Take the news IQ quiz

[Danascot]

We DUers like to think of ourselves as knowledgeable about current affairs. Here's a short quiz to take.

I scored 10 of 12. What's yours?

http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/

[mirrera]

1. 11 out of 12... the damn dow jones.

I was guessing on that.

[tbyg52]

20. Well, they way it's been hovering up and down around 11,000

the right answer would depend on what day they asked the question.

Oh - 11 of 12 also - I missed a different one, and am ashamed..... ;)

[katmondoo]

2. I got 91%

I think I got one wrong

[gateley]

3. Ditto.

Got the Dow Jones Average and Kosovo wrong.

[RaVeN_MeaD]

4. 12 OF 12..........97TH %

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. 11 of 12

Missed the one about Serbia.

Should've listened to McCain and his Czechoslovkia gaffe earlier this week.

:rofl:

[patrice]

6. All of those questions were easy, with the exception of the one about Serbia

and one of the others.

[NightWatcher]

11. I think it was that one that knocked me down to 91%

[PDJane]

7. 12 of 12.........

but I'm not an American.

[Clovis Sangrail]

8. 12 of 12 ... and I haven't really been following the news lately /nt

[dkofos]

9. 91% Too smart to work for faux.

[KansDem]

10. 12 out of 12. And I owe DU for this!

Thanks, DU!!! :applause:

I don't have cable and receive all my news from BBC and internet.

[Canuckistanian]

12. 10/12

Stupid mistakes.

It really wasn't that hard.

[rebel with a cause]

28. I got the same.

I missed Dow Jones and Chair of Federal Reserve. I knew Greenspan stepped down and didn't know who took his place. Got other things on my mind.

[Solly Mack]

13. 12/12

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. The breakdown of responses is rather telling

Eighty-four percent of adults taking the quiz knew that Oprah Winfrey has campaigned for Barack Obama.

Twenty-eight percent knew that about 4,000 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Iraq since we invaded.

:banghead:



(Eleven of 12. I didn't know about Kosovo.)

[POAS]

15. 12 of 12...pretty informed bunch around here I'd say.

[emilyg]

16. 10/12

[BunkerHill24]

17. I scored 11 of 12

"Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public."

[trof]

18. Maxed it.

[boomerbust]

19. 11 of 12

I always get Bernanke and Paulson mixed up.

[WCGreen]

21. 12 of 12....

[rurallib]

22. 12 of 12 but that dow jones question was a ringer

Could be closer to 10,000 Monday.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. 10/12...

Not too bad...

:shrug:

[lynettebro440]

24. 11 out of 12

[OnyxCollie]

25. 10/12. nt.

[Danascot]

26. You guys are good

I was proud of my 10 of 12 until you guys came along with your 11s and 12s. It's disheartening to know the general public is about 5 of 12, though if you've ever watched Leno's Jaywalking segments I'm surprised most 'muricans could get 1 or 2.

[terrya]

27. 12 of 12

Damn, I'm good. :-)

[JFN1]

29. 12 of 12

Kinda scary how under-informed our country is...

[varkam]

30. 10 out of 12.

I screwed up on the...nevermind, I'm not going to say which ones I got wrong :D

[pleah]

31. I got a 91%.

[michreject]

32. missed one

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. 12 of 12

[otohara]

34. 11 Because I Don't Pay Attention to The Dow

but I was close - 10,000

[bigwillq]

35. 12 out of 12

I guessed at the Serbia one though.

:bounce:

[PBS Poll-435]

36. That was kinda fun. I LURVE Quizzes!

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 12 of the 12 possible questions along with approximately 3% of the public. You did better than 97% of the general public.

Use the interactive tool below to find out more about how your score compares with other Americans who took the test in our national telephone survey:

[Irishonly]

37. 12 out of 12 n/t

[mduffy31]

38. 11 of 12

Missed the Dow Jones Question

[27inCali]

39. 11 out of 12 that was easy

[otherlander]

40. 10 of 12.

They didn't have my age group listed, though, so I lied and put the youngest one (18-29). Hey, it'll be true in a few months.

I got numbers 9 and 10 wrong.

[roamer65]

41. 12 of 12.

It was too easy. It should ask more international questions.

[Papillon]

42. 10 out of 12

I missed Dow Jones and Kosovo.

[WilliamPitt]

43. 12

[greenbriar]

44. 11 of 12

missed the Dow Jones one!!!