Microsoft is a massive company with more products than 99.9 percent of the population can name.
College graduates were particularly concerned about the deficit; 30 percent of them named it as the No. 1 problem.
Asked what was popular now, 66 percent named French themes, more than any other style.
This year, 10 percent of the respondents could name their state senator, an improvement over the 2 percent with that information in 1971.
Another 5 percent of those surveyed, when asked if they knew who the Lieutenant Governor was, named someone else.
Nine years later, less than 1 percent of Americans named crime as a top political issue.
Looking only at the groups having "a great deal" of influence, 11 percent of respondents named religious leaders.
Only last month, a poll found that nearly 75 percent of Texans could not name their lieutenant governor.
Before the decision, University of Wisconsin researchers found, only 16 percent could name the chief justice.
Only 23 percent named Madison as the principal author of the Constitution.