Crikey, VC actually got this one right —> South Africa has three capital cities: Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital; Pretoria, as the seat of the President and Cabinet, is the administrative capital; and Bloemfontein, as the seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal, is the judicial capital.
Ah no Bob, that was only a photoshoppy effort to make you all feel better when you failed. But then Amk provoked me with his 70%, so I felt obliged to post my true score. 😎
I like the first ‘100’ better, Chips. Don’t let Amk rattle you. It looked far classier; much more subtle, you know. I actually bought it until I entered the comments section.
This is a completely different one, bud, but thanks for keeping an eye out for me. That other one was general and had too many visuals – I’d never be able to put it online in the same manner. For this one I struggled valiantly to include the flags in my flag questions and had to settle for a description. 🙄
I think it was you who posted last week’s LAT article speculating that perhaps Snowden would climb aboard the Venezuelan jet, but then Morales (or EU countries) decided he/they wanted in on the fun?
So now an opportunity for the media to speculate on the “scrambled jets” theory. (Posted at the end of the last thread.)
In other news, Venezuela has offered Edward Snowden asylum. No direct flights from Moscow to Caracas. Would require stopover in Havana.
And for those who enjoy speculating with the press, here’s the Aeroflot path to Havana (tweeted when all those journalists were onboard the Havana-bound flight from Moscow, but Snowden wasn’t):
WHAT? I got 70% and you say: FAIL!!!!!!
lol
this was fun. As an African-American I need to read more stuff on the “countries” of the “continent” of Africa.
Uh, duh, took the quiz, pleeze do not show it to VC, she will not admire me so much anymore. Guess I shoulda been on TOD more often last week, but even then……
I notice CC and AK are whispering behind my back….again! Sigh.
BTW: I know you are a perfectionist (at least where on-line tests are concerned) Chips Chica, but 60% is actually quite acceptable. Here is the follow-up to the scores.
Okay, so what’s your take away!
——————————————————————————
100% = Wow! You are PERFECT! 😛
80%+ = You gathered ‘lots’! 😎 😎
65-79% = Hold your head up high. 😉
50-65% = Not bad, I suppose.
30 -49% = Well, You didn’t leave Africa empty-handed.
<25% = Did you come on the trip? Next time, maybe.
Because we rarely see them, I tend to focus on the girls. It’s such a treat to see how they are blossoming into poised young ladies! And while looking at them, to make mental comparisons to their younger selves. I really love the girls.
Not North Korea, please! If I’m to be stuck in an airport somewhere, could it be in a Caribbean island, or better yet, one of those lush countries PBO visited? They all seemed welcoming, and if I were to casually drop a word about my connection to ‘The Obama Diary’ imagine my reception!!I Hmmmmmm.
CC, what makes you think *I* knew all the answers without doing a little research here and there? It was a way to test myself and see what *I* had picked up when not grinning at POTUS, or FLOTUS or the girls, or just grinning ’cause I felt so tremendously proud of them and how they were received. I also thought it would be neat for you guys to see what info you had gleaned along the way too.
psst: Don’t tell anyone, but I actually thought Johannesburg was THE capital of South Africa before I double-checked.
Wow! What a brilliant job this young man did. I learned more in that one video than I’ve known from any other source. Had no idea of the extent of the Egyptian ‘military’ and its power. Thank you, Bob.
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
hi
ha!
Result » Fail
😳
(And that was using Wikipedia for three of the answers)
A pat on the back for you, Chipsticks, I sure as hill ain’t takin that quiz… UhUh, no way! 😆
DO IT Pamela! I need to feel better, I want to see others fail too!
Helllll NO, I is too skeert…..
Courage Pamela, that’s what you need 🙄
Ha.
😎 —–>
I know. The red does stand out. #Cheat,
#Hurt
Crikey, VC actually got this one right —> South Africa has three capital cities: Cape Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative capital; Pretoria, as the seat of the President and Cabinet, is the administrative capital; and Bloemfontein, as the seat of the Supreme Court of Appeal, is the judicial capital.
😯 😯 😯
Shakes fist at vc.
100 out of 100. You are such a cheater.
My dear Chips …. we do have a screen capture of your original ‘certificate’ 🙂
Ah no Bob, that was only a photoshoppy effort to make you all feel better when you failed. But then Amk provoked me with his 70%, so I felt obliged to post my true score. 😎
Of course, how very considerate of you ….. 😀 😀 😀 😀
Really Bob. Even texans wouldn’t stoop this low.
/smh
Or Issa 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
issa is just a speck in bt’s shoes. The blatant hundreding is quite shocking.
“blatant hundreding” …. 😀 😀 😀 yes, SHOCKING!!!!
CHEATER!!!
Are you a Repub now?
Awww….lol…
I like the first ‘100’ better, Chips. Don’t let Amk rattle you. It looked far classier; much more subtle, you know. I actually bought it until I entered the comments section.
Fiiinally.
Wanna bet vc has her usual ‘FF issues’ and misses this completely? 🙂
And she’ll email me in a week and ask when I’m going to post her quiz? 😆
Emails CAN get lost, you know…..
‘Fiiinally’
This is a completely different one, bud, but thanks for keeping an eye out for me. That other one was general and had too many visuals – I’d never be able to put it online in the same manner. For this one I struggled valiantly to include the flags in my flag questions and had to settle for a description. 🙄
The capital of south africa is d) all of the above ? What kinda quiz is this ?
Ha, see? And she gave Tanzania, like, about 26 capitals. No wonder Wiki didn’t work.
And I answered the first tundra twit question honestly. So technically, I got 80%.
I quit after that question. LOL!!
Apparently, vc was right.
Apparently.
in response to a featured tweet from the last post
So MSNBC and NBC/Reuters, etc are reporting that Venezuela has offered Snowden asylum…
Watch for a walk-back of this report by tomorrow…..
Then the emoprogs/MSM/Libertarians will say that PBO threatened Venezuela, and made them change their mind….
What’s so cool, hf, is that we know that we and PBO could care less what the emoprogs/newstainers/libertarians do 🙂
The media speculation is a sight to behold.
I think it was you who posted last week’s LAT article speculating that perhaps Snowden would climb aboard the Venezuelan jet, but then Morales (or EU countries) decided he/they wanted in on the fun?
So now an opportunity for the media to speculate on the “scrambled jets” theory. (Posted at the end of the last thread.)
And for those who enjoy speculating with the press, here’s the Aeroflot path to Havana (tweeted when all those journalists were onboard the Havana-bound flight from Moscow, but Snowden wasn’t):
WHAT? I got 70% and you say: FAIL!!!!!!
lol
this was fun. As an African-American I need to read more stuff on the “countries” of the “continent” of Africa.
aamom, worry not – we need VC to wake up and explain herself, some of her answers are highly dodgy, bet you got 90-ish percent.
Essential message that the GOP will not be able to escape as long as we keep pushing it ….
#LandslideDEMS2014
Yes We Can
well Chips I thought I was doing pretty good…..but then I got my score……#SAD
Looks like I’m going to have to make 65, the new 80, a4A – you know, lower the standard to have a greater percentage of ‘high achievers’. 😀
ha! hot damn! I win again! #YAYME 😀
YAYYOU! 😀
What a shame! I lost many questions whose answers I should have known. A pitiful 65!!!
Oh well, thanks for the test. It was great fun, Chipsticks.
Uh, duh, took the quiz, pleeze do not show it to VC, she will not admire me so much anymore. Guess I shoulda been on TOD more often last week, but even then……
😳
😆 😆 😆 HaHa!
Okay, Judge Alex Ferrer is following me on Twitter. Strange.
😯 Have you broken the law lately GB??
🙂 Don’t know what I did. All I remember is reading one of his tweets. Don’t recall interacting with him.
Spooky. GB, this being quiz night, three questions:
(a) Why is his right hand soooooooo long?
(b) How many staff does he employ to work on those eyebrows?
and
(c) Is he, well, plastic?
LOL!!! Why did you say anything about his arm?! Now I can’t stop looking at it. EWWW!!
Probably one time job for those eyebrows. Those eyebrows make me suspect that he also has a very hairy back.
He really does look fake doesn’t he? Great genes or great plastic surgeon. I’m going with great plastic surgeon. 🙂
GB’s result —> 100%
😆
Heck yeah!! Magna Cum Laude baby!
😆
I notice CC and AK are whispering behind my back….again! Sigh.
BTW: I know you are a perfectionist (at least where on-line tests are concerned) Chips Chica, but 60% is actually quite acceptable. Here is the follow-up to the scores.
Okay, so what’s your take away!
——————————————————————————
100% = Wow! You are PERFECT! 😛
80%+ = You gathered ‘lots’! 😎 😎
65-79% = Hold your head up high. 😉
50-65% = Not bad, I suppose.
30 -49% = Well, You didn’t leave Africa empty-handed.
<25% = Did you come on the trip? Next time, maybe.
Oh, VC, there you are. I hang my head in s.h.a.m.e.
Why?
I failed the quiz so miserably, I am not even going to tell y’all my score…. It was. L.o.w.
So, do it again – use your middle name. 😉
Done. Still dumb.
{{{MP}}} – Weren’t you entertaining while the O family was traveling? See, there’s why you didn’t get it all.
(Pssst! Google is your friend!0
Hi VC!
I mostly looked at the pretty pictures. 🙂
🙂
Pictures? Or just the pics of PBO?
HA! Love pics of PBO but I tend to look at pics of FLOTUS, the country and the people when he goes on these trips.
Also, the First Daughters.
Because we rarely see them, I tend to focus on the girls. It’s such a treat to see how they are blossoming into poised young ladies! And while looking at them, to make mental comparisons to their younger selves. I really love the girls.
In total agreement.
The NSA would be proud of you, VC 😉
Hi there, Bobfr! 😀 Being able to spy is really ‘neat’. Not sure what Snowden’s issue really is. Probably jealousy. 😉
So, you got your little database of IP addresses and now for some ‘big data analytics’ …. 😀 😀 😀 😀
😆 Next week: VC stuck in North Korean airport awaiting asylum clearance from Iranezueala.
😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Not North Korea, please! If I’m to be stuck in an airport somewhere, could it be in a Caribbean island, or better yet, one of those lush countries PBO visited? They all seemed welcoming, and if I were to casually drop a word about my connection to ‘The Obama Diary’ imagine my reception!!I Hmmmmmm.
Not yet. Have to become more comfortable with the little databases first. I’m a slow learner. 😛
😉
Aw VC, that’s a MUCH kinder grading!!!! Thank you Quiz Mistress – even if you left us all feeling stoooooooopid!
Heh, speakforyourself.
Oh, Chipsticks can speak for mp
Only 70% with the assistance of Wikipedia and 96 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica? I speak for you, buster.
See the timeline. Unless I was Dash in the real world, couldn’t have dun it. #Jealous.
#JustJealous.
CC, what makes you think *I* knew all the answers without doing a little research here and there? It was a way to test myself and see what *I* had picked up when not grinning at POTUS, or FLOTUS or the girls, or just grinning ’cause I felt so tremendously proud of them and how they were received. I also thought it would be neat for you guys to see what info you had gleaned along the way too.
psst: Don’t tell anyone, but I actually thought Johannesburg was THE capital of South Africa before I double-checked.
“what makes you think *I* knew all the answers without doing a little research here and there?”
Because I got them wrong and I’m bitter and needed to, like, blame someone for my woes and accuse them of knowing nuttin’ 😕
Oh! Okay. Blame away! 😀
Oh, yes, it was neat, reallyreally neat, just neat! 😉
There. A-hem. Now I iz smarter…
Chips, EVERYONE …. this video is exceptional …. please share it widely ….
https://twitter.com/Our4thEstate/status/353336206798487552
typo corrected …
Wow! What a brilliant job this young man did. I learned more in that one video than I’ve known from any other source. Had no idea of the extent of the Egyptian ‘military’ and its power. Thank you, Bob.
Phew! That one made me tired.
Thanks, Bob, for sharing this. It’s comprehensive and critical analyses like this one that’s totally missing from the U.S. sensationalist media.
Shared.
Great vid. I knew Egypt’s military was powerful but…damn!
So much to learn.
Hope you are continuing to improve, health wise, every day, GB. Keeping you in my thoughts.
Egypt’s ‘military’ is like combining a Bentall-Kennedy with a GE and a few other macro market sector leaders + they’ve got tanks & jets & stuff 🙂
Thanks, Bob!
that was awesome bob! tweeted!
dang I felt so good while taking this… but ended up with a FAIL 65. 😦
Sheri, 65% is not a fail. At the rate we are going, and with a little bell curve help maybe, it might end up being ‘honours’. 😉
oh yah honors, that’s way better 😉
jmcannally @jpmcannally 21m
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@Gus_802 @Green_Footballs Venezuela is shaping up to be a grand spot for someone who doesn’t want to live in a country like America.
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And now a test too? Whew..didn’t study.
Great idea and great learning opportunity.
Not a test, just a quiz. 😉
New quiz!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/07/05/another-quiz-a-better-one-though/
Oh, what a show off!
Congratulations Carol.
Yeah, we’ll I’m behind though. 😉 Guess the turtle does alright.
Congratulations, Carol.
I got a lousy 55. I should get credit or 1/2 credit for the ones that were all of the above.
Yes, it was hard.
It was really hard
chips’ hundreding innocence act.
I came late to the quiz party, with a 70. However, before the trip I would probably have scored -1,000,000,000,000,000 (I think that’s a jillion).
that was hard. i didn’t know those countries with multiple capitals and the languages. Good test VC!
Made me stop and think – but I completed it and did not score 100 (who said anything about ambition??)
thanks for the quick VC
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/usercertificate.php?id=36470077&qid=525581&uname=Linda%20GlobalCitizen&resultText=Pass