In contempo political discourse, abundant has been fabricated of whether Barack Obama is too amateur to lead, or whether John McCain is too old to be elected. But in all the discussion, one catechism has been overlooked: Are Americans too broken to accomplish that decision? Or added personally: Are you too broken to vote?
The acknowledgment may lie in the new book How Dumb Are You? The Great American Stupidity Quiz, which goes on auction October 7. The book contains quiz questions that every U.S. aborigine should be able to answer—but generally can’t. It lets readers appraise their own claimed brainy failings and demonstrates how abundant basal advice about the apple and their country abounding Americans accept absolutely bootless to absorb.
Prior to publication, the questions in the book were accustomed to a analysis admirers to actuate what allotment of boilerplate Americans answered anniversary one correctly. The after-effects were startling:
59% of Americans couldn’t acquisition Iraq or Afghanistan on a map
74% couldn’t explain what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is
68% couldn’t analyze a account of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
43% couldn’t appropriately analyze two—any two—countries in Africa
48% didn’t apperceive which U.S. certificate started with the line, “We the humans of the United States…”
40% couldn’t name a accent announced in Iraq
48% anticipation the Mojave Desert was amid on addition continent
71% didn’t apperceive what U.S.S.R. acclimated to angle for
43% couldn’t name the basic of Canada
54% couldn’t even name the admiral pictured on the dime
It all raises annoying questions about the advancing Election Day. “How can Americans adjudge which applicant has the best plan to fix our abridgement if 74% of us can’t even explain absolutely what the Dow Jones Industrial Average in actuality is?” asks How Dumb Are You? columnist Adam Winer. “Democracy was founded on the angle that the ability to aphorism should blow with the accepted man. But what happens if the accepted man is added acceptable something of a nincompoop?”
TITLE INFORMATION
HOW DUMB ARE YOU? The Great American Stupidity Quiz
By Adam Winer
ISBN: 978-0980059205
Price: $9.99
National Lampoon Press: October 13, 2008
About the Author:
Adam Winer is a panelist on VH1’s hit pop ability gigglefest Best Week Ever. Not that that in any way qualifies him to pen an intelligence quiz. Thankfully, he is aswell a above editor of FHM men’s magazine, which proves that he is both a columnist and a scholar.
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For added advice on How Dumb Are You? appointment the book’s website www.HowDumbAreYouTheGreatAmericanStupidityQuiz.com. (Or, if you’re in a hurry, artlessly www.StupidityQuiz.com.)
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