The national debt is currently about how much money?

• $10 trillion
• $13 trillion
• $16 trillion

  On the Late Show last week, David Letterman asked President Obama what the national debt was, and Obama said he didn’t “remember what the number was precisely.”

• $20 trillion

The United States currently has how many troops stationed in Afghanistan?

• 17,000
• 68,000

  Joe Biden stated on Friday that we have 650,000 troops in Afghanistan. An aide later clarified that he had meant to say 68,000.

• 125,000
• 650,000

When did Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell say, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president”?

• Before Obama took office
• Just after Obama took office
• Just before the 2010 midterm election

  President Obama claimed on 60 Minutes recently that McConnell made the remark "when I first came into office." In fact, McConnell said it on October 23, 2010.

• Mitch McConnell is a devoted public servant and never said any such thing

For how long did President Obama enjoy a Democratic supermajority in the Senate during his first term in office?

• Four months

  During a recent 60 Minutes interview, Mitt Romney claimed, not for the first time, that President Obama had a Senate supermajority for his first two years in office. In reality, Obama only had the benefit of a supermajority for a little over four months — from the time that Paul Kirk temporarily replaced a deceased Ted Kennedy on September 25, 2009, to the swearing in of Scott Brown on February 4, 2010.

• One year
• Eighteen months
• Two years

Under which president did the Fast and Furious program begin?

• Barack Obama

  President Obama recently told Univision “that the Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration.” While the ATF under George W. Bush did run a very similar program, called Operation Wide Receiver, it was not the same exact program as Fast and Furious.

• George W. Bush
• Bill Clinton
• Vin Diesel