Well, I had a leg up on THAT question, anyway…

And I did really well — 10 out of 12 questions right!

But it wasn’t good enough. My score of 40 on the Slate News Quiz was edged out by Bill Carey, who is the editorial director for strategy (whatever that is) at Slate, and Mr. Average just squeaked by at 408.

Of course, I wouldn’t have done even that well if not for the gimme question you see above. And I admit I got lucky on guesses on a couple of others. Educated guesses, of course.

Here’s hoping you do better. As practically everyone does, time after time…