From what I read, the majority of younger Americans fail this quiz. I got 13 out of 13.

 

 

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/

13/13. Though yeah, I thought oil was extracted through fracking.

12/13 I got the fracking one wrong. I knew it was either silicon or natural gas. Guess I chose wrong.

Meh this is hardly a proper representation of level of knowledge of science and technology but fun in its own way. Intelligence is relative and with their sample pool calling it a "national survey" is extremely misleading. A sampling of 1k people to represent a nation of a few hundred million? Way too many flaws with this :/ For being the results from a so called research center, that to me raises far more questions than the results do.

 

1k is a pretty standard sample size in polling methodology. From Gallup's website:

 

 The typical World Poll survey includes at least 1,000 surveys of individuals. In some countries, oversamples are collected in major cities or areas of special interest. Additionally, in some large countries, such as China and Russia, sample sizes of at least 2,000 are collected. Although rare, in some instances the sample size is between 500 and 1,000.

I got 12 out of 13