I only have one beef about it… they’re supposed to be sending me emails to let me know when it comes out, and this week they didn’t. I had to think of it, and go hunt it down.
And then, I slew it!
I confess I have not thoroughly slain it every week since I discovered it. A couple of times there have been two events that I knew happened in something B.C., and I failed to get them in the right order. And this time, I might easily have gotten confused about which of these came first — Althea Gibson winning the U.S. Open, and Ike visiting India — but I didn’t. So there.
I was particularly glad to find it because Slate has made its weekly quiz less accessible. Today I couldn’t even find it. Other days they wanted me to pay for Slate, which I’m not going to do. I pay for too many things already.
Speaking of paying — I hope you try this, because I want to find out whether you have to access to do so. I don’t know what is allowed to nonsubscribers. I hope you can, and that you have fun with it.
Now that I’ve thoroughly boasted and bragged and otherwise enjoyed this one, I’ll sit in dread for the other weekly NYT quiz, which comes out on Fridays, and pretty much always defeats me…
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Well, I suppose my dread was unnecessary.
I wrote the above post this morning, but after my PC crashed twice along the way, I only published it a few minutes ago. Then I went to my email, and there was the NYT Friday news quiz.
And I, um, did pretty well on it.
If you want to try it, here it is…
Of course, you can see that my usual average is pretty pathetic. Most weeks, it’s pretty tough. Just not this one…
can’t see it. says password required. Not interested in doing that.