Are you smarter than a 7th grader? [quiz]

everyone should have gotten them all right.kamikaze_pigmy

Really? You think so?

I got 7. I got the Pythagorean Theorem one, the Superbowl one, and the fire one "wrong".

For the Pythagorean Theorem one, C is always used to refer to the hypotenuse. There is no way that One leg squared minus another leg squared can equal the hypotenuse.

The Superbowl one... The Saints won the last superbowl, I can tell you that. I can't remember who won the Superbowl back whenever the quiz was made. Needs an update.

The fire one, "What are you most likely to do if your house is on fire?" I probably wouldn't get a hose/fire extinguisher and put it out. I would run the hell away from there and call the firemen.

I hope to God that everybody is smarter than this 7th grader, because that quiz could not have been made by anybody even vaguely intelligent.

9

They didn't list the Saints under Super Bowl winners. And who the hell cares about sports?

[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"]everyone should have gotten them all right.McJugga

Really? You think so?

I only got 6 :( 2 of the wrong answers I got correct though (the pythagorean and the hypotenuse one). So I guess it's really 8. The one's I fairly got wrong is the fire one. I'm not American so I probably would not anything about the Superbowl or what it says on the dollar bill. Overall, it's a very poorly designed quiz.

Edit: on second thought... why does hypotenuse have to be C? I just use whatever letter I feel like. I prefer X. :?

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[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"]everyone should have gotten them all right.kamikaze_pigmy

Really? You think so?

[QUOTE="Media_geek20"]I hope I am. He/she wrote the majority of questions incorrectly.

Example:
What is a hypotenuse?
A. The opposite side of a right angle
B. The opposite side of a right triangle
C. (some bs answer they wrote)

The real answer...none of them. A hypotenuse is the leg opposite of a right angle of a right triangle.

BTW, I missed one question. It was the pythagorean theorem one (which they also wrote incorrectly, it's A squared + B squared = C squared)
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Examples:

A^2 + B^2 = C^2

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And anyway, isnt the football question completely irrelevant? What does it have to do with being smart?

[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"][QUOTE="McJugga"]

Really? You think so?

McJugga

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[QUOTE="kamikaze_pigmy"] The only question people should have potentially been getting wrong was the fire one, I reckon.kamikaze_pigmy

I got 7. I couldn't combine the top two answers for the first question so I chose the third (plus right triangle is American English so that kind of threw me off, but I figured it was a right-angled triangle) -- and yeah, didn't know a 'leg' was any other side of a right-angled triangle other than the hypotenuse, but I should have taken an educated guess and picked the other answer that would have given me a side of a right-angled triangle. I also didn't know the superbowl question, but I assumed since they gave me two options -one with a misspelling- I should choose the one with the correct spelling. And the last... Plus I ctrl-f'd 'f'...ha!

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[QUOTE="McJugga"] And the hypotenuse one (for its poor wording), the Pythagorean theorem one for the same reason, the football one (I don't pay attention to football), and the dollar bill one (I don't live in America),

McJugga

If a house is on fire, I am not going to risk my life and try to put it out. I would run outside and call the fire dept.... and funny how this quiz was made in 2007 yet the Superbowl champs was the same(almost :P)

I got 7 right. Lol i forgot who won the superbowl in 2007.

8th

I got 7 out of 10. The 3 that I missed were easy but didn't make sense. Who the hell wrote this?

9 out of 10. Not bad for an old man :P

8th

I got 7 out of 10. The 3 that I missed were easy but didn't make sense. Who the hell wrote this?

Gaming-Planet

Someone who didn't know the correct answers I think :P

I got a 9 because I guessed on the triangle questions. What I don't get is why would a 7th grader know the Pythagorean Theorem. When I was in middle school I didn't have a math class that was related to Geometry. 7th grade was pre-alg, and 8th grade was Algebra 1. I didn't take a Geometry class till 9th grade :|.

7/10

I like "Who won the Super Bowl?" Collts, Patriots, Bears, & Colts. Missing something. Hmm.

I got a 9 because I guessed on the triangle questions. What I don't get is why would a 7th grader know the Pythagorean Theorem. When I was in middle school I didn't have a math class that was related to Geometry. 7th grade was pre-alg, and 8th grade was Algebra 1. I didn't take a Geometry class till 9th grade :|.

Shadow2k6

I got 8, I stumbled on the American based questions. :(

The dollar bill question has the wrong "correct" answer, as well as the Pythagorean theorem one.
The pyramid has UMDCCLXXVI on it, the banner around the pyramid has the Latin on it.
Pythagorean theorem is a^2+b^2=c^2
Not a^2-b^2=c^2
That was a terrible quiz, if a house was on fire (I'm assuming engulfed in flames) why would I try to extinguish it, I would call the fire department.
Oh and the hypotenuse one, what the hell is "The opposite side of a right triangle"? That makes no sense. That obviously is NOT the correct answer.

Uhhh...yeah, so none of you have realized that this thread is three years old yet?

Interesting...

7 - 10.

Better than I expected.

Hilariously bad quiz.

I hope I am. He/she wrote the majority of questions incorrectly.

Example:
What is a hypotenuse?
A. The opposite side of a right angle
B. The opposite side of a right triangle
C. (some bs answer they wrote)

The real answer...none of them. A hypotenuse is the leg opposite of a right angle of a right triangle.

BTW, I missed one question. It was the pythagorean theorem one (which they also wrote incorrectly, it's A squared + B squared = C squared)
Media_geek20

I missed that one, because (as you said) it was written incorrectly.

I also missed the Super Bowl question, since I don't ****ing watch the Super Bowl. I sort of hope that 7th graders aren't getting tested on Super Bowl winners. But that honestly wouldn't surprise me, given the state of education in this country.

But I apparently missed 2 other questions. After looking over the right answers, I'm not even sure what questions I missed.

Also, I noticed that a few of these questions tried to trick students into making spelling mistakes on words that they'll never use. Which is ironic, since the person who MADE the test ended up misspelling the word "buy" (as well as several other spelling errors).

*shrugs*

Maybe that was the point? That 7th graders are being taught by people just as inept as the 7th graders themselves.

i got 6.. the quiz is rigged!

I would presume the answer to the question in the topic title is "yes" on account of the fact that I not only got the right answers but I also know where the test marked a right answer wrong. :P

This is one of the worst "tests" I've ever seen. There is no such thing as an "opposite side of a right triangle". The Pythagorean Theorem is a^2 + b^2 = c^2. And no, you're not going to put out a burning house with a fire extinguisher.

That was so stupid. Some frat boy made that quiz up. More like a 10 grade quiz. I got 6 questions right but the ones I got wrong were those damn American questions like who won the Superbowl and whats on the side of a U.S one dollar bill. Who gives a S*#!