Quiz Time

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Today is Constitution Day in the U.S.. (<---What's the proper way to end that sentence?)

Find out what you know about The Constitution by taking The Washington Post's Constitution Day Quiz

I got 1 out of 13.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

Today is Constitution Day in the U.S.. (<---What's the proper way to end that sentence?)

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Like this:

Today is Constitution Day in the U.S.

The period that ends the abbreviation also ends the sentence. If the sentence ends in a different punctuation mark, like a question mark or an exclamation mark, use both. If the sentence is awkward or unclear, rewrite it to move the abbreviation away from the end of the sentence or avoid the abbreviation altogether

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Originally Posted by BigV

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Thank you, sir.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

I got 1 out of 13.

7 of 13.
Damn, that was hard. Lots of educated guessing. And even more uneducated guessing.

[BigV]

I got 8/13.

I didn't even reach the threshold for ratification.

[infinite monkey]

I got 4. Hahhahahaaa! Of course the alcohol one. That was easy, because overturning prohibition holds a special place in my heart...from a past life. The other one I got was the one about public education not being mentioned in the constitution. I picked that because in both my past jobs we were mandated to do something to recognize Constitution Day. Because public education was considered a state level issue by our founding fathers, it only stands to reason that institutions receiving any sort of federal funding be mandated by the federal government to have some sort of programming for C-Day.

The law establishing the present holiday was created in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd to the Omnibus spending bill of 2004.[4] Before this law was enacted, the holiday was known as "Citizenship Day". In addition to renaming the holiday "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day," the act mandates that all publicly funded educational institutions, and all federal agencies, provide educational programming on the history of the American Constitution on that day.[5] In May 2005, the United States Department of Education announced the enactment of this law and that it would apply to any school receiving federal funds of any kind.[3] This holiday is not observed by granting time off work for federal employees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constit...ited_States%29

It's the law, and it's ironical. I think in my previous previous job we hung up posters. In my previous job we were silo'd right out of any responsibility for it: they had high level executives who were responsible for hanging up posters, maybe a blurb on the campus wide info-TVs.

[Undertoad]

6, it's a tough one and more about history than the constitution itself...

[Griff]

8 but I don't support ratification anyway...

[DanaC]

Wont let me take the quiz!

[Undertoad]

Damn right!

[xoxoxoBruce]

5.

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Originally Posted by DanaC

Wont let me take the quiz!

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Damn right!

[Gravdigr]

Some of these you'll know, others, maybe not.

Riddle me these (answers in the next post):

1. If you are running a race, and you pass the person in second, what place are you in?

2. When you don't have me, you want me, when you have me, you want give me away. What am I?

3. You leave home, make three lefts, and return home, where you find two men wearing masks. Who are they?

4. The manufacturer doesn't need it, the buyer doesn't want it, and the user doesn't know he's using it. What is it?

5. I dig out tiny caves and stor gold and silver in them. I also build bridges out of silver and crowns of gold. They are smaller than you can imagine. Sooner or later everyone comes to me for help, but many are afraid to let me help them. Who am I?

6. I know a word
Six letters it contains
Take away one
And twelve is what remains

7. I am the beginning of the end
And the end of time and space
I am essential to creation
And I surround every place
What am I?

8. What starts with 'E', ands with 'E', and contains one letter?

9. What has rivers with no water, forests with no trees, and cities with no buildings?

10. What asks, but never answers?

11. Two men are in the desert, one dead and one alive. Both are wearing packs. The living man's pack is open, the dead man's pack is closed. What's in their packs?

12. What always runs, but never walks,
Often murmurs, but never talks,
Has a bed, but never sleeps,
Has a mouth, but never eats?

13. What has a tongue, and can't walk, but gets around a lot?

14. What can get you arrested for attempting, but not for committing?

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1. Second place
2. A job
3. The catcher and the umpire
4. A casket
5. The dentist
6. Dozens
7. The letter E
8. An envelope
9. A map
10. An owl
11. Parachutes
12. A river
13. A shoe
14. Suicide

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The narrator is going to ask you to choose a bag. Then he will say "Move one." You pick a bag in either direction one bag over from the bag you chose before. You'll do this a few times. Remember, you can go either direction, as long as there is a bag there.

This a video, so, you only get one chance at it, before you know what's what. Also, make sure you can hear your speakers/ear hole pluggers.

Enjoy.