Quiz #16 answers

1. the 1960s (1964)
2. 25; 625 sportswriters
3. a vote with nonbinding results
4. a political tool in the form of a poll whose primary purpose is to persuade, often by spreading rumors, rather than to gather data
5. horns
6. Family Feud; 100
7. Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey, in that order. In 2007, Clinton was named by 18% of Americans and Winfrey by 16%. Incidentally, George W. Bush was the most-named man each of those years, but had fallen from 29% support in 2003 to 10% in 2007, just beating out Bill Clinton at 8%.
8. Doctor-assisted suicide had the most support, 56%, while banning handguns had the least, 29%. (Legalizing gay marriage had 40% support.)
9. Creationism was believed by 45%; astrology, by 25% (haunted houses, 37%). Fully 73% believed in some sort of paranormal phenomenon, most commonly ESP (41%).
10. Choice c) only received 39% support; the same percent said immigration should be kept at present levels, while 18% thought levels should be increased.

(For questions where I cross checked, Pew Research Center poll results were similar to Gallup.)