Take this Constitution quiz. It says the average score is 25 out of 50. PRetty sad for the nation.

[demtenjeep]

http://www.constitutionfacts.com/?page=50QTest2.cfm



I got 49 out of 50 because I didn't read all the answers on one question and it was all the above and I stopped after the first choice was correct.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. I didn't do that well

but was better than average. I missed two or three by one year.......

[zbdent]

2. Repugs may disagree, but ...

YOUR SCORE IS: 35 OUT OF 50 ON THE CONSTITUTION FACTS EXPERT QUIZ!
YOUR CONSTITUTION I.Q. IS: PATRIOT
THE AVERAGE SCORE NATIONALLY IS 33.64

would suspect that the reason the average score is 33.64 is because of Teahadist types ...

[dsc]

3. I got 45 but the quiz must change

since I didn't have the question you missed. Also the average on mine was higher 33 instead of 25. You must really know your stuff since some of those questions were very hard.

[Posteritatis]

19. Yeah, I got a different quiz as well.

And 35/50, but I'm Canadian and several of the questions were of the "historical trivia" type rather than "relevant to knowing the law" type, so I don't feel too bad about that.

[dsc]

21. yeah that is a fair characterization of many of the questions

I missed pretty much all gotta type questions.

[Speck Tater]

4. I missed three because I just didn't know the answers. nt

[Bennyboy]

5. Average, 33 outta fifty..

damn. me not smart much.

[jody]

6. Big Deal! My score was 45 but so what? nt

[Brother Buzz]

7. I scored forty out of fifty

and I considered myself reasonably knowledgeable.

[kestrel91316]

8. I got 40. Civics class was decades ago, lol.

[hobbit709]

9. I'm a Constitutional Whiz Kid 46 out of 50

And missed three because I didn't read correctly.

[Laurajr]

10. There is something wrong

The answer from the previous question carries over to the next question if you get it wrong...example

The question was:
Congress must meet at least once every

The next question was:
The bill of rights is. ( my options I list below did not make sense but they did make sense for the previous question)

A. The first 10 amendments
B. 2 years
C. 6 years
D. Year


I think my options for the bill of rights question were strange but were appropriate for the previous questions. What it seems to me is that there is a glitch with the software that is only apparent if you start missing.

Am I totally off base here something did not seem right.

[Laurajr]

15. Here were my choices for

Congress must meet at least every
A. 4 years
B. Supreme court
C.6 years
D. Twenty-second

Hmmm guess this website is faulty

[Frank Cannon]

38. Did the same thing to me too.

Some of the answer options don't change between questions. I gave up after I missed three questions that I didn't see the correct option listed for.

Maybe if I try a different browser?

[Flatpicker]

11. 32 of 50

The ones I missed weren't aspects of the constitution, but history surrounding the constitution.

[silvershadow]

12. *In my best Charlie Brown voice: I got a rock :(

In my defense I was quite distracted. I have taken it before and done quite well.

[Thinkingabout]

13. This program must be a Romney quiz, it had the wrong answers.

I know the president has to be 35 but was not a choice of 35. Or this could be faux poll, most all was incorrect answers.

[Laurajr]

16. U r correct

I found the same and I answered the first 5 questions 4 different times and each time my choices were different depending how I answered the previous question....maybe we aren't as stupid as that test makes us out to be.

[WinkyDink]

25. My question had 35 as a choice.

[LeftofObama]

14. My score...

CONGRATULATIONS!

YOUR SCORE IS: 37 OUT OF 50 ON THE CONSTITUTION FACTS EXPERT QUIZ!
YOUR CONSTITUTION I.Q. IS: PATRIOT
THE AVERAGE SCORE NATIONALLY IS 33.64



I'm absolutely terrible with dates so I figured I would miss those. A couple of them I just plain didn't know the answers to.

[demtenjeep]

17. I think there are different question banks

I was showing my hubby and he had a few different questions.

[laundry_queen]

18. This Canadian scored a 33.

Never taken American history or civics class or anything. Although I will freely admit to getting lucky on 3 or 4 of those questions

[auburngrad82]

20. I scored 41 out of 50

Not bad, but could be better.

[TDale313]

26. Same here.

And had the same reaction. Not bad, but could be better.

[aquart]

22. 41 out of 50.

Numbers are my downfall.

[Shitty Mitty]

23. 26/50

Not ashamed. According to the questions I saw, IMO the Senate and Supreme Court has way too much power and the President has way too little.

[oswaldactedalone]

24. 41-50

[meow2u3]

27. 42 out of 50--CONSTITUTION WHIZ KID

I didn't read a couple of the questions carefully, and I didn't know who the first Supreme Court Chief Justice was.

[SteveG]

28. 49 out of 50

not bad.

[GoCubsGo]

29. Damn thing keeps answering questions for me.

It keeps telling me why my answer was incorrect, and I didn't even give an answer. Weird.

[SheilaT]

30. Contitutional Whiz Kid

40 out of 50.

There were two or three I should not have missed.

None of my questions had weird choices, by the way. Considering I've never actually read the Constitution, and never really took a proper civics class, I did quite well.

[Wounded Bear]

31. Oh, well, not too bad, I guess.....

YOUR SCORE IS: 45 OUT OF 50 ON THE CONSTITUTION FACTS EXPERT QUIZ!
YOUR CONSTITUTION I.Q. IS: CONSTITUTION WHIZ KID
THE AVERAGE SCORE NATIONALLY IS 33.64

[SmileyRose]

32. average is up to 33.64 now

Mine was 47

[Le Taz Hot]

33. 35 out of 50

Kind of thought I'd do better.

[TheKentuckian]

34. I only missed one but the test is as much Constitutional trivia as anything.

The sample size must have been minimal for the average score to change so much as well.

[BillyJack]

35. Failed.....only got a 28 :-(

I figured only people who got a good score would post here.

I got a 28.

Honest. That's all I've got.

[OutNow]

36. 40

I got 40 out of 50 correct. And some folks consider me a history buff. Maybe I'm not.

But you can be sure I got the question about the Bill of Rights correct. As a member of the ACLU for almost 40 years I better not get that one wrong!

[gopiscrap]

37. Cool test I got 47 out of 50

[cali]

39. the true average score is undoubtedly way worse

and frankly, I don't think it was so easy. I got 41 out of 50. Congrats on getting 50 (really cuz you "misread" one question)

If Americans actually got 25 out of 50 that wouldn't be bad at all. But c'mon- this is just based on those who took this online quiz, and now the average score is 33)

[Egalitarian Thug]

40. Another Whiz Kid, but the average is up to 33%. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

41. 37 out of 50

On the whole I was pretty knowledgeable about the aspects relating to national government, but not so much about state governments. Also, wasn't always sure of the exact dates of the history relating to the setting up of the Constitution.

[Jim Lane]

42. A couple quibbles about the test

One question I saw asked about succession to the Presidency if both the President and Vice President die/resign/etc. The correct answer, in a Constitution quiz, is that the Constitution doesn't answer that question. Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 merely empowers Congress to figure it out. Congress has passed the Presidential Succession Act, which is the source of the answer given as "correct" in the quiz, but that answer could be change without a Constitutional amendment.

Another question was incomplete about the amending process. The "correct" answer was the procedure that's been used for all but one amendment, but it omitted the alternative procedure provided for in the Constitution that was used to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment. I'm being coy about the details so as not to spoil the quiz for anyone who hasn't yet taken it. You can study up by reading the last paragraph of this section.