HOME › POLITICS › ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A POLITICIAN? TAKE THE 12-QUESTION QUIZ Are You Smarter Than A Politician? Take the 12-question quiz BY TURNLEFT2013 on DECEMBER 5, 2013 • ( 11 ) Tony Abbott’s “intelligence” is noted around the world, and he isn’t the only politician whose stupidity we laugh at… until we realise they have the keys to the economy and their fingers on the nuclear buttons. So, take the quiz, and find out if you are smarter than a politician. Answers at the end of the post, no cheating… Boris Johnson, Conservative mayor of London recently failed to answer any of the first 3 basic questions correctly. Question 1) How many apples would you have if you took two apples from three apples? a) One b) Two c) Three Question 2) A man builds a house with four sides of rectangular construction, each side having a southern exposure. A big bear comes along. What colour is the bear? a) White b) Brown c) Black d) Grey Question 3) I went to bed at eight o’clock in the evening and wound up my clock and set the alarm to sound at nine o’clock in the morning. How many hours sleep would I get? a) 9 b) 12 c) 13 d) other The following 5 questions have tripped up the Liberal / Nationals. Question 4) How much does a tonne of carbon dioxide weight? a) nothing, it is weightless b) 44.01 g/mol c) one tonne Question 5) Complete this phrase, with the most accurate word, that most people would use: a “——- of wisdom” a) repository b) book depository c) suppository d) who knows, it was Tony Abbott who made the comment, we can’t even be sure he got ‘wisdom’ correct Question 6) What is the nearest correct amount, in $A, you could expect to pay for a lamb roast? a) $25 b) $100 c) $500 Question 7) When did the first lot of Australians arrive in Australian, to the nearest correct number? a) 1,000,000 years ago b) 50,000 years ago c) 200 years ago Question 8) What is the Syrian war/conflict about? a) baddies versus baddies b) because c) a complex situation that cannot be summed up with one of Tony Abbott’s simple three word slogans The next 3 questions have stumped three of the most powerful men in the United States Question 9) What is the correct spelling of this common vegetable? potato a) potato b) potatoe c) patato d) pototoe e) none of the above Question 10) What do most people know the border between Iraq and Pakistan as? a) the Mason-Dixon line b) the Maginot Line c) Iran d) Hadrian’s Wall Question 11) Complete this phrase: “People work hard to put food on their —-”? What do people put food on: ? a) table b) family c) food d) floor Lastly Question 12) A country is moving from a tax regime where there was no goods-and-services tax to a regime with a GST: question – If I buy a birthday cake from a cake shop and GST is in place do I pay more or less for that birthday cake? a) more b) less c) the same d) nobody knows Answers Question 1. b) Two If you take two apples, then you have two apples. Question 2. a) white The only way you could only build a house with four southern exposures the North Pole and the only bear there would be a Polar bear. This question will cease to make sense some time in the next couple of decades, when the polar ice caps melt and there are no more Polar bears. Question 3. d) other The correct answer is that a wind-up clock does not differentiate between AM and PM, so it will ring the alarm at the nearest 9 oclock. However, unless you fall asleep exactly the moment you set the clock, there is no way to tell how much sleep you get, just how long before the alarm goes off. Question 4. c) one tonne One tonne of anything weighs one tonne, regardless of what is being weighed. Tony Abbott says that carbon dioxide is invisible, odourless and weightless. Carbon dioxide weights 44.01 g/mol. Question 5. a) repository of wisdom d) would also be acceptable During the 2013 election campaign, Tony Abbott was quoted as saying “No one, however smart, however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom”. Clearly. Question 6. a) $25 Barnaby Joyce, National MP for New England, has said that under carbon pricing a lamb roast would cost $100. The correct answer for a lamb roast at today’s prices is some where between $20 – $30. This $100 lamb roast comment reflects either the hysteria that the Conservatives tried to whip up in relation to carbon pricing, or really bad propaganda, or they believe lamb roasts do cost $100 and it shows just how out of touch politicians really are with the rest of the nation. Question 7. b) 50,000, would be the nearest correct answer Tony Abbott recently said “The first lot of Australians were chosen by the finest judges in England” (source) Technically, it might be argued that before white people arrived there was no Australia (as the name of the country) to arrive at, and Australia (as a country, distinct from a colony of Britain) only existed at Federation, 01-01-1901, which would make Tony Abbott’s comment about being “chosen” just as ridiculous as the original comment. Question 8. c) a complex situation that cannot be summed up with one of Tony Abbott’s simple three word slogans While Opposition leader, Tony Abbott described the war/conflict in Syria as “baddies versus baddies”, showing that he is either incapable of understanding more complex than “See Spot Run” or uninterested in understanding anything beyond simple three word slogans. Question 9. a) potato In 1992, Dan Quayle, the Vice President of the United States (under President Bush the Smarter), corrected a 12-year-old student who spelled “potato”. Quayle spelled it “potatoe”. Question 10. c) Iran In 2008, John McCain, the Republican contender to be President of the World talked about the Iraq-Pakistan border. These two countries do not share a border, the country of Iran is between them. Question 11. a) table In january 2000, Presidential candidate George Bush said “You’re working hard to put food on your family”. George Bush went on to become President Bush. Question 12. Sorry, this is a trick question. What ever answer you chose, can be the correct answer if you wish it to be. In the 1993 Federal election John Hewson was asked that question. The answer to that question is still being calculated. Results: If you got between 0 and 4 correct, congratulations, you have a bright future as a right-wing politician. If you got between 4 and 8 correct, it is possible you were educated in an Australian school, under the failed, inequitable, Howard SES model. If you got between 9 and 12 correct, please don’t tell anyone. This current Abbott-regime does not like people who are smarter than their entire front bench combined.
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:10:15 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015