Comments on: Current Events Quiz

By: linda

linda — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:38:01 +0000

I got 2 wrong. However, yesterday the dow jones was over 10,000, and has been for a few weeks, does this not place it closer to 12,000 rather than 8,000?

The unemployment rate is 10.2%, I answered that is was closer to 12% instead of 8%, the quiz said 10.2 is closer to 8%.

According to what I was taught in second grade, the quiz is incorrect

By: Omar Aziz

Omar Aziz — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:19:27 +0000

10/12. Never even been to the US, and the main source of US-related news (representing over 90%) comes from Fark and here. Not really sure about the death toll for Iraq.

Is that a good thing?

By: max

max — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:23:23 +0000

#63, M. Moore: same here. I must say if the government were trying to make banks lend less then the bailout terms would certainly be a good way to do that.

By: jwk

jwk — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:09:40 +0000

12/12… aced it. :O) Considering I avoid the news for the most part, I am pretty proud of myself.

By: davidst

davidst — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:26:55 +0000

10 of 12, I made two guesses and got them both wrong (didn’t know the treasury secretary and I thought 5k were killed in Iraq not 4k).

By: J sub D

J sub D — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:41:15 +0000

Here’s Your Score: You correctly answered 12 of the 12 possible questions along with approximately 6% of the public. You did better than 94% of the general public.

Those were some darned easy questions.
I weep for my nation.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:19:52 +0000

I got 12/12 by pretending to agree with published unemployment statistics. I’m fairly persuaded that the true unemployment rate would make 16% the real right answer in the quiz.

By: POMDETERRE

POMDETERRE — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:15:54 +0000

I much prefer the questions Jay Leno used to ask in the “man on the street” Q&A. It was much more depressing (although i expect the results were edited or the respondents were at least :))

I got 11/12 because i have given up following the Dow…I’ve lost 50% of my 401k. I really don’t care to wallow in that depressing news every day.

I will say that the lack of knowledge of general information revealed in most all polls just reflects my opinion of people in general. We are slowing being enstupidifed. I really wonder where the movie “idiotacracy” is a fortelling of our future as a society.

By: DaveG

DaveG — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:22:42 +0000

A big round of applause for the lady on stage two…. WINDY!!!

By: Windy

Windy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:34:35 +0000

I’m a woman with only a high school education and I got all 12 correct.

By: Steve Lieber

Steve Lieber — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:00:38 +0000

12 of 12. I’m proud to be doing my part to make the “some college” folks look good.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:20:12 +0000

11/12.

I didn’t know the unemployment rate.

Not bad for someone who was asked to leave high school their junior year.

(ok I got my GED and went to college but I was a high school dropout)

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:55:05 +0000

Missed the one about unemployment percentage. I picked 12%, but I must have been thinking more about my local rate than nationwide.

By: David S

David S — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:18:30 +0000

Got 12/12. A educated guess on the Iraq war dead. My friends and family would get about 50% right unfortunately

By: adam

adam — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:05:52 +0000

There is no reward for knowing how the world works. In most jobs, being delusional would help. People don’t like to have their delusions shattered. I scored 12/12.

By: Tritone

Tritone — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:43:28 +0000

I scored 11/12 (82nd percentile). And I cheated on the Dow Jones (thanks, google!). I’m poor, I have no stocks, and the exact number is really not relevant to my life.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:37:21 +0000

Thanks, N4 (#55) for the clarification!

By: Boyd Durkin

Boyd Durkin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:38:40 +0000

JJH2 may have nailed it. If you are really smart, you’ve moved past paying attention to the circus show.

In other news, Czech youth are throwing eggs at their politicians. First, no one in America has the guts to do that. Second, US politicians are almost never within access of the population. Third, just think about the cops reaction (taze and beat) and then the terrorist charges.

I’m calling this one: Czech 1, America 0

By: Greg N.

Greg N. — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:21:43 +0000

11/12. Damn! Missed the automakers/”emergency loan” question. I guessed all.

By: JJH2

JJH2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:36:05 +0000

Who cares? There’s no great virtue in “keeping informed” about a variety of things you have absolutely no power to change. I am unsurprised that the vast majority of Americans are too busy living their own lives, spending time with their own families, and doing things that make them happy, rather than spend a lot of time watching or reading the news. It’s a tedious spectator sport for most people.