Are you smarter than a politician - An online civics quiz

[Patriot]

Public education fails....again.

Civics Quiz
Intercollegiate Studies Institute


Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.  The link below takes you to the 33 question online quiz.

Here's some things they found.  In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

    *  Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know one of the things expressly prohibited by the Bill of Rights.
    * Thirty percent do not know where the phrase "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" comes from.
    * Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
    * Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either "trains those aspiring for higher political office" or "was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates."
    * Fifty-four percent do not know to whom the Constitution gives the power to declare war.
    * Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify what business profit is.

Take the quiz here: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

[srkruzich]

I got 78%  so i'm not a philospher..... LOL.  I missed most of mine on the economics portion. 

[Mom70x7]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Had to think on some - that was fun, though.

[Diane Amberg]

I got the same.