What's Your Global IQ?

If you've spent any amount of time on Facebook, you've probably been challenged to a number of quizzes, including IQ tests, and assumedly taken your fair share of quizzes as well. Bill Clinton's Clinton Foundation, which put on the Clinton Global Initiative that we at Tonic were all over, has their own global IQ test that they'd like people to take. But instead of asking you what the square root of 144 is or which two symbols go together, they ask you 10 questions about issues going on across the world.

For instance, do you know how much deforestation affects tropical forests on a yearly basis? Or the percentage of kids and teenagers who are either obese or overweight in the United States? Whether you do or you don't, you should still take the quiz, because it brings up important issues that people should be aware of. In addition, it's always good to increase your knowledge base. I mean, when I see a poll result that says 37 percent of American citizens are "incapable of identifying their home country on a map of the United States," I have to believe learning some additional information isn't a bad thing.

Not only that, but upon completion of the Global IQ quiz, a donor will contribute $1 toward the work of the foundation, which is involved in pursuits such as treating those with HIV/AIDS and malaria, fighting climate change and promoting economic opportunities.

Just a few minutes is all it takes to boost your global IQ.

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