NationStates Jolt Archive

Alright, take the (most likely bad) test and post results.

http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?testid=16917988751290708815

Europa Maxima, where are you

I myself got 75th percentile. I'm depressed to be a colonel.

General
You rank in the 88th percentile as a Great War Historian.

I don't know which ones I got wrong...:mad:

69%!

Some of those questions are a bit misleading

:mad: harumph!

77% Colonel

Colonel
You rank in the 73th percentile as a Great War Historian
You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.

How embarassing; I only got 80% (Colonel). And I have the temerity to call myself a historian...

Colonel
You rank in the 66th percentile as a Great War Historian
You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.
Considering my knowledge about the war is mainly background knowledge, and that my knowledge of battles and so on is not in-depth, its quite good :) I have some reading to do, but better than I expected.

You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.

Uncle Ho was a spectator. He was hoping Vietnam could get independence. :)

Colonel
You rank in the 76th percentile as a Great War Historian
You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.



Not bad, haven't studied WW1 in any detail for 6 years.

84%.I'm sure the Verdun questions did me in.

General
You rank in the 94th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

I don't know which ones I got wrong, and I can't be bothered to figure it out.

Colonel. Some of those questions werent exactly straightforward. A little bit of debate can occur.:confused:

I can't figure out what I did wrong...help! (DON'T LOOK UNTIL YOU DID THE TEST)

1. 1914
2. Assassination (but that was hardly the only reason)
3. Russia, Germany and Austria
4. Central Powers
5. No Man's Land
6. Britain
7. Germany
8. Britain
9. Alliances (but again, hardly the only reason)
10. False
11. True (Armenians mainly)
12. Starved the British People (well, maybe)
13. Naval Battle Germany vs UK
14. False
15. True
16. True
17. Germans bleeding French
18. Falkenhayn
19. I assume they mean Germans in Ypres, but they used it before then on the Eastern Front - maybe its these two and the answer should be Germany for both.
20. British - see 19.
21. False
22. True
23. 1917
24. Zimmermann Note
25. False, Germany was blamed...Austria was split though...so both are kinda right.
26. True, although not necessarily militarily
27. True, Reds vs Whites after the Revolution
28. Yes
29. Yes, until the peace was signed the next year
30. 1919

27: did they really mean that conflict? I thought they could have said Red Army instead of Russians and that conflict didn't occure DIRECTLY after WWI ended.... did it?

But yeah, a lot could have had 2 or more answers depending on the view. Very misleading! :mad:

27: did they really mean that conflict? I thought they could have said Red Army instead of Russians and that conflict didn't occure DIRECTLY after WWI ended.... did it?
Well, there were many American troops in Russia from 1918 onwards to support the Authoritarians.
For example the "Polar Bear Expedition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition)".

Well, there were many American troops in Russia from 1918 onwards to support the Authoritarians.
For example the "Polar Bear Expedition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition)".

Ah, thanks. :)
Still, for accuracy sake Red Army should have been used instead of merely 'Russian' :mad:

Twas a crap test, too unspecific for history.

General
You rank in the 85th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

General
Good. Maybe you can go through my answers and tell me whether you answered any of them differently.
It bugs me that I might have gotten something wrong and I don't know what.

Hmmm, the test told me I got 30/30 and then ranked me Colonel at the 76th percentile.

General
You rank in the 91th percentile as a Great War Historian

General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 98% on trench-points

Woo! :D

I can't figure out what I did wrong...help! (DON'T LOOK UNTIL YOU DID THE TEST)

1. 1914
2. Assassination (but that was hardly the only reason)
3. Russia, Germany and Austria
4. Central Powers
5. No Man's Land
6. Britain
7. Germany
8. Britain
9. Alliances (but again, hardly the only reason)
10. False
11. True (Armenians mainly)
12. Starved the British People (well, maybe)
13. Naval Battle Germany vs UK
14. False
15. True
16. True
17. Germans bleeding French
18. Falkenhayn
19. I assume they mean Germans in Ypres, but they used it before then on the Eastern Front - maybe its these two and the answer should be Germany for both.
20. British - see 19.
21. False
22. True
23. 1917
24. Zimmermann Note
25. False, Germany was blamed...Austria was split though...so both are kinda right.
26. True, although not necessarily militarily
27. True, Reds vs Whites after the Revolution
28. Yes
29. Yes, until the peace was signed the next year
30. 1919

Your 12th chioce is incorrect. It really was the British that commited the crime of starving the population of the Germans. However I choose an incorrect answer as well(the answer:blockade of British ports). The correct answer for the the 12th question would be the answer which says that German U-boats posed a threat of sinking the British fleet.

Also for the 24th question the answer is the sinking of the lusitania.

General
You rank in the 84th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 74% on trench-points

Ha! Not too bad :p

I scored in the 88th percentile - a general.

Hey, I was studying the Great War just last week in school.

Oh, and it WAS the Zimmerman telegram - the Lusitania was sunk in 1915, US joined war TWO YEARS LATER, in 1917

Your 12th chioce is incorrect. It really was the British that commited the crime of starving the population of the Germans. However I choose an incorrect answer as well(the answer:blockade of British ports). The correct answer for the the 12th question would be the answer which says that German U-boats posed a threat of sinking the British fleet.

Also for the 24th question the answer is the sinking of the lusitania.

Nah dude, the U boat war was about denying supplies to the UK, not sinking the british fleet. (Well, techinically they could mean the merchant fleet I suppose).

Nah dude, the U boat war was about denying supplies to the UK, not sinking the british fleet. (Well, techinically they could mean the merchant fleet I suppose).

Aye, trying to sink the British fleet doesn't make sense- it's too bloody large. The Germans, in both World Wars, were trying to starve Britain's people and crush its ability to wage war.

General
You rank in the 88th percentile as a Great War Historian.

I don't know which ones I got wrong...:mad:

General
You rank in the 84th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.


Yep, I'd like to know which ones I got wrong too.

Colonel
You rank in the 77th percentile as a Great War Historian
Meh.

General, 84percent blabla...and a rather inaccurate test at that...way to unspecific and unrecflected fact-knowledge instead of understanding and transfer will score you high...so: Test = greenhorn private, go back to school, don´t pass start, don´t fetch xxxx $:(

General
You rank in the 85th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

:headbang: only 61 % ...i might be more pacifist, than i wanted to be :headbang:

You rank in the 80th percentile as a Great War Historian

You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.

I would have been those lovely moustache wearing chaps, who addressed the troops in the trenches:

"Now look here! you chaps are going over the top, bayonets at the bloody ready! And look lively! The Bosch are up to their old tricks again! You're going to bish the bosch, and show the bosch whose boss!

We'll show those baby eating blighters! Now come along chaps, when the whistle blows, chaaaaarge!

It will all be over by Christmas and what not! Home for a nice tummyful of Turkey with your mummies!

Yes, those bloody Bosch will have machine guns, artillery and mortars, but it's for God, King and country! God, King and bloody country! Chop, Chop, off you trot, I won't be going with you, they need me here! I'll see you at Lords, alright? Cheerio! Good luck and all that!"

Then as they all charged off to their deaths and maiming in their thousands, I would retire alone to my nice bunker, and sipped my tea with a little bit of brandy, and nibbled on the nice biscuits my mummy would send me while reading a romatic novel, and occasionaly looking at a map and drawing odd squiggles, muttering the odd "ooh" and "ahhh" and "Yes, that'll be where the next offensive is".

Look what I found. :D
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~mmorten/propaganda/wwi/us--45/destroy-brute.jpg

He's clubbing people with culture!

Anyways, who do you think was the top commander in WWI?
I'd nominate von Hutier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_von_Hutier) - his tactics worked very well in 1918.

10. Machine gun's were to young in their development to have an impact on The Great war.

11. It is speculated that between half a million to 2 million people were killed in genocidal activites during The Great War.

24. What put the United States over the edge, and prompted a declaration of war, joining the Allies?
British Plea's
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Zimmermann Note

27. American and Russian armed men met and faught in skirmishes after The Great War.

I'd just like to say these questions are a crock of shit.

However it thought me competent enough to bestow on me the Honour of ...............
General
You rank in the 81th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.
http://is1.okcupid.com/mt_pics/393/393666210870478748/16917988751290708815-4.jpg
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 87% on trench-points

Look what I found. :D
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~mmorten/propaganda/wwi/us--45/destroy-brute.jpg

He's clubbing people with culture!

Anyways, who do you think was the top commander in WWI?
I'd nominate von Hutier (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_von_Hutier) - his tactics worked very well in 1918.

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig. He had the brilliant idea of bashing his (and other's) army's heads up against a brick wall, then bashing again & again until they were a spent force. Nevermind that it had conclusively been proven to be ineffectual.

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig. He had the brilliant idea of bashing his (and other's) army's heads up against a brick wall, then bashing again & again until they were a spent force. Nevermind that it had conclusively been proven to be ineffectual.

Didn't the French use Russian tactics? Throw as many guys as you can at the enemy and see what happens?
But what the French didn't have was a country that spanned two continents. That's what cause the "empty generation" in French history.

It definitely was the Zimmerman telegram. Yeah, we were more pissed about some ship (a ship that blatantly disregarded evasion tactics like zigzag and only sail at night. Aren't there more or am I forgetting?) than a telegram to Mexico to trade Western states for cooperation.

What was the correct answer to the machine gun and Verdun questions?

Colonel
You rank in the 64th percentile as a Great War Historian
You've served admirably Colonel. While a General occasionally still talks down to you on the topic, you have a good deal of input and know-how on the subject of The Great War. Keep shooting for that star and you just might get it soldier.

Not too shabby.

General
You rank in the 81th percentile as a Great War Historian
General, you've performed outstandingly, and your country owes you great praise in being very informed on the First "Great War" to both mar and help shape the 20th century. Be sure to share it with your less informed constituents.

Not bad :)

I did just take a GCSE history test two hours ago though :D

EDIT: I got the same as Harlesburgh... Down to the 87% on trench-points O_O

10. Machine gun's were to young in their development to have an impact on The Great war.

11. It is speculated that between half a million to 2 million people were killed in genocidal activites during The Great War.

24. What put the United States over the edge, and prompted a declaration of war, joining the Allies?
British Plea's
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Zimmermann Note

27. American and Russian armed men met and faught in skirmishes after The Great War.

I'd just like to say these questions are a crock of shit.


Huh? How are they are crock of shit? Or are they that because you got them wrong?

10. Machine Gun was used during the British Campaigns in the Sudan, Boer War for example.

11. Genocide - easy look up Armenia

24. USA did respond all that well to a "letter" purporting to show an attempt to convince Mexico to attack the US.

27. Battles that involved the White Russians, Red Russians and Allies (Brtis, Americans, Canadians) did occur - of course with the Allies trying to support the White Russians.

You rank in the 71th percentile as a Great War Historian
Damn I am a colonel, darn

Puddytat must try better 7/10 good effort (note from teacher at bottom of test)

what is a seventy-oneth percentile. <G>

Huh? How are they are crock of shit? Or are they that because you got them wrong?

10. Machine Gun was used during the British Campaigns in the Sudan, Boer War for example.

11. Genocide - easy look up Armenia

24. USA did respond all that well to a "letter" purporting to show an attempt to convince Mexico to attack the US.

27. Battles that involved the White Russians, Red Russians and Allies (Brtis, Americans, Canadians) did occur - of course with the Allies trying to support the White Russians.
Because they are too vague for instance....
10. Machine Guns cut down many men during the great war made Cavalry Obsolete in fact one just needs to look at Day one of the Gallipoli Campaign to understand that they were a major factor there and elsewhere.

One machine gun could hold up a whole Company.

11. It is speculated that between half a million to 2 million people were killed in genocidal activites during The Great War.
As it says Speculated.
I speculate that French troops most loved enjoyment out of the lines was having Artillary practice with Dutch Prostitutes.
There is no evidence to support this but i speculate it.
I figured their was 'Genocidal acts' commited in WWI

24. What put the United States over the edge, and prompted a declaration of war, joining the Allies?
British Plea's
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Zimmermann Note

Apart from ignoring options 1 and 3 both 2 and 4 are viable however 4 and the declaration of unrestricted Submarine activity against all(bar Hospital ships(of course)) was what put America over the edge(IMSO)

27. American and Russian armed men met and faught in skirmishes after The Great War.
I know of the White Russian vs Red Russian campaigns of the period after WWI especially 22 and i know of the International Brigades fighting with the Whites.
I also know of the fact the Russians said don't worry about ammunition just bring guns(only problem being the Ruskies Ammo was not combatible for obvious reasons).

But back to the point i am saying if 'i' have a gun and shoot at russians and they shoot back i have been involved in a skirmish I am still in a skirmish and 'American' and fighting russians however i am not fighting for America or necassarily for an International group or organistation but i and a few others might just be taking Pot shots at Ivan.