IMAO Readership Quality Screening Test

Take the “Are You a Dumb American Quiz“, examine your results, and follow the appropriate instructions below:


You Are a Smart American


You know a lot about US history, and your opinions are probably well informed.

You may continue reading IMAO and leaving witty and/or insightful comments.



You Are Not a Dumb American


You know a good deal about American history, but there are some basic facts you have wrong.

You may continue reading IMAO for educational purposes, but don’t comment, lest your inferior knowledge endumben the rest of us.



You Are an Average American


You know a little bit about America, but not enough to actually deserve the citizenship you were born into.

In the future, please avoid IMAO and voting booths.



You Are a Dumb American


What are you doing here? Isn’t it against company policy to surf from work at the New York Times?

Flee from this place lest we punch you in your dumb monkey face and taunt you a second time.



You Are Nancy Pelosi


Welcome, Madame Speaker!

So… how did you do?

35 Comments

  1. 8/10 But I’m having some back pain so that could account for it. Or there are some things I just don’t know/have forgotten. When you get to be my age one of the first things to go is memory….
    Maybe I should take the history quiz. Could be fun! Where am I again.

  2. Even before I clicked for the results I knew I got 100%. I think anyone who missed any of those questions should be forced to spend 400 hours watching speeches by Ronald Reagan and episodes of America Rock.
    I would send them back to school, but that’s where the problems started, n’est pas?

  3. it didn’t tell me how many out of 10 i got right but it told me i’m a smart american. i’m pretty sure i got 10/10. i do appreciate you changing the spelling of “you’re” to be the correct “your” when you did your results pictures, Harvey.

  4. 10/10, except that the first question really doesn’t have a correct answer listed. 1776 is the year of the Declaration of Independence, not the year of the Revolution, which extended from 1775 to 1783.
    Then again, maybe I’m just nit-picking…

  5. I don’t know, sarahk…I thought the “and you’re opinions are probably well informed” was quite the delicious irony.
    And IllTemperedCur, I don’t think you’re nit-picking. That bugged me, as well. My thought taking that was, “Where’s the correct answer of ‘The year the Declaration of Independence was signed’?”

  6. I knew I’d get the first state question right… we spent half a year in 5th grade learning Delaware’s history.
    I correctly answered the other questions too, though. I mean, seriously though, how could you miss more than two of those questions (even if you went to public schools!)?

  7. Although I got them all right, I’d be willing to excuse getting the questions wrong about “first state” and “what does D.C stand for”, since those are more location-specific, and less important in terms of knowledge of the US in general.

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