Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Who Do You Know?

Reuters reported the results of a Zogby poll yesterday on pop culture.

Three quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Show White's seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court Justices, according to a poll on pop culture released on Monday.

Laura Ingraham mentioned this on her radio show this morning and asked people to call in if they thought they knew all of the Supreme Court Justices. The one caller she had time for only knew five. Laura either didn't know or pretended not to know all of the Seven Dwarfs. So, from memory, here are the Seven Dwarfs (I promise I didn't look them up).

Sleepy
Sneezy
Bashful
Dopey
Grumpy
Doc
(long pause)
Happy

Also from memory, here are the Supreme Court Justices.

Leftish:
Ginsburg
Kennedy
Souter
Breyer
Stephens

Rightish:
Roberts
Alito
Scalia
Thomas

This morning in my car, I was sure there were only eight justices, because I couldn't think of Stephens. I'm not sure I could pick them out of a line-up, though.

Here are a couple more of the pop culture poll questions:

Asked what planet Superman was from, 60 percent named the fictional planet Krypton, while only 37 percent knew that Mercury is the planet closest to the sun.

Respondents were far more familiar with the Three Stooges -- Larry, Curly and Moe -- than the three branches of the U.S. government -- judicial, executive and legislative. Seventy-four percent identified the former, 42 percent the latter.

How'd you do?

2 comments:

Malott said...

The hard part is "matching" the supreme court justices with the seven dwarfs.

Kennedy = Dopey
Thomas = Bashful
Scalia = Doc

You get the idea.

SkyePuppy said...

Chris,

LOL.

Ginsburg = Sleepy

But two justices don't get a match. One of them should be Stephens, since I couldn't even remember him for most of the day.