Ha! I didn’t stink on the Slate news quiz this week!

quiz win

Y’all know how I like to brag about my great scores on various quizzes (usually civics quizzes, but sometimes about fundamental understanding of issues in the news).

But I’ve mentioned that I tend to do HORRIBLY on the weekly Slate news quiz — which I chalk up to two factors:

  1. The fact that you’re scored by how FAST you answer, and a ticking clock always rattles me.
  2. The tendency for the questions to be about the kind of quirky, esoteric stuff that I don’t pay attention to.

Well, this week I didn’t stink! I was, well, average! Which on this quiz is real progress, for me….

4 thoughts on “Ha! I didn’t stink on the Slate news quiz this week!”

  1. Mike Cakora

    Congrats, I guess, but no mention of Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s speech before the clerics that I cited on another thread. Not relevant to Slate’s mission of “all the news that fits we print,” I suppose.

    Nor any mention of our Neighbor to the North’s reaction to a Muslim killer.

    Kevin Vickers, the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms who became a national hero in Canada after he took down a lone terrorist who stormed the Parliament last October, has been named Canada’s new ambassador to Ireland.

    The new ambassador, who was given a three-minute standing ovation in the House of Commons the day after the foiled attack, promised to represent his country with “pride and dignity.”

    “As a Canadian with family on both sides hailing from Ireland, there could be no greater honour,” Vickers said in a statement.

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who had previously charatcerized the attack as an act of terrorism, praised Vickers’ heroism.

    “Kevin Vickers has shown profound leadership and dedication to the security of Canada and its national institutions,” Harper said in a statement. “His extensive experience working with Parliament, as well as his bravery and integrity, will serve to deepen close bilateral relations between Canada and Ireland in the years ahead.”

    The 58-year-old Vickers shot and killed Muslim convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau inside the Parliament building soon after gunman executed reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was guarding the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

    Nicely played, no? Perhaps some day Slate will include items like this in its quiz.

  2. Norm Ivey

    312. I missed 3 of the same ones you missed (if they are presented in the same order). I saw the headlines for two of those stories–just didn’t read them.

    Kinda embarrassed about missing the beer label question…..

  3. Burl Burlingame

    Ok I’ll criticize, however faintly. I sense that you find milking daily events for humor instead of social analysis somewhat distasteful and beneath one’s dignity. I maintain that one cannot make a successful joke without analysis of the issue. Rather like writing editorials — except that a proper joke can skewer the guilty in a dozen words, while an editorial may take a thousand.

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