You may remember Ken Jennings, who was a 74-time winner on the television game show “Jeopardy!” He has since written books and appeared on a number of episodes of “Jeopardy!” (including an unsuccessful stint against the IBM super-duper computer “Watson”) and, once a week, he devises an interesting (and, at times, devious) quiz of the week’s news for the website Slate. A new quiz appears every Friday.
You will be given 12 questions, all drawn from the past week’s news, and you are provided with four possible answers. The questions are timed, so the faster you respond (correctly), the greater value your answer will have. Compete against that week’s guest competitor, the average Slate and –now, for the first time — your favorite blogger.
Give it a shot. Point your browser here. This week, the average Slate reader scored 329, the guest, Slate staff writer Amanda Hess, scored 352, and your friendly blogger got… well… 484. I have to admit I guessed correctly on one for which I had no idea.