Pew Research: News IQ Quiz

This may not be a clear indicator of general public knowledge, but it's interesting nonetheless.

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

BTW, males do better than females. :-D

 

I'm not a male but scored 13 out of 13 questions. Not bad for a Canuck eh?

 

Darn it all to heck. I missed #9.

 

I did better than I thought I would. A perfect 10.:-D

 

Very impressive!

Guess you broke the mold.

For the record, I only got 11.

At least now I know who the Brit Prime Minister is

 

I got 9 but 2 of those were total guesses :-D

But the q's I got wrong were all related to US politics, or maybe even Canadian, either way I don't follow, I only knew the name of the British Prime Minister because I read something about him in the news the other day :-D
Terrible since I'm English lol

 

:-Dwhat a joke, i got 10/13 and i`m not american and i hardly watch the news.

 

Definitely not the mold in world affairs, politics and geography since I like keeping up to date because I'm interested in that kind of stuff. Always was since my youth.

As to the questions, I wasn't quite sure about how many US military personnel had been killed since the start of the Afghan war. But since that war has been going on for about a decade I figured that 180 sounded too low (yikes!) and picked the next down which turned out to be right. So that one was an educated guess out of the 13 questions. Rest was a piece of cake for me. Hehe, watch/listen to CNN a lot and read news on line.

 

Drat!!! I got three wrong.

 

Yeah, I handled that one the same way. The first number was too small and the others were too big. Fortunately, they plan to pull the troops out this summer.
Another nasty war brought to a close.

I was surprised that they seem to consider facial recognition as an important bit of knowledge. :confused

The one that surprised me in the results tally was that about half did not know that the Republicans have a majority in the House of Representatives.

 

9/13, not bad.