How do you measure up on knowledge of current events?

[dragonlady]

Try this short quiz from the Pew Institute and then compare your score to those of the people surveyed. They break down results by gender, age, and education. It's surprising and rather depressing to see what people do and don't know.

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

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Wow

11 of 11..they are very easy questions. More shocking is that only 5% of the public was as accurate.

Amazing and depressing.

[Glorfindel]

2. That's pretty cool...I got all 11, but I thought they were very easy

Thanks for posting! :hi:

[unhappycamper]

3. 11 for 11 here also.

I agree the questions are easy.

[sharp_stick]

4. What I find really disappointing is that

only 52% of poll respondents got more than 1/2 of those surprisingly simple questions correct. That is simply pathetic, no wonder this country is in the shitter.

[whyverne]

5. Perfect, but it's still at 5% n/t

[zipplewrath]

6. 100%

But some of that stuff was kinda silly. What is the significance of knowing where the world cup was played? Alternately, I could have guessed the Chief Justice by deduction. Half the choices aren't even current justices. What is the significance of knowing the depth of the well? And I almost had to "throw" one of the questions, because I knew they wanted the Health Insurance Industry Stimulus package to be considered "health care reform", but it ain't. So I gave them the answer they wanted, instead of the correct one.

[supernova]

7. Perfect 11

It's depressing that in all questions, females seem to be much less informed than men. But hey, at least more women know what twitter is. :P

No wonder the tea parties. Ugh.

[sharp_stick]

8. More people across all demographic groups

taking the quiz knew that the World Cup was in South Africa than knew who the fuck the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is!

Even more pathetic than that: No single demographic group managed to crack 50 fucking percent on that question. Not even college graduates (48%).

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Perfect score.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

10. 11 of 11

along with 5% of the respondents.

[NorthCarolina]

11. Perfect score - 11

I find it a sad statement of affairs that only 5% of visitors can answer all 11 questions correctly, as the questions are pretty basic.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. 11 of 11. I can't believe that only 5% of Americans had this score.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. 11 but then again I pay attention

it is scary to be only amongst 5% of folks though.

[BillStein]

14. 11/11 here

But I'm a news junkie. The real demographic breakdown I'd like to see is where people get their news.