Some Americans are ignorant and proud (S1E90) How much History do they know?

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I don't want to live on this planet anymore what are you doing I was trying to click the link in the description but I got stuck in the citizenship test that people have to take if they want to become a citizen 38 percent failed outright 1 in 3 couldn't name the vice president three and four didn't know why we were fighting the cold war four and ten bid no we fought in World War two two out of three could not name the economic system we use here in the United States what is the economic system in the United States home it's the what system do you like capitalism you don't know and you studied Business Administration yeah do you know what capitalism is you can tell me more about it I grew up hearing that America was number one and I never questioned that I was we are number one damn it what year did Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue nineteen no 1887 1492 nineteen something right eighteen something seventeen I have Narnia 14:43 1492 1969 in 1882 1492 what year did Columbus discover America was it in the sixties Columbus was it happy 1592 42 1940's I was mentioned bond 1492 he sailed the ocean blue what once divided East Berlin in West Berlin the Great Wall of China it was the second president John Adams how many world wars of their bed three what is ww2 stand for one the Civil War one the civil work we did the South like the one in 1965 do you remember what the Civil War was about civilization what was the Civil War about couldn't be able to tell you no idea of course now you should know I know right yeah the North sure know the south I believe the North won that Civil War Abraham Lincoln what did he do was he in the north of the south he's know that he was in the north who fought in the Civil War what country us and who else the British and the British did we win that one yes who was president during then dunno Lincoln Lincoln the what happened to him he was assassinated yeah yeah you know anything about that one Lee Harvey Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald in America fight against in the Revolutionary War irony but now who is the 42nd president of the United States of America yes I don't know I don't even know what president we're on so that's embarrassing George Bush Reagan so we got cheeto 42s Bill Clinton who is a 46 president you're a teacher I am what do you teach I teach us history and world history oh this is perfect who wrote our national anthem oh I know this this is a key question Keith France its key Frances keister Francis Scott Key's cocky I had Scott know but doesn't that do you would be friend oh you would fail when I get personal credit you know you don't give partial who bombed us in for a longer dan stop question yeah or the China closed Korea right now in Korea Korea Russia Russia is that the Korean I'm giving clothes very very good move on Pearl Harbor did we this is some kind of joke right World War two ever hear of it no never heard of World War to World War two could we fight there my teacher watches this he's probably going to be real mad you know China South it wasn't yet no more we did even in the Vietnam War okay good whose Fidel Castro a singer what once divided East Germany and West Germany see the sea and the water evaporated and they were United United two wars America was involved in Vietnam War and gosh we won this award yeah look good hey I'm drying those things feel like I'm on the Jimmy Kimmel show America that's the Confederate sir I have no clue the Union the north yes okay what year did World War two start [Music] look at that sweet smile who was President of the United States during World War two Roosevelt Franklin D Roosevelt baby yes I can remember his name oh my god George watch each we're gonna have to deport you that's fine Roosevelt my goodness what number president was Abraham Lincoln what number president was Abraham Lincoln [Music] what year did the Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock 1502 latest century oh now you see Plymouth Rock wasn't a wasn't easy all right you know the pilgrims had to travel all the way back from the pilgrimage 1608 1612 1496 1620 who's the 16th President of the United States I don't know the George W Bush name the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln what city on the Danube River was once the seat of the Holy Roman Empire Vienna Anthony and in history Anthony and flea Clinton know Anthony and Cleve even know Anthony and Cleo Cleo Anthony and Cleopatra what a Hiroshi myrrh and Nagasaki famous for what is Udo wrestling yeah whatever what was Christopher Columbus famous for for discovering America why do you put discovering in quotations because there were already people living here what country was he from was he from England France England he from britney's Colombia he was Hispanic it's Italian it's Italian but the Queen of Spain sends them over in the Vietnam War we dropped this chemical on the forests in the jungle to make it easier for our soldiers to fight and it ended up causing all these problems what was the chemical ecology I know it's in my head but it's not coming out won the Civil War have no idea was it the Union or was it the Confederate Army didn't tell you it sounds better with the zone forward this guy who was the first president of the United States John Adams Abraham Lincoln Thomas Jefferson George Washington or John J Abram Lincoln it was George Washington when was the American Revolutionary War I remember it like it was yesterday [Music] 1842 1812 is that against England EU 1930 earlier than 1930 is 1838 in good faith really I would say that's bullshit really 1775 what year did we sign the Declaration 1964 1776 I am a college instructor okay what do you think I teach business courses general education courses and computer software Clerk excellent so you're a college professor you should know these and what year did we get our industry Oh 1922 or something what number of president was Abraham Lincoln 16 second mom was our fifth final answer one more time fit as a far as it okay maybe like 26 26 I'm gonna get that's my final answer 616 okay well / - he was president he has a cane his name there's an F in it a Jay Johnson Johnson how about a J after the K and so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country holes Watergate all about something Nixon was behind like this robbing a bank right that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard which u.s. President was one of the first of the baby boomers born in 1946 yes George W Bush that is incorrect the answer is Bill Clinton in Greek mythology what is a Trojan horse it's a horse that Trojans rode in the battle yeah they did there were a bunch of them but they just had one horse oh they're a bunch of a ton of these Trojan horse assume there was one come galloping across all right and what happened any idea they fought wars on oh my yeah they gave him an advantage over the enemy and what was the advantage of the Trojan horse it was faster than all the other axes and it was made out of wood that's true the American Dream is dead [Music] what war did the u.s. gained its independence the British or [Music] I just did this I don't remember I've never taught that knowledge [Applause] so I don't Wow you make history come alive 13 stripes on the American flag what are those represent 13 colonies no God would be off up this stuff you know this do I freedom everything like being free and being happy getting what you want that's what the stripes represent to me they do what country did we fight the Revolutionary War oh my gosh I don't know this stuff I really don't know this stuff really I believe you in what Ward did the u.s. gained its independence [Music] it's super important when you did the United States Day Independence July 4th 1776 1853 gonna have a hit nineteen not 19 1692 give me a higher or lower can I get an over-under who was the 46th president of the United States Oh 146 president 1945 19 I don't know it was 70 1946 1953 who was the president during the world war 2 Theodore Roosevelt close JFK close Ronald Reagan no you go again it wasn't Reagan it was not Reagan I had to be like Nixon or something Nixon I think I don't know sock it to me Sherman I actually know that one let's go we 14 George we fought King George to get her independence King George ugh what country Greece why did they call it the cold war I think it was cold in Russia right because like no one was making advances right it wasn't like an actual fighting who owned the cold war I'm not the best historian here but you don't say the Russians was Miss America and Russia came out together after World War two kind of shaky kind of frenemies I feel stupid this is terrible mr. Gorbachev tear down this tree no bridge no no no it's a wall what wall do you think it's a fern to Berlin Wall Berlin wall all right good then when did that come down any idea 1950 no one even up in 1950 Independence Day what's the celebration our freedom doesn't have any to do with the Independence of the country Independence Day has nothing to do with the independence of America not the fourth choice for Independence Day and what are we actually celebrating let's think the signing of the Declaration of Independence and who are we independent from we were independent from inkling at the time what was the Alamo a place for a battle it was fought a battle between ho the Mexicans who won that battle the Americans Americans sure Texans knows that one what was the famous phrase remember the Alamo never the Alamo apparently not who did America fight in the Revolutionary War the French no that's a good question I don't know China Wow I feel really dumb was it the French who did America fight Revolutionary War ourselves Britain right across there hey that's Great Britain really

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Views: 774,293

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Length: 17min 22sec (1042 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 12 2018

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👍︎︎ 1 👤︎︎ u/AutoModerator 📅︎︎ Feb 26 2019 🗫︎ replies

I couldn't watch the whole thing... Too painful >.<

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