Test Your Political News IQ: Results

Test Your Political News IQ: Results

The News IQ Quiz

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Demographic Breakdowns by Question

Your results and the percentage of each demographic group that answered the question correctly in our telephone survey.

		Gender		Education			Age
	Your Responses	Male	Female	High School or less	Some College	College Graduate	Ages 18-29	Ages 30-49	Ages 50+
1. Thinking about where the political parties stand on important issues, which party is generally more supportive of restricting access to abortion?	Correct	62	61	52	61	76	62	64	60
2. Which party is generally more supportive of increasing taxes on higher income people to reduce the federal budget deficit?	Correct	68	66	56	69	84	58	67	71
3. Which party is generally more supportive of reducing the size of the defense budget?	Correct	62	54	50	59	70	65	59	56
4. Which party is generally more supportive of reducing the size and scope of the federal government?	Correct	58	49	43	53	68	44	53	57
5. Which party is generally more supportive of creating a way for immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to eventually become citizens?	Correct	66	59	52	69	74	74	61	59
6. Which party is generally more supportive of allowing drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?	Correct	65	55	48	66	74	57	62	62
7. Which party is generally more supportive of expanding the rights of gays and lesbians?	Correct	67	65	51	71	85	72	66	63
8. The initials "G-O-P" are usually associated with which political party?	Correct	71	66	55	72	86	60	67	72
9. Thinking about a few current and past political leaders, was Franklin Roosevelt a Republican or a Democrat?	Correct	61	54	50	59	69	43	53	68
10. Was Abraham Lincoln a Republican or a Democrat?	Correct	59	51	46	58	67	48	53	59
11. Is John Boehner a Republican or a Democrat?	Correct	60	50	45	55	70	43	53	62
12. Is Nancy Pelosi a Republican or a Democrat?	Correct	67	56	49	65	78	43	60	70
13. Which political party is considered to be the more conservative party on most political issues?	Correct	73	68	54	77	90	68	72	71
	Your Responses	Male	Female	High School or less	Some College	College Graduate	Ages 18-29	Ages 30-49	Ages 50+
This shows how many questions you answered correctly, compared with the average number of correct answers for different demographic groups. For example, men answered an average of 8.4 questions correctly.
	13	8.4	7.5	6.5	8.3	9.9	7.4	7.9	8.3

The quiz was made up of 13 questions excerpted from the larger Knowledge Survey. Your responses do not affect the survey results.