Groups of Ten Quiz

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!

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.

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)

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

Yukon go now.

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

Never knew Yukon and Nunavut were only territories

Yes. Along with N.W.T., these territories don't have sales tax, nor do they have their own police force. Instead, they have the RCMP.

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.

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?"

You'll find bone right over in that quiz with four letter body parts.

yeah that's four letters not three. Not sure what I was thinking. Maybe one-syllable.

Arkansas doesn't touch the Mississippi River but Alabama does

You might want to study a map a bit closer

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

The rules of most world countries also forbid tax evasion, and plenty of their citizens do it.

I believe it might be buttock/s.

Now, with Macedonia changed its name to "North Macedonia", I don't think this quiz is valid...

Might also wanna update the header, "Countries that start with N."

I'm not sure if this has been amended; I just took the quiz and the group asked for countries beginning with N, however, the answers were all major languages (I am assuming most spoken languages)

The header “Languages with 100 million speakers” appears as “countries that start with N”.

That one was a bit hard to guess.

Needs more time. At least a minute more. Probably two. Especially for those of us who aren't from North America and can't instantly knock off 5/6/7+ of the states the Mississippi river borders or the Canadian provinces. There are no real 'easy' categories there, each one requires a bit of thinking about, even the body parts one is tricky albeit in a frustrating "why can't I get this?' kinda way.

It doesn't border the State of Mississippi but it does border the Mississippi River.

I'm not sure why it's not already alphabetized, but would you mind switching Iran with Iraq in the countries category so it is? The fact that it just so happens to be alphabetized otherwise is really messing with me.

How is Indonesian/Malaysian/bahasa not on here?

I am wondering that too. I think like 250 million people speak it. I understand speaking a language doesn't make it your "native" language, but I am wondering exactly how "native" is defined here. Does it mean "first language"? If I, a native English speaker, have a child with another native English speaker, and that child is raised in France, is her native tongue English or French? I'm sure the Quizmaster has solid criteria because he always does, but I am curious to know what it is.

I got 67, wrote Punjab but not punjabi urghhhhh

Why does that image look like Moses is carrying a giant piece of toast?

He probably found an image of the virgin Mary burned in to it.