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

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Ichthyology Is the Branch of Zoology That Involves the Study of Which Animals?

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Janet Reno Was the First Woman to Hold Which U.S. Presidential Cabinet Post?

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Which Artist Used Nude Models Covered in Blue Paint as “Living Brushes” in His Work?

12.08.2025 7

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What Should a Person Do With a Caber?

11.08.2025 3

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

08.08.2025 20

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How Many Oxygen Atoms Are Present in a Dimer of Nitrous Dioxide?

07.08.2025 3

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Which Island Was Amelia Earhart Attempting to Reach When She Disappeared in 1937?

06.08.2025 20

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Boyfriends of Which TV Character Included Logan Huntzberger, Jess Mariano, and Dean Forester?

05.08.2025 4

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What Is the Meaning of the Word Sagacity?

04.08.2025 10

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Which Is the First and Shortest Geologic Period of the Mesozoic Era?

31.07.2025 10

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What Was the Nickname of President Andrew Jackson?

30.07.2025 3

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Which Band Was the First British Group to Score a No. 1 Song in the U.S.?

29.07.2025 6

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Which of the Following Is the Subject of Study in Anemology?

28.07.2025 20

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

25.07.2025 20

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Which Fabric Name Is Used for the Tissue That Grows on Deer Antlers?

24.07.2025 4

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Large Stone Carved Heads, Believed to Belong to the Olmecs, Are Found Across Which Country?

23.07.2025 30

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What Is the Slang Term for the Final Card Turned Over in Texas Hold ‘Em?

22.07.2025 10

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The Word Rubric Comes From the Latin Word for Which Color?

21.07.2025 4

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What Do Scientists Call the Hypothetical Bubble of Large Icy Objects That Cocoon Our Solar System?

17.07.2025 5

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Two-Thirds of Which Island Was Obliterated by a Massive 1883 Volcanic Eruption?

16.07.2025 7

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Which Country Singer Played a Monster Hunter in the 1990 Cult Movie Tremors?

15.07.2025 4

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Which Slang Term for a Daredevil Leap Came From a Man Who Claimed He Survived Jumping Off the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886?

14.07.2025 10

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

11.07.2025 6

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The Moon Goes Through How Many Distinct Phases?

10.07.2025 5

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Which U.S. President Had Wives Named Ellen and Edith?

09.07.2025 20

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Bird’s Nest Soup Is Made Using the Nests of Which Bird?

08.07.2025 10

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What Does It Mean if Someone Is a Dab Hand?

07.07.2025 7

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

04.07.2025 10

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French Physician Pierre Fauchard Is Considered the Father of Which Branch of Medicine?

03.07.2025 10

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The White Revolution Was a Modernization Project Begun in the 1960s in Which Country?

02.07.2025 4

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From Which Book of the Bible Do We Get the Saying “Man Proposes, but God Disposes”?

01.07.2025 5

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What Is Meant by a Fait Accompli?

30.06.2025 4

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Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Copy Chief? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Which Form of Acid Is Found in the Clouds of Venus?

26.06.2025 10

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The Longest Battle in World War I Occurred Around Which French City?

25.06.2025 10

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How Many Lines Does the Poetic Form Called a Villanelle Have?

24.06.2025 10

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Something Described as Dendriform Is Shaped Like What?

23.06.2025 4

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

20.06.2025 3

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Which Type of Creature Is the Massasauga?

19.06.2025 10

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In 1910, Victor Berger Became the First Person Elected to the U.S. Congress From Which Party?

18.06.2025 4

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Which Fruit in the Video Game Ms. Pac-Man Is Worth 5,000 Points?

17.06.2025 10

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On Which Part of the Body Might One Wear Winklepickers?

16.06.2025 7

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

13.06.2025 6

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Who Was the First American Woman in Space?

12.06.2025 10

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In 1904, Which City Hosted Both the World’s Fair and the Summer Olympics?

11.06.2025 4

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Which Alfred Hitchcock Movie Featured the Merry Widow Murderer?

10.06.2025 8

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What Does It Mean if Something Is Insuperable?

09.06.2025 5

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

06.06.2025 5

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What Term Is Used for the Ultimate Merger of Man and Machine?

05.06.2025 10

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