Today’s fun fact
•Despite a
deluge of news about the prospect of a war against Saddam Hussein, only 13% of Americans tested could point Iraq
out on a map of the world.
•11% of
Americans could not find America.
•71% of
Americans could point out where the Pacific Ocean - the world's largest body of water - was located. Worldwide, three in
10 of those surveyed could not
locate the Pacific Ocean.
•Apart from
the Swedes, only 40% or fewer young adults could name China and India as the two countries with a population over
one billion.
•Less than 25%
of French, Canadian, Italian, British and Americans could name four countries that officially acknowledged owning
nuclear weapons.
•58% of
Americans know the Taleban and al-Qaeda were based in Afghanistan, compared with 84% of Britons, but only 17%
of Americans can locate the
country.
(courtesy of National Geographic Magazine and BBC News
World Edition)