If you like political quizzes, here is one for you.

[Curmudgeoness]

Kind of scary to see how the rest of the test takers did when you finish. This is a Pew Research Center quiz. They call it an "IQ quiz" but I think it is less about IQ and more about paying attention to the world around us.

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

[tularetom]

1. Yee haw!

I got 11 of 11.

I was tempted to get some wrong so I could see what the average score was.

Seemed pretty simple actually.

[IDemo]

2. You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions

Not terribly difficult.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. "You got all 11 questions correct, along with 5% of the public"

Lovely state of affairs.

I wonder how many think Harry Reid is the Chief Justice...

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Answered my own question in a way:

34% know TARP was under Bush, not Obama.

28% got the Chief Justice of SCOTUS right.

We are so screwn.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. That is the point, I have to worry about the "average" voter these days.

And that answers a lot for me too.

[AnArmyVeteran]

40. If almost all of us on DU are in the top 5%, what does that say about the public?

Especially the tea baggers? LOL!

[Lugnut]

51. Same here.

5%? Only 5%. The idiots are in command.

[jdp349]

4. The data on question #4 was interesting

4. Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under:

Most people believe it was under President Obama

[malaise]

6. Damn that was easy

You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 95% of the general public.

[EFerrari]

7. I got ten -- didn't know the depth of the BP gusher. nt

[The Magistrate]

18. Swung Wild On the World Cup Location, Ma'am

Soccer never struck me as much more than an excuse to kick people in the shins....

[EFerrari]

36. LOL. One of my boys was a goalie and the other was a catcher.

I'm glad there were only two because the third one might have wanted to be a quarterback or swallow fire or something. :)

[Faygo Kid]

8. 11 of 11, about 30 seconds. Girlfriend: 11 of 11, 25 seconds. Damn.

Wonder how Sarah Palin would do? Not really.

[ebbie15644]

9. one wrong!!!

I got the question on the European bailout wrong. I put Germany and it was Greece. I knew as soon as I hit it, I should have put Greece!! I think they should compare these results with FOX viewers!!!

[AnArmyVeteran]

41. That's what I thought. My faux sister would fail that test.

She gets 100% of her 'news' from faux. I bet the average tea bagger would get zero correct.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. How pathetic is it that only 5% got them all right?

These are exactly the same kind of questions that Jay Leno uses on his "JayWalking" bit..and it is horrifying to see how stupid and uninformed the vast majority of the public is..and how unembarrassed they are about it.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. I knew that many people here on DU would do well. All of these

questions were basic current events questions. Informed, or uninformed. LOL, you are right about Leno---I laugh at the people, but then think "oh my god". I always hope that he goes through hours of taping to find these few minutes of idiots.

[BrklynLiberal]

16. One can hope....I do wonder tho....

[LWolf]

11. I missed the soccer question.

I don't pay much attention to sports.

[shraby]

12. I missed the one about the world soccer

you can see where my interests don't go. :rofl:

[Greyhound]

14. Scary, but not unexpected.

11 out of 11 questions that even casual perusal of the M$M would show the answers to. It seems that we are a nation of functionally illiterate ignoramuses, interested in nothing beyond the most rudimentary entertainment.

Quite the :dilemma:, isn't it?

[underpants]

17. I got 10 right. I thought there were only 10

:shrug:

[Booster]

19. Damn. I missed the World Soccer question. I'm ok w/10 out of 11.

[AnArmyVeteran]

39. Yeah, but you still made 10 more than a tea bagger would! Congrats!!!

[Booster]

45. Thank you for those kind words. I'm usually amazed when I talk

to my teabagger friends at just how much of history they don't know. Simple stuff. The one's I'm thinking of could never get more than 2 or 3 of these questions right. Sad.

[AnArmyVeteran]

48. But a monkey hitting keys could get a third of them right!

It's just statistics in a multiple choice test. If it was a fill in the answer test tea baggers might not get any question right, not the ones I know anyway.

[Booster]

50. LOL Since you put it that way, you're absolutely right.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Got 'em all right.

It's depressing that so many people did so poorly -- the questions were all about events and people that were in the headlines repeatedly. Guess everybody was watching Jersey Shores and American Idol.

[LAGC]

21. Yep, I also missed the soccer one. (10 of 11 right)

Sorry, not a big sports fan.

[TCJ70]

22. 11 out of 11!

I'm a 5 percenter!

[femmocrat]

23. 11/11. Those were easy, though.

Thanks.

[Curmudgeoness]

25. Uh, I thought they were easy, you thought they were easy...

but most people obviously did not think they were easy. I am so glad that I was right and DUers are smarter than the average bear.

[femmocrat]

26. Of course we are!

We should be running the world, but we are too busy posting on DU. :)

What I meant -- this quiz was easy compared to that one that someone posted last week. It had a bunch of tough economic questions and I missed all of those. I do not like to miss questions on tests! LOL This one was way more fun.

[jberryhill]

24. 11/11

If I hadn't spent time in Europe this year, I might've missed the soccer one.

For all who missed it, though, following the world cup is fun, and I'm not much of a sports person.

[doc03]

27. I got them all correct n/t

[Gin]

28. 1 wrong....the TARP one

[doc03]

30. How could you miss that one? Do you listen to Faux or what? n/t

[Gin]

57. Ha! color me confused....

[dixiegrrrrl]

29. Got them all because i read DU every day.

Thanks, guys !!!!

:headbang:

[Angry Dragon]

31. 11 for 11

[Kat45]

32. I'm embarassed that I missed one.

I didn't know the name of the prime minister of Great Britain. I should have known that. Is he fairly new (I hope)?

[Curmudgeoness]

33. He has not been prime minister long. Took office on

May 11, 2010. I admit that I did not know it for sure either, but did know that the other 3 were NOT right. So I really lucked into that one.

[Kat45]

34. Phew! I don't feel quite as bad then. n/t

[Sheepshank]

43. Phew

For a second there I thought I was going to be the only one who missed the Brit quesstion.

I will admit up front, that I know for a fact that I got everything else right in big part because of reading here at DU.

[Fuzz]

35. Got all 11 right.

[TheKentuckian]

37. 11/11 but one was a trick question since health care reform wasn't passed

just the shitty Wealthcare and Profit Protection Act.

It is hard to believe so few know this front burner and well publicized information.

[one_voice]

38. Answered all of them correctly...

but I thought it was easy.

[dsc]

42. I got 11 out of 11 but admit I kind of guessed on the gulf question

and can see people forgetting if it was this year or last year that health care was passed since most of it passed before Jan but it took until March to finish up the little details.

[Unvanguard]

44. 11/11. n/t

[CLANG]

46. Pretty damn easy for a DUer.

[CLANG]

47. 66% of the people that took the test think Obama passed Tarp!

Not that he wouldn't have done so anyway, but shit...

[CLANG]

49. The freepers must have taken the test too. 22% got 3 or less right!

[dems_rightnow]

54. Not so

"Republicans and Democrats both answered an average of 5.7 questions correctly, while independents answered 6.2 items correctly on average."

It seems independents were the best informed.

[CLANG]

55. I didn't say "republicans", I said "freepers". There can is a big difference.

[eridani]

52. Looks like people know more about Twitter than about anything else

In decreasing order of percent correct--

7. Do you happen to know what Twitter is? An information sharing network Correct 85

1. Do you happen to know if children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S. are automatically U.S. citizens, or are they not automatically U.S. citizens? Yes they are Correct 77

3. Do you happen to know if Congress passed a health care reform bill this year, or not? Yes Correct 73


11. The World Cup soccer tournament this year was held in what country? South Africa Correct 63

2. Do you happen to know who is the current military commander of American forces in Afghanistan? David Petraeus Correct 55

5. Do you happen to know if the national unemployment rate as reported by the government is currently closer to: 10% Correct 54

8. Thinking about the major oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico… About how deep is the water where the leaking well is located? 5,000 feet Correct 51

6. What European country recently received a major bailout from the European Union? Greece Correct 46

4. Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under: President George W. Bush Correct 34

10. Do you happen to know who is the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? John Roberts Correct 28

9. Can you tell me who the Prime Minister of Great Britain is? David Cameron Correct 19

[dsc]

58. question 4's result is all the more striking since there were only 2 choices

meaning that if a population was merely guessing it would be expected that 50% would get it right. The only other question that did worse than mere guessing was the PM of Britain.

[eridani]

53. Analysis of data

http://people-press.org/report/635/?src=iq-quiz

[demodonkey]

56. I got 11 out of 11 and did better than 95% of the public...

..... yikes those were easy questions. We are in deep trouble if people don't pay enough attention to current events to answer them.

[SteveG]

59. 11 out of 11

95% of the population did worse on this? This was far too easy.

[Dark]

60. I remember this test. I took it about a week ago and got 10/11 right.

Fucking unemployment.