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Feeling nostalgic for old-fashioned library cards, the kind you had to pore over one by one before the advent of computerized library databases?

I was. I made a virtual library card for my virtual publication.

Make your own here.

It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in the Land of the Free, and it’s back to school here on campus! What better way to kick off the semester than with a pop quiz?

Please answer this very quick quiz on current affairs on your own.

1. Name a country that begins with U.
2. What countries are in “The Coalition of the Willing”?
3. What is the main religion of Israel?
4. What is the religion of Buddhist monks?
5. Who won the Vietnam War?
6. Who’s Fidel Castro?
7. How many sides does a triangle have?
8. What is the currency used in the UK?
9. What is the next country the US should bomb in the Middle East? (Bonus points for picking a country actually *in* the Middle East…)
10. Where is Sri Lanka?
11. Is Kofi Annan the name of a drink?
12. Who is Tony Blair?
13. Which countries are in the Axis of Evil?
14. Which, of Palestinians or Israelis, throw rocks?
15. Who was the first man on the moon?
16. What is a mosque?
17. How many kidneys does the average person have?
18. What is collateral damage?
19. How many World Wars have there been?
20. Which state does KFC come from?
21. Is Star Wars based on a true story?
22. What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki famous for?
23. Where is the West Bank?
24. How many Eiffel Towers are there in Paris?
25. What is al-Qaeda?
26. Where was the Berlin Wall?
27. Do Latin American countries speak Latin?
28. Should the US invade of Kyrgyzstan?

Now it’s time to introduce the subject matter. Australian CNNNN anchor Julian Morrow visits the Land of the Free to discover the shocking truth about the educational levels of the average American. They didn’t say where (except for the last bit), but it sure looks like SoCal.

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