1. When the Inside Fraud Bulletin ranked the most attractive global spots for money laundering, where did it rank Vatican City?

1. Number 1
2. Number 8
3. Number 149
4. nowhere; it didn't make the list

2. How many times has the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reprimanded GlaxoSmithKline for misleading consumers about its popular asthma drugs, Flovent and Flonase?

1. 0 (zero)
2. once
3. 3 times
4. 14 times

3. In 1999, a member of the anti-racist watchdog group Southern Poverty Law Center used what words to describe the number of Americans in hate groups?

1. "terrifyingly large"
2. "enormous," "incalculable"
3. "tiny", "infinitesimal"
4. "easily in the six figures"

4. How many people did Henry Lee Lucas claim he killed?

1. 6
2. 30
3. 350
4. over 3000

5. In 2001, a US court granted political asylum for the first time ever to a French citizen. What were the grounds?

1. The man blew the whistle on a pedophile ring, which includes government officials from Nice, who were molesting his daughter.
2. The man had published secret documents on France's nuclear testing.
3. The man was a Scientologist being persecuted for his religious beliefs.
4. The man was facing a life sentence in French prison for trying to climb the side of the Eiffel Tower as a publicity stunt.

6. Yale and the University of Pittsburgh each conducted autopsies of people in the US who had supposedly died of Alzheimer's. These studies found that 13 percent and 5.5 percent had actually died of another disease. Which one?

1. Lou Gehrig's disease
2. Brain cancer
3. CJD, the human form of mad cow disease
4. HIV/AIDS

7. What percentage of the world's Ritalin supply is used in the United States?

1. 4 percent
2. 16 percent
3. 50 percent
4. 90 percent

8. How many countries have experienced growth and a reinvigorated economy due to the structural assistance programs from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund?

1. None
2. One (Ecuador)
3. About half of them
4. all of them

9. People under 18 are murdered by other people under 18 what percentage of the time?

1. 12 percent
2. 25 percent
3. 50 percent
4. 95 percent

10. Teenagers under 20 comprise what percentage of drug overdose deaths?

1. 3 percent
2. 22 percent
3. 45 percent
4. 70 percent

11. The results of the famous domestic violence survey by the Family Research Laboratory in 1985 found that 1.8 million women were the victims of severe domestic abuse each year, which led to the famous statistic: A woman is battered by her partner every 18 seconds. That same survey found what number of men were victims of severe domestic abuse?

1. None
2. A statistically insignificant number
3. 250,000
4. 2 million

12. The notions of "good" and "evil"--and the notion of life as an epic battle between the two--originated when and where?

1. They've always been with us; they're hardwired into the human brain
2. They probably developed in the human race's dim prehistory
3. Persia, circa the 5th century B.C.
4. Nazareth, circa 30 A.D.

13. What emergency situation caused a nuclear reactor in Florida to automatically shut down at least five times in the 1980s?

1. Hurricanes
2. Tidal waves
3. A worker cleaning a control panel snagged a crucial dial with a rag
4. Someone flushed the toilet in the reactor's bathroom

14. During the conflagration that ended the Waco siege, the head of the Hostage Rescue Team mentioned the possibility of rescuing the Branch Davidian children. According to radio transmissions on the scene, what was the response of the Special Agent in Charge?

1. "We need to get everybody out of there."
2. "Let's roll."
3. "Do it. Just be careful."
4. "No one else, I hope."

15. The quote, "I want all drugs legalized", comes from which individual?

1. Keith Richards
2. Jenna Bush
3. Abbie Hoffman
4. Edward Ellison, the former head of Scotland Yard's anti-drug division

16. A study commissioned by the US General Accounting Office found serious problems with the accuracy and security of methods used to count votes by computer. What year was this report issued?

1. 2001
2. 1992
3. 1983
4. 1974

17. Which countries have said that prior to September 11, 2001, their intelligence agencies warned the US of planned attacks on its landmarks, such as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?

1. Israel
2. Germany
3. Russia
4. Philippines
5. All of the above

18. Which of these quotes regarding education is not real?

1. "School produces mental perversion and absolute stupidity." --Vincent Youmans, world-famous American physician and academic (1867)
2. The creation of the compulsory public schooling system was ordered by "certain industrialists and the innovative who were altering the nature of the industrial process." --James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953 (1949)
3. "We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning or men of science." --Rockefeller's General Education Board (1906)
4. Education is "the development of critical reasoning and the acquiring of basic facts relating to science, history, the arts, and similar areas." --Education Department (1968)

19. If you averaged the net worths of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and the 13 top Cabinet officials, what would that figure be?

1. $780,000
2. just over $1 million
3. $5.1 million - $11.5 million
4. $9.9 million - $28.9 million

20. Tainted meat from a Sara Lee plant killed 15 people, seriously sickened 101, and caused 15 miscarriages in 1998-1999. A report from the Inspector General's Office of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) found evidence that the management of the Sara Lee plant was aware that the meat was, or was highly likely to be, contaminated with listeria. What was the amount of the fine Sara Lee paid for these deaths and injuries?

1. $200 million, the highest ever paid by a US corporation
2. $20 million
3. $2 million
4. $200,000

21. Coca-Cola, the Boy Scouts, Tru-Flite golf clubs, two Canadian women's hockey teams, the 1916 British War Savings Stamp, poker chips, jewelry, street lamps in Los Angeles, the Louvre in Paris, the Dalai Lama's throne, and St. Mary's Basilica in Phoenix, Arizona, have all incorporated what symbol?

1. The cross
2. The swastika
3. The 4-leaf clover
4. The Sun

22. True or False: Literacy rates in the US are higher than they've ever been.

1. true
2. false

23. True or False: Hannibal Lecter--the serial killer created by novelist Thomas Harris--was inspired by an actual case.

1. true
2. false

24. True or False: China has enough "Sunburn" missiles to destroy half the US Navy.

1. true
2. false

25. True or False: The most prominent, though unofficial, representative of the Taliban government in the US was the niece of a former CIA director.

1. true
2. false

26. True or False: The plague is still afflicting people in the US.

1. true
2. false

27. True or False: There is no scientific evidence supporting alternative medicine

1. true
2. false