My "Accent"

Ooh...more quiz results. I'm intrigued about my accent. :P

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

More "Common Knowledge"?

Several weeks ago, I posted how much the average American knows about current events in a recent poll, and how shocked I was to see how much more I knew than most people.
Well...there was a similar poll very recently by the Pew Research Center again. About how much Americans know about religion, and strangely, atheists scored higher than Catholics and even Evangelicals. Granted, several of the questions were about other religions than Christianity, but that still seems very surprising that so few people would know the answers to these questions.
Here were my results on their online quiz. I scored a 100%...












And here is the online quiz if you would like to take it yourself: http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/index.php

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Common Knowledge

A few weeks ago, my next-door neighbor forwarded me a quiz/survey being conducted by the Pew Research Center that was meant to test the general public's knowledge of current events. I was shocked to see my results, not because I did badly, but because I did so well. The questions were fairly simple, at least to me, and I don't even watch the news all that often.

Here were my results:

Could it really be true that so few people are aware of what is going on in America? It frightens me when I remember that these same people are mostly likely voters as well.
Curious about how you would score? Think your knowledge could sway the balance? Take the quiz: http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php