Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 15, 2020

Lots of people do that

good luck getting an A on that, Peppermint Patty

OMG, I can’t answer any of those.

You failed to prepare, Peppermint Patty, now prepare to fail!

I always got my best grades when guessing.

Beaker people? The Muppets?

She goes to an elite elementary school.

I never had that test in school!

It’s D- time!

I never studied any of those in any grade.

I don’t remember ever learning this….is it made up? We barely learned our own American History….

today, most of us would be burning up Google trying to answer those questions!

I have heard of the Beaker People, but I don’t remember any details. Luckily I don’t have to remember anything. GOOGLE! Beaker folk. people. Alternative Title: Bell-Beaker culture. Beaker folk, Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age people living about 4,500 years ago in the temperate zones of Europe; they received their name from their distinctive bell-shaped beakers, decorated in horizontal zones by finely toothed stamps.

One of the new things with employers is competency tests. For one I had to take a 15-minute, 50 question test. The test covered all matter of items from math to vocabulary to pattern recognition to comparing lists of names and addresses and finding the ones that are different.

I had just finished question 48 when I noticed that I had 6 seconds left. It was time to “throw the Hail Mary.” The answers to 49 and 50 were a and c. I have no idea what the questions were. – I passed the test.

This is what grade, again?

The only thing I’ve heard of it on that list is the Bronze Age.

I can talk about the bronze age, but I don’t remember any of those names mentioned there.

Schultz is causing much google activity today!

I think she got a Jeopardy page by mistake.

I think maybe the teacher grabbed the wrong file on the way out this morning. The European History class will have easy A’s today.

What class is this!!?

This is going to be me in two weeks lol

Her test reminds me of a one I took for the Singer Corp. I was applying for a job with their computer division. The physics and mathematics questions were way beyond my comprehension and I considered myself well up in Calculus. So, I made a wild stab at many of the questions. After the test, the one giving the it told me the correct answer to all the questions would’ve meant I was a genius par excellence. As for her test, I could do a good job of explaining the bronze age, the the rest, forget it.

This seemed to me, even back then, to be way above her grade level. Took me years to find out some of the answers…of course, we have internet searches now.

This 70 year-old archaeologist is having happy flashbacks to English and anglo-Roman past!

Guessing can help with multiple choice. But, with short-answer and essay questions, it may be worse than leaving the questions unanswered.

Word problems. Nobody likes those.

Cyril Fox was a British archaeologist most noted for his studies of Neolithic monuments.

The Bronze Age was a historical period noted for the use of smelted copper alloys to form bronze.

The Beaker People was a early bronze age European culture noted for their use of clay beakers (drinking cups)

Cassivellaunus was a British chieftain defeated by Roman General Julius Caesar during the invasion of Brittan in the 1st Century BC.

King Cunobeline was a 1st Century AD king of Brittan, and inspiration for the play “Cymbeline” by William Shakespeare.

Causewayed camps were Neolithic earthwork enclosures of concentric ditches and banks crossed by causeways at defensible points.

Algebra can be SO hard.

Grad school level stuff for anthropology majors….

I have one answer for all of those. Who cares? LOL

Only one I’d have a chance at is discussing the bronze age. And in elementary school, which is where Peppermint Patty is, not even that.

What grade is she in? I don’t recall learning any of this stuff until a college history class I had. In elementary school it was all American and European history mostly…heavily focused on the Revolutionary war, Civil war, WW1 and WW2. Schulz really made sure Peppermint Patty would be tortured in school. LOL

And you wonder why you always get a D-.

and this is what, 4th or 5th grade?

Peppermint Patty should have been a Ken Jennings (all time greatest Jeopardy! champ of all time).

This just gave me lots of things to look up and learn about.

knew someone would come up with the answers

Cyril Fox – Sir Cyril Fred Fox Kt FSA FBA MRIA (16 December 1882 – 15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist. Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales from 1926 to 1948. Along with his wife, Aileen Fox, he surveyed and excavated several prehistoric monuments in Wales.

The Bronze Age – a historical period, 3000 BC – 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, and in some areas proto-writing, and other early features of urban civilization.

Beaker People – Beaker folk. people. Alternative Title: Bell-Beaker culture. Beaker folk were Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age people living about 4,500 years ago in the temperate zones of Europe; they received their name from their distinctive bell-shaped beakers, decorated in horizontal zones by finely toothed stamps.

Cassivellaunus – a historical British tribal chief who led the defence against Julius Caesar’s second expedition to Britain in 54 BC.

Cunobelin – or Cunobelin, from Latin Cunobelinus, derived from Common Brittonic *Cunobelinos “Strong as a Dog”, “Strong Dog” was a king in pre-Roman Britain from about AD 10 until about AD 40. He is mentioned in passing by the classical historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius, He appears in British legend as Cynfelyn (Welsh), Kymbelinus (medieval Latin) or Cymbeline, as in the play by William Shakespeare..

Causewayed Camps / Enclosures- One of the main kinds of Neolithic enclosure found in southern and eastern Britain, closely related to a range of other forms of ditched enclosures in northwest Europe. The characteristic feature is the presence of frequent breaks or causeways in the boundary ditch. Some of these are entrance gaps, but most are simply narrow blocks of unexcavated natural bedrock formed because the boundaries were dug as a series of pits rather than a continuous ditch. Dating mainly to the 4th millennium bc, causewayed enclosures range in size from about 1 ha through to over 10 ha.

Hmmm … I detect a trend here.