Humbled by an American History Quiz in One of the Ads Here

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I clicked on an ad for taking a quiz on American History I saw at the bottom of a discussion here. Unlike those silly simple quizzes on Facebook, most of which start something like "Only Catholics Can Pass This Quiz," this quiz has 78 questions and you may have to search your memory. Anyone who paid attention in an American History class and kept up with the state of the country since then should be able to get a decent score. I missed one question I knew but did not go with my gut feeling and picked a different answer. I missed another I knew because I did not pay proper attention to the question and confused two people with the same last name. I got 72 of 78 correct. That's 92%. I challenge my American friends to take the quiz if you see it advertised here, or find it on my Facebook Timeline under my real name. Have you taken any of the simple quizzes on Facebook that almost anyone can pass? Practically anyone who's been in a church -- any church -- for a period in their life can probably pass a quiz that pronounces him a good Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, you name it. I turned out to be all of those according to the quizzes. On the other hand, the American history quiz I found here was not like those at all. You really will have to think about some of the answers. It helps to have lived long enough to watch some of the history as it unfolded. If you've taken any of these quizzes, I'd love to hear your opinion of them and how you did on the history quiz. Do you ever take online quizzes? If so, what do you think of them? If not, why don't you like to take them? What sort of things trip you up when you take such quizzes?