Recent PEW Research NEWS IQ SCORE

 

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 98% of the general public.

Demographic Breakdowns by Question

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.

		Gender		Education			Age
	Your Responses	Male	Female	High School or less	Some College	College Graduate	Ages 18-29	Ages 30-49	Ages 50+
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 6.3 questions correctly.
	11	6.3	5.5	4.9	6.1	7.4	4.8	5.8	6.4
		Percent answering correctly
1. Moammar Gadhafi is the leader  of which of these countries.	Correct	78	65	61	70	89	54	75	76
2. Is the current speaker of the  U.S. House of Representatives?	Correct	45	41	32	41	62	21	36	57
3. The Obama administration is proposing revisions to the  “No Child Left Behind” Act.  That legislation deals with  which of these issues?	Correct	78	82	75	82	86	75	83	80
4. Is the national  unemployment rate as  reported by the government currently closer to:	Correct	63	51	44	58	77	38	56	65
5. On which of these  activities does the U.S.  government currently  spend the most money?	Correct	32	27	27	28	35	29	28	31
6. According to the  U.S. Centers for  Disease Control, what  percentage of Americans are obese?	Correct	39	39	36	45	40	36	36	43
7. Who founded the  social networking site  called Facebook?	Correct	56	54	36	63	78	63	64	45
8. In the U.S. Congress,  Republicans have a majority in:	Correct	45	31	26	42	55	26	36	44
9. Is Hillary Clinton:	Correct	78	69	66	72	86	57	72	81
10. What issue was the main focus of recent protests  and political debates in Wisconsin?	Correct	68	58	51	64	82	46	59	73
11. Which source of energy provides the most electricity in the U.S.?	Correct	52	29	35	36	51	35	37	44

How You Did, Question by Question

Below you'll find your question-by-question results 
and the percentage of all adults who answered 
each question correctly in our telephone survey.

Question	Correct Answer	Your Response	All Adults,  Percentage Correct
1. Moammar Gadhafi is the leader of  which of these countries?	Libya	Correct	71
2. Is the current speaker of the U.S.  House of Representatives?	John Boehner	Correct	43
3. The Obama administration is proposing revisions to the “No Child  Left Behind” Act. That legislation  deals with which of these issues?	Education	Correct	80
4. Is the national unemployment  rate as reported by the government currently closer to:	9%	Correct	57
5. On which of these activities does the U.S. government  currently spend the most money?	Medicare	Correct	29
6. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, what  percentage of Americans are obese?	25%	Correct	39
7. Who founded the social  networking site called Facebook?	Mark Zuckerberg	Correct	55
8. In the U.S. Congress,  Republicans have a majority in:	The House of Representatives only	Correct	38
9. Is Hillary Clinton:	Secretary of State	Correct	73
10. What issue was the main  focus of recent protests and  political debates in Wisconsin?	Union rights for public employees	Correct	63
11. Which source of energy  provides the most electricity in the U.S.?	Coal	Correct	40

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." -Paolo Friere-