Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Senior Editor? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Welcome to Slate’s weekly news quiz. It’s Friday, which means it’s time to test your knowledge of the week’s news events. Your host, Ray Hamel, has concocted questions on news topics ranging from politics to business, from culture to sports to science. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, as well as that of a Slatester who has agreed to take the quiz on the record. This week’s contestant is senior editor Tony Ho Tran.

Can you ace the quiz and beat Tran? Good luck!

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Donald Trump played golf while burned investors watched trillions of dollars turn to ash early in the week. As Buster Poindexter once asked, “How you feeling? (Hot, hot, hot.)” Get fired up for another sizzling Slate News Quiz.

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