How Much Do You Know About Terrorism?

bayonetbrant · February 12, 2013, 07:23:33 AM

The Christian Science Monitor has a quiz for you

Barthheart · February 12, 2013, 09:03:16 AM

Seems I'm a little behind on my terrorist watching..... 10/25.

pawelj · February 12, 2013, 09:09:47 AM

20 correct out of 25. I think I now my terrorist shit.

bayonetbrant · February 12, 2013, 09:16:01 AM

19/25

3 I just flat didn't know
2 I narrowed down to 2 options and just picked the wrong one
1 I misread and so picked the wrong answer

LongBlade · February 12, 2013, 09:19:04 AM

Being a news junkie and a few lucky guesses scored me an 18.

And, man, am I glad of that. I was afraid I'd dropped off DHS's radar and was being classified as a velociraptor instead of a boogie man. Now I'm sure I'm back on the right list!

Jarhead0331 · February 12, 2013, 09:43:17 AM

22 of 25. I got the very first one wrong, but in my gut, I knew it was the Jews. I just couldn't believe that the CSM would go so low as to blame Jews for being the world's first terrorists.

undercovergeek · February 12, 2013, 09:58:42 AM

12

Longdan · February 12, 2013, 10:55:57 AM

17. About #1. It just asked who those guys were and they were Judeans.
I thought their point was that the practice is old in that part of the world.
They did not mention the Stern Gang or the King David Hotel.
What it taught me was that I tend to lump all these guys as some kind of generic
terror moslems and that I do not know the difference between the terror groups they spawned.

Jarhead0331 · February 12, 2013, 11:35:02 AM

Quote from: Longdan on February 12, 2013, 10:55:57 AM
17. About #1. It just asked who those guys were and they were Judeans.
I thought their point was that the practice is old in that part of the world.
They did not mention the Stern Gang or the King David Hotel.
What it taught me was that I tend to lump all these guys as some kind of generic
terror moslems and that I do not know the difference between the terror groups they spawned.

Wrong...it does not just "ask who those guys were..." It editorializes by characterizing the group as, "one of the very first terrorist groups in history..."

Longdan · February 12, 2013, 12:48:00 PM

Would it be better if they said one of the very second?
People have been at this for a long time. I guess they could have asked when the first
terrorist incident in Ireland occurred and pointed the question so it was a Protestant or
a Catholic group but I am an Irish Catholic by descent and have learned it doesn't matter
who started that mess some hundreds of years ago.

Windigo · February 12, 2013, 12:57:28 PM

3 out of 25* .... wow... gonna go out and hug a tree .... and give it a name... maybe Jasper

*maybe I did and maybe I didn't

Longdan · February 12, 2013, 01:00:10 PM

Ali.

LongBlade · February 12, 2013, 01:02:19 PM

Quote from: Jarhead0331 on February 12, 2013, 11:35:02 AM
Quote from: Longdan on February 12, 2013, 10:55:57 AM
17. About #1. It just asked who those guys were and they were Judeans.
I thought their point was that the practice is old in that part of the world.
They did not mention the Stern Gang or the King David Hotel.
What it taught me was that I tend to lump all these guys as some kind of generic
terror moslems and that I do not know the difference between the terror groups they spawned.

Wrong...it does not just "ask who those guys were..." It editorializes by characterizing the group as, "one of the very first terrorist groups in history..."

I agree w/ you JH. Perhaps they could have characterized it as "the first recorded" or some kind of qualifying statement.

Silent Disapproval Robot · February 12, 2013, 01:10:25 PM

19/25

Arctic Blast · February 12, 2013, 02:13:51 PM

That web site blows. "Hey, let's add every plugin and media gadget to our site in existence! Yes, we'll shrink the content down to taking up maybe a third of the screen!" It's like web design by ADD.

Oh, and I scored a 15.