America's Smartest Kids Don't Know Canada's Capital City

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  • backseatLover12
    backseatLover12 Posts: 2,312
    The OP needs to watch late night TV when the hosts (Jay Leno or Kimmel) goes out on the streets and ask basic questions about America or history in general to bystanders. People are just. plain. stupid.

    I'd like to know how many American kids know what's the capital of the U.S.
  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    I think the best clue is the NHL's 'Senators'.
    I mean, if there was a 'Harare Senators' in the NFL, we'd at least be able to make an educated guess at it's Capital... right?
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  • BinFrog
    BinFrog MA Posts: 7,314
    backseatLover12 wrote:
    The OP needs to watch late night TV when the hosts (Jay Leno or Kimmel) goes out on the streets and ask basic questions about America or history in general to bystanders. People are just. plain. stupid.


    You realize of course that they cut out the people who answer correctly...
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  • badbrains
    badbrains Posts: 10,255
    Cosmo wrote:
    I think the best clue is the NHL's 'Senators'.
    I mean, if there was a 'Harare Senators' in the NFL, we'd at least be able to make an educated guess at it's Capital... right?

    Exactly, only reason I knew was cuz of the senators. And I'm 38! Hahaha :fp:
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    I wrote a very detailed report on Canada in elementary school...complete with the Canadian national flag as the cover. I might even still have it somewhere. I'm sure I know the capital at that time.

    But...it doesn't seem as if much, if anything, significant or noteworthy happens there and so I've forgotten it.
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  • even flow - question mark
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    Jason P wrote:
    Canada has a capital? I'll be damned ...


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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    know1 wrote:
    I wrote a very detailed report on Canada in elementary school...complete with the Canadian national flag as the cover. I might even still have it somewhere. I'm sure I know the capital at that time.

    But...it doesn't seem as if much, if anything, significant or noteworthy happens there and so I've forgotten it.

    nothing significant or noteworthy happens there? :lol:
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    Wow! It's embarrassing to admit this but I could not answer the question "What is the capital City of Canada". But I'm not embarrassed at all to say that I've learned something. Thank you!

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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    americans and geography don't mix ... :lol: ... foreign or domestic ... :)
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,677
    polaris_x wrote:
    americans and geography don't mix ... :lol: ... foreign or domestic ... :)

    My wife was just telling me her dad taught a high school US government class in Southern California and most of his students couldn't name the capital city of either California or the United States. Pathetic! :lol:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,885
    brianlux wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    americans and geography don't mix ... :lol: ... foreign or domestic ... :)

    My wife was just telling me her dad taught a high school US government class in Southern California and most of his students couldn't name the capital city of either California or the United States. Pathetic! :lol:

    There are people in Orange County that I worked with in Southern CA that didnt know many of the towns that surrounded Los Angeles, let alone Sacramento.
    I remember one time I said to a co-worker....'I have a meeting in Carson today' and they asked where Carson was. (It was about a 30 minute drive from our office.)

    I think the person that stated geography & Americans do not mix well put it best.
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  • even flow - question mark
    even flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    If you're going to expose somebody, please do it with tact and titillation: Right Rick! :)

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