News Cut Category Archive: The Quiz

The Weekly Quiz

Posted at 5:19 PM on November 20, 2009 by Bob Collins (4 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 (20 Comments)
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If you're not in the fetal position by the time you finish the quiz, we've done something wrong this week. (It may take a moment for the quiz to load)

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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 (5 Comments)
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The Quiz: Stump the social media expert

Posted at 2:01 PM on July 17, 2009 by Bob Collins (5 Comments)
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The week that was

Posted at 2:39 PM on July 10, 2009 by Bob Collins (11 Comments)
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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)
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Please be sure to let us know how you did (via the comments section below).

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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).

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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.

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The Quiz

Posted at 11:20 AM on March 6, 2009 by Bob Collins (7 Comments)
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Report your results in the comment section below.

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The week-in-review quiz

Posted at 5:45 PM on January 9, 2009 by Bob Collins (9 Comments)
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There's something comforting in the peaceful exchange of power -- a baton not dropped, a presidency assured, a News Cut Quiz not aced. Now, then....


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!

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Whose year was it?

Posted at 3:39 PM on December 31, 2008 by Bob Collins (9 Comments)
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Over the next few hours, as in the last few days, we are likely to be told -- again -- that 2008 is a year to forget. I recognize the news has been bad -- the news is always bad -- and many people are hurting. But whose year are we talking about? If I say to you, "2008," what do you think of? The election? The recount? The economy?

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?

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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 (10 Comments)
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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 (9 Comments)
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You didn't get a new iPhone and you're feeling left out from a chance to play with the new gadgets? You're in luck. This week, we're debuting the new News Cut Quiz. And unlike the iPhone, this thing actually works. Post your results in the comments section and let's talk about the week just passed.

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 (10 Comments)
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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