Someone sent this to me recently. I consider myself somewhat intelligent, college graduate, up to date on world events.......then I took this 10 question math quiz and now I obviously need to borrow someones kid to help me out!

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/quiz.aspx?QuizID=95

Let us know how you do!

Eeek! No wonder my son dislikes school.

That's an evil way to start out a Monday morning missie! You're dang lucky the flower delivery came at the same time or I'd be sending you an evil PM with my dismal score at the bottom!

Flowers? Who gets flowers on a Monday? What did you do over the weekend??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Good thing I remember my math. Aced it. But I know for a fact that I did not learn all of that by 8th grade. I think a lot was in 10th and 11th.

I got the last one wrong. I'll admit it- I'm a nerd.

I won't even go there with what I scored. Let's just say my current job as CO doesn't require high math apptitude, thank god!

Wow, this actually made my day - I got 10/10! (Thank heavens -- I'm so anal that I would have spent the rest of the day trying to figure out what I'd done wrong on incorrect ones!)

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What did you do over the weekend??? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Heh Heh, nothing so fun to deserve flowers. I have a flower service that sends me flowers every Monday so my office is always full of flowers. Gift from my sweetie Apparently I did something fun one weekend many moons ago

I am with you there

MacKenzie, you didn't tell us your score. I got 7/10, nothing to brag about. It's amazing how much I've forgotten because I don't use it anymore. I know I learned some of that stuff, where did it go?

Ok - I got a 9/10 but still tells me "Time to Hit the Books" - I screwed up the "congruent angel" - I had forgotten that there was such a word as congruent in Math!

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I got the last one wrong. I'll admit it- I'm a nerd.

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Me too. I got the last one wrong and I'm a nerd!!!

I got a 10/10. I would hope so, I think I was in 8th grade most recently.

I probably would have forgot everything, except for my boss here at the bank was taking a calculus class to get his masters and had me tutor. I'm a nerd and a kiss-up.

10 out of 10! BUT, I will say that I don't remember much of that stuff from middle school, much of that I learned in Geometry when I was a sophomore, but I am a numbers/stats nerd.

Mackenzie...you scored higher than me, but I took the easy road and guessed It's too early on a Monday to really try.

My sweetie just took it. He scored an 11 (his story not mine) Heh Heh, he scored a 10 and took about as long to do the test as I did to guess it. Damn chemical engineer brain!

Dawnie,
First, very jealous of the flowers thing. Second, I am very jealous of the 11! I think I need help, is it too early to visit the BOL Bar? That may be my only hope to improve upon my score. "Yess thir, I thik its ummmmm "ccccc", i thik."

If you are in a testing mood, try these, and no, I don't have an answer sheet.

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, Kansas. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, Kansas and reprinted by the Salina Journal.

8th Grade Final Exam: Salina, Kansas - 1895 Grammar (Time, one hour)

1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb?
Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.
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> Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
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1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft.long at $.20 per inch?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days(no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
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> U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
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1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War. 4. Show theterritorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, and 1865?
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> Orthography (Time, one hour)
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1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

> Geography (Time, one hour)
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1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of N.A.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each. 8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

Thanks Andy,
First I get a five of five on a simple 8th grade math quiz, and now you expect me to answer questions from 1895?! Whats up with you smart people anyway!

This is totally screwing with my claim to have only an 8th grade education. Apparently I need to cut that down to 7th....

7/10 not bad considering my algebra teacher (looooong ago) was a coach. Thank you to my geometry teacher who had the patience to back up. Oh, and it was Illinois

Okay, so I scored a 9/10, which COMPLETELY surprises me. I'll admit to using my calculator, but that is because I am suffering from brain freeze (see post under Ice Cream topic)! I just cannot believe I remember any of this stuff, that, by the way, I have NOT used since high school, even though Mr. Marsh SWORE I would need every day of my life!

Okay - I got 9 out of 10. I'll fess up to using a calculator, and looking up the definition of a congruent angle (wanted to make sure I wasn't confusing it with a comlimentary angle!), and also using a square root calculator.

I DID remember the sum of the square of the hypotenuse thing, but only because of a math joke that my brother told me back in 6th grade. Yeah, the bro that made the potato radio! Unfortunately, it is no longer politically correct to tell the joke! And I no longer readily remember how to calculate square roots. That why we have Texas Instruments! (Or a slide ruler....)

And for the record, do NOT hire me to install indoor/outdoor carpeting! I usually wind up doubling up on the stuff anyways. (Seems for that question I forgot about the son of the Native American woman sitting on the hide of a "river horse.")

(Ah - the uses for indoor/outdoor carpeting - it rivals that of duct tape!)

OK, lets put away the school work and exercise those brains by doing some manual APR and APY calculations. Something usable.