# News IQ Quiz: What Do You Know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 2, 2014, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213 "2014-10-02T21:22:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/41 "2014-10-03T17:14:33Z")
9/12 ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/42 "2014-10-03T17:16:12Z")
11/12, missed the Federal Reserve one. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/43 "2014-10-03T19:28:16Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > 96%, only one wrong (the Shia/Sunni question) Me too. If I had thought about it more though, I’d have remembered that the Sunni minority was running Iraq under Hussein. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/44 "2014-10-04T03:07:32Z")
11/12, missed the Shia/Sunni question on to wikipedia! I really should know this. ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/45 "2014-10-04T03:41:28Z")
11/12, missed the federal reserve one. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/46 "2014-10-04T22:55:11Z")
12 out of 12 and i’m not American. I did guess a couple though. ---
**Author:** ![Lemmytheseal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lemmytheseal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemmytheseal2)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/47 "2014-10-05T00:30:12Z")
12 of 12, and any guesses I had (two, I think) were not random, but educated. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/48 "2014-10-05T00:40:47Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I got 11 out of 12, because I thought there were more people at the poverty line. That actually brightens my day a bit. Yup, same score, same wrong answer. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/49 "2014-10-05T02:04:10Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > 86%, but the three I got wrong were about the American economy, and I haven’t lived in America for a few years now. I also got better than 86%, but I was very close on the unemployment rate. I think they listed 9% and 6%, which are both pretty low numbers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Holdsworth_Effect)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/50 "2014-10-05T03:56:42Z")
12/12, but then I listen to NPR almost daily, and got a couple spoilers from readers 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/51 "2014-10-05T04:36:08Z")
9 out of 12. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/52 "2014-10-05T04:57:49Z")
You scored better than 96% of the public, below 1% and the same as 3%. I missed the Sunni / Shia question because I second-guessed myself. I thought the correct answer was too obvious to be right. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/53 "2014-10-05T14:59:37Z")
7\12 I don’t watch or read the world new at all. I guessed on most answers. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/54 "2014-10-05T17:27:01Z")
I got 3 wrong. I mix up Sunni and Shia, and even when I don’t mix that up I forget which countries were lead by minorities of the opposite. (I know Iraq was minority ruled under Hussein, and that it was the opposite of Iran, but not whether Iran was minority ruled as well.) So, that was a crap shoot. Silly me for the other two. I should have known the minimum wage was higher than what I picked, and with interest rates so low, that my answer couldn’t be correct. The one I picked was true in past years, though. The rest were pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/55 "2014-10-05T17:32:24Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > What the everloving fuck. I literally picked at random, without looking at the questions or the answers, clicking anything that I felt like, and got: > > > [@](#): > > > > You answered 9 of 12 questions correctly. > > You scored better than 86% of the public, below 8% and the same as 6%. > > …I’m not sure this test is all that accurate. > > I am serious when I say I only attempted to answer the first three questions correctly, got bored, and then clicked my way at random. I’d like to see someone calculate the significance of your outcome; I bet it’s not terribly significant. If we assume you got the first three right, then the most likely outcome would be to get 1/4 of the next 9 right, say two of them, for a total of 5 instead of 8. But bear with me here: how could it possibly be inaccurate? The questions might not be measuring anything meaningful, but I do believe that the correct answers are correct, the incorrect answers are incorrect, and that the scoring is done honestly. You just got lucky and picked more than your fair share of correct answers. It happens, just as people can walk out of a Las Vegas casino with more money than they brought in. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/56 "2014-10-05T18:56:37Z")
10/12. Since these were rather US-specific and I’m not American I don’t feel too ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/57 "2014-10-05T23:03:03Z")
8/12 ---
**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213/58 "2014-10-06T02:30:07Z")
> [@Lobohan](#): > > I got 11 out of 12, because I thought there were more people at the poverty line. That actually brightens my day a bit. > [@Ambivalid](#): > > 11/12. I missed the question about people living at or below the poverty line (I thought we had mo po folk). > [@RitterSport](#): > > 11/12, also over-estimated poverty numbers. The only other one I wasn’t sure about was SS vs. interest payments, and I guessed right. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Yup, same score, same wrong answer. Ditto on the score. Thought that we had more (people who were poor). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/news-iq-quiz-what-do-you-know/700213.md?page=2)