Junejazz Member Username: Junejazz
Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:44 am: | |
Hey all, This is the first post for me, and I'm comin' straight up Detroit. A lot of folks here think they know the city, well see how much you know...or don't, by taking this quiz 'How Well Do You Know Detroit?'. Your score may prove you have a few things to learn... www.quibblo.com/quiz/eNUtYg/De troit |
Rsa Member Username: Rsa
Post Number: 1336 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:58 am: | |
welcome to the forum junejazz. there's a thread about this quiz already started over on the discuss detroit side: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/118959.html?1194892503 |
Gannon Member Username: Gannon
Post Number: 10899 Registered: 12-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 11:00 am: | |
72%, but I need to lodge a complaint over the apparent, um, racial and generational bias to some of those questions. Heh. Welcome, Junejazz. |
Hockey_player Member Username: Hockey_player
Post Number: 374 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 3:59 pm: | |
Whoever wrote that quiz is terribly uninformed and evidently rather young and new to the city. "Most popular street by consensus?" How is this an objective question? Atrocious. |
Bobj Member Username: Bobj
Post Number: 2805 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 6:24 pm: | |
I got a 70%, but I answered the ones that I could logically know the answer to at a much higher % |
Fozzy3 Member Username: Fozzy3
Post Number: 32 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:40 pm: | |
82% In agreement with hockey player. |
Mackcreative Member Username: Mackcreative
Post Number: 126 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:54 pm: | |
I am rather young, uniformed, and new to the city (5 years in Detroit, 4 years in Allen Park) and somehow I scored 70%. It seemed a little like one of those forwarded emails you get "You know you're a child of the 80's if..." |
Milwaukee Member Username: Milwaukee
Post Number: 1372 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:40 pm: | |
I got a 64%. not bad for an out of towner |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 785 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 7:20 pm: | |
"I am rather young, uniformed, and new to the city (5 years in Detroit, 4 years in Allen Park) and somehow I scored 70%. It seemed a little like one of those forwarded emails you get 'You know you're a child of the 80's if...' Yeah, that quiz was mostly for the 80s generation. |
Mayor_sekou Member Username: Mayor_sekou
Post Number: 1705 Registered: 09-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 7:51 pm: | |
I got a 86%. Some of that stuff you'd have to be at least 30 + to know the answer. (Message edited by Mayor_sekou on November 20, 2007) |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 788 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 8:09 pm: | |
Mayor_sekou, I heard the guy was 24, definitely an 80s child. |
Bigb23 Member Username: Bigb23
Post Number: 46 Registered: 11-2007
| Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 5:10 pm: | |
78% woo-hoo |
Meaghansdad Member Username: Meaghansdad
Post Number: 161 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 6:06 pm: | |
86% |
Udmphikapbob Member Username: Udmphikapbob
Post Number: 497 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:35 am: | |
74% for a suburban, white, 29-year-old. I'll take it. Got my Best Friends and YBI crossed up...and my Skateland / Roller Wheels. Maybe my east-west compass is out of whack. Wasn't aware the Compuware moved down to Fort Street though. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 821 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 6:57 pm: | |
"Wasn't aware the Compuware moved down to Fort Street though." Yeah, me either. Although, Fort St. does end a Campus Martius, and Compuware's address is One Campus Martius, so I put 2+2 together, used common sense and got that one right. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5352 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 10:36 pm: | |
I got a hundred percent... |