Posted on 01/22/2010 12:24:04 PM PST by Hotmetal
Most folks here will ace this quiz,but look at the results for others.
I had to look it up but I guess you speak Minnysoda!
12/12; answers were obvious to any regular Rush Limbaugh listener.
Who misses more than one or two questions on this? (I can understand missing the Af troop strength question, though the correct answer is discernable with a little thought.)
Twentieth-century American liberalism (aka progressivism) isn’t just a mental disorder, it’s a marker for learning disabilities and general cluelessness.
Missed 3 - I was thinking the health-care bill was Sebelius’, not Baucus’; I thought Ben Bernacke was in charge of the Federal Reserve Board; and I thought we spent less on healthy care, but got better quality health care.
Ok, I took it again and got 10 of 12 - this time Bernacke is correct?
Weird.
It says I scored below 7% of the population, and above 89%.
11 of 12 here.
I’d like to see independents split between conserv/prog/libert or something.
I was not surprised to see that Republicans were paying more attention... Which, to some degree, is what this quiz is measuring.
Unfortunately, though, it shows that there are still a great many folks who are oblivious to the world around them.
I wonder how this test (or one of similar difficulty) would have fared 3 years ago... (would show a trend of increasing political awareness, perhaps)
11/12 Got the number of troops incorrect.
12/12.
IMHO, the hardest question was that pertaining to number of troops in Afghanistan.
12 of 12 - top 2%. :)
I missed one.. I thought the answer was max but I wasn’t sure.. made me feel dumb, until I saw the other scores.. :)
It is on the site, you can see the individual answers
12/12.
I rule.
Below you'll find your question-by-question results and the percentage of each demographic group that answered the question correctly in our telephone survey.
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College Graduate |
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This shows how many questions you answered correctly, compared with the average number of correct answers for different demographic groups. For example, men answered an average of 5.9 questions correctly. | |||||||||
12 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 5.3 | 7.1 | 4.0 | 5.4 | 5.8 | |
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Percent answering correctly | |||||||||
1. Can you tell me who is the newest justice to join the Supreme Court? | Correct | 67 | 64 | 55 | 64 | 84 | 46 | 68 | 73 |
2. Do you happen to know who Glenn Beck is? | Correct | 45 | 37 | 29 | 40 | 59 | 31 | 40 | 45 |
3. Do you happen to know which political party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives? | Correct | 78 | 72 | 66 | 78 | 87 | 65 | 74 | 80 |
4. Does the so-called "public option" legislation being discussed in Congress deal with... | Correct | 59 | 53 | 46 | 54 | 74 | 40 | 59 | 61 |
5. Can you tell me who is the chairman of the Senate finance committee, which is working on a bill to reform the health care system? | Correct | 23 | 12 | 9 | 18 | 32 | 11 | 18 | 20 |
6. Do you happen to know who is chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board? | Correct | 41 | 26 | 23 | 31 | 50 | 18 | 32 | 41 |
7. Do you happen to know if Iran and Israel do or do not share a border? | Correct | 54 | 31 | 32 | 41 | 60 | 39 | 41 | 45 |
8. Do you happen to know if the national unemployment rate is currently closer to: | Correct | 62 | 45 | 41 | 56 | 69 | 38 | 54 | 58 |
9. Do you happen to know if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently closer to: | Correct | 44 | 23 | 25 | 32 | 48 | 18 | 34 | 39 |
10. Is health care spending per person in the U.S. higher, lower, or about the same as in most major European nations? | Correct | 59 | 63 | 55 | 64 | 70 | 57 | 67 | 59 |
11. Does the so-called "cap and trade" legislation being discussed in Congress deal with... | Correct | 29 | 17 | 14 | 21 | 39 | 13 | 24 | 28 |
12. About how many U.S. military personnel are currently in Afghanistan: | Correct | 32 | 24 | 22 | 33 | 34 | 21 | 27 | 31 |
Minnesota, Yooper.. pretty much da same ting der eh. :)
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