Thaindian News

Jan 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The was a short laugh from the audience at a legislative hearing in the capital of Idaho, when lawmakers in Boise were given a “pop test” on the history of their own state, and several of them failed.

The chief of the public school in Idaho, Tom Luna was showing the new technology which is now being used the in the classrooms if the state during a presentation which he was giving to the Senate and House education committees of the state. There were twenty seven lawmakers present on Wednesday for the show.

There were only two questions given to the law makers by Luna, and they were each presented with an electronic device which would function much like a remote control. They were to use this remote to give their answers.

The first of the two questions was: “When did Idaho become a state?” and the legislators gave their answers, which were added up and projected onto a screen for the audience to see. Seventeen percent of those lawmakers could not answer the question with the proper response: 1890. The second question, “Which town was Idaho’s first capital?” was answered wrong by fifteen percent who did not know that the answer was Lewiston.