Increase Your Political Knowledge

I'm doing a quiz over at The Political Compass which has some surprising answers. If you've got 10minutes, sift through and answer a few. It'll give you an interesting, if not disturbing outlook on how the world really works.

Here are some examples:

• Who granted several audiences to, and received a donation of more than $1 million from Shoko Asahara, leader of the Supreme Truth cult of Japan, and spreader of sarin gas in the Tokyo subway?
  1. The Dalai Lama
  2. Pope John Paul II
  3. George Carey, as Archbishop of Canterbury
  4. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Who said: "I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes ... to spread a lively terror?"
  1. Albert Schweizer
  2. Winston Churchill
  3. Princess Diana
  4. Ché Guevara
• Who said: "I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability that is amazing and seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed?
  1. Winston Churchill
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Mahatma Gandhi
  4. George Orwell

The answers, in order are: The Dalai Lama, Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi.

For those questions and more like them, check out The Political Compass: Iconochasms.