Groups of Ten Quiz

poor Rebbie, I will try to remember him

the same here, I forget her every time :(

her (sorry)

And Guyana

nope new guinea is an island shared by papau new guinea and indonesia

I thought New Guinea too.

Nunavut, northern territories and yukon are all territories, not provinces

shouldnt RESPECT your father and mother work? Thats what I have always heard...The canadien provinces really threw me off on the "N" countries. I kept straying back to newfoundland and mentally slapping myself.

In Slovene it's "respect". Depends on the translation really.

i had no idea niger and nigeria were two different places....

I think you should excise Joe and move the Jacksons to your groups of nine quiz, and move the NY sports teams here.

If you're using "Thou Shalt" by all means you should accept "honor" , but the displayed word should be honour.

Missed 4 of the Jacksons and Brigadier General.

They don't celebrate that on your side of the pond?

::chuckle::
UK would be the poorest US state

Countries by Debt to GDP Ratio

Yeah, we have enough debt ourselves! Don't want the US's to come to get us as well! On the other hand, some of our national debt is actually owed to the USA, and it would presumably be written off if the USA was still part of the British Empire. Interesting article - but PPP per capita is just one measure of wealth. The UK is not worst off by some more objective measures (not necessarily involving money, as cross-currency comparison is unreliable). Life expectancy, for example, is about 4 years longer in the UK and generally correlates to the concept of "wealth" as it is usually thought of pretty well.

I have a feeling that without the fill-in-the-blank format, the 10 commandments would have the lowest percentage of any of these categories. But as is they're probably the easiest.

lol I missed one but I must have misspelled or something. As an atheist I would get them all right if I had to type them all out :)

This is a really great quiz!

As an Asian and Buddhist, I have no idea about US stuffs, 10 commandments, and who is Jackson?

Michael Jackson's family. Pretty famous in the entertainment industry.

He became famous as a child for his singing and dancing. To my knowledge he never played fiddle.

The commandment is 'Thou shalt not murder.' Frequently mistranslated. Jews were allowed to defend themselves, as in the case of Esther. The commandment specifically meant that the Jews shalt not kill 'in cold blood', or, murder.

Which translation are you claiming is "the one true" translation? I looked up the commandments in several different bibles. The King James and New Jerusalem say "kill" and Life Application, New International Version, New King James, and New Revised Standard say murder. As lawyers say, "It says what it says." Determining what it means has been the cause of unending arguments through the ages.

The definition of 'murder' has also changed considerably since the Old Testament was written. Let's just agree that we shouldn't kill each other if at all possible...

it also only applied to members of your own tribe. The Old Testament god was all in favor of murdering other people. He condoned it, he sanctioned it, he ordered it, he gave people super powers to facilitate it, and he frequently did it himself. This included the brutal murder of innocent women, babies, and even acts of genocide.

Please accept "4 of July"

I'm really tired of the tenth commandment always being summarized as "Thou shalt not covet your neighbour's wife." Sure, those are the words used at the beginning of the verse, but it then goes on to list several other things one's neighbor might have, and concludes that one should not covet anything that is their neighbor's. So summarizing it as shown seems to be indicating that it's about the neighbor's wife, whereas it's really about the coveting.

Yes, the commandment indicates that the neighbor's house, donkey, servants, and wife should not be coveted, among other things. At least the wife came in second on the list of possessions, behind house.

I am esp tired of the 10 commandments too. in the US 90+ percent of people in prison are christians. They mean nothing to believers.

Sweeping statement.

Most people want at least several of the 10 commandments respected in regards to themselves and their family and their property (stealing, murdering, honoring parents, bearing false witness, adultery). People are in jail not because they don't want others to observe the commandments towards them, but because they have tried to give themselves a personal exemption (out of anger, greed, lust, pride, etc) to override the commandment in their specific circumstances towards others.

It's not "always". In Catholic version it's divided into wife (9th) and goods (10th)

No Talk like a Pirate Day? I am disappointed. And isn't "Memorial Day" really the same as "Remembrance Day" in Britain? As not native to either country it's impossible to keep all those days apart. Though I am glad of getting Columbus Day with 8 seconds to spare, just after I thought of Thanksgiving. Peeved I forgot about Colonel, I might have gotten two more of the ranks that way. And no, I am pretty clueless about the Jacksons. Sorry.

Talk Like a Pirate Day is my birthday.

The quizmaster was having Nunavut! Ba-dum-dum-tish

Second the omittance of Yukon and NW Territories. I got stuck because I mistakenly read it as Canadian Provinces starting with N...

Seech... I got so messed up too. Kept trying to spell Nunavut different ways, couldn't figure out why Yukon and NW territories wouldn't take =/

Except it's not a province, it's a territory.

Could you just accept Prince Edward? I thought 'island' automatically falls into place, like many other Jetpunk quizzes.

PEI usually works

any chance of accepting labour day,

Some of us spell labour with a U in it. That tripped me up.

Why are all these 'groups of things' quizzes so American based??

Possibly because they are submitted by an American?

Great quiz but could do with a bit more time especially for us non North Americans.

Still needs more time. The US states bordering the Mississippi is dam tough if you're not a North American, or havent memorised a map of America. Ditto the Canadian provinces. Also tricky on an Ipad when you have to keep scrolling up and down but that's way beyond the QM's control.

Never knew Yukon and Nunavut were only territories

It may have been too difficult to figure out which day to celebrate as the "official" national holiday. Catholics and Protestants usually celebrate a different Sunday from Eastern Orthodox. Some people celebrate Good Friday as the more important day, while others believe Easter Sunday is the main day, and some areas have celebrations on Easter Monday. My church observes Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday as well, and usually has special services throughout Passion Week between Palm Sunday and Easter. Passover falls within the same time, too. It is better to leave the setting of that holiday to the locals to determine. Using that same argument one would wonder why Christmas is still a federal holiday, but perhaps because it has become so secularized and commercialized it still gets by.

The new version is much better.

New version is solid, and makes reading the older comments funny!

Know your enemy?

of all the sections that was the easiest for me. I consider it a basic element of cultural and historical literacy. But I also used to be a devout Christian who read the Bible.

Don't you think those concepts are generally good for all people to know and adhere to, believer or atheist alike? Don't kill, lie, steal. Honor your parents. Seems like a good idea.

Not at all. And any person, believer or atheist, who doesn't admit that they could improve these ten within 30 seconds is being dishonest.
The first 3 are about god being jealous. Not only is this irrelevant to morality, it just teaches pettiness. As if jealousy is a good thing when in fact it's among the worst of all human traits. Commandment 1 teaches religious intolerance and inspired things like the Inquisition. Commandment 2 and similar rules in offshoot religions have inspired things like the riots and resulting deaths from the Danish cartoon controversy. Commandment 3 and similar rules have resulted in people being killed on charges of "blasphemy" and is antithetical to the superior secular value of freedom of speech.
#4 assigns magical powers to a specific day of the week and also has nothing to do with morality. Remember the punishment prescribed for this (all of these) is death. For picking up sticks or cooking your food on a Saturday. Death.

What if you have something important to do? Like drive your pregnant wife to the hospital? Some observant Jews would put their lives in jeopardy to keep this silly commandment.
#5 is not moral. If you have terrible parents, or abusive parents, or parents who command you to do immoral things, there is nothing wrong with disobeying them.
#6 ... number six!! Took them long enough to get to this one but it's always the one Christians mention first. First of all every society on Earth has come up with some variation of this rule independently. It's a no brainer. But more importantly, the version found in the Bible if you read the context is not an outright prohibition on murder. It's very clear in the Old Testament that this rule only applied to other Hebrews in your tribe. Encouraging tribalism and othering is not a good thing. It might be the root of all evil.

#7 - monogamy is unnatural and marriage and prohibitions against extra-marital sex is all about men with power and privilege monopolizing the best outlets for sex and reproduction while handicapping men who had less. Meanwhile it turns women into property.
#8 - I'm not convinced that the concept of personal property is such a good thing, either. But, okay maybe I could get on board with this one. Though, like #6, it's another no-brainer that almost every society on Earth has come up with. #9 - also not inherently moral. But there are people so convinced that honesty is always moral that they end up doing evil to avoid telling a lie. Think of the people hiding Anne Frank in their attic. If the gestapo ask who's upstairs, what's the moral thing to do? #10 - this is advocating the punishment of thought crime and is abominable.

And yet.. not a single thing on here about rape, slavery, child molestation, equality, etc. But... graven images? Yeah, that's covered.

Is this real life? Is there actually, a religious "debate" on a non-religious quiz? What, actually, has the Jetpunk communty come to? And what has it come to, to where I'm gonna get trash talked for this comment?

It is a territory.

lid doesn't count?

I don't think so. Lid is a word by itself. It doesn't have to be part of another word. Just like "bone" is a word by itself, though you could be talking about a jawbone, collar bone, tailbone, etc. Speaking of.. where is "bone?"

Arkansas doesn't touch the Mississippi River but Alabama does

Ah I thought it was the song Mississippi Queen. I did not know what to put in.

why is urban areas of Africa there its so random

How is it more random than the first ten elements of the periodic table?

I think lap should be one of the parts of the body

Why are people talking about public holidays and the Jackson family? Those weren't on here...

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