Posted
11/23/2008 05:13:00 PM
by Douglas
News flash: Your elected officials aren't very
smart.US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.
Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
Here's the
quiz. It's surprisingly specific, but still, 44% is pretty durn low. I missed four (88%). I had no idea that the
16th amendment wasn't part of the Constitution, but oh well.