The Week-in-Review Quiz

Posted at 4:12 PM on May 2, 2008 by Bob Collins (8 Comments)

I got so busy working on the Women of World War II stories over the last week (here, here, and here and thanks for asking!)that I neglected to put together a News Cut Quiz last week. Nobody noticed -- a blow to your education and my ego. But let's muster on. This week's quiz is full of great trivia from this week's news stories. Where else can you learn the temperature at which a seed of corn germinates. There. That's your only clue this week.

As always, report back here when you're done.

I am heading to New England for the next two weeks. I'll be occasionally posting something but in the meantime, if I hear correctly, MPR's Tim Nelson and, perhaps, Tom Weber will be your hosts. In the meantime, you can find me on Twitter.

And, what's that? You say you have a good angle for News Cut, or a person you think I just have to profile? Good. Tell me about it.

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Comments (8)

Oh we noticed, but who is going to tell a teacher they forgot to quiz their class... LOL

Posted by Minn Whaler | May 2, 2008 7:15 PM

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Ok... flunked big time, but....
second time aced it. got a couple lucky guesses the first time and as for the author question..
what a gift!!! just so you know when you use gender in a question and there is only one guy's name, well HELLO..
thanks for the gift..
didn't help much
1st try 4/15
2nd 15/15
I have a great retention for nonsensical facts...
lasts about oh 2 minutes

Posted by Cara | May 2, 2008 7:33 PM

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I was prepared last week, prof, but not this week.
Don't think the class forgot. However, I may now need to audit....

Posted by Rev Lawn | May 2, 2008 11:43 PM

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The quiz has become a part of our weekend. So we really missed it last week...and we kept checking.
The fifth grader did better than I did. Some of those questions I do not recall any article...hmmm.
4/15. ouch. (the fifth grader 6/15)

Posted by c | May 4, 2008 12:07 PM

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I didn't do very well -- got 8 correct. Don't like the "trivia" questions. Would rather have meaningful news-related questions.

Posted by Jamie | May 4, 2008 2:59 PM

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9/15, but more for general knowledge than for in-depth analysis of news cut...

Posted by bsimon | May 5, 2008 10:00 AM

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Which questions would you consider trivia? They all have something to do with news last week.

Posted by Bob Collins | May 5, 2008 1:21 PM

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9/15...kind of slacked on keeping up during a busy work week, still thought that it wasn't so bad - I did guess on 2 correctly :)

Posted by Tyler Suter | May 6, 2008 12:35 AM

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