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June 4, 2009 1:07pm by David Farrar

Test your US general knowledge

Pew has a 12 question quiz here. Only 6% of respondents have got 12/12.

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Ryan Sproull

I got 9/12. I didn’t know where the Dow was, who hadn’t received a bailout, or who the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is.

Classic that knowing about Afghanistan and Pakistan is US general knowledge, though.
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June 4, 2009 1:14pm
Rakaia George

10/12 – didn’t know the car maker or the number of US dead in Iraq…
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June 4, 2009 1:35pm
stu-tron

9/12 – yep, got the number of dead in Iraq wrong as well as Ford not recieiving funding yet and tim whats his faces job.
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June 4, 2009 1:40pm
Grizz

11/12. I underestimated the number dead in Iraq. Otherwise all good. Put me at the 82nd centile of respondents.
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June 4, 2009 1:50pm
JC

10/12. I knew the Iraq question was a trap but decided to go with the implied (wrong) answer. Got the Afghan/Pak border wrong too.

JC
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June 4, 2009 1:52pm
Mike Readman

12/12 and I found them all easy.
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June 4, 2009 1:54pm
stephen

And 18% got 11/12 (edit: or better). Thought the Iraq death toll would’ve cracked 5,000 by now!
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June 4, 2009 1:54pm
headstuckinlawbooks

Hehe 12/12…. or the 94% percentile Not to brag or anything, but I guess its not too bad considering the average percentile score for my age group is 28%
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June 4, 2009 1:55pm
sonic

12/12 too, not too difficult
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June 4, 2009 1:57pm
stephen

headstuckinlawbooks, good way to look at it – yus I rock!

Quite surprising to know that only 38% got the death toll question right.
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June 4, 2009 1:59pm
Jman

10/12 – also got the Iraq deathcount question wrong and the Dow Jones. Most interesting statistic for me was the average man scored better than 52% of the public, while the average woman did better than 35%.
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June 4, 2009 2:00pm
headstuckinlawbooks

…. and I should add that I wasn’t 100% sure with quite a few of the answers… just took an educated guess. Can’t believe I got the Dow one right lol
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June 4, 2009 2:00pm
Twocan

11/12 got the bailout wrong, guessed the Iraq death toll, otherwise reasonably straight foward.
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June 4, 2009 2:02pm
jarbury

I got 9/12. Missed out on debt, Automakers and miltary deaths.
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June 4, 2009 2:02pm
Linvoice

9/12 I guessed a few correctly. Must be all that reading of the Herald and this blog? My age group 59%.
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June 4, 2009 2:03pm
swinestein

12/12 looks like kiwiblog readers are smarter than americans
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June 4, 2009 2:17pm
big bruv

10/12
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June 4, 2009 2:18pm
MajorBloodnok

10/12 Iraq is catching a lot out. I also got Dow wrong (probably mixed it up with NASDAQ).
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June 4, 2009 2:19pm
stephen

looks like kiwiblog readers are smarter than americans

read: politics nerds. And the fact that NZers are doing the poll probably indicates that not all respondents are American! I hope they aren’t going to report the results as such…
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June 4, 2009 2:20pm
Woodstein

9/12
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June 4, 2009 2:55pm
Woodstein

I got the auto industry bailout question, the Dow question and the unemployment question all wrong.
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June 4, 2009 3:10pm
David in Chch

11/12. Not bad. Mad at myself for giving Giethner the wrong job!

So 82nd percentile, compared to 53rd percentile for my age group. I also noticed a strong association with age – better informed.
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June 4, 2009 3:24pm
CraigM

11/12 got Giethner wrong too.

Given my age and “formal education” I’m guessing this means you pick up more general knowledge as you get older, as long as you walk around with your ears and mind open.

As my old granny would say as she tugged my ears: you’ve got two of those and only one of those (points to mouth) so use them proportionally.

And here “we” are comparing ourselves to US citizens in regards to what they know about their country………
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June 4, 2009 3:33pm
Grizz

Sonic, you never got 12/12. You consistently demonstrate that you are totally bereft of basic knowledge and facts. You just say it to make yourself look good.
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June 4, 2009 3:37pm
Captain Crab

10/12
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June 4, 2009 3:43pm
Nigel

11/12 like many underestimated the US dead, most were dead easy, though wondered about how much US debt the Saudi’s had in their coffers :).
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June 4, 2009 3:51pm
adamsmith1922

12/12
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June 4, 2009 4:06pm
TCrwdb

Googling the answers doesn’t count Sonic
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June 4, 2009 4:31pm
Rex Widerstrom

11/12… who knew Ford hadn’t bummed a bailout?! Well if I’m ever inclined to buy a mass-market car, I know which one to choose.

edit: Hmmmm… averages by gender – men 52, women 35. Discuss
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June 4, 2009 4:33pm
Don the Kiwi

11/12 – didn’t think the Iraq death toll was as high.

Pretty Fly for a white guy.
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June 4, 2009 4:45pm
kyotolaw

Well, the Dow is now at 9600, which is closer to 11,000 than 8,000. So everyone who guessed 8,000 is actually wrong. The survey was completed at an earlier time, when 8,000 was indeed the correct answer. 11,000 has only been the right answer for a few days (and for all I know, could again be the correct answer tomorrow).

Sorry, Sonic.
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June 4, 2009 6:46pm
Kingi

12 out of 12.

;), I love how the people who make comments about other people’s scores actually didn’t put their own.
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June 4, 2009 8:41pm
Bullitt

11/12. Missed the Iraq death toll like most other people. Pretty easy quiz though
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