Give our infographic on the biggest news stories of the year a quick perusal and then see how well you can do on Pew's news of the year quiz. There are only 12 questions, yet a shocking number of Americans (67 percent) could not get more than half right. You can also see some demographic slicing of the data:
Men do slightly better than women, and, unsurprisingly, the older and more educated you are, the most you're following the news.