Mastermind - US

[pharvey]

Fairly convinced you would have similar results on the streets of the UK.....

[charlesh]

Very good - they can stand proudly with GWB. Nice to see the results of the US education system. And they weren't all blond either!!!!!
We'll have to get that Kiwi to do a survey in Dandenong or Frankston ( in Melb.).

[Jimbob]

This clip was done a few years ago by the 'Chaser' program guys. Love their CNN(N) homage Interviewer was Australian but spoke at 'city speed'. I'm sure many septics could not quite understand what he said.

[sandman67]

in a country where over 50% of the population dont believe in evolution and think the Earth is around 6000 ... yes that is six THOUSAND..... years old what do you expect?

still, seems N Ireland has now caught the evangelical christianity stupidity bug:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/2 ... reationism

As the OP said tho, do the same on streets in London and Sydney and see much the same results. The BBC did a simlar thing last year and something like 20% of kids didnt even know the name of our own PM.

when you let mentally sick cretins like Nelson McCausland, Mervyn Storey or the Texas School Board anywhere near kids this is the result.

still.... gives some of us a laugh at Big Thick Jack McClod in the street eh? Certainly puts a smile on my grizzled fizzog