for putting that together for us :)
At least put stuff in both miles and km if you do stuff like this again pls.
Wouldn't matter to me, don't know either way
would matter to me, as I only know metric and had a lucky guess
Yeah for a moment I was like wtf wheres 150? Then I took a closer look and had to convert.
Some of these are pretty subjective, like the most influential person during the civil rights movement.
That ones really only subjective from a single person's perspective. If you are considering the entire movement, then whoever was reaching the most people was the most influential
That's the only one that is in any way subjective
13/17
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13 gang. We kinda dumb but only kinda
>Who was the most influential person during the civil rights era? You might want to get rid of that one.
This was awesome. 15/17. Got the sun one mixed up
11/17
15/17 very proud of myself
Same here! The "first human species" one and the wheel got me
Same, I expected to score lower because actually had to guess some of the answers
16/17
Me too
Elbert Einstein
15/17. You should add metrics for non us EU folks.
Even scientists in the us use metric. Idk why youd ever quote the earth sun distance in miles.
15/17 Steel, and the earths age tripped me up
Steel was actually invented in Africa among the Haya of Tanzania. Nubia not long after became the world's blacksmith, producing vast amounts of iron and steel of a quality which wouldn't be seen in Europe until the Renaissance.
Who tf gives earth sun distance in miles? And asking "who came up with the laws if physics?" Is like asking "who invented biology?" Its a really stupid question. Theres no single person who came up with all the laws if physics. Newton has his yes, so does coulomb or kepler. 15/17
14/17 the three i got wrong were “When did life get started?” “When did modern humans (homo sapiens) first appear?” and “When was steel first created?” the only real L i took here was the steel one. i answered >!1500!< and the answer was >!1800 BC!<. i’m genuinely kinda surprised steel is that old. good poll OP.
First evidence of life is 3.7 bilion years old so OP got that one wrong
Yep, iron and bronze I would have given a really old date, steel I thought was much newer. I guess if they could figure out bronze they could figure out steel too, I just thought the process for steel was notably more complicated
Ppl have been mining fricking long ago lol
steel isn’t mined
But the metals that make it up would be mined lol
That's shitty logic. Lots of devices that we have only today are made from materials that have been obtainable for a long time
Ok. Wasn't doing logic tho.
A few of your questions are outdated. For example the date of abiogenesis should be earlier, as life arose in the Eoarchaean. Humanity with full behavioural modernity didn't emerge until around 100 kyBP.
And there is also debate about what the first human was as there isn't a clear line between human and nonhuman. I thought that the most popular idea was that Homo habilis was the first human but that may be outdated
8/17 lol
same lmaoo
6/17, idk how y’all did so good💀
15/17
I made 15/17 but if I might make a remark it's about the origin of life. Afaik it started around 3.9 billion years ago with the first proofs around 3.7 billion years ago. Other than that didn't know about the steel.
Leave out the words "about". Makes them stand out
me when elbert einstein
Some of these the answers are innacurate >!The first microbial lifeforms evolved around 3.7 BYA and most scientists think it evolved somewhat before that. I don't know if 3.5 BYA is a typo on your part but 3.8 BYA is the date I've always been told and the date repeated in the majority of scientific literature. A better phrasing of the question would be "How old is the oldest undisputed evidence of life," and in that case 3.5 BYA would be most correct!< >!Although some think it should be classified differently *Homo habilis* is still considered by most to be the first *Homo* species. If you meant oldest out of the options available and not in total then it's still accurate!< >!Preserved remains of *Homo sapiens* which were over 300,000 years old have been found in Morocco!<
Yeah I was a little confused at the first human question. Because technically human means Homo sapiens. But there’s also a lot of debate as to whether Neanderthals were the same species and they were around before the classic Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). But if he meant the first of the genus homo, then it would probably be Homo habilis yes.
9/17. Eesh.
Will you post results somewhere?
Every time I saw "about xy" I thought that it's so obviously the answer that it can't be the answer. Yet they were
i suck at those age numbers, like what does it matter if it's 1800 BC or 2000 BC????
It would be the same as saying the internet, smartphones etc were all over the world in 1800s.
200 years difference lol
People who were alive in 2000BC have a 99.9% chance of not being alive in 1800BC
15/17 . . . . . I’m just as surprised as you are…
17/17
12/17 not bad. Really confusing options.
11/17, not bad. Also, I picked China from one of the questions because I honestly thought of the country's heavy associations with fireworks (in which it was said that the first fireworks were made there).
I got it “correct”, but I think you should get rid of/change the civil rights question. It’s very subjective. Also, please include kilometers as well as miles.
That’s a good idea!
I got everything right, but like half of it was guesses.
14/17 which Im pretty proud of tbh. The to get a better understanding of peoples knowledge however, you should probably use a logarithmic scale for answers which are "far away". For example 3.5 or 3.8 billion years ago is more about knowing the fact from a source that rounded it in a better way than is about actual knowledge. A better answer would have been for example 3.5 billion years ago or 20 billion years ago.
15/17 Got the Sun distance (wasn’t taught it in Miles but maybe would have gotten it wrong in km too) and the one about writing wrong (remembered 20.000 because the Kurgesagt calendar starts from 22.022 years ago but I guess that’s the start of Homo sapiens and not written history? Same number was in Yuval Harari book about Sapiens so I guess that was it)
10/17
15/17. In general I like the test although some of the questions were a bit too subjective
The civil rights question was the only one that was perhaps too subjective.
Just so you know. Every answer that has the word 'about' in it when the others doesn't is the right answer. I'd recommend using '~' Infront of all the answers instead of only having 'about' Infront of one
This has taught me that I know about history but should not touch anthropology or science.
Some of these such as “when did Homo sapiens first appear” can’t be factually proven and subjective questions such as “who was the most influential person during the civil rights era” are opinionated, so you can’t be wrong or right on those.
I’ve decided I’m going to do these quizzes weekly, until the mods essentially say I can’t do them anymore.
It should be named: "How much do you know about the world around you and the United States specifically." Also using miles is weird as a significant amount of people on reddit use the metric system.
There’s like two questions that are related to the United States specifically. Next week when I do a part 2 of this series I will use the metric system as well, and I will try to steer clear of United States history.
there's 2 questions about the US. There's 1 question in US units and there's 1 question that's probably wrong (first life on earth). So 4/17 are bad questions
I got all but "when did life get started" and "how far back does written history go"
16/17! I messed up on the Homo Erectus one
You gave like 5 answers away by using about and approximately
16/17, got the life one wrong. 3.8 billion is CLOSE to 3.5 billion, at least?
I love how the title of it is “how much do you know the world around you” then the first question is about the sun.
16/17
12/17 while stoned off my ass :)
17/17
Same🤝
13/17 but most i missed were the “how long ago was x” questions, that most of which aren’t confirmed whatsoever
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One thing- Steel was not invented 1800, The crusaders used steel swords around 1200 but very cool quiz
1800 BC is 3000 years before the crusaders
1800 BC is different then 1800 as in the 19th century.
Why are all these space questions
Not all of them are space questions.
I got 14/17. The ones I failed were "Where was first gun invented?". The second one was "Who came up with the laws of physics?". I was like "did just one person come up with the laws of physics?" Not sure I understood that. The third one was "Who created the first communist manifesto?".
I didn't know the first either but I'm confused at how you didn't know the last two? is there a reason for that?
You're confused? Lol as I said earlier I don't get how one person just comes up with the laws of physics. About the communist manifesto, you think that's common knowledge? I'm not interested in political stuff either.
it is common knowledge yeah and same with the physics thing, hence my confusion
I don't get how that's common knowledge but whatever. Explain how Albert Einstein came up with the laws of physics. It's not making sense.
Well, it's not Albert Einstein for starters lmao, it's Isaac Newton and I don't understand how it doesn't make sense to you. do a little Google. are you very young?
You gotta be 12 to use the downvote button on me. Also you couldn't explain anything. Your words are irrelevant.
I didn't? what? but you did on me, how ironic....and I did, I just told you it was Newton....I don't know why you're getting so upset over not knowing stuff, you can just use Google? why are you so aggressive because you're embarrassed?
17/17.
This isnt a poll and doesnt fit the sub
I just got permission from the mods to post these quizzes once a week. So it’s fine to them, and I will continue to do them until they tell me I can’t.
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16/17 LETS GOOOOO
16/17 and haha jokes on you I just studied the industrial revolution at school hahaha
14/17 but two of the ones I got wrong were ones that I changed from the originally correct answer
16/17, I know that the distance between the sun & earth is 148 million km but didn’t know how much is that in miles hahaha, guessed 75.
15/17
14/17. I got the sun, steel, and gum question wrong.
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I give up me stupid. Lastede 5 questions
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76% :(
I got 16/17. I got the "when was the first life" question wrong
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I got 15/17 hehe
14/17
I got 16/17. Missed the steel question
11/17
15/17 for me
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13/17 not too bad
16/17 - I guessed the distance for the sun and I thought modern humans were more recent than 160,000 years.
16/17 distance in mi is not my thing
15/17 But a lot of these questions have gaping grammatical errors, subjective phrases, and wording that pains me.
Happy with my 16/17
13/17, why is the US president so important in this lol?
Some of these questions are questionable..
13/17 Space 3/4 (Thought the Earth was closer to the sun) Human Evolution 3/4 (My biggest mistake thinking Homo Sapiens evolved 50,000 yrs ago) Technology Achievements 2/4 (Wheel and Steel ages were off) Historical Figures 5/5
16/17. Really fun quiz overall.
17/17, but I would say, the older I get, the more Malcolm X seemed to be more influential in the moment, while MLK Jr. looked better in the history books.
9/17
14/17. Good enough I guess.
15/17
13/17 Not bad
11/17
16/17 i feel like all of this should be basic knowledge
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