---
title: "Beck Check"
description: "Only 40% of U.S. adults overall -- and 32% of Democrats -- can correctly identify Glenn Beck as a talk show host."
date: "2009-01-06"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/06/beck-check/"
---

# Beck Check

Four-in-ten Americans can correctly identify Glenn Beck as a TV and radio talk show host in a Pew Research Center News IQ Quiz. Still that is a higher proportion overall than could identify Ben Bernanke as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (33%). Moreover about half of Republicans (49%) correctly identified Beck compared with 32% of Democrats, the largest partisan gap recorded on any item covered in the knowledge survey. [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1378/political-news-iq-quiz)