Via +Philip Plait and http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/02/science_and_religion_viral_pew_surveys_yield_surprising_results.html
I scored 100%, in the 99th percentile, and didn't really think any of the questions were that difficult, except maybe one history-focused question, the last one, which was netted the lowest scores overall.
I found the results of the legal-focused questions interesting, too.
U.S. Religious Knowledge Quiz
How much do you know about religion? And how do you compare with the average American? Take a short 15-question quiz from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life to find out.
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13/15. (8 and 15 wrong).
The quiz was well done, with excellent post-quiz information.
Yeah, nice breakdown of info. I haven't dug into the formal documents on the survey results yet.
13/15…meh. I got one of the SCOTUS questions wrong and the Pakistan one (both I'll blame on lack of coffee and too much snow).
I got all of them right, but there were a couple that gave me pause.
14/15 (clicked the wrong answer on the last one). Although I may comment that the ‘Mormons’ prefer to be called members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
And the Athiest gets 15 of 15 in the top quintile better than 99% of the rest of America.
15/15. Then I clicked on the comparisons and… 50% is typical? Why do Americans argue about religion so much? We apparently don't know enough to argue about it!
"Which of these religions aims at nirvana, the state of being free from suffering?"
Islam / Buddhism / Hinduism
Ummm…. Not sure there's a single answer here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana
While it looks like the term pops up in Hinduism, I'd argue that the concept is most centrally associated with Buddhism. I mean, if you ignore the term and just go with "the state of being free from suffering," that's often used as a description of the Christian afterlife, too.
+George Wiman From what I've seen, the less Americans know about something the more they argue their "side". I doubt that's exclusive to Americans, though. Grass-is-always-greener. I'm guessing it's a feature of humanity in general.
13/15 here, too. Good quiz, and it makes me shake my head over this country's religious wars, such as it were.
Nirvana got me too. Another ignorant atheist.