News Cut Category Archive: The Quiz
Test your news knowledge on the quiz
Posted at 4:07 PM on May 20, 2011
by Julia Schrenkler
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As you can tell from their expressions, MPR Digital Media Interns Maddie and Kjersten are clearly finished creating this week's News quiz.
The real question is, are you prepared to take it? You have 16 chances to prove you were paying attention this week. Let us know in the comments how you held up against the interns.
Live trivia: The weekly Quiz
Posted at 12:30 PM on April 22, 2011
by Bob Collins
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I'm trying something new this week just for fun. Cover It Live has developed a trivia module for its product. Open it below and begin answering questions. Log-in with your Facebook or Twitter account if you want to compete with other quiz takers.
At 2 p.m., I'll start asking questions. Play along live or come back later and answer them all at once. You will be able to find out whether you're correct (or not) immediately, but you can only answer once.
Most questions are worth one point but a few of the VERY hard ones are worth up to five. If you answer incorrectly, you'll lose points, so you'll have to decide for yourself whether it's worth the risk.
I'll keep the chat open if you'd like to discuss the week's news live, and also to allow people through the weekend to take the quiz.
The week-in-revew quiz
Posted at 5:04 PM on April 15, 2011
by Bob Collins
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It's been a very busy week in the news business. Let's see how much you were able to absorb. Post your score in the comments section below and then provide your commentary on a news item that interested you most this week.
The week-in-review quiz
Posted at 5:13 PM on February 25, 2011
by Bob Collins
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We don't necessarily envy you this week. There was a lot of news taking place from the far side of the planet to the house next door. Give it your best shot and be sure to report your score in the comments section. While there, feel free come up with some haiku to describe your week.
The week that was the week quiz
Posted at 1:05 PM on November 12, 2010
by Bob Collins
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A month has passed since the last one, so it's time for another weekly News Cut Quiz. Give it a second to load in the browser and be sure to reveal your tales of life-affirming success or weekend-ruining failure in the comments section below.
Test your news IQ
Posted at 4:30 PM on October 15, 2010
by Bob Collins
(26 Comments)
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Please be sure to add your score and other comments on the week's news in the comment section.
Update - We have a prize this week. A copy of the The Current's 5 Year Anniversary CD goes to the person who -- legitimately -- gets the highest score (tie will be broken by pulling a name). We're on the honor system here.
The Quiz: Beat the blogger
Posted at 4:40 PM on September 17, 2010
by Bob Collins
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I test out all of these questions on my cubicle neighbors. It sounds suspiciously like 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!' because the fun is the process by which you come up with the answer. Gather the family around!
The weekly News Cut Quiz
Posted at 9:07 AM on August 21, 2010
by Bob Collins
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I don't have a prize this week. Sorry. Maybe we can get people to donate prizes -- maybe some raw milk or something.
Here's a big hint to the secret of success this week. Reach each question carefully. Wait a second for the quiz to load. And post your answers and complaints below.
The week-in-review quiz
Posted at 12:51 PM on August 13, 2010
by Bob Collins
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Take the News Cut Challenge!
Posted at 2:03 PM on August 6, 2010
by Bob Collins
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Quiz: The week in review
Posted at 6:31 PM on June 25, 2010
by Bob Collins
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At least once a month, I try to put together the News Cut weekly news quiz. This is your lucky day. Be sure to post your results below.
Quiz: Too clever for easy answers
Posted at 4:39 PM on May 28, 2010
by Bob Collins
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I signed an autograph for someone at the MPR Open House last Sunday and, because I'm so very clever, I wrote "The answer to question number 9 is (A)." At least I think I wrote "A." I might have written "C." Somewhere out there, someone thinks they've gotten an easy answer. And maybe they have. Or maybe they haven't. As it turns out, we don't do the A,B,C thing, anyway. So whoever has been waiting for the quiz, with my autograph in one hand and your finger on the keyboard in the other, the correct answer to question #9 is the first one.
Unless of course you've already sold the darned thing on E*Bay.
Quiz: Are you smarter than the MPR interns?
Posted at 2:02 PM on May 21, 2010
by Bob Collins
(21 Comments)
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These are the interns in MPR's Digital Media Department, learning a valuable lesson in only their second week on the job: It's harder to look pensive than it is to be pensive. But it's a skill that must be mastered if one is to rise in the American workplace.
Debunking the myth that we pile onto interns, those jobs we don't like doing ourselves, we have given to Rachel Wilensky and David McVeety (students at St. Paul Academy) the responsibility of putting together this week's News Cut Quiz. We have given them only this guidance: "Make it hard, don't make it impossible, and make people assume the fetal position when they're done with it."
Let's see how they did this week by seeing how you do.
The week-that-was quiz
Posted at 3:19 PM on April 30, 2010
by Bob Collins
(17 Comments)
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The News Cut week-in-review quiz
Posted at 4:05 PM on April 9, 2010
by Bob Collins
(11 Comments)
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The Weekly Quiz
Posted at 5:19 PM on November 20, 2009
by Bob Collins
(7 Comments)
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The hardest news quiz you'll ever take
Posted at 5:15 PM on November 13, 2009
by Bob Collins
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The Week in Review Quiz
Posted at 4:02 PM on September 18, 2009
by Bob Collins
(5 Comments)
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The Quiz: Stump the blogger!
Posted at 4:01 PM on September 11, 2009
by Bob Collins
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The Quiz: Stump the social media expert
Posted at 2:01 PM on July 17, 2009
by Bob Collins
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The week that was
Posted at 2:39 PM on July 10, 2009
by Bob Collins
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The News Cut Week-in-Review Quiz
Posted at 5:32 PM on June 26, 2009
by Bob Collins
(7 Comments)
Filed under: The Quiz
Please be sure to let us know how you did (via the comments section below).
The Quiz is back!
Posted at 3:25 PM on June 19, 2009
by Bob Collins
(24 Comments)
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Please be sure to let us know how you did (via the comments section below).
The Quiz: Franken-Coleman edition
Posted at 7:29 PM on March 13, 2009
by Bob Collins
(7 Comments)
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Don't forget to post your scores below.
The Quiz
Posted at 11:20 AM on March 6, 2009
by Bob Collins
(7 Comments)
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(The quiz begins below the fold)
The week-in-review quiz
Posted at 5:45 PM on January 9, 2009
by Bob Collins
(9 Comments)
Filed under: The Quiz
Let me know how you did.
Update 9:06 a.m. Sunday - I had to turn off comments for this post because of a massive spam attack. I'll just assumed you aced the quiz. Good job!
Whose year was it?
Posted at 3:39 PM on December 31, 2008
by Bob Collins
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Those may be events in our lives, but are they our lives? Are they our years? I have a hard time saying "2008 was a bad year" to someone who, for example, watched their kid walk across a stage to get his or her high school diploma this year? Or the person whose biopsy showed the tumor was benign.
But we don't do news stories about high school graduations or medical test results for people who aren't from Hollywood. And yet, that's the way we live our lives. Personally. Individually. Quietly. It stands to reason that it's not up to people like us to review and define 2008; it's up to you.
As the old question goes: How was it for you?
A quiz for the elite
Posted at 6:10 PM on September 26, 2008
by Bob Collins
(4 Comments)
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Are you smarter than a blogger?
Posted at 5:11 PM on September 19, 2008
by Bob Collins
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The News Cut Quiz
Posted at 12:05 PM on July 25, 2008
by Bob Collins
(9 Comments)
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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.
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The Week in Review Quiz
Posted at 4:00 AM on July 18, 2008
by Bob Collins
(8 Comments)
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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.
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The Week-in-Review Quiz
Posted at 7:10 AM on July 12, 2008
by Bob Collins
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By the way, big props go out to MPR's Ari Koinuma, who designed and wrote the code for the Quiz, which -- as you can see -- we can now embed in the News Cut space, add some pretty pictures, and give you a hint -- should you need one. Ari's real smart. Smarter than you? Let's find out.
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News Cut Quiz: We the purple...
Posted at 5:44 AM on July 4, 2008
by Bob Collins
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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.
The News Cut Week in Review Quiz
Posted at 5:36 PM on June 13, 2008
by Bob Collins
(7 Comments)
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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.
The News Cut Quiz
Posted at 7:21 PM on May 30, 2008
by Bob Collins
(11 Comments)
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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.
The Quiz returns
Posted at 3:25 PM on May 23, 2008
by Bob Collins
(5 Comments)
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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.
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