AMERICANS DON’T KNOW WHERE NATIONAL LANDMARKS ARE

Intrepid Travel, a company specializing in small excursions, surveyed 2,000 people across the U.S. and found 57 percent of respondents didn’t know the Grand Canyon is in Arizona. Also:
– 63 percent didn’t know the Space Needle is in Seattle. 17 percent of responders believed it was in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
– 40 percent of respondents didn’t know that Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota.
– Only 31 percent of those surveyed knew Yellowstone National Park is located in Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
* Well, heck, this is what SIRI is for.
* Sounds like Intrepid Travel has their work cut out for them.
* I mean, who books a trip when they don’t know where they’re going?
* “Hello, Intrepid Travel? I want to see the Grand Canyon. What? Arizona? Oh, the hell with THAT!”
* I’ve been to the Grand Canyon, and I’d say it’s in a state of disrepair.
* Just curious, but what the hell are they teaching in schools these days? Is it all anti-bullying and global warming all day long, or is there time for, you know, math and history and junk?
* Kids stopped learning the important stuff as soon as Animaniacs went off the air.
* The question that really tripped up Americans: “Where is the Washington Monument?”
* Frankly, as complete guesses go, the Space Needle in Cape Canaveral isn’t bad.
* At least there’s something to the space theme in both.
* Now the bad news: They though Cape Canaveral was in Canada.
* Another bad one was when they thought that Niagara Falls was in Nicaragua.