Political Awareness Quiz - 2010
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1. Question: Did more than a majority of all Republican members of the Senate vote against the Social Security Act of 1935, against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and against a Federal Holiday for M.L.King Jr. in 1983?
1a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( X ) No -(I'll help you out with this one.)
2. Question: Did at least three former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff give testimony before Congress that evidence as of July 2008 shows that Saddam and the Iraq Government were not involved in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in Sept. 2001?
2a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
3. Question: During 2009, were the "Birther Movement", "Town Hall Outcry", and "Tea Parties" discussed on Fox News more often than on all the other broadcast networks combined?
3a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
4. Question: Has Fox News won more than one national excellence in journalism award from the Peabody Awards, DuPont Awards, National Press Club, or Pulitzer Prize in the past ten years?
4a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
5. Question: Was Orly Taitz fined $20,000 by a Federal Judge for filing a federal lawsuit challenging Pres. Obama's election on the grounds he wasn't born in the United States, stating that the suit: "was using the legal system to pursue political rhetoric and insults"?
5a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
6. Question: Did elements within the National Republican Party questioned the patriotism of all Democratic Presidential Candidates except Sen. Kerry during the 2008 elections?
6a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
7. Question: Is it true that the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio is considered by many experts "the dirtiest election America has ever seen."; and that voting discrepancies in Ohio that year overwhelming favored G.W. Bush over J.Kerry, and if all discrepancies, favoring either man, were removed, Kerry would have won Ohio by over 300,000 votes.
7a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
8. Question: As of Jan. 2010, US Government scientists agree that by 2025, without significant changes in policies, U.S. greenhouse gas emissions per capita will be four times those of China, and fourteen times those of India on that date?
8a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
9. Question: Has the global glacial mass, and its average thickness exhibited an exponential decline during the past fifty years, and exceeded 150cm/yr in 2000?
9a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
10. Question: Have the primary Antarctic ice fields decreased in size by an average of 50% during the past twenty years?
10a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
11. Question: Did the Larsen Ice Shelf lose 970 square miles of its area during the period 1995 to 2001; and is currently 40% of its previous minimum stable extant?
11a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
12. Question: As of FY2009 the United States spent over $1 trillion dollars on "National Defense", and has regularly spent more than 10% of GDP on this segment of the Federal budget since the end of WWII?
12a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
13. Question: In the past twenty years more Americans have identified themselves as Democrats as opposed to Republicans, except in 1995; and that a recent poll of affiliation by Gallup indicate a 45(R)/46(D) split in stated affiliation.
13a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
14. Question: All Nations, including America, should abide by internationally agreed upon rules and laws pertaining to their conduct in war.
14a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
15. Question: Can America abridge any international law, invade and occupy any country without international authorization, and hold anyone labeled an "enemy combatant" incommunicado indefinitely without recourse to civilian courts, or all other provisions of the US Constitution.
15a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
16. Question: None of the past five Republican Presidents, nor Candidates for that office, held an advanced degree from a major university, or graduated in the top ten percent of their class as an undergraduate.
16a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
17. Question: The same is true for Democrats.
17a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
18. Question: In 2009, the five richest Americans all said: "repealing the Estate Tax would be a bad idea".
18a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
19. Question: Over 66% of American Corporations paid no Federal Income Taxes in the period 1998-2005; and an additional 68% of foreign corporations also did not pay any Federal Income Tax..
19a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
20. Question: A recent study by several professional polling organizations finds that the political affiliation of American scientists and tenured Professors is heavily Democratic, with the scientific community the most skewed with less than 6% identifying as Republicans.
20a: Answer: ( ) Yes - ( ) No
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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