[bootlegga]

Take this quiz and find out?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1761928/

I got 13 out of 15...got tricked on the Queenston Heights and didn't know the answer about RCAF acrobatic teams.

[Gunnair]

There are some tricky ones there...

[BartSimpson]

I did 9/15 - better than 76% of responders today according to the result.

[BartSimpson]

Gunnair wrote:

There are some tricky ones there...

Like "How many aircraft carriers does Canada operate?"

[Johnny_H]

11/15 I was tricked on the Queenston Heights question as well though Shaeffe really stuck out even as I clicked I knew I was doing it wrong!!!!!

[Gunnair]

BartSimpson wrote:

Gunnair wrote:

There are some tricky ones there...

Like "How many aircraft carriers does Canada operate?"

Oh you are too fucking funny!

[EyeBrock]

Yea, rubber dicked on the Brock question. Very annoying and some of those questions were totally silly.

Q. How many times a Tuesday did Arthur Currie fart during the Somme offensive? Just daylight hours to make it easier.

[Gunnair]

EyeBrock wrote:

Yea, rubber dicked on the Brock question. Very annoying and some of those questions were totally silly.

Q. How many times a Tuesday did Arthur Currie fart during the Somme offensive? Just daylight hours to make it easier.

yeah, I shit the bed on the Queenston Heights question as well.

[jeff744]

4/15, too much emphasis on medal handouts which I have never really cared about, always been more of a battles and weapons type.

[sandorski]

Too afraid to try as I suspect that I'll Fail.

eagerly awaits comment

[Johnny_H]

Doooooit, if you fail just watch 300 eat a piece of raw meat then apply WD40 to the most minuscule piece of rust you can find on a rifle or tool to make up for it.

No one will think less of you

[Chumley]

6/15. I suck.

[Lemmy]

Sorry, but that test tests exactly jack shit about one's understanding of Canadian military history. I got 7, but even the one's I got right were educated guesses at best.

[Gunnair]

sandorski wrote:

Too afraid to try as I suspect that I'll Fail.

eagerly awaits comment

[Johnny_H]

It's a pretty knit-picky test I'll admit. Especially for the general public. Then again it could be structured that way so the news can turn around and say "WOW 80% of the participating public didn't score about 20%" etc.

I always view these news polls/quizzes with skepticism. In some of them I just used logic to figure it out example the one about the Air Force Acrobatic teams.

The Golden Hawks flew Sabre jet fighters, so a group called the "Golden Sabres" would be redundant and totally out of place. So therefore it had to be the wrong one.