Jenny in Florida Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0105/Are-you-smarter-than-an-atheist-A-religious-quiz/When-does-the-Jewish-Sabbath-begin I thought some other folks might enjoy taking this one. I got 31/32 correct, but I found it amusing how much more confident I was about all of the non-Christian questions. How did you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SailorMom Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 Very easy questions, though........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pam Wilhelm Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 Correct. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily_Grace Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Quiz results 31 Correct 1 Wrong You answered 31 of 32 questions correctly for a total score of 97%. I didn't get the preacher of the First Great Awakening or whatever it was. The rest I was pretty confident on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31 out of 32 correct. They got me on the First Great Awakening. I didn't pay attention to "First". Very basic, very simple questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 I agree that most of the questions were very basic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azucena Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I also got 32/32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desert Rat Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I got 29/32. I missed Miamodes (sp?), Jonathan Edwards, and the religion of Indonesia. Still above average. :) And I'm an atheist, raised by Methodists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32. The only one I was a little unsure about was Jonathan Edwards--it was pretty basic. I'm a Mormon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCoffeeChick Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I missed 2 ... I didnt know who Maimonides was or the predominate religion in Indonesia. All in all, pretty good. I actually find it difficult to believe the average score is only 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise in Florida Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 30/32 I didn't get First Great Awakening (don't have any idea what that means, I guess I need to look it up :001_smile:) and I missed the predominate religion of Indonesia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 This atheist (raised Catholic) got 32/32. I actually find it difficult to believe the average score is only 16. I agree. Many of my IRL friends are Christian and Jewish, and I'm sure they'd score much higher than 16. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) That was fun. I got three wrong. The Islamic Holy Month (I waffled on it a lot), Is a public school teacher allowed to read from the Bible (surprised, but duh, yeah, it is in K12s The Human Odyssey, which is on my shelf), and what religion are most people in Indonesia (I guess a lot of us weren't clear on that one). DH and I both raised as Jehovah's Witness, now born-again all-denominational Christians. Edited April 24, 2012 by Lovedtodeath Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny in Florida Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 The average scores listed didn't make sense to me, either, which is one of the reasons I posted the link. Of course, WTM-ers aren't exactly typical in terms of knowledge. So, we're a pretty skewed sample. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31/32. I didn't know about the First Great Awakening. Laura (atheist non-American) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Of course, WTM-ers aren't exactly typical in terms of knowledge. So, we're a pretty skewed sample. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I got 2 wrong. I thought the Egyptian people were a lesson in having faith in God in spite of great suffering, so I chose Moses for that one. And I have never heard of the Great Awakening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfamilygal Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That was super simple. 32/32. Born Mormon, raised Methodist, nearly became Catholic. Spent time in majority Muslim countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 30/32. I didn't know about Maimonides and the Great Awakening. Cradle Catholic. Learned most of this stuff as an adult either through teaching my children, attending Bible study or current events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31/32;like other PPs, I missed the one about Indonesia--though I should have remembered Heather's experiences in Malaysia! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dangermom Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 That was super simple. 32/32. Born Mormon, raised Methodist, nearly became Catholic. Spent time in majority Muslim countries. :lol: You're the ideal quiz-taker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwallowTail Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32, raised Protestant, now sort of a roaming non-denominational believer. I am incredulous at their cited average scores. I wonder what demographic they surveyed to get that breakdown, perhaps a very young crowd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganClassicalPrep Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31/32;like other PPs, I missed the one about Indonesia--though I should have remembered Heather's experiences in Malaysia! :001_smile: I got 32/32, but to be honest, it should have been 31/32, since I guessed on the Maimonides. (Off to google...) And the only reason I answered correctly about the predominate religion of Indonesia is from Heather's posts. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinahYeteirah Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I got 32/32. The questions were so easy, I also have a hard time believing that the average score is only 16. Even among the general population, I can't imagine most people getting that many wrong. This is a bit off topic, but I find it interesting how many people have not heard of Maimonides. It always cracks me up when Christians think that non-Christians should welcome additional exposure to Christianity in order to be educated about different religions (for example, in the thread about a prayer before a charter meeting). That kind of thing is simply not necessary for most American non-Christians, since we encounter Christian culture and history on a daily basis. On the other hand, I'd bet a majority of Christians have never heard of many of the most important non-Christian figures, like Maimonides, except perhaps as the name of a hospital or similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldberry Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 30/32 I didn't get First Great Awakening (don't have any idea what that means, I guess I need to look it up :001_smile:) and I missed the predominate religion of Indonesia. Same here! Most average 16? That's a little scary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 It always cracks me up when Christians think that non-Christians should welcome additional exposure to Christianity in order to be educated about different religions (for example, in the thread about a prayer before a charter meeting). I missed that thread. That is ridiculous. I do not want my children exposed to prayers of other religions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I got 100%, so I guess I'm "smarter than an atheist." :D Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed" is among my favorite books, and the Rambam's writing in the Mishnah Torah and other writings are essential in understanding rabbinic Judaism. Pretty darn easy. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gailmegan Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 here too. And my 10-year old looking over my shoulder knew 24 of them too. 16 as the average for Christians is pretty disturbing. I will have to have my 8-year old take it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 This is a bit off topic, but I find it interesting how many people have not heard of Maimonides. It always cracks me up when Christians think that non-Christians should welcome additional exposure to Christianity in order to be educated about different religions (for example, in the thread about a prayer before a charter meeting). That kind of thing is simply not necessary for most American non-Christians, since we encounter Christian culture and history on a daily basis. On the other hand, I'd bet a majority of Christians have never heard of many of the most important non-Christian figures, like Maimonides, except perhaps as the name of a hospital or similar. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
---- Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) . Edited September 13, 2014 by amana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 here too. And my 10-year old looking over my shoulder knew 24 of them too. 16 as the average for Christians is pretty disturbing. I will have to have my 8-year old take it. I had my 11 yo take it and she scored 16. She missed 3 on Mormonism (not surprising, the population here is relatively small and we know no Mormons IRL), 2 on Islam (we are friends with a Muslim family in our homeschool group, which helped), mixed up 2 of the 3 on the First Amendment and the one on the Great Awakening (we'll cover those soon in early American history), 3 on the specifics of the Bible, and 2 on Catholic vs. Protestant doctrine (some of those last 5 did sort of surprise me--I'd have thought she would have known some of them). For context, she has been raised as a NeoPagan Unitarian Universalist her entire life. When she was about 6, she got really angry when I said we weren't Christian. Her response: "We are too Christian! Daddy believes in Buddha!" Does the "too" need commas? She meant "really" not "excessively." I think we've made some progress in the area of religious education since then:lol: but we have a ways to go.;) Looks like definitely I need to set up that homeschool group comparative religion field trip to the Mormon church I've been considering. We've made it to the Quakers, the Hindu Center, Unity, Unitarian Universalists, Greek Orthodox, two mosques and the Reform Jewish synagogue so far (though my husband has sung there for 15 years, so we're there pretty regularly). I still have a laundry list of other houses of worship to visit over the next few years, as I have time to set up the trips or can talk others into leading them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Sheesh! That took forever. But I got them all right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NASDAQ Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 This is a bit off topic, but I find it interesting how many people have not heard of Maimonides. It always cracks me up when Christians think that non-Christians should welcome additional exposure to Christianity in order to be educated about different religions (for example, in the thread about a prayer before a charter meeting). That kind of thing is simply not necessary for most American non-Christians, since we encounter Christian culture and history on a daily basis. On the other hand, I'd bet a majority of Christians have never heard of many of the most important non-Christian figures, like Maimonides, except perhaps as the name of a hospital or similar. :iagree: The Rambam is a much more important figure to Judaism than Jonathan Edwards is to Christianity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieAnneLevine Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31/32, I also missed the Great Awakening one. I knew it wasn't Graham, so I had a 50/50 chance of guessing right and I did not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PIE! Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 30/32 I need to do some research on Maimonides! (And I didn't know the predominant religion of Indonesia). From a cradle Mormon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-FL Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 32/32 Very easy questions, though........ Ditto. The only one I was unsure of was the Maimonides question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) I missed two. One on Buddhism and the one on Maimonides. The one I got wrong with Buddhism was on Nirvana. I thought both Buddhism and Hinduism had Nirvana as ultimate attainment so I got mixed up. I have since looked it up and it looks like Hindu Nirvana is called Moksha. I have never heard that term before, obviously I don't know as much as I thought I did. Edited April 23, 2012 by DawnM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I didn't think it was a very well constructed quiz. When "Don't know" is an answer, you know you're not going to get that one right. Why even have that option? Who would click that instead of guessing?? That was bizarre. I think Mormonism was way overrepresented in the questions. I am also not sure questions about the first amendment count as religious knowledge, but there you are. I missed one. About salvation through faith alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SonshineLearner Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 29 of 32. I ALWAYS get agnostic and atheist mixed up... Oh well :( Interesting to see what you know :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NASDAQ Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 29 of 32. I ALWAYS get agnostic and atheist mixed up... Oh well :( Interesting to see what you know :) a- without so either without knowing, or without god. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) 26/32 81% I posted my score and THEN read the thread. Good to know I scored the lowest! :) Edited April 23, 2012 by Scarlett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catz Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 31/32 I got the one about the Great Awakening wrong. I was raised Catholic and currently UU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amey311 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 29/32. I missed the Great Awakening (I eliminated Billy Graham, and thought Charles Finney seemed remotely familiar for some reason, so I picked him). I missed nirvana because that's one place I mix up Buddhism and Hinduism. I missed the "through faith alone" one despite all the discussions about it here (and maybe BECAUSE of all the discussions about it here). I know there are people who believe firmly it's through faith AND good works, so I got a little mixed up. I got the Indonesia one because there was a National Geographic article about Muslims in Indonesia recently, I think (or at least that's what I thought of, so I got it right). I got the Maimonides one because my SIL used to work at a Jewish day school with Maimonides in the name :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeslieAnneLevine Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I also wanted to say that even though I didn't have much trouble with the quiz, I didn't think it was super easy. You need to have a good general knowledge of religion to answer the questions correctly and that requires some curiosity and interest in what other people do and believe. Was anyone else disappointed there weren't any questions about Norse or Egyptian mythology? I got excited when I saw the Greek one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I also wanted to say that even though I didn't have much trouble with the quiz, I didn't think it was super easy. You need to have a good general knowledge of religion to answer the questions correctly and that requires some curiosity and interest in what other people do and believe. Was anyone else disappointed there weren't any questions about Norse or Egyptian mythology? I got excited when I saw the Greek one! Me, too;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TranquilMind Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I got 29/32. I missed Miamodes (sp?), Jonathan Edwards, and the religion of Indonesia. Still above average. :) And I'm an atheist, raised by Methodists. Christian here, missing the Indonesia one as well, and I hit Hindu instead of Buddhist re: nirvana (dumb mistake). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 32/32 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 31/32. I missed the Maimodes (sp?) one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ByGrace3 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I thought my 28/32 wasn't too bad until I read this thread. :lol: I grew up evangelical/baptist and still am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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