The partisan knowledge gap

The Pew Research quiz From ISIS to Unemployment: What Do Americans Know? is a real eye opener. If you would like test your knowledge stop reading and go here as this post will reveal the answers. The quiz scores come from a random sample of 1003 Americans who were interviewed by phone not the online questionnaire.

How charitable of Pew to call the partisan knowledge gap "modest". Less than half of the Democrats knew what Common Core is. Notice independents also did better than Democrats.
"Differences in news knowledge across partisan groups are relatively modest, though Republicans tend to do somewhat better than Democrats overall.
Republicans are 16 points more likely than Democrats to answer the Common Core question correctly (58% vs. 42%). And 57% of Republicans identify the oil industry as a primary driver of growth in North Dakota, compared with 42% of Democrats.
On other issues, such as the unemployment rate, there are hardly any differences in news knowledge between Republicans and Democrats. Just 38% of Republicans and 34% of Democrats know that the unemployment rate is currently closest to 6%. Many Americans overestimate the current unemployment rate: 27% say it is closest to 9%, while an additional 18% think the rate is closest to 12%."
No wonder the party is forever telling us we don't spend enough on education.