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Junejazz
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Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:44 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Rsa
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Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 10:58 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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
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Gannon
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Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 11:00 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

72%, but I need to lodge a complaint over the apparent, um, racial and generational bias to some of those questions.

Heh.


Welcome, Junejazz.
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Hockey_player
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Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 3:59 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Bobj
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Posted on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - 6:24 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got a 70%, but I answered the ones that I could logically know the answer to at a much higher %
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Fozzy3
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Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

82% In agreement with hockey player.
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Mackcreative
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Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 4:54 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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..."
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Milwaukee
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Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 - 11:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got a 64%. not bad for an out of towner
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Detroitrise
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Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 7:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"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.
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Mayor_sekou
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Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 7:51 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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)
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Detroitrise
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Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 8:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Mayor_sekou, I heard the guy was 24, definitely an 80s child.
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Bigb23
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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 5:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

78%

woo-hoo
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Meaghansdad
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Posted on Thursday, November 22, 2007 - 6:06 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

86%
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Udmphikapbob
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 11:35 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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.
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Detroitrise
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Posted on Friday, November 23, 2007 - 6:57 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

"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.
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Detroit_stylin
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Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 10:36 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

I got a hundred percent...

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