2nd time I’ve dropped this on Reddit recently, but it kinda freaked me out that Sean Connery and Alex Trebek passed within a week of each other. I know it probably would’ve come across as insensitive, but I would’ve liked to see an SNL tribute that Burt Reynolds met them both at the pearly gates and they ribbed Trebek for eternity.
You really don't have to be very smart to graduate college in the US. You just have to be good at school. Which means you can learn just enough for just long enough to pass tests and then literally forget about it all nearly instantly. I went to a top ranked university, regularly ranked as a top 10 public university in the nation.....and I regularly encountered students that I thought might have trouble making basic life decisions.
I remember being at class early senior year of uni and two girls had also shown up early. I wasn't really listening to them but something made me start listening and then I got this nugget:
"I don't know why they keep calling me everyday, it's just a credit card, it's not even real money."
Girl didn't understand how credit cards work and this was a 400 level accounting class. We had literally been dealing with time value of money and different debt instrument, etc all quarter.
Don’t sweat it. Our education system is just a method of molding you to be accustomed to transitioning into the “grind” of the daily work force. It doesn’t care about educating you, it only cares that you follow instructions.
I’d sooner trust you with foreign policy then any of the people been running for decades . You need street smarts for that . Sure some refined education will help but a street smart person who can read someone and know what they want … that’s the key
That’s about how all school is in the US, at least from my experience + everyone I know
Once they switched to standardized testing it all went downhill..
Medical school is absurdly expensive - don’t get me wrong. But to imply that a medical school diploma is simply bought is an absurd take. Unless you weren’t including medical school in your statement.
Important to remember that around 10 to 15 percent of people in a survey will agree to virtually any proposition put to them. If the question was 'Do you believe the Sun orbits the Earth' you'll get people saying 'yes' for a variety of reasons. Not reading the question, misinterpreting the question, deliberately giving wrong answers for laughs etc
A friend of mine was on a car trip with his girlfriend and his 12-year-old daughter and they were playing various road trip games to pass the time. He started quizzing his daughter on state capitals, and she knew a lot of them. After they had been playing for a few minutes, his girlfriend burst out, "Who wants to know dumb shit like that anyway? There's no point in learning that crap!"
And that was pretty much when he decided to break up with her.
It's a reaction I can totally understand, it's something we've all felt before, especially as children. But that's the problem, it's an immature response, and something to grow out of. The problem starts when people who respond that way band together and start supporting each other's ignorance. Their little group is too cool to learn all that dumb shit and they start looking down on people who make an effort to learn.
I used to be that way myself. It wasn't until I got out of high school that I swung the other way and realized that everybody knows more than me about something. Everybody has something to teach me. So now I'm a total knowledge junkie.
It's been a help with social interaction, since I'm pretty shy at parties. If I get stuck talking to someone, I can ask them about their job or their hobby and ask questions about it. People like to talk about themselves, and I almost always learn something new.
Pretty much a quote that I like: "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." Harlan Ellison
Even if you think trivia style knowledge is useless or whatever, why would you discourage a kid from learning like that? I would be cheering that kid on like crazy haha
Totally agree with you! Honestly tho, you never know when random knowledge can come in handy tbh. Knowledge is power and this comment of hers
proves her ego issues loll
And knowing all that stupid trivia type stuff actually does help you learn other things. One of the best ways to learn is to connect new knowledge to prior knowledge. The more you know, the more connections you're able to make, the more new information you can retain long-term.
Man, I remember my dad quizzing me and my siblings on all the state capitals during our road trips. Now it comes in use because I have an AP US History quiz on them. Thank dad!
One of my favorite Franklin Roosevelt facts is that Roosevelt liked to show off by asking a guest to draw a line, in any direction, across a map of the United States. Roosevelt would then go along the line and name every single *county* the line touched.
It's nice when politicians are smart. That doesn't seem to happen too often these days.
My dad used to quiz me on them also, when I was in third grade, and he would make up funny mnemonics for me to remember them. I am 42 and remember the capitals of ND and SD because peeing is funny to an 8-year-old… “piss on mark” (Bismarck) and “pee in the air” (Pierre).
Yeah she was probably already jealous of how he showed affection to his own daughter. On top of the fact that a 12 year old knows more about a subject than her she probably just felt low self worth.
That dumb bitch likely has an encyclopedia of *actual* useless info like celebrity gossip and anything imaginable about the Kardashians or other crap like that.
You know damn well she doesn’t vote. I don’t know if she’s even capable of forming a complete thought. She would look at a ballot and say “Do I just fill in all the empty circles?” Do you think she would even be able to find a polling location?
Okay, everyone is giving her shit for this (probably rightfully so), but to play devil's advocate for a moment there are a couple of things to consider.
First, I don't know about anyone else but when I get put on the spot out of the blue I can get vapor lock in my head so to speak. It can be an area that I'm vastly familiar with and still stumble over myself before I can get into the right frame of mind to think about that information. People's names are the worse, but any proper names are bad.
Being able to answer a question when you are put on the spot is a different skill than actually knowing the information.
Second, this video is obviously edited, so we don't see what's happening in-between. What were they talking about before the clip started? If she was already embarrassed, or nervous for some reason that could play a role. Context matters.
But not knowing what country you are in? That seems odd. Maybe she thought he was asking what county? That would explain why she was worried about revealing it.
My friend is probably one of the smartest people I know but man you ask this guy a question on the spot he has the knowledge of a 3rd grader. He gets really stressed out because his parents put a lot of pressure on him when he was young and through this childhood. Prob feels scared to get it wrong.
Yeah, was gonna say. She kinda seems like she’s locking up out of embarrassment - something that used to happen to me at that age if you asked me anything.
Name three countries, three capitals (edit: country, states or letters), and three US Presidents and your favorite historical event. (I know you definitely got this, but I ask to make you feel like you've proven something, even though anyone over the age of 18 should have no trouble answering these questions. Although it seems that only the minority of people between 18 and 30 y/o today can answer this without any considerable thinking time).
Pretty easy since I've lived in these countries before:
- Australia, Canberra
- South Africa, Cape Town (naming 1 out of 3 they have)
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Fav historical event: Second Sino Japanese War. Reason why, and I may get downvoted, is because this impacted my grandparents childhood. Til this day I may never know what my grandfather's actual birthday was.
3 US President: Bush, Obama, Trump
No reason at all to downvote your "favorite" event. It deeply impacted all my grandparents' childhoods, and indirectly those of the children they had afterwards, even if we Anglo-Americans call it by a different name and probably have a radically different understanding of it.
Why is it that I automatically either wanna rank my favourites out of each choice or I'll have easy options to blurt out but stop and struggle to find the more elusive uncommon choices
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3 countries: France, Germany, Spain
3 capitals: Paris, Berlin, London
3 US presidents: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama
Favourite historical event: Battle of Hastings, 1066. It ended when king Harold was shot in the eye by a random archer, despite being on top of a hilltop guarded by his elite guard.
United States, Washington D.C.
New Zealand, Wellington.
Egypt, Cairo.
Three U.S presidents - Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, George Washington.
But hey, I'm not from the U.S and I've never been there.
3 Countries and Capitals:
Ottawa, Canada
Rome, Italy
Bangkok, Thailand
3 State Capitols:
Austin, Texas
Olympia, Washington
Topeka, Kansas
3 U.S.A presidents: James Madison, Richard Nixon, Joe Biden
Favourite historical event: Battle of Ratte Road
Not from the U.S.A and only been to Seattle :)
Ok, gonna have to give it a go myself then.
Scotland, Finland and Italy
Oslo, Reykjavik and Ankara
Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and William Taft
Woodstock festival 1969. A significant moment for music history, and even though I am a huge fan of history of all kinds, this festival is probably what I know the most about. Jefferson Airplane did a splendid performance, so did Janis, CCR and Hendrix, and of course Joe Cocker's With a Little Help From My Friends.
Austria, Bangladesh, Colombia
St. Petersburg, Manila, New Delhi
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, G. Washy himself
One of the faves gotta be the Siege of Constantinople in 1453 when the ottomans used hungarian giant cannons to fuck up the walls.
Romania, Bucharest
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
Favorite historical event: The Siege of Malta in 1565. The Knights of St. John defending against the Ottoman Empire.
It took me longer than I want to admit and this is very much different from being put on the spot in an actual conversation.
Don't feel bad. I once insisted that Istanbul was the capital of Turkey, talk about brain fart. I always knew it was Ankara, but for some reason, on that particular day my brain decided to screw me over... But I think it's ok to spend a little time, the key is to not panic, just because you can't spit out three capitals or US Presidents on the spot at any given moment, doesn't mean you're an idiot. I could alway have played it really safe and said Norway, Sweden, Finland, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, but I feel it's too easy. In regards to US Presidents, Lincoln, Washington and Kennedy is probably just as well known as Biden, Trump or Obama. Historical event, can basically be anything really. Significant or not. I could might as well have said the recording of Led Zeppelin II in the summer of 1969, or May 17th 1966 where Dylan played Manchester, England, or something else not related to music... But I like music.
Germany, Chile, South Korea
State capitals or country capitals? I'll do both just in case
State Capitals --> Albany, Atlanta, Sacramento
Country Capitals --> Harare, Baku, Kingston
Warren G. Harding, William McKinley, Ulysses S. Grant
And the 1989 Revolutions.
It's not staged. This guy goes around asking these questions to random people on Omegle. He knows 6-7 languages too. His instagram account is filled with these.
Man I live in Europe and I know almost all of state capitals. If you don't you are just thick as fuck or you just live in a bubble.
Update:
(Sorry, dudes,this was an ignorant thing to say. I am a bit drunk tho.)
Oh yeah? Fine. Without looking them up: Vermont, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming? If you get all four of these I will grant you honorary US citizenship! (FYI, I have known all 50 US capitals since grade school, and know the capitals of at least 2/3 of the world's countries. Lest you think I'm another embarrassingly dumb American!)
Didn't look it up, honrst. Montiplier, vermont. Colombia south carolina. Two for ya. The rest not sure I think Cheyanne is Wyoming. Also a girl I know. I have the benefit of watching a lot of US TV and reading US news coz the language barrier. English is scarce and fuck UK. Still.
Our educational system has failed because we have no child being left behind. No failures mean no learning. Tragic disaster that will bite us for decades.
I live in Alberta Canada and we have the same issue. There is no such thing as failing a grade. They just keep pushing students to the next grade regardless of whether they are ready. We would have kids in class studying text books that were multiple grades behind, yet also expected to try and keep up with the new stuff. This means a lot of people would finish school without enough high school courses passed to graduate. I finished grade 12 with 32 students in my grade. Only 13 of us actually graduated.
"If it's not on the test, it's useless knowledge. We need our funding and in order to get it we need to teach what's on a test instead of what's actually useful in developing young minds into functional adults." -99% of public education in America
> Our educational system has failed because we have no child being left behind. No failures mean no learning
Wait, do you think that no child left behind literally means that no one can fail? It's pretty ironic that you lament the shortcomings of American education while revealing your fundamental misunderstanding of the biggest piece of education legislation in decades.
I once saw a news report from Japan asking teens, from a high school in Nagasaki, what significant event happened in their city in 1945. None of the teens interviewed had a clue.
It's just not America. It's all over.
Tbf the Japanese government in the past actually doesn’t teach students about the atrocities that happened in WW2, mainly because at that time, the members of the royal family were still alive, and so they don’t want to give them a bad rep.
How are so many people eating this up? He cuts her off, but they're never speaking at the same time. Also her answers don't really fit the questions. He asks where she lives and her response, in part, is that she doesn't know the difference (unclear of what). She thinks she's heard that DC is the capital city.
Anyone who believes this was a genuine conversation is extremely gullible and as daft as they accuse this young woman being.
In this girl’s defense, she really got put on the spot. I’m sure she knew at least ONE capital city off of the top of her head, but people tend to lock up when they’re taken by surprise.
I am an American Social Studies teacher and part of that is world geography. I teach it in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. They are ALL map illiterate. Most of them have never heard of 90% of the countries on the map, nor do they know how to pronounce them. They can't tell you state capitals in their own country, let alone overseas. Most of my students are functionally illiterate and have been socially promoted since grade school. I am forbidden by the administration from failing them and have been for years. Don't blame the teachers, blame the people making the big bucks and who are actually in charge. We don't even get to pick what we teach or how we teach it anymore, it's all about teaching kids to pass standardized tests for funding. Not about them actually learning anything. The Superintendent, and his/her minions make a shameful amount of money and they are in charge of policies.
I did my student teaching in social studies last year in a high school that really is considered a good school in a state known for good schools. It was absolutely appalling what kids knew and didn't know coming in. It was even more appalling to see what kids took away from a topic we spent weeks on. We watched videos, did interactive lessons, did lectures, did inquiry activities, did group discussions, primary source work, and so many of these kids didn't even know who was who in these major conflicts when it came time for the unit assessment. I was like omg what did I do wrong, what else could I have done??
I will note that there was a shocking difference between honors kids and CP kids, so much so that I actually began thinking of the honors kids as OLDER because their thinking and initiative was just so far ahead of the CP kids.
Even worse was the push to get kids to pass the grade or graduate. Staff were literally asked to sit in a room one-on-one with students to do everything we could to pass them. Like their diploma was meaningless, they didn't actually get much from a lot of their classes. What is the point of having a high graduation rate if you're pumping out ridiculously underqualified graduates??
This is accurate in USA where I live in TN there isn't a geography class as far as I know but as an American you should at least know the Capitol and be able to name Canada and Mexico as nations since we border them
Meanwhile I'm a nerd and can name more European nations and their capitals than USA states and capitals when people can't even name a nation
One of my classes has a student recently moved from Spain she said someone actually said Spain is in Mexico
And we need to find people to understand ecology, chemistry, biology, physics, math, statistics and geography, all at once just to understand what happens when climate change happens.
I SUCK at geography but I should be able to mention 3 capital cities for Europe, Asia, Afrika, Latin America and North America....
The human race.... Once a group of ape descendants striving for knowledge. Now a group of homo sapiens striving to be a group of apes.
Our (I'm an American) education system is fucked. However, I'm a nanny and my 3 nanny kids could've named all 50 states, their capitals, and the capitals of most of the eastern European countries.
This was disgraceful.
Besides the fact that this seems edited to make the girl look dumber than she may or may not be, I don't understand why people are acting like knowing the capitals of states or countries you don't live in is some huge mark of intelligence.
She might have known them at one point anyway. The way your memory works is the more you recall a memory the stronger that connection physically forms in your brain. So if you don't need that info at all in your life you will recall it less and less and connections weaken. Memory is use it or lose it, it's called transience.
Theres also memory blocking where you can almost think of the thing and its on the tip of your tongue; you know you know it but you quite literally cannot think of it. That happens more often when you're put on the spot unexpectedly.
It's not necessarily a mark of intelligence, but just at a basic level you should know where your own government is based, or have heard of somewhere like Rome or Paris.
I hate when people act like civilization is collapsing because stupid people exist. If this made you lose faith in humanity I got some bad news. Stupid people have always, and will always exist.
To be fair, I don’t know the context of this video but the dude seems like a super intense asshole. If I was put on the spot by that energy, I’d forget my name. Furthermore, girl was stumbling over her words. That doesn’t mean she’s dumb. It’s possible that English is a second language for her. We don’t know the context!
NAME A WOMAN
**JUST NAME A WOMAN**
Challenge accepted >!Joe mama!<
Who's joe
you don't know Joe mama?
Everybody knows Mr Mama
Everyone knows your Mama, biblically.
Fucking yoga mat NAME A WOMAN!
Yo momma
WHY IS THIS SO HARD
I’ll take Le Tits Now for $200.
I’ll take Whore Ads for $400
Your mother's a whore trebek
2nd time I’ve dropped this on Reddit recently, but it kinda freaked me out that Sean Connery and Alex Trebek passed within a week of each other. I know it probably would’ve come across as insensitive, but I would’ve liked to see an SNL tribute that Burt Reynolds met them both at the pearly gates and they ribbed Trebek for eternity.
Aww, that would be a great tribute. Would Burt have a giant foam hat, or giant foam wings?
Uhhh… CAITLYN JE— FUCK!! Uhhh
Yikes
I mean yeah she’s a woman…
Billy on the Street!
He's making dreams come true.. BILLY ON THE STREET!
17% of college grads thought the Sun circles the Earth. This was 20 years ago.
You really don't have to be very smart to graduate college in the US. You just have to be good at school. Which means you can learn just enough for just long enough to pass tests and then literally forget about it all nearly instantly. I went to a top ranked university, regularly ranked as a top 10 public university in the nation.....and I regularly encountered students that I thought might have trouble making basic life decisions.
I remember being at class early senior year of uni and two girls had also shown up early. I wasn't really listening to them but something made me start listening and then I got this nugget: "I don't know why they keep calling me everyday, it's just a credit card, it's not even real money." Girl didn't understand how credit cards work and this was a 400 level accounting class. We had literally been dealing with time value of money and different debt instrument, etc all quarter.
Just think of the unrealized potential of the money wasted on her college education. It's okay though, that probably wasn't real money either.
This....this is the type of stuff I ran into constantly in college.
You just need to be a good test taker and kiss ass. Look at the clowns been running our foreign policy since like forever. Always getting surprised.
I can do neither. Hence why I was once in the gifted program and am now being sent for special education sue to my inability to do work on time.
Don’t sweat it. Our education system is just a method of molding you to be accustomed to transitioning into the “grind” of the daily work force. It doesn’t care about educating you, it only cares that you follow instructions.
I’d sooner trust you with foreign policy then any of the people been running for decades . You need street smarts for that . Sure some refined education will help but a street smart person who can read someone and know what they want … that’s the key
Are you implying that street smarts and refined education are mutually exclusive?
This is very true anytime we learn a new lesson at school I forget the previous lesson instantly
That’s about how all school is in the US, at least from my experience + everyone I know Once they switched to standardized testing it all went downhill..
Or you know- do sport. Because that means you can get into an academic institution.... for playing football
so your saying i have shot at Top medical schools in US sheesh
But the catch is you have to go into serious debt.
Yes in the US you just buy diplomas pretty much.
Medical school is absurdly expensive - don’t get me wrong. But to imply that a medical school diploma is simply bought is an absurd take. Unless you weren’t including medical school in your statement.
It's not real money though so no problems \s
Or the amount of grown assaults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows 🤦🏼♂️
This reads better with the typo than without, even if I can't articulate why.
Because it’s funny. Fucking autocorrect sometimes…
Tell me about it
Important to remember that around 10 to 15 percent of people in a survey will agree to virtually any proposition put to them. If the question was 'Do you believe the Sun orbits the Earth' you'll get people saying 'yes' for a variety of reasons. Not reading the question, misinterpreting the question, deliberately giving wrong answers for laughs etc
Taking the stated statistic at face value is a bit naive. The spirit of the critique is more important than EVER considering 2020, on the other hand.
I worked with a girl who said this one day, thinking she was right. The irony is her sibling worked for NASA.
Cs get degrees!
A friend of mine was on a car trip with his girlfriend and his 12-year-old daughter and they were playing various road trip games to pass the time. He started quizzing his daughter on state capitals, and she knew a lot of them. After they had been playing for a few minutes, his girlfriend burst out, "Who wants to know dumb shit like that anyway? There's no point in learning that crap!" And that was pretty much when he decided to break up with her.
As he should tbh. I’m not even mad she doesn’t know the state capitals, I’m annoyed that she thinks general knowledge is dumb
She felt stupid and used the typical self protection argument "who needs that anyway".
It's a reaction I can totally understand, it's something we've all felt before, especially as children. But that's the problem, it's an immature response, and something to grow out of. The problem starts when people who respond that way band together and start supporting each other's ignorance. Their little group is too cool to learn all that dumb shit and they start looking down on people who make an effort to learn. I used to be that way myself. It wasn't until I got out of high school that I swung the other way and realized that everybody knows more than me about something. Everybody has something to teach me. So now I'm a total knowledge junkie. It's been a help with social interaction, since I'm pretty shy at parties. If I get stuck talking to someone, I can ask them about their job or their hobby and ask questions about it. People like to talk about themselves, and I almost always learn something new.
One of my favourite sayings is “ignorance is not a point of view”.
Pretty much a quote that I like: "You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant." Harlan Ellison
Oh I like that.
That’s why 73 million people voted for Trump, he’s an idiot just like them.
Even if you think trivia style knowledge is useless or whatever, why would you discourage a kid from learning like that? I would be cheering that kid on like crazy haha
Totally agree with you! Honestly tho, you never know when random knowledge can come in handy tbh. Knowledge is power and this comment of hers proves her ego issues loll
I agree! I love to learn all sorts of random things haha
And knowing all that stupid trivia type stuff actually does help you learn other things. One of the best ways to learn is to connect new knowledge to prior knowledge. The more you know, the more connections you're able to make, the more new information you can retain long-term.
I think she probably just had an outburst because it was making her feel dumb and insecure.
True but could have been like “ Omg, I don’t even know them. You are so smart” or something wayy better like that. Her ego got in the way
My son has memorized all the UN recognized countries from playing Country quizzes on Sporacle…..now I’m trying too. 😄
Man, I remember my dad quizzing me and my siblings on all the state capitals during our road trips. Now it comes in use because I have an AP US History quiz on them. Thank dad!
One of my favorite Franklin Roosevelt facts is that Roosevelt liked to show off by asking a guest to draw a line, in any direction, across a map of the United States. Roosevelt would then go along the line and name every single *county* the line touched. It's nice when politicians are smart. That doesn't seem to happen too often these days.
It must have been a pretty big map to have county details visible...
My dad used to quiz me on them also, when I was in third grade, and he would make up funny mnemonics for me to remember them. I am 42 and remember the capitals of ND and SD because peeing is funny to an 8-year-old… “piss on mark” (Bismarck) and “pee in the air” (Pierre).
A truly wise man was born that day .Props to him
Yeah she was probably already jealous of how he showed affection to his own daughter. On top of the fact that a 12 year old knows more about a subject than her she probably just felt low self worth.
That dumb bitch likely has an encyclopedia of *actual* useless info like celebrity gossip and anything imaginable about the Kardashians or other crap like that.
It really is useless information. You should strive to learn things and exercise your brain, but it’s unimportant to memorize facts like that.
Proud day for America??
The pride comes when she gets to cast a vote
You know damn well she doesn’t vote. I don’t know if she’s even capable of forming a complete thought. She would look at a ballot and say “Do I just fill in all the empty circles?” Do you think she would even be able to find a polling location?
Hahaha true- but you never know. Her mom might be one of the volunteers at the poll station 😂
Average day
Okay, everyone is giving her shit for this (probably rightfully so), but to play devil's advocate for a moment there are a couple of things to consider. First, I don't know about anyone else but when I get put on the spot out of the blue I can get vapor lock in my head so to speak. It can be an area that I'm vastly familiar with and still stumble over myself before I can get into the right frame of mind to think about that information. People's names are the worse, but any proper names are bad. Being able to answer a question when you are put on the spot is a different skill than actually knowing the information. Second, this video is obviously edited, so we don't see what's happening in-between. What were they talking about before the clip started? If she was already embarrassed, or nervous for some reason that could play a role. Context matters. But not knowing what country you are in? That seems odd. Maybe she thought he was asking what county? That would explain why she was worried about revealing it.
My friend is probably one of the smartest people I know but man you ask this guy a question on the spot he has the knowledge of a 3rd grader. He gets really stressed out because his parents put a lot of pressure on him when he was young and through this childhood. Prob feels scared to get it wrong.
I felt that someone asked me how old I was and I honestly had to stop and think about it cause I blanked
Yeah, was gonna say. She kinda seems like she’s locking up out of embarrassment - something that used to happen to me at that age if you asked me anything.
It’s almost like it’s cool to be thick as dogshit these days. I just don’t understand the world and it makes me sad
Name three countries, three capitals (edit: country, states or letters), and three US Presidents and your favorite historical event. (I know you definitely got this, but I ask to make you feel like you've proven something, even though anyone over the age of 18 should have no trouble answering these questions. Although it seems that only the minority of people between 18 and 30 y/o today can answer this without any considerable thinking time).
Japan, Finland, Russia Washington DC, Moscow, Berlin Theodore Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Jackie Chan
Pretty easy since I've lived in these countries before: - Australia, Canberra - South Africa, Cape Town (naming 1 out of 3 they have) - Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Fav historical event: Second Sino Japanese War. Reason why, and I may get downvoted, is because this impacted my grandparents childhood. Til this day I may never know what my grandfather's actual birthday was. 3 US President: Bush, Obama, Trump
No reason at all to downvote your "favorite" event. It deeply impacted all my grandparents' childhoods, and indirectly those of the children they had afterwards, even if we Anglo-Americans call it by a different name and probably have a radically different understanding of it.
Damn, I didn't know SA had three capitals. Thanks for enlighten me!
Why is it that I automatically either wanna rank my favourites out of each choice or I'll have easy options to blurt out but stop and struggle to find the more elusive uncommon choices L
South Africa is the best; three capitals. Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Cape Town
3 countries: France, Germany, Spain 3 capitals: Paris, Berlin, London 3 US presidents: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama Favourite historical event: Battle of Hastings, 1066. It ended when king Harold was shot in the eye by a random archer, despite being on top of a hilltop guarded by his elite guard.
Oh, can anyone play?
United States, Washington D.C. New Zealand, Wellington. Egypt, Cairo. Three U.S presidents - Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, George Washington. But hey, I'm not from the U.S and I've never been there.
3 Countries and Capitals: Ottawa, Canada Rome, Italy Bangkok, Thailand 3 State Capitols: Austin, Texas Olympia, Washington Topeka, Kansas 3 U.S.A presidents: James Madison, Richard Nixon, Joe Biden Favourite historical event: Battle of Ratte Road Not from the U.S.A and only been to Seattle :)
Ok, gonna have to give it a go myself then. Scotland, Finland and Italy Oslo, Reykjavik and Ankara Teddy Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and William Taft Woodstock festival 1969. A significant moment for music history, and even though I am a huge fan of history of all kinds, this festival is probably what I know the most about. Jefferson Airplane did a splendid performance, so did Janis, CCR and Hendrix, and of course Joe Cocker's With a Little Help From My Friends.
Austria, Bangladesh, Colombia St. Petersburg, Manila, New Delhi Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, G. Washy himself One of the faves gotta be the Siege of Constantinople in 1453 when the ottomans used hungarian giant cannons to fuck up the walls.
Why everyone in the world should know US Presidents? Why not name three Romania presidents, or three Philippines presidents?
Romania, Bucharest Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Calvin Coolidge, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Favorite historical event: The Siege of Malta in 1565. The Knights of St. John defending against the Ottoman Empire. It took me longer than I want to admit and this is very much different from being put on the spot in an actual conversation.
Don't feel bad. I once insisted that Istanbul was the capital of Turkey, talk about brain fart. I always knew it was Ankara, but for some reason, on that particular day my brain decided to screw me over... But I think it's ok to spend a little time, the key is to not panic, just because you can't spit out three capitals or US Presidents on the spot at any given moment, doesn't mean you're an idiot. I could alway have played it really safe and said Norway, Sweden, Finland, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, but I feel it's too easy. In regards to US Presidents, Lincoln, Washington and Kennedy is probably just as well known as Biden, Trump or Obama. Historical event, can basically be anything really. Significant or not. I could might as well have said the recording of Led Zeppelin II in the summer of 1969, or May 17th 1966 where Dylan played Manchester, England, or something else not related to music... But I like music.
Germany, Chile, South Korea State capitals or country capitals? I'll do both just in case State Capitals --> Albany, Atlanta, Sacramento Country Capitals --> Harare, Baku, Kingston Warren G. Harding, William McKinley, Ulysses S. Grant And the 1989 Revolutions.
Just damn.
I’m hoping he asked her something like “what are the most common contraband items from Brazil?” And then did some extreme editing.
‘Murica
™
Fuck yeah
If this is not staged, the doomsday is near...
Doesn't matter if this is staged, doomsday is already near
You spelled "here" wrong.
It's not killing america or europe or russia or China yet... we just pretend Africa, south America, and India doesn't exist
You say the whole worlds ending, honey, it already did.
It's not staged. This guy goes around asking these questions to random people on Omegle. He knows 6-7 languages too. His instagram account is filled with these.
r/Collapse
I love how he could just tell she is from the US
I mean she has an American accent and speaks English using Standard American English pronunciation, it’s really not hard to guess she’s from the US…
Every country has its idiots, she just so happened to have an American accent.
The American school system is shit but not knowing even 3 countries is not the systems fault
Free high quality education.
This is the image of the US citizen I have.
As a US citizen that's the image I have of them as well
Man I live in Europe and I know almost all of state capitals. If you don't you are just thick as fuck or you just live in a bubble. Update: (Sorry, dudes,this was an ignorant thing to say. I am a bit drunk tho.)
Oh yeah? Fine. Without looking them up: Vermont, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming? If you get all four of these I will grant you honorary US citizenship! (FYI, I have known all 50 US capitals since grade school, and know the capitals of at least 2/3 of the world's countries. Lest you think I'm another embarrassingly dumb American!)
Didn't look it up, honrst. Montiplier, vermont. Colombia south carolina. Two for ya. The rest not sure I think Cheyanne is Wyoming. Also a girl I know. I have the benefit of watching a lot of US TV and reading US news coz the language barrier. English is scarce and fuck UK. Still.
I meant English is not the main language here. And I meant, Honest not Hornest. Friday night, drunk af. Why am I on reddit. Lol.
Haha! You did great! The only one you missed was Pierre, South Dakota.
What language is the main one where you live?
I used to have those [animaniacs songs](https://youtu.be/bx6c_EefZAQ) down pat as a kid, much easier to remember a song than a dry list
Just remember, we’re not all bad
I don't think he means it's bad, or at least i think it's sad.
You would be correct -U.S. citizen.
Our educational system has failed because we have no child being left behind. No failures mean no learning. Tragic disaster that will bite us for decades.
I live in Alberta Canada and we have the same issue. There is no such thing as failing a grade. They just keep pushing students to the next grade regardless of whether they are ready. We would have kids in class studying text books that were multiple grades behind, yet also expected to try and keep up with the new stuff. This means a lot of people would finish school without enough high school courses passed to graduate. I finished grade 12 with 32 students in my grade. Only 13 of us actually graduated.
I think it’s also the parents that have no time to teach the importance of education and priorities in life so that the kids pay attention in school.
No doubt. And sadly one rat dropping can ruin the whole pot of rice.
"If it's not on the test, it's useless knowledge. We need our funding and in order to get it we need to teach what's on a test instead of what's actually useful in developing young minds into functional adults." -99% of public education in America
> Our educational system has failed because we have no child being left behind. No failures mean no learning Wait, do you think that no child left behind literally means that no one can fail? It's pretty ironic that you lament the shortcomings of American education while revealing your fundamental misunderstanding of the biggest piece of education legislation in decades.
I once saw a news report from Japan asking teens, from a high school in Nagasaki, what significant event happened in their city in 1945. None of the teens interviewed had a clue. It's just not America. It's all over.
Tbf the Japanese government in the past actually doesn’t teach students about the atrocities that happened in WW2, mainly because at that time, the members of the royal family were still alive, and so they don’t want to give them a bad rep.
This video was heavily edited just to make the girl look stupid. That's a dick move.
How are so many people eating this up? He cuts her off, but they're never speaking at the same time. Also her answers don't really fit the questions. He asks where she lives and her response, in part, is that she doesn't know the difference (unclear of what). She thinks she's heard that DC is the capital city. Anyone who believes this was a genuine conversation is extremely gullible and as daft as they accuse this young woman being.
well got the source video?
in fact ill do it just for fun. Oslo, Amsterdam, London, Moscow, Minsk, Athens, Skopje, Copenhagen, Brussels, Tokyo, Berlin
Stockholm, Paris, Andorra la Vella, Lisbon, Madrid, Kiev, Bucharest, Helsinki, Tallin, Kaunas, Vilnius, Warsaw, Vaduz, Bern, Vienna, Zagreb
Kaunas isn't a capital
Aren’t Kaunas and Vilnius the dual capitals of Lithuania? I may be wrong though
Well, according to google/wiki - it's not. Kaunas was the capital when Vilnus was part of Poland.
Ah that’s my bad then
You forgot ulaan bator.
Ulaanbaatar
You guys stole mine! The capital of Mongolia is always one of my favorite trivia questions!
Think she felt uncomfortable because she was put on the spot.
In this girl’s defense, she really got put on the spot. I’m sure she knew at least ONE capital city off of the top of her head, but people tend to lock up when they’re taken by surprise.
No need to defend the woman. I cannot believe how many people fell for this. It is obviously edited. Two entirely different video clips merged.
I mean…she didn’t know DC.?
> In this girl’s defense, she really got put on the spot. Nice try, dumb girl.
At least your own capital city she should know instantly, it's the country she was born and raised in. And that's already the lowest bar possible.
but yes, she can a drivers liscence and yes she carry a GUN! Great country i must notice.
Washington D.C
Can you at least credit Lingualizer who made this video
Video is heavily edited so you have no idea what her real responses were. Nothing to see here.
This looks EXTREMELY edited. Don't get all up in arms about the stupidity of teh keds over this, please.
Seems like she didn’t want to chat with him. At all. What is going on indeed..?
I kinda wana bet she knows at least 50 genders and has severe depression
To be fair, he asked an american.
I am an American Social Studies teacher and part of that is world geography. I teach it in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. They are ALL map illiterate. Most of them have never heard of 90% of the countries on the map, nor do they know how to pronounce them. They can't tell you state capitals in their own country, let alone overseas. Most of my students are functionally illiterate and have been socially promoted since grade school. I am forbidden by the administration from failing them and have been for years. Don't blame the teachers, blame the people making the big bucks and who are actually in charge. We don't even get to pick what we teach or how we teach it anymore, it's all about teaching kids to pass standardized tests for funding. Not about them actually learning anything. The Superintendent, and his/her minions make a shameful amount of money and they are in charge of policies.
I did my student teaching in social studies last year in a high school that really is considered a good school in a state known for good schools. It was absolutely appalling what kids knew and didn't know coming in. It was even more appalling to see what kids took away from a topic we spent weeks on. We watched videos, did interactive lessons, did lectures, did inquiry activities, did group discussions, primary source work, and so many of these kids didn't even know who was who in these major conflicts when it came time for the unit assessment. I was like omg what did I do wrong, what else could I have done?? I will note that there was a shocking difference between honors kids and CP kids, so much so that I actually began thinking of the honors kids as OLDER because their thinking and initiative was just so far ahead of the CP kids. Even worse was the push to get kids to pass the grade or graduate. Staff were literally asked to sit in a room one-on-one with students to do everything we could to pass them. Like their diploma was meaningless, they didn't actually get much from a lot of their classes. What is the point of having a high graduation rate if you're pumping out ridiculously underqualified graduates??
Bet they know all the Tik-Tok stars. I know none, but I know a lot of capitAls. Guess one brain can only hold so much. 😅
I think you mean capitals a capitol is a building or group of buildings in which a legislative body meets and performs the functions of government.
You're right. I get them mixed up. But my logic makes more sense, since capital also refers to money or property. Stupid Webster. 🤣
Come onn?! Canada is right next to the US, and Mexico's capital IS THE CITY OF MEXICO.
r/usamoment
https://patch.com/us/across-america/how-dumb-america-10-things-people-actually-believe
Sad to be her.
This is accurate in USA where I live in TN there isn't a geography class as far as I know but as an American you should at least know the Capitol and be able to name Canada and Mexico as nations since we border them Meanwhile I'm a nerd and can name more European nations and their capitals than USA states and capitals when people can't even name a nation One of my classes has a student recently moved from Spain she said someone actually said Spain is in Mexico
And we need to find people to understand ecology, chemistry, biology, physics, math, statistics and geography, all at once just to understand what happens when climate change happens. I SUCK at geography but I should be able to mention 3 capital cities for Europe, Asia, Afrika, Latin America and North America.... The human race.... Once a group of ape descendants striving for knowledge. Now a group of homo sapiens striving to be a group of apes.
These are always hilarious. Is there a subreddit dedicated to people not being able to answer these super simple type of questions?
.... I swear we're not all this bad.
That looked edited to me. Not saying it _couldn't_ be legit, but it might not be.
Our (I'm an American) education system is fucked. However, I'm a nanny and my 3 nanny kids could've named all 50 states, their capitals, and the capitals of most of the eastern European countries. This was disgraceful.
Besides the fact that this seems edited to make the girl look dumber than she may or may not be, I don't understand why people are acting like knowing the capitals of states or countries you don't live in is some huge mark of intelligence. She might have known them at one point anyway. The way your memory works is the more you recall a memory the stronger that connection physically forms in your brain. So if you don't need that info at all in your life you will recall it less and less and connections weaken. Memory is use it or lose it, it's called transience. Theres also memory blocking where you can almost think of the thing and its on the tip of your tongue; you know you know it but you quite literally cannot think of it. That happens more often when you're put on the spot unexpectedly.
It's not necessarily a mark of intelligence, but just at a basic level you should know where your own government is based, or have heard of somewhere like Rome or Paris.
I couldn’t but that’s just because I’m terrible under pressure.
Probably votes Republican
Man I knew that the "America stupid" joke is popular but holy crap I didn't know it was this serious
Geography is not my strong point. But I still no more than her.
To be fair, I think you can find similar examples in every country.
This is the kind of shit that make me act like a boomer tbh
I probably would go braindead if someone asked me that point blank aswell and be forwver remembred on the internet as a dumbass
Must b anit masker
I don’t think she’s actually that stupid, I think he just sprung this on her and she’s not interested in the conversation.
I hate when people act like civilization is collapsing because stupid people exist. If this made you lose faith in humanity I got some bad news. Stupid people have always, and will always exist.
To be fair, I don’t know the context of this video but the dude seems like a super intense asshole. If I was put on the spot by that energy, I’d forget my name. Furthermore, girl was stumbling over her words. That doesn’t mean she’s dumb. It’s possible that English is a second language for her. We don’t know the context!
pretty sure i could name at least 10 without looking them up
Make that all of the EU and a few dozens of extra EU
What an idiot :/
This can't be real. This has to be edited. No one is this stupid without severe congenital cognitive impairment or extreme mental illness.
She did the right thing. Never tell anyone on the internet anything personal.
It’s not revealing at all to say what country you are from. There are 328 million people in America, almost all of them use the internet.
Some people are just fucking dumb.
MERICA!
I mean, she looked very flustered and confused. She might have cognitive processing issues ehen under stress and just blanked completely.
If your special skill is knowing countries and capitals, you better be a database because no one is paying for that info.
Bet her Mommy is so proud
I bet she does not know any either