63 thoughts on “Are you Smarter than These Adults?

  1. We were surprised that most of the people taking the test hardly knew any of the basic questions.

  2. We would be surprised if these people actually know how many states there are in the country

  3. We were surprised to learn that most people did not know that there was 100 senators. Meaning that most did not know that there was 2 senators per state and that we only had 50 states, thus we would have 100 senators (50 * 2 = 100). It was surprising that people could know so little about the country they live in.

  4. We were surprised that the one person did not know how many states there were because he said 104 senates.

  5. What surprised us most was people who are supposed to be defending our law barely know our representatives and how our government is run!

  6. I was surprised about how the people didn’t know a lot about the government and how many questions they got wrong. They didn’t know how many amendments.

  7. We were surprised when they told this one guy that there were 2 senators for every state, and he still did not know how many there were. He did not even know how many states there were

  8. What surprised us most was people who are supposed to be defending our law barely know our representatives and how our government is run.

  9. We were surprised to learn that not many people knew that there was 100 senators. Most people said answers like 50, 104, 23, etc. It was surprising that most people did not know how many states were in the U.S. and that there was only 2 senators per state.

  10. The thing that surprised us the most was that most of the people didn’t know how many amendments there were. They should know it since it’s our law and they give them, as the people, their rights.

  11. One man didn’t even know how many states there were! 104? We were also surprised that nobody knew any names to the Supreme Court Justices.

  12. What surprised me most was the beginning when not many people knew how many senators there are in the U.S.

  13. We where most some people didn’t know what year the declaration of independence was signed.

  14. What surprised us the most was that they were asked questions that they should not have known off the top of their heads.

  15. We were surprised that people did not know that there where 100 senators.

  16. What surprised me is that most people had to guess the answers which meant that they didn’t know about our constitution and civics of our nation.

  17. We were surprised that most people did not know who the Supreme Court Justices were.

  18. What we thought we the most shocking was when the man said was 104 senators. As well as someone thought the declaration was signed in the 1740s.

  19. We were surprised at how many adults didn’t know the names of the supreme court justices.

  20. We thought it was shocking when the interviewer hinted at the fact that there are two Senators per state and the interviewee still wasn’t able to do the simple math and blurted out “104” where the actual answer is one hundred.

  21. I was very disappointed in most of these people. They can’t even name the amount of senators, and even when they are told it’s 2 for each of the 50 states, somehow 104 still comes up. This is why other countries hate us. GG.

  22. What surprised me was that even when they gave the one guy a hint by saying there was 2 Senators per state, he said 104 Senators, when there are 100. (50 x 2 = 100)

  23. Whats surprised me the most was when some of the adults guessed 27 for how many amendments are in the constitution. The number 27 is a very random number and those adults guessed which is very lucky.
    #educated #guesses

  24. What surprised me the most was that people did no know what year the Deceleration of Independence was signed. It was signed in 1776.

  25. I was surprised that students that are in college or just got out of college did not know that there are 100 senators in country.

  26. We were surprised that less than 50% of the adults could answer the questions right and that even though they live in the U.S they BARELY know about the government

  27. We are surprised that the younger people did not know as much as the older. We figured that since the younger are younger and may or may not still be in school, they would remember more since they were recently in schoo;. Also, we were surprised the adults did not know much about that government. Well they knew more the the younger kids but still. They should know after all its their duty to vote and stuff.

  28. I was surprised that someone didn’t know how many states there were.

  29. We were surprised that not many people knew how many amendments there were

  30. we were surprised that even after the announcer lady told the person there was 2 senators for every state, the man said 104

  31. We were surprised about the amount of people who had a small amount of knowledge of the government. Current students know more about the government than adults.

  32. We thought that their answers were coocoo and that the answers were not even educated guesses. For example, in one of the questions a guy said Dr. Seuss as an answer.

  33. It surprised us that no one knew any supreme court justices. Also that someone thought that there were 52 states. Most people got most of the questions wrong.

  34. we were surprised that a lot of the americans could not answer most of the questions about their country correct. we were surprised that they could not get a lot of the answers right about the declaration of independents.

  35. We were very surprised that some people believed there were 52 states. No one could name any supreme court justices. We were surprised that adults didn’t know much about the government.

  36. We were surprised to see how many adults did not know the answers to the questions and how one person didn’t even know the 50 states.

  37. What surprised us was that nobody really knew any of the Supreme Court Justices. For example, one of the people that was interviewed just said “Dr. Seuss.” This surprised us because they are grown and should know at least one.

  38. We were surprised by the fact that most of the adults didn’t get the answers correct during the icivics “iq test”

  39. We were surprised that most people did not know how many amendments were in the Constitution. Also, no one could name any Supreme Court justices.

  40. There are not many people that are educated enough to tell you about our modern day government. They apparently can’t do math either.

  41. I was surprised that they all knew the number of Amendments- 27 and the number of Supreme Court Justices- 9.

  42. We think that people should know more about our country and some of them don’t even know how many states that there are.

  43. What I was most surprised that a lot of people knew how many Supreme Court justices there are!

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