Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Homepage 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 homepage editor Hannah Docter-Loeb.

Can you ace the quiz and beat Docter-Loeb? Good luck!

Recently, judges dealt with cases involving a man who sued his local newspaper for failing to cover his teen son’s basketball games, a 14-year-old boy who claims his parents tricked him into moving to Ghana, and a woman in Detroit making a PB&J sandwich while attending court via Zoom. Ye will be judged in this week’s Slate News Quiz.

If this is your first time playing, read the rules here. The quiz may require you to turn on cookies in your browser for it to function properly.