Get ready for tonight’s final presidential debate with our pop quiz!
Do you know which politician made these statements? And is the statement true?
1. Donald Trump’s “foundation took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself.”
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[answer]a. Barack Obama. True.
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[wrong]b. Tim Kaine. True.
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[wrong]c. Mike Pence. False.
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The correct answer and full story here.
2. “More women are graduating from college now [2014] than men.”
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[answer]a. Mitch McConnell. True.
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[wrong]b. Barack Obama. Mostly False.
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[wrong]c. Paul Ryan. False.
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The correct answer and full story here.
3. The U.S. “tax rate on successful small businesses is 44.6 percent,” while the business tax rate in Canada is 15 percent.”
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[answer]a. Paul Ryan. True.
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[wrong]b. Hillary Clinton. False.
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[wrong]c. Donald Trump. Mostly True.
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The correct answer and full story here.
4. “The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay.”
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[answer]a. Hillary Clinton. Half True.
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[wrong]b. Mitch McConnell. False.
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[wrong]c. Tim Kaine. True.
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The correct answer and full story here.
5. Hillary Clinton “wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.”
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[answer]a. Mike Pence. True.
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[wrong]b. Barack Obama. False.
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[wrong]c. Tim Kaine. True.
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The correct answer and full story here.
6. The Hollywood celebrities endorsing Hillary Clinton are “in many cases celebrities that aren’t very hot anymore.”
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[answer]a. Donald Trump. Mostly False.
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[wrong]b. Mike Pence. Half True.
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[wrong]c. Paul Ryan. False.
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The correct answer and full story here.
7. “For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half.”
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[answer]a. Tim Kaine. Mostly True.
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[wrong]b. Barack Obama. False.
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[wrong]c. Hillary Clinton. False.
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The correct answer and full story here.
The source for all our quiz questions is the Pulitzer Prize winning fact checking site, Politifact.
Other fact checking website that we recommend include:
Snopes – debunks fake internet news stories and memes.
FactCheck.org – The Annenburg Public Policy Center’s fact checking site in operation since 2003.
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker – run by journalist Glenn Kessler.
Open Secrets – tracks money in politics including campaign spending and contributions plus information about dark money.
Sunlight Foundation – working to make government and politics more transparent and accountable. Offers a variety of tools including politiwoops (deleted tweets of politicians).
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