Liberty Hangout - Kaitlin Bennett - College Students Know Literally Nothing
Aired: 2025-01-03
Duration: 14:14


=== America Gains Independence (10:57) ===

[00:00:00]  What is the capital of the United States?
[00:00:04]  You know what?
[00:00:05]  The capital of the United States?
[00:00:09]  Madison.
[00:00:10]  What year did America gain its independence?
[00:00:13]  Oh.
[00:00:15]  Oh, come on.
[00:00:17]  It's not 1942, because that would be Christopher Columbus.
[00:00:20]  Who did America gain its independence from?
[00:00:24]  Christopher Columbus.
[00:00:27]  What major document was signed at the Constitutional Convention?
[00:00:31]  Declaration of Independence.
[00:00:32]  In what city did American colonists throw tea into the harbor to protest?
[00:00:37]  What city?
[00:00:41]  Oh.
[00:00:45]  It's England, right?
[00:00:46]  Where was the Vietnam War fought?
[00:00:52]  John, please.
[00:00:55]  I'm in history class.
[00:00:56]  What happened during World War II?
[00:00:57]  Big, big, terrible event.
[00:01:00]  The Boston Tea Party.
[00:01:02]  Name four of America's founding fathers.
[00:01:05]  Oh, George Washington.
[00:01:06]  Uh-huh.
[00:01:07]  Thomas Edison.
[00:01:09]  What president freed the slaves?
[00:01:13]  John.
[00:01:14]  John.
[00:01:14]  You have to answer this one.
[00:01:17]  Oh, my God.
[00:01:19]  Oh my God.
[00:01:28]  We are back on the beach asking people basic American history questions.
[00:01:32]  Let's go see if anybody learned a thing or two while I was away.
[00:01:46]  You go to college, so you should know all of these.
[00:01:49]  Okay.
[00:01:49]  What is the capital of the United States?
[00:01:54]  Oh my God, I'm finishing this video.
[00:01:56]  Oh my God.
[00:01:58]  No!
[00:02:00]  Oh my God.
[00:02:02]  What is the capital of the United States?
[00:02:04]  Washington, D.C. No, it's not Washington, D.C. It's Washington.
[00:02:08]  No, it's not.
[00:02:09]  It's not just Washington D. It's Washington, D.C. That's a state.
[00:02:14]  It's Washington, D.C. What is the capital of the United States?
[00:02:19]  You know what?
[00:02:21]  The capital of the United States?
[00:02:24]  Madison.
[00:02:25]  So what's your name?
[00:02:26]  Shamar.
[00:02:26]  Okay.
[00:02:27]  Where are you from?
[00:02:27]  Azerbaijan.
[00:02:28]  Okay.
[00:02:29]  And you want to be famous?
[00:02:30]  Yeah.
[00:02:31]  What is the capital of the United States?
[00:02:33]  Washington, D.C. Very good, very good.
[00:02:36]  Some Americans don't know that.
[00:02:37]  What year did America gain its independence?
[00:02:49]  I don't know.
[00:02:50]  Don't know?
[00:02:51]  I have no idea.
[00:02:52]  1863.
[00:02:54]  Do you have a better guess?
[00:02:57]  I don't.
[00:02:58]  17 something?
[00:02:59]  Okay.
[00:03:00]  17?
[00:03:01]  17?
[00:03:01]  17.
[00:03:02]  1757.
[00:03:05]  What year did America gain its independence?
[00:03:09]  1767.
[00:03:15]  You're very close.
[00:03:17]  1762.
[00:03:22]  What year did America gain its independence?
[00:03:25]  1974.
[00:03:30]  Never mind.
[00:03:30]  Let's write down to your face.
[00:03:31]  What year did America gain its independence?
[00:03:35]  Oh.
[00:03:37]  Oh, come on.
[00:03:38]  It's not 1942, because that would be Christopher Columbus.
[00:03:42]  That's not Christopher Columbus.
[00:03:44]  That's 14.
[00:03:45]  Oh, yeah.
[00:03:46]  Oh, yeah, 14.
[00:03:48]  I don't know.
[00:03:49]  I don't know.
[00:03:49]  I'm not going to lie.
[00:03:50]  What's your major?
[00:03:52]  I'm in flight school to be a pilot.
[00:03:53]  Oh, okay.
[00:03:54]  All right.
[00:03:54]  All right.
[00:03:55]  What's your major?
[00:03:56]  I'm going into teaching.
[00:03:58]  Oh, okay.
[00:03:59]  So you...
[00:04:00]  Okay, okay, okay.
[00:04:04]  No.
[00:04:04]  Who did America gain its independence from?
[00:04:08]  Christopher Columbus.
[00:04:14]  That's my final answer.
[00:04:16]  Do you have a different one?
[00:04:19]  Can you repeat the question?
[00:04:20]  Who did America gain its independence from?
[00:04:23]  Everybody else.
[00:04:24]  What do you think about high schoolers that don't know that?
[00:04:27]  College students that don't know that.
[00:04:29]  It's sad.
[00:04:30]  Sad.
[00:04:31]  They need to just take more courses.
[00:04:32]  Yeah.
[00:04:33]  They have courses, but instead of picking volleyball or bowling, they should pick history and social studies.
[00:04:40]  When is the next presidential election?
[00:04:43]  2024.
[00:04:44]  2028.
[00:04:45]  Huh?
[00:04:46]  2028.
[00:04:47]  Wait, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[00:04:48]  No, it's 2024.
[00:04:53]  Three years.
[00:04:54]  Wait, no.
[00:04:56]  Three years.
[00:04:59]  24.
[00:05:00]  You know what month?
[00:05:04]  Wait, I don't have.
[00:05:06]  I was in school.
[00:05:10]  Can I like it?
[00:05:12]  Is it like around September?
[00:05:15]  It's like around those big holidays.
[00:05:17]  Yeah.
[00:05:18]  Yeah.
[00:05:18]  What month?
[00:05:20]  I believe it's in like inauguration day.
[00:05:23]  Who won the Civil War?
[00:05:25]  I'm literally stupid.
[00:05:26]  I can't do it.
[00:05:29]  What'd you say?
[00:05:31]  Nah, nothing.
[00:05:32]  Nothing.
[00:05:34]  I have no idea.
[00:05:35]  Who won the Civil War?
[00:05:38]  That's you.
[00:05:40]  I don't know that.
[00:05:42]  The South?
[00:05:43]  Who won the Civil War?
[00:05:46]  I don't know.
[00:05:47]  The U.S.?
[00:05:49]  The U.S.?
[00:05:49]  Well, I know, that's what I mean.
[00:05:51]  So, like, there's really no loser.
[00:05:54]  Oh, no.
[00:05:55]  Well, no.
[00:05:55]  Okay, well, I don't know.
[00:05:57]  Do you have an answer?
[00:06:02]  I have no idea.
[00:06:03]  Final answer: no one won because no one lost.
[00:06:06]  Yeah.
[00:06:06]  Yeah.
[00:06:07]  How many world wars have there been?
[00:06:09]  Oh, my goodness.
[00:06:10]  John.
[00:06:11]  3.
[00:06:18]  No, no, no.
[00:06:19]  Two, John.
[00:06:20]  No, World War, two, and three.
[00:06:22]  There's not been a third.
[00:06:23]  In what city did American colonists throw tea into the harbor?
[00:06:28]  New York.
[00:06:29]  New York.
[00:06:31]  New Jersey?
[00:06:32]  Nope.
[00:06:34]  You're very close.
[00:06:35]  With Pennsylvania?
[00:06:36]  No.
[00:06:37]  What city?
[00:06:39]  Tea into the.
[00:06:41]  Yes, there you go.
[00:06:42]  There you go.
[00:06:43]  In what city did American colonists throw tea into the harbor to protest?
[00:06:48]  What city?
[00:06:52]  Oh.
[00:06:56]  It's England, right?
[00:06:58]  American colonists.
[00:06:59]  Oh, I have no idea.
[00:07:00]  Through tea into Boston.
[00:07:03]  Yeah.
[00:07:03]  Boston Tea Party.
[00:07:04]  Oh, all right.
[00:07:05]  You're redeeming yourself.
[00:07:08]  What major document was signed at the Constitutional Convention?
[00:07:12]  Oh, come on.
[00:07:16]  Bill of Rights.
[00:07:17]  Oh, just a guess.
[00:07:18]  You know.
[00:07:20]  what's it called on the fourth of july the Declaration of Independence.
[00:07:27]  At the Constitutional Convention.
[00:07:30]  Oh, that's a different one.
[00:07:32]  Yeah.
[00:07:32]  What major document was signed at the Constitutional Convention?
[00:07:35]  Declaration of Independence.
[00:07:36]  The Constitutional Convention.
[00:07:38]  Oh.
[00:07:39]  Constitution.
[00:07:40]  Yes.
[00:07:40]  Let's go.
[00:07:41]  Very good.
[00:07:42]  Very good.
[00:07:43]  What major document was signed at the Constitutional Convention?
[00:07:46]  Declaration of Independence.
[00:07:50]  Constitutional Convention.
[00:07:52]  Constitution.
[00:07:54]  Is our current president a Democrat or a Republican?
[00:07:56]  Democrat.
[00:07:57]  Very good.
[00:07:58]  Are we big fans?
[00:07:59]  No.
[00:07:59]  No?
[00:08:00]  Okay.
[00:08:00]  Oh, no.
[00:08:01]  No.
[00:08:01]  Are you big fans?
[00:08:03]  Are you a fan of Joe Biden?
[00:08:04]  I'm Brandon, so you answered that first.
[00:08:08]  Where was the Vietnam War fought?
[00:08:10]  Vietnam.
[00:08:12]  You sure?
[00:08:15]  I was.
[00:08:19]  You sure?
[00:08:21]  I'm going to say.
[00:08:25]  Is this like over in like Thailand, kind of?
[00:08:28]  Where was the Vietnam War fought?
[00:08:34]  John, please.
[00:08:36]  I'm in history class.
[00:08:37]  Yeah, you.
[00:08:38]  Vietnam.
[00:08:39]  Okay.
[00:08:41]  Do you agree?
[00:08:42]  You agree?
[00:08:42]  Okay, you sure?
[00:08:43]  Yeah, I'm sure.
[00:08:44]  Okay, alright, perfect, perfect, perfect.
[00:08:46]  Okay.
[00:08:49]  Come on, let's go.
[00:08:50]  Vietnam.
[00:08:52]  Is that your final answer?
[00:08:54]  Yes.
[00:08:57]  See, this is the problem: high schoolers are in history.
[00:09:00]  Not in history!
[00:09:02]  That's true.
[00:09:03]  Who bombed Pearl Harbor?
[00:09:06]  Pearl.
[00:09:06]  No.
[00:09:08]  The Japanese.
[00:09:09]  Mr. Krabs' daughter?
[00:09:11]  Yeah.
[00:09:11]  Where is Pearl Harbor?
[00:09:12]  Hawaii.
[00:09:13]  Hawaii.
[00:09:13]  Yeah, it's very good.
[00:09:14]  Where is Pearl Harbor located?
[00:09:16]  Honolulu.
[00:09:17]  What?
[00:09:18]  Who did we fight in World War II?
[00:09:23]  World War II.
[00:09:26]  Everyone?
[00:09:28]  I know that you.
[00:09:31]  I don't know.
[00:09:32]  It was the Allies or the Allies versus the Speaker.
[00:09:40]  Who did we fight in World War II?
[00:09:46]  Germany?
[00:09:47]  Ann.
[00:09:51]  You want to phone your friend?
[00:09:53]  You see her phone?
[00:09:56]  Her phone's not on.
[00:10:02]  I want to say Japan.
[00:10:04]  Yeah.
[00:10:05]  There you go.
[00:10:08]  I'm thinking about going.
[00:10:09]  I think it's a Call of Duty.
[00:10:10]  Russia.
[00:10:12]  I don't know.
[00:10:13]  No, okay, who?
[00:10:15]  Germany.
[00:10:16]  Yes.
[00:10:16]  And very good.
[00:10:17]  Italy and the very good.
[00:10:19]  Very good.
[00:10:19]  Are you in history?
[00:10:20]  No, I'm a chemistry major.
[00:10:22]  Okay, alright.
[00:10:23]  Well, you're killing it.
[00:10:24]  Very good.
[00:10:24]  Okay.
[00:10:25]  Japan.
[00:10:25]  Yeah.
[00:10:27]  Yeah.
[00:10:27]  And was it Russia?
[00:10:29]  No.
[00:10:31]  You got it.
[00:10:32]  That was a USSR.
[00:10:34]  No.
[00:10:38]  The Soviet Union.
[00:10:41]  Christopher Columbus.

=== Four Founding Fathers? (03:31) ===

[00:10:44]  World War II?
[00:10:47]  No, I remember.
[00:10:48]  Yeah, Christopher Columbus.
[00:10:50]  Christopher Columbus.
[00:10:52]  He's a really bad guy.
[00:10:54]  He's worse.
[00:10:55]  He's been alive a long time, that's just...
[00:10:58]  Okay.
[00:10:59]  No one, you don't know who?
[00:11:01]  What happened during World War II?
[00:11:03]  Big, big, terrible event.
[00:11:05]  The Boston Tea Party.
[00:11:07]  They were in Normandy, weren't they?
[00:11:09]  Oh!
[00:11:10]  Were they?
[00:11:11]  Name four of America's founding fathers.
[00:11:14]  Oh, George Washington.
[00:11:16]  Uh-huh.
[00:11:17]  Thomas Edison.
[00:11:23]  Nah, I'm getting some picking up the vibe.
[00:11:26]  That was a no.
[00:11:28]  See, that was my second best guess.
[00:11:30]  So that's it?
[00:11:31]  Just the one?
[00:11:35]  I said Thomas Edison, George Washington?
[00:11:37]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:11:38]  Whoa, okay.
[00:11:39]  Or those two your guesses?
[00:11:41]  I know there's one I know.
[00:11:43]  I just can't think of him right now.
[00:11:44]  But you're sick with Thomas Edison.
[00:11:46]  I'm gonna have to go with no.
[00:11:46]  I'm gonna take it back.
[00:11:47]  I'm withdrawing it, yeah.
[00:11:49]  Okay, you're passing it?
[00:11:50]  Yeah.
[00:11:50]  Okay, go ahead.
[00:11:51]  I think it's George Washington, Ben Franklin.
[00:11:56]  Roosevelt was there.
[00:11:58]  And then I don't know the third one.
[00:12:01]  William McKinley.
[00:12:04]  Who is that?
[00:12:06]  It was my seventh grade project.
[00:12:08]  Oh, cool.
[00:12:09]  Did you learn anything about?
[00:12:11]  No, you don't know?
[00:12:12]  Okay, do you want to steal this?
[00:12:13]  Teddy Roosevelt.
[00:12:15]  I don't know what's going on.
[00:12:17]  Listen a founding father of America.
[00:12:22]  Founding fathers.
[00:12:25]  George Washington.
[00:12:26]  Yes.
[00:12:26]  Okay.
[00:12:27]  Three more.
[00:12:28]  Abraham Lincoln.
[00:12:30]  No.
[00:12:31]  No.
[00:12:34]  That's all I got.
[00:12:36]  Name four of America's founding fathers.
[00:12:39]  George Washington.
[00:12:40]  Okay.
[00:12:41]  What's his name?
[00:12:42]  Jefferson.
[00:12:44]  There was the guy, the really fat guy.
[00:12:50]  No, okay.
[00:12:51]  I don't know.
[00:12:52]  His name started with Benjamin Franklin.
[00:12:54]  Okay.
[00:12:54]  You see one?
[00:12:54]  Yeah.
[00:12:55]  We're missing one.
[00:12:56]  I'm missing one.
[00:12:57]  Name four of America's founding fathers.
[00:13:00]  Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton.
[00:13:10]  Okay, he does know it all.
[00:13:11]  Yeah, very good, very good.
[00:13:13]  All right, very good.
[00:13:14]  Okay.
[00:13:15]  Who did we fight?
[00:13:16]  You're what?
[00:13:17]  In American history.
[00:13:18]  Okay, so you should.
[00:13:19]  Okay, you have a cheat code.
[00:13:20]  All right.
[00:13:21]  I'm in the class too.
[00:13:22]  She said, I'm in the class too.
[00:13:25]  Name four of America's founding fathers.
[00:13:29]  Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, who's the other one?
[00:13:34]  One more.
[00:13:37]  Yeah.
[00:13:37]  John Hancock.
[00:13:38]  What would it be?
[00:13:39]  Who would it be?
[00:13:40]  Who would it be?
[00:13:41]  There's several you can choose from.
[00:13:43]  Roosevelt?
[00:13:45]  That was probably the dumbest thing I ever said.
[00:13:49]  What president freed the slaves?
[00:13:54]  You have to answer this one.
[00:13:57]  Oh my god.
[00:13:59]  Oh my god.
[00:14:04]  Abraham Lincoln.
[00:14:12]  Very good, very good, very good.