Test your understanding of current news! No Google, just take it cold.

(I got 8 of 12)

http://pewresearch.org/pubs/762/political-knowledge-update

Let's post 'em up and see what we know and what we don't.

BTW: 8 of 12 is above average for college grad, male and female news consumers today. Ugly huh?

Great find KSKD!

I got 11 out of 12!

I'm not sure if they use the same questions for everybody so I'll save my commentary on the test til later.

11 out of 12. I got the stock market question wrong - I realized that as soon as I answered because the answer has recently changed a few times...

Andrew

Nice!

I got that one wrong too, along with the ones about foreign nations.

And of course, you guys then are total political news junkies!

11 of 12, I missed the Serbia question ...

The national average is really 50 percent? Wow, people need to pay more attention.

9/12 Got the Serbia, Fed Chairman, and Stock market questions wrong.

Thanks Missing.

11/12 - Got the Serbia question wrong too.
I thought it was a trick question.
Must be the skeptic in me. (that & I've taken a few Cisco tests)

I'm getting my ass kicked!

11/12, and I also missed the stock market question, which I realized right after I clicked it. I took an educated guess on the Serbia question.

10/12 here, missed Serbia and Chavez...thanks for the link, Missing!

10/12

I think I could argue that the stock market question is flawed (especially that the answer, unlike the answer to all the other questions, has changed in the last week). Knowing that the DOW is, say, over 10,000 and not under 1,000 would be a more appropriate question.

Andrew

I got the stock market question right but botched the Serbia question, but it is deservingly a wrong answer for me because I've sort of quit paying close attention to issues in that part of the world.

11/12, but missing the stock market question seems to be routine.

Apparently everyone here cashed in their stocks at the end of the Clinton presidency, right?

Well, I'm clearly not the alpha news junkie.

Good

I thought the stock one was bogus too.

What's depressing is the averages. Most of the questions were cake, IMHO. Probably all of them were cake for the well rounded news junkie.

11 of 12. Got the stock market question wrong.
According to the test, Percentile score is only 30 for ages 18-29. These are the people who think Obama is a god. Scary.

One could argue Obama has better people doing God's work. Less scary.

I got 11 out of 12 -- missing the stock market question. I thought I had read recently that it had fallen somewhere close to the 10,000 mark. Guess I didn’t remember correctly.

I am proud to state that my efforts to avoid current-events nonsense are working. 3 of 12.

I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that I pulled an 8/12 on this. What is even more embarrassing is how badly the Gen X and Gen Y people who took this test did, on average.

You think that one was tough, you should try this:

http://www.testyoursmarts.com/worldevents-quiz.html

There's NO way I'm falling for that one, DT!

Good grief DT. At least do a redirect through tinyurl. You'll nail 'em regularly that way.