We Aced the Citizenship Test!

Okay, just for the heck of it, Tim and I each took MSNBC's quiz, Do you have what it takes to become a citizen?, a sampling of the 100 questions naturalization examiners have to choose from when testing applicants for citizenship. Some of the questions are easy. Some are not. MSNBC picked 20 of the more difficult ones. And here are our results.


The flag above the USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (04/02)

Tim: 100%
Welcome to the United States! (And, truth be told, you know more about this great land than most Americans.)

James: 90%
Welcome to the United States! (And, truth be told, you know more about this great land than most Americans.)

The two quesions I got wrong was the original 13 colonies and the date the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

Yes, Tim has been gloating all morning, since he's less of a history buff than I am and still scored better. Personally I think luck had more to do with it. That and the fact that I kept overthinking my answers.

Either way, we would both become citizens based on our scores, since we both scored over 85%. So long as the score is higher than 80% (the minimum the INS accepts), the other percentages don't matter, right? ... RIGHT? ;-)

Take the quiz.