Are you smarter than an American on religious knowledge?

The average American only got half of the questions right in this quiz on religious knowledge. Can you do better?
Billy Graham Crusade
Worshippers at the Greater New York Billy Graham Crusade in 2005. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

The Pew Research Centre recently surveyed Americans on their religious knowledge – and for a country where religion is so prominent, the results were surprising. Self-described atheists and agnostics out-performed every other group, barring Jews. According to Pew:



Part of the quiz is online and you can take it for yourself right here and see how you compare with Americans who took the quiz by gender, religious belief and education. A word of warning, at least three of the questions have an obvious US angle, making them tricky for non-Americans to answer. But what the hell.