YouTube also has an "answer" video to this one, featuring British idiots. I hate to admit it, but the UK effort is quite obviously even more rigged than the US-based original, in terms of editing out all the right answers that must have been filmed.

An even smaller number of subjects are shown repeatedly, in rotation, and (most tellingly) they had to include several minor children, each giving multiple wrong answers, to fill up the three-and-a-half minutes.

One of the pre-teen boys was asked "who is the British Prime Minister," and the answer he gave ~ supposedly "wrong" ~ was shown in the subtitles as "Tony Blare." Since the kids was answering verbally, he can hardly be held responsible for the editors' spelling error. (Of course, we don't know when filming took place, so Mr. Blair may or may not still have been in office; but even if Tony Blair were the recently ousted ex-PM, it's not such a terribly ignorant answer for a twelve-year-old.)

Sad to say, huge numbers of everyday Americans are incredibly ignorant. I suppose it's because we can afford to be. Jay Leno's regular feature showing this type of person-on-the-street quiz is normally shot at a shopping mall or some kind of relatively upscale downtown street ~ not in a poverty-striken "underclass" neighborhood, where lack of education/erudition might be understandable. These blissfully ignorant fools are generally affluent, living the good life, fat and happy and completely uninterested in learning anything they don't feel that they "need" to know.

I remember reading recently that some frighteningly large percentage of Americans can't find Chicago on a map. It occurred to me at the time that most of them could probably afford to fly to Chicago, that many have probably done so, and still they haven't the slightest inclination to know where they're traveling. Let the pilot worry about that...

I'm sure that most of the ignoramuses we see in these film clips are supported by a family breadwinner who does have some idea about the world around him/her. But for each such informed citizen, there are probably multiple dependants who have no interest in learning anything except which credit card is not yet maxed out.