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Just thirteen questions:
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/
You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly. You scored better than 96% of the public, below 1% and the same as 3%.
JHB
(37,161 posts)... and the "who's picture is this?" involving the four women.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I am SO ashamed of myself!
longship
(40,416 posts)I had to guess on two. Got both wrong. The rest I knew.
Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)- missed the stock market.
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)I'll be here all week and twice on weekends
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)rurallib
(62,426 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,743 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Recognizing her face
boguspotus
(286 posts)Yep, I missed that one too.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)question. I don't feel too stupid about that one. I'll take a 96th percentile result.
wild bird
(421 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)The Stock Market graph tripped me up.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I'm happy with that.
avebury
(10,952 posts)Not bad considering the fact that I really don't pay much attention to the news anymore.
Crimson76
(79 posts)prairierose
(2,145 posts)I guessed on the DJIA graph and the population graph. Sometimes I guess well.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Shall be our slaves! Bwaa Haa Haa! What shall we do first? Continue to have them shop at Mal*Wart?
DONE!
I command they next eat at McD's, BK, Christ Fil-A, or the deli at any major grocery store hopped up with chemicals, which is like all of them.
Oh, and Taco Bell!
Wish I'd thought to buy stock in any of those before I decided to turn into an evil bastard. Live 'n learn. Or not.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)You scored better than 96% of the public, below 1% and the same as 3%.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Missed Google Glass and the Pyramid
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)couldn't remember the DJIA in January 2008.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Good enough for me. What the hell is Google Glass?
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,030 posts)Missed Marissa Meyer and the population graph. I overthought the pop. graph - my first guess was Nigeria, then I noticed there was no one in the highest age brackets which made me think Israel since it's a younger nation...
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)the one on population I said Netherlands and it was Nigeria
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)I made it to a 1% status!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)I don't know who the yahoo CEO is (nor do I care), who the Florida Senators are (again, don't care!) and since I didn't think maryland had allowed same-sex marriage, I went with the higher than federal minimum wage answer.
Oops.
sakabatou
(42,159 posts)ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)Missed "all these states" and the Yahoo CEO.
bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)Woof_Woof
(24 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,183 posts)I couldn't care less about the DJIA any more, but the two bonus questions about my gender and age (I got them both right) pulled up my average.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I missed the % of women in the senate and the age graph.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)What do I win?
Tseko
(26 posts)Got the Dow Jones trend wrong, the percentage of women in Congress wrong and didn't recognize Marissa Mayer.
But I think I went pretty well overall.
Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)If I'd been shown a picture of the CEO of Yahoo and asked to come up with a name, I'd never have been able to. But I knew it wasn't Kathleen Sebelius or Wendy Davis, and I figured the "official" picture of a skier would show her doing something.
To be honest, I didn't even know Nigeria was in the news much lately. But of the countries listed, it was the only one that would have so many people die so young. .