News Cut Category Archive: The Quiz

Almost as many people camped out at the News Cut World Headquarters last night to be the first to take this week's quiz, as camped out waiting for the Batman movie. Or not.

Are you ready to take it? If so, proceed.

I'm on the road today in Rushford (and at the invitation of a News Cut reader, Stockton). Later this afternoon, I'll provide the little multimedia presentation I'm working up on the flash flood area one year later.

But your visit to News Cut today is not without reward. We present the Week in Review News Cut Quiz.

The odds are someone has mailed you this Muppets video in celebration of the 4th. While watching it, I tried to remember the entire preamble to the Constitution, which we were required to memorize in school. Sadly, I couldn't do any better than the Muppet did.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

This week, we test your knowledge of the Constitution of the United States in the News Cut Quiz. All the questions are true/false. As always, take the quiz, and report your results below.

We're all counting on you. Good luck.

Two things have never happened in this great country. (1) No team has ever won an NBA championship after being down three games to none and (2) Nobody (as far as we know) has ever received a perfect score on the News Cut Quiz.

Neither of these streaks is likely to end this weekend. Here is this week's quiz. As always, we invite you to take the quiz, then come back and submit a comment, indicating your score and impressing us with your creative writing ability to explain it.

Don't forget this weekend, I'm trying out an idea and I hope you'll be a part of it. Help document a weekend in the life of Minnesota. Details here.

There was only one story that truly captured the heart of your News Cut host this week -- the tornado in Hugo. And so this week's News Cut Week in Review Quiz is all about tornadoes.

In a never-ending quest to see the first perfect score on the News Cut quiz in my lifetime, I've even added some true-false questions. After you take the quiz, report back here.

As always, good luck. We're all counting on you.

Because I'm back from vacation, the News Cut Quiz is back from vacation. Here's this week's version -- a classic mix of pointless popular culture trivia and "I should've known that" factoids.

Good luck. And remember: We're all counting on you.