Utopia Talk / Politics / OT - Are You Smarter Than An 8th Grader?

Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 07:16:11 This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , and reprinted by the Salina Journal. 8th Grade Final Exam: Salina , KS - 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 'lie,' 'play,' 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. Arithmetic (Time,1 hour 15 minutes) 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 3,942 lbs, what is it worth at 50cts/bushel, deducting 1,050 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 the cost of 6,720 lbs. Coal at $6.00 per ton. 6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7percent per annum. 7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft long at $20 per metre? 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 of which is 640 rods? 10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt. U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes) 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 the territorial 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 connect ed with the following dates: 1607, 1620, 1800, 1849, 1865. Orthography (Time, one hour) [Do we even know what this is??] 1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2. Wha t 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, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup. 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) 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 North America . 5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco . 6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S. Name all the republics of Europe and give the 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 the inclination of the earth. Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the saying 'he only had an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't it?!
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:20:32 This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Salina Journal. Status: False http://www.snopes.com/language/document/1895exam.asp LOL
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:34:02 Funny how it took all of 4 minutes for a normal person to check the truth of what you couldnt find out for yourself was yet more of your crap huh LOL
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 07:34:06 I have asked the Mods to delete this thread per the forum rules.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:36:54 ^ WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:39:36 'Are You Smarter Than An 8th Grader? ' Yes. Why?
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 07:42:56 You not only suppress the speech of others, you purposely want to leave erroneous material posted. IMHO, I think that makes you just about the stupidest poster on this forum. And, I am quite sure I am not the only one of that opinion.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:44:18 Oh but we have the poll results on you being the stupidest poster. Sorry LOL
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 07:46:20 That poll was tainted with illegal posts. Why don't you prove just how stupid you are by running the poll again.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:47:13 LOL!
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:48:18 You even said you knew you were going to win in the OP of that poll LMAO
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 07:50:36 'To save you the trouble I will grudgingly place myself at the top of the list once it is tallied' 'I clearly said that I would put my own name at the top of the list when the voting was complete. Yet most of them follow the usual pack mentality by voting my name anyway.' - Hot Rod
freaky boy Member	Fri Dec 03 07:58:03 1. Give nine rules for the use of capital letters. My name, your name, your mothers name, and the names of 6 other family members 2. Name the parts of speech and define those that have no modifications the begining, the middle and the punch line 3. Define verse, stanza and paragraph. the bit before the chorus, a datsun sedan, and a bird who like charts. 4. What are the principal parts of a verb? Give principal parts of 'lie,' 'play,' and 'run'. L, P and R 5. Define case; illustrate each case. the thing the drugs are exported in. 6. What is punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of punctuation. those squigly lines on my mcdonalds menu. you put them in to slow people down, so words seem more important.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 08:02:15 MB - You even said you knew you were going to win in the OP of that poll LMAO Have you *EVER* told the truth just once in your life. You are the lie-ingest sack of shit ever to disgrace this forum.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 08:04:13 '***To save you the trouble*** I will grudgingly place myself at the top of the list' - Hot 'Liar' Rod
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 08:04:38 'lie-ingest' - Hot 'Literate' Rod LOL
Michael Palin Member	Fri Dec 03 08:15:14 "Notice that the exam took FIVE HOURS to complete. Gives the saying 'he only had an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't it?! " No, not really.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 03 08:27:15 "Gives the saying 'he only had an 8th grade education' a whole new meaning, doesn't it?! " No, not really. " Actually, it just confirmed the old meaning.
CrownRoyal Member	Fri Dec 03 08:39:23 Where did you get the test from, Rod? What site?
miltonfriedman Member	Fri Dec 03 09:46:17 "I am not going to research the topic before I make a post." ~Pedo Rod
NeverWoods Member	Fri Dec 03 09:51:41 "Where did you get the test from, Rod? What site? " His e-mail.
Rugian Member	Fri Dec 03 09:53:17 "Where did you get the test from, Rod? What site? " He just saw it while watching FOX. No link yet, stupid liberal book burner.
ehcks Member	Fri Dec 03 10:07:54 Ancient chain email. Like half of what he posts here.
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 10:08:11 Rugian, I knew you were stupid, just not that stupid. You know as well as I do that I have never supported burning any book, I do everything I can to ostracize the stupid bastards that do. And you wonder why I consider you a liberal when you insist on telling lies like a liberal.
NeverWoods Member	Fri Dec 03 10:09:24 ^LOL. HR is indeed a liberal.
miltonfriedman Member	Fri Dec 03 10:22:52 "And you wonder why I consider you a liberal when you insist on telling lies like a liberal." I am going to tell lies about the Democrats ~Pedo Rod
Hot Rod Member	Fri Dec 03 10:24:15 LOL, NeverWoods is a Nazi that burns books whose ideas opposes his.
NeverWoods Member	Fri Dec 03 10:26:03 That reminds me, anyone recall the tread HR made about how Clinton twisted bushes arm to go into Iraq? Good times.
NeverWoods Member	Fri Dec 03 10:26:28 made a tread*
miltonfriedman Member	Fri Dec 03 10:28:12 No. Please oh please someone dig that out so that I could add it to the Axis of Retards board.
NeverWoods Member	Fri Dec 03 12:05:15 If you think that is something, you should ask HR about when he posts Onion articles then defends them for being credible and accurate because they slam democrats ;) He will go into denial about them, but we all remember it too well.
miltonfriedman Member	Fri Dec 03 12:35:48 Yep, I remember that one. Too bad I didn't keep it for the Axis of Retards board.
jergul Member	Fri Dec 03 12:41:06 What the hell is wrong with burning books? Though ideally they should be recycled to cardboard of course.
MRBEER Member	Fri Dec 03 14:31:49 Classic self ownage by Angel.
Cloud Strife Member	Fri Dec 03 14:32:52 The test is real, just archaic and outdated. Some problems are poorly worded but whatever.
Cloud Strife Member	Fri Dec 03 14:33:07 The snopes link explains the logical fault.
Firestorm Phoenix Member	Fri Dec 03 21:35:04 I am smarter than the OP, so I would have to say: Yes. Excellent self pwnage btw.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Fri Dec 03 21:37:24 I love how Hot Rod thinks that just because the thread has dropped off the bottom we don't remember him stating he knew he would win. Then he has the gall to call MB a liar. What a fucking Cunt.
Cthulhu Tentacle Rapist	Fri Dec 03 21:47:14 Hell, I doubt HR even has the intelligence to figure out just how many people have the MB password. Kinda wish I remembered it, but I have too many multis anyways.
Jesse Malcolm Barack Member	Fri Dec 03 21:49:41 Man did Rod post this shizz cause he dropped out of 8th grade and he wanted to pretend 8th grade was hard with this fake test and convince others they would fail it too back in his day?
Milton Bradley Member	Sat Dec 04 04:43:20 Of course he did. As usual he ended up pwning himself lol
Milton Bradley Member	Sat Dec 04 04:43:55 Hot Rod Member Fri Dec 03 07:34:06 I have asked the Mods to delete this thread per the forum rules. LOL
Milton Bradley Member	Sat Dec 04 07:16:09 "Hell, I doubt HR even has the intelligence to figure out just how many people have the MB password." he knows, he just likes to pretend to himself that there is only one poster here who thinks he's dumb lol
Firestorm Phoenix Member	Sun Dec 05 08:33:12 Major self ownage ttt!
Cold Rod Member	Sun Dec 05 09:28:13 "Are You Smarter Than An 8th Grader? " Do the rest of you find this totally ironic due to the fact that Hot Rod only completed the 8th grade?
Milton Bradley Member	Sun Dec 05 09:29:49 Didn't he drop out at 8th grade? Guess he only completed 7th grade.
Cold Rod Member	Sun Dec 05 09:30:29 Then I stand corrected. lol
Milton Bradley Member	Tue Dec 07 11:56:51 TTT for Rod.
Hat Red Member	Wed Dec 08 05:25:38 TTT
Milton Bradley Member	Wed Dec 08 11:00:40 I wonder if we can TTT this as long as hotpedo TTT's his other threads? TTT
Milton Bradley Member	Thu Dec 09 06:27:57 TTT for hotrod
Evil Santa Member	Thu Dec 09 08:36:27 TTT
Firestorm Phoenix Member	Thu Dec 09 20:10:46 He aint ever coming back to this thread.
Milton Bradley Member	Fri Dec 10 05:38:59 He managed to TTT his quote thread for over a month. For every time he TTT's that, this thread gets TTT'd.
Snuke Member	Wed Dec 15 14:33:22 Hot Rod - BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH Milton - STFU Hot Rod - Aww shit.
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