The Pew News IQ Quiz
What's Your News IQ?
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Pew News IQ Test
To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short 12 question quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,003 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions in a recent national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
Included in the current version of the quiz are several questions relating to the state of the economy as well as other prominent happenings and people in the news. For an analysis of the findings from the poll on the public's News IQ, read the full summary of findings. (No peeking! If you are going to take the quiz, do it first before reading the analysis.)
You'll also be able to compare your News IQ with the average scores of men and women; with college graduates as well as those who didn't attend college; with people who are your age as well as with younger and older Americans. Are you more news-savvy than the average American? Here's your chance to find out.
The full reports from earlier versions of the quiz are also available (See December 2008, February 2008, September 2007 and April 2007). The April 2007 report also includes an analysis of how knowledge levels vary according to people's news sources as well as their demographic characteristics.
http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/quiz/
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I started to put my results but then I realized that the answers were all there. Duh! I will say I missed one!
It's not very hard though. Unless you're not watching the news at all. 
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oh dang! I'm sorry the link didn't show up! Give me a sec!
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1A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
okies! Ready Set Go!
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2A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
10/12
3Yeay!
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4A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
missed one - I could not remember how many of our soldiers have died in Iraq...one I should know!
5That's the same on I missed Pam! :0
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6A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
oopsie that was supposed to be
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7A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
er, uh and "one"
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I missed the same one too. I'm happy I know so much about what's going on in our country though.
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The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.
9Yeah!
Yeay for us!
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10A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I got 10/12,this was a great test-informative for what I did not know.
11Oh good! I love Pew Research.
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12A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Shoot. I was hoping this would be a "Which gaseous emission smells worse?" type of quiz...
13No dave nothing here on flatulence. Oh! You didn't mean that kind of gaseous.
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14A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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15A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I got the military one wrong too.
16No, I meant fartuous.
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18A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Well in that case there's nothing here from or about Pelosi either.
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19A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Well jeeze! If even Laura got the soldiers question wrong I absolutely don't feel so bad!
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20A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I can never ever say "definately" again w/o thinking of Rainman.
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21A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
we probably got the soldier question wrong because of the lousy media and all their bogus reporting about the war. They seemed to report a complete tally of all the deaths in Iraq on a daily basis when Bush was in office but haven't noticed them doing the same with BO.
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"LOTHIAN: Did he bow or didn't he?
ROBERT GIBBS: No. But I think this meeting was like a week ago, right?"
Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary for Obama
22It's intersting that we aren't hearing anything about the bomb that killed 5 US soldiers this morning. It's almost like they want to keep it quiet so Obama isn't linked to and war deaths.
23Oh! So true! So true! To both of you.
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24A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
11/12, top 82%. I am glad I got question 11 wrong, I over estimated servicemen killed in Iraq. In retrospect, I should not have.
25very very interesting that we all seemed to miss the same question...overestimated too.
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"LOTHIAN: Did he bow or didn't he?
ROBERT GIBBS: No. But I think this meeting was like a week ago, right?"
Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary for Obama
26I know!
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27A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I didn't see what I missed. Do I have to go take the quiz again to find out?
28I think you might dave. I was able to get back to mine pretty easy through the "history" or "back" button. If not you can take it again and it will be much quicker. If of course you don't cheat and answer what you knew you answered the first time.
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29A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I did pretty well, but I think I know why you guys overestimated the number of war casualties: you were probably thinking of the murder count in Detroit for the same period.
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