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Reach back to your history classes. Remember all those different eras you learned about? Remember what order they came in? We’ve picked three eras from different portions of history- it’s your job to choose the correct chronological order.
Wow, that one kicked my butt… 4/10.
Yet, oddly enough, it was one of the more fun quizzes, trying to think back to my history classes and what occurred when, realizing I had no clue then putting a random guess.
posted by Kevin on 8-26-2008 at 12:00 pm
Yowsah. That was challenging and fun, but I totally blew it. 4/10
recaptcha: action ave
is that near fascination st?
posted by nikki on 8-26-2008 at 12:29 pm
5 out of 10. I got my BA in history so I expected better. I got most of the truly historic eras, but the baroque, classic, romantic got me! Ergh!
posted by Marty on 8-26-2008 at 12:40 pm
I agree, fun but not easy! Crazily enough, I got mostly American ones wrong–all the older stuff I knew. Of course, we never made it to very modern history in my classes; we ran out of time.
posted by nutmeag on 8-26-2008 at 12:49 pm
Oh, and I got 6/10.
posted by nutmeag on 8-26-2008 at 12:50 pm
9/10! I usually suck at History, but being able to get one or two in the right order made the choices easier. I’d never heard of the “Era of Good Feelings” before. Who knew?
posted by Annette on 8-26-2008 at 1:13 pm
8 out of 10 — curse that Yankees question!
posted by IAinND on 8-26-2008 at 1:48 pm
40%
I knew the classical music, -’zoic, and Roman ones for sure. Pretty much guessed on the everything else.
recaptcha: Vanquish Alfred
posted by Nerak on 8-27-2008 at 12:38 am