What's Your Alcohol I.Q.? How savvy are you about 6. On average, how many ence how intoxicated a person the dangers of alcohol? Take drinks are consumed each gets? this quiz and find out. week by college students with A. Physical size a grade point average of D B. Speed of drinking 1. In all states as of the end of or below? C. Time of day 1998, teens can be arrested for A. 1 D. Full or empty stomach driving under the influence of B. 3 alcohol if their blood alcohol C. 7 - 10. Alcohol concentration exceeds: D. 11 A. Stimulant A. zero B. Depressant B. 0.05 7. About how many calories C. Hallucinogen C. 0.08 are in one drink of wine or D. All of the above D. 0.10 beer? A. 100 to 150 2. Which statement is false? B. 20 A. On average, women's C. 600 to 700 bloodstreams absorb more D. zero alcohol per drink than men's. B. You can only get drunk on 8. Which of the following is a hard liquor, not on beer. risk of binge drinking? C. Alcohol lowers a person's A. Acute alcohol poisoning body temperature." B. Passing out and choking on D. It's illegal in all states to one's own vomit sell alcohol to people under C. Being involved in a violent age 21. act D. All of the above 3. What part of the body per- forms the main task of chemi- 9. Which factor does not influ- cally breaking down alcohol? A. Liver B. Small intestine Teens at C. Kidneys Greater Risk D. All of the above The risk of a fatal crash shoots up even after one drink. 4. Over time, habitual drinkers Drivers ages 16 to 19 increase their risks of: with a blood alcohol concentration A. Heart disease (BAC) of .02 percent t 3 10 4 B. Liver disease 05 percent-that's only Drinks C. Cancer one to two drinks-are 7 TIMES With three or four D. All of the above drinks (BAC of more likely to be killed 4 to 6 1085 percent), young in a crash than a sober 2 drivers are Drinks 5. Approximately how many driver of any age group. 40 TIMES babies are born each year with By four to six drinks more likely to be BAC of . 12 percent), fetal alcohol syndrome caused killed than a sober teenagers are by their mother's drinking? driver and 20 times 90 TIMES A. 3,000 more likely to be 1 to 2 killed than a 55-year- more likely to die B. 10,000 old driver with the in a crash as a C. 41,000 Drinks same BAC. i sober driver. D. 106,000 Federal law requires all states have a zero tolerance law in Ned Shaw effect for drivers under age 21 by the end of 1998. Source: American Automobile Association (AAA) CURRENT WEALTH 2/ February 1998