To vote, you must get a passing score on this survey

You sir, are a national treasure.

I'm going to go study for this test. Wish me luck.

I'm assuming that your answer page leads to the user's default google page.
But because I use my personalized iGoogle-thing for a home page, it is confusing that the 'answers' are the temperature of my hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and my email inbox!

I'm sure I would have passed the test (50% required?), but do I still get to vote in Canada, where I am a legal, voting citizen?

Ebert: Yes, but obviously only if you live in Edmonton.

1. Yes.
2. The one that would get him elected.
3. Who cares?
4. Yes.
5. The same one that nuked Japan.
6. Too many.
7. Yes.
8. Yes.
9. Not enough.
10. No. Any citizen may waive their Miranda rights.
11. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota
12. Too many.
13. No.
14. No.
15. Republican (and Bull Moose)
16. Reagan and Bush.
17. Who cares?
18. No.
19. GWB.
20. Democratic Party.

this is fucking dumb.

Ebert: You will not be allowed to vote. You didn't capitalize your "T."

But you have a good blog.

Uh, my friend just submitted a comment using my name, email, and blog. Many apologies. Shoot him back an email at [ withheld ].

He'll never see it coming.

Ebert: Damn. And in my comment, I criticized his lack of capitalization, and praised your blog.

Tell him the blog didn't seem to be the work of the same man who posted the comment. :)

Classic. The link to the answer key is the best kicker I've seen in weeks.

How about giving this test to candidates for public office as a requisite to getting on the ballot?

Nick Gill is incorrect about a few things.

4. Spiro Agnew, in addition to being the first Vice President of the United States to resign from office, also coined the term "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism," in reference to what Sarah Palin now calls "the LAMEstream media." Agnew was wittier, and a lot smarter, than Palin.

6. Just two, actually - Rutherford B. Hayes and Barack Obama. Both of whom pissed off white Southerners to no end when they were elcted. Obama, however, was elected legitimately.

12. Really? He thinks "too many" First Ladies graduated from Harvard Law? Because as far as I can tell, only one (Michelle Obama) has, and in my book she's the best First Lady this country's had since the 1990s.

15. Correct, but as the late great Howard Zinn pointed out, Teddy's successor William Howard Taft actually broke up more trusts, and he was considered a conservative by the standards of his day.

17. Tom Tancredo, as far as I can remember.

20. No way. Anyone who gets this question wrong should NEVER be allowed to vote in this country.

Ebert: You score 100%.

You may vote.

I'm confident that all my answers are correct. That's what counts nowadays, isn't it?

Actually, I believe William Safire coined the term "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism," when he was a speechwriter in the Nixon administration.

1. It's a little known fact that the Bill of Rights was named after me. So, yes.

2. Republican

3. Vice Pres under Nixon

4. No. There are Chinese documents are from the 16th century BC. Mesopotamia's "proto-literate" period spans the 35th to 32nd centuries. The first documents unequivocally written in the Sumerian language date to the 31st century, found at Jemdet Nasr.

The Sumerians of the Uruk period used clay tokens to count their agricultural and manufactured foods. They would place the tokens in hollow clay containers and mark the lids with the number of tokens inside. They impressed a picture of the token inside as many times as the amount of tokens. Later they realized that they did not have to use both the tokens and the inscription on the containers, so they started using only the inscription. For example, to avoid making 100 pictures to represent 100 tokens they started making symbols for 100 tokens. Thus writing began.

The date of 4004 BC was close to the start of some kind of human civilization.

former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, offered a spirited defense of the biblical creation narrative.

"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," said Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister. "A person either believes that God created the process or believes that it was an accident and that it just happened all on its own." Huckabee later added, "If anybody wants to believe that they are the descendants of a primate, they are certainly welcome to do it."

However, when pressed about whether he believed in a literal interpretation of the timeline laid out in Genesis -- that God created the world in six days about 6,000 years ago -- Huckabee said, "I don't know."

"Whether God did it in six days or whether he did it in six days that represented periods of time, he did it. And that's what's important."

I think Huckabee represents the actual Republican position. My guess would be less than 30% can be pinned down to a belief in a Young Earth.

6. Two Rutherford Birchard Hayes graduated in 2 years from Harvard Law School in January 1845. He was admitted to the bar on May 10, 1845. Twenty-six Presidents were lawyers before becoming president. Yale has five presidents as alumni: Taft, Gerald Ford (law school), G.H.W. Bush, Clinton (law school), and G. W. Bush.

7. Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller was appointed to the office of Vice President in accordance with the 25th amendment to the Constitution after Gerald Ford

12. Michelle Obama is the third First Lady with a postgraduate degree, following Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush, who has a Master's degree in Library Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

14. Was the United States founded as a Christian nation? If you define Christian as a belief in a Christian God, maybe. If you include Jesus in the definition of Christian, no. I've been in plenty of conversations with Christians who think a "belief in God" is the defining attribute of Christianity. The Bill of Rights guarantees "freedom of religion" in a way that seems to protect the rights of any Christian denomination, including Catholicism, to own property free of government interference.

10. If a man is obviously guilty and confesses, do the taxpayers have to hire him a lawyer? There are a lot of legal questions that remain after a confession. If he asks for one, it doesn't matter if he waived Miranda or not. There have been cases where a lawyer was appointed until it was determined whether a defendent was able to defend himself without one.

Ran out of time and patience before I got to the rest. Are we voting for Best Picture? I still nominate "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel."

Domestic Total as of Feb. 7, 2010: $212,156,137

Compare to: Hurt Locker
Domestic: $12,671,105
+ Foreign: $4,176,842

Worldwide: $16,847,947

Who voted for "The Hurt Locker"? Who voted for "Alvin"? Well, my guys voted more often.

2. its been noted that the Republican of Lincoln's party is more similar the Democratic party of today. but, it is widely agreed by many scholars that it is even more pathetic for Republicans of today have to reach all the way back to Abraham Lincoln to find a Republican president that modern Americans don't despise.

10. technically,there are many instances where the taxpayers provide a lawyer to advise the defendant even if the defendant refuses the right. think of the terrorism trials where attorneys advised the defendants that had demanded the right to represent themselves.

BTW the Miranda warning concerns making defendants aware of their rights to limit coerced confessions. waiving Miranda means allowing a police interview you without an attorney present. Do not confuse Miranda with Gideon

18. if by "obamacare" we mean the health care legislation going thru congress right now, the answer is yes. congress can regulate health care insurance industry thru the Commerce clause in Article 1, and the Taxing and Spending Clause.