Ask these questions to any random stranger on the streets of America and I'm sure that around 90% wouldn't know for instance what the religion if Israel is or what John Howard looked like or even where N.Korea or Australia were on a map.
BTW, "He's from Texas, He's gotta be right!"
How could you not know the religion of Isreal? A homeland for the Jews is kind of the whole point of the country, isn't it? John Howard is a fat bald Australian, and North Korea is north of South Korea, south of China, and west of Japan across the Sea of Japan (sometimes called the East sea by the Koreans).
Oh, and Australia is somewhere near Mexico, isn't it?
(or it could be directly south of Indonesia... who knows?
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