Can you answer these three questions?

Which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives? Who is the current Secretary of State? Who is Great Britain's prime minister?

Only 18% of people answered all three of those questions correctly when they were posed in a survey by Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

That so few people would answer all three correctly isn't that surprising, sadly. We've seen surveys before suggesting most Americans can name more American idol judges than rights guaranteed under the First Amendment.

The breakdown by news audience is fairly interesting, though. Regular readers of the New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper's Magazine did the best—nearly half of that group answered all three questions correctly. More...

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