Every generation had this kind of shows. Those are engeneered to make you feel smart. I am actually a bit mad at shows like this, showing low bar, and preventing people from aiming much higher.
@@Aurochhunter It's called a crooked American school system that is purposefully creating morons that are easier to manipulate and control. AND THEY FIGHT AGAINST SCHOOL CHOICE LIKE IT'S THE PLAGUE!
A lot aren't amused, it's a reflex of some people to laugh when they're embarrassed. In fact, they often feel humiliated for their own ignorance. Granted, many in this video have the resources to actually learn, but many are lazy in not seeking out answers and getting out of their comfort zone.
As someone who took a lot of AP classes, I can confirm for this to be true. Schools doesn't teach us knowledge anymore, they just teach us how to pass a test and get a A. Right after the test, you just end up dumping all of the information out of your head and prepare yourself for the next test.
im homeschooled and i can remember what ive learned since 7th grade (when i got homeschooled. it really is the education system, but those teaching terribly are the same people who say homeschooling doesnt teach you anything.
It's all about the money. Teachers HATE teaching to the test but they are PRESSURED to do it by administration (school site and district level). It takes the joy out of teaching and the fun out of learning.
I guess you could say he was humble, as in he knew he was lacking in general knowledge. Unlike the others who said that they're smart. They probably thought that they were street smart or people smart, but general knowledge smart wasn't what occured to them.
@@JyuVioleGrace001 naw they thought they were smart because they get good grades in school. Problem with that is they more than likely had open book tests and cheated on most their homework
@@rhs2512 it's similar to a country but it's about the government. So England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales aren't nations. The United Kingdom is the nation. They get run by one government.
Nation is the group of people. The country or state is the governmental organization of that geographical place. That’s how you can have stateless nations like the kurds
To be fair, these types of videos only show the people with the dumbest answers and leave out all the smart people, but just knowing there's a certain portion of our population who can't answer these questions is still astonishing.
its not that they got a question wrong, but that they failed at every turn and corner. almost every question. general knowledge that may come in handy just tossed to the roadside
@@ARainyDayArcheri saw that video too, and he also asked people to name 3 countries and they couldn’t even do it… really? 3 countries? any 3 countries? they couldn’t name a single one.
All the answers to the interviewer’s question would be learned in elementary/primary school. These people being interviewed are the brats that were on their phones during the entire class period. They might also be intoxicated.
I work as a private tutor (basically going to people's houses helping their kids with school). I had a student last year who was completely mindblown when i explained to her that 2 + 3 and 3 + 2 were the same thing. She was TWENTY years old.
I see people saying "The education system has been dumbed down" but actually, schools lose funding if kids do not pass. Which means that public schools have to pass students who fail so that they do not lose money...yeah
It’s not that, so much as academics isn’t the focus of their curriculum. If this interviewer would have focused on gender studies and left wing social customs and taboos, then these kids would of schooled us.
Dude that girl that asked if he knew who she was pissed me off each time I’d see her 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ woman read some books, the money you spend on lip fillers could be invested in education.
This isn’t just Gen Z’s fault. Collectively, the whole education system, to include teachers, professors, and even parents should also be held accountable. I’m sure they all got participation certificates though.
The most agonizing part, most, if not all, have been handed a high school diploma, because the education system has been dumbed down so much in an effort to make it easier for kids to technically graduate as opposed to being educated when they cross the stage.
It’s not that it’s dumb down but its at a point where most of us r just remember it. Like I was doing in Spanish sooon as soon I got out of the class I immediately forgot all of it
@@EDub513 yea but to be fair, someone who is in elementary is still learning the basic knowledge questions he is asking. Those people are probably not in school for the most part so they wouldnt have had to use that knowledge for a long tome
As a foreigner, I'm very surprised the question most people could answer was the one about Tubman, since I've never even heard of her, yet they were struggling with basic arithmetic and geography. Seems like the US education system has some very specific priorities.
She's been made into Books & Movies and she has been featured in ' Black History Month ' . These folks didn't learn about her in school . They couldn't even get her role with the ' Under Ground Railroad ' correct . The ' telling ' part is that ' Harriet Tubman' isn't even her name , she was Araminta Ross . The second telling part was that ' Harriet Tubman ' was a Scout for the U.S. Army during the American Civil War . Had they actually ' learned ' about Araminta Ross / Harriet Tubman they would have been able to answer the American Civil War Questions correctly , you saw that they got those wrong .
idk what the other comment is talking about we definitely learned about harriet tubman and other influential people in us history a lot in elementary school
It's called the Denning Kruger effect, the more stupid someone is, the more they are unable to understand their stupidity and think of themselves as smart. The more intelligent someone is, the more they are aware that they know nothing.
Much props to the dude who rattled off like 8-9 African countries. I had to remember all the countries in Africa for a test way back in school. I still remember several but I doubt I can name 8-9
@@TheScunneredMan I was all about anything Africa as a kid. Grew up watching discovery and nat geo (before they went downhill) and ever since a doc on the okovango delta I've wanted to go.
Dude at 2:04 for sure spent much of his childhood and early education NOT in the US for him to answer like that. Most of those other kids probably couldn't even spell "African" if their lives depended on it.
Either that or he ventured on his own to learn it. I myself have done that with geography despite the lack of encouragement from the American education system
I had the same thought. He not only knew them, he pronounced them correctly, which leads me to believe that someone in his universe has a connection to Africa.
This is and should be considered the most basic knowledge we learned throughout all of our schooling. This stuff was repeated every year, how do they not know this???
Well some questions were kinda stupid and impossible to answer like the 50 cents or 50 dollars or the Kuala animal and what it eats but like some were also really fuckin easy
@@puffytheangel483 lmfao tf you on? Those are questions you should be able to answer. Just b/c they are stupid to you does NOT mean they are stupid questions. That means you would have been on this video looking pretty stupid as well if that's the case.
At around 5:30, you said “Like how a lizard is a reptile.” That contradicts what you said earlier about being more specific when the lady said mammal. I’m not trying to hate, just telling you a mistake that you made. Keep up the great content!
Yup we need to keep exposing america and the bot mentality he should ask them next if they know all of the kardashian names i know most of the american girls will know that one.
Right bro the only ones I didn’t know were the 50 dollar/cent questions, who shot Lincoln and the koala one the rest I knew. Pray for this generation man, a day of reckoning is coming😔
for real i mean im glad too know that if i ever make a nuclear reactor i should make sure that it is 100% safe but if schools are just gonna teach us stuff that ether useful in very specific situation or something that isn't needed to to progress society they can't really blame us for that
As an African in Africa, I am confident that the next generation to rule the world is from the motherland. If these are the youngsters Africans are up against, it's about to be a walkover.
@@gojigiante of course this isn't the majority, but judging by the fact that the bulk of your top students are immigrants, more than half your C suite executives are immigrants, and there are more migrants in the law enforcement and legislative more than ever, coupled with the next Generation all drugged up and academically retarded, I say again, it's going to be a walkover.
Im from us and I go to school down south and I just assumed we were dumb because were kind of the more southern country kids, but then I moved up north to go to school for a little bit and everyone there is kind of stupid. I think it’s because of the higher population or something idk
@@deinemutter5257 I mean, that this generation is just as good as the last one. Each generation has their ups and downs, to think everyone is on their screens watching TikTok or instagram, so much so that they can’t answer basic questions is just ignorant and foolish. If you think this is about to be a “walkover”, well proceed to be shocked.
@@itsValencia I mean calculators exists and there’s ones on the phone and I fail to see how knowing the length of a quarter helps anyone when tape measure and rulers also exist
This is very scary. Our nation will one day be in the hands of these young people. This isn’t the only video that shows how our educational system and parents have failed our youth.
My heart was beating kinda fast when most of them said "there's a 50 cent coin?" I almost thought I was living in a different dimension where I'm the only one who has seen a one
If you go to Europe and ask some of these general questions people would smash them , it's just a fact that Europeans have better general knowledge than Americans
I agree with you because I'm european :) Yet I scared by what I heard and saw.. I mean not everyone is genius but come on... I really thought that education in America was quite alright.
What's scary is that these people are gonna be who will have to maintain the world politically, scientifically, historically, economically and culturally
you forgot that this video was most likely edited pretty heavily there not gonna show the people saying the right answers because that would not pull in as many views
I think his friends would roast him so hard for guessing Harriet Tubman was a football. I thought they would say a simple reason like…”She freed the slaves” ✊🏽
@@g-ray4088 I literly came to the comments to search for some one commenting on that question the staggering amount of interviewees that answered 25 minutes made me reconsider if I was wrong
High school for me was like 5 years back, all that cool science knowledge is lost to me, I just have smart stuff to say in bar conversations, I’m guessing most the ppl interviewed for emotionally intelligent and street smart. General knowledge just isn’t as important to younger generations like myself than it used to be like 50 years back.
Not true. I was raised and schooled in South Africa. The standard of education that I received makes the US education system seem like a RU-vid tutorial. I remember everything that I learned.
Once I asked my cousin who is half Indian and half Portuguese (I am full Indian) to name a place in India and she said with pride…”Yes…. Dewalii!” I started laughing so hard.
Kind of sad. Even as an old central european who never had anything to do with India i could iat least name the following 3: Calcutta (or however it's written in english), because of mother Teresa, Bombay (shows that my geography lessons in school started way before 1995) and Delhi.
Peoples lack of understanding on how time works is ASTOUNDING. Our school system needs stricter rules on not skipping class and/or a better system for teaching basic things like this to kids
Born 2001 and I rather meet people in person and im not too big on social media a rather get back to the time we are fashionable and not weird skimpy clothes this days
The answers of some of these questions make me wanna forget I watched this. Though I did like watching the way Noah would pause the video, mid-editing and have his short thinking period on humanity.
It's the fact they forget they're Gen Z too that gets me each time. There's definite split between Gen Z born in 1997 - 2001 vs those born in 2002 - 2012
I loved this one, the guys and girls where such good sports about it. I would have liked it if you had chosen some 30-45, and again some 50 - 65 somethings and asked them the same questions. see if they do any better. Great Clip, thank you! And I live for “the LOOK”: The look the two of you give the camera.🤣
I am downright terrified for our future after watching this. I knew every single question... I thought this stuff was common knowledge! What the heck is happening to us!?
@@nicklatino7157, I have one in my hand right now, and it's dated 2020. So they are still being made in large quantities. Do you even know who John F. Kennedy was?
The truly scary thing is I’ve watched several of these type of quizzes given by different people and this group actually did better than any of the others I’ve seen! 😱🤦♀️
when are you ever going to need to know the majority of these questions? i know them because i remember it but honestly it’s not that important to retain.
@@gintoki6596 Aight aight aight, but you ain't telling me that genZ is aight when they can't even spell environment. The other stuff was fine but c'mon now
Y’all think he’s showing the input of everyone he’s interviewed when there is def more people that gave him the answer that he just cut out, what all people do because they only want to show the dumb side to prove their point
