The Pew Research Center has an online quiz to test your News IQ on current events and public figures. It’s only a 12 question quiz, so mistakes are costly.
I got two wrong (I’m a bit surprised on one of them) and wound up with a score of 83%. I’m well above the average nationally, demographically, and by gender, but I’m still dissapointed.
I don’t like getting less than an A+ on tests.
They should have called it “What’s your American news IQ”
Typical US myopia.
It’s an American Research company. It’s a given. When I ask my wife to pass the salt, I don’t say, “Please pass OUR SALT, RIGHT HERE ON OUR TABLE.”
It’s redundant.
Typical non-American insecurity.
Kindness, Steve, kindness. Can’t be easy living on Airstrip One.
And now to irritate you–12 out of 12. Though I was sweating one of them.
I got pwned on the Iraq casualties (thought it was 3000) and the Dow (no money in it, so I don’t pay attention.)
Please Mr. Price,
we prefer “Ingsoc”
Steve,
We got the same two questions wrong. I thought the number of deaths from the war on Iraq was 5,000 (I seem to remember that figure from a presidential debate). I am glad to be wrong, though.
83% accuracy. I pay far too much attention to the world.
83% here, too. Missed the casualty number, and couldn’t remember if the Dems had gotten the House majority in the last election or not. (Proof that I’m not nearly the political junkie that I used to be.)
peace,