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Think You’re Smarter Than a What Next Producer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Which Infection Is Also Known as “Kissing Bug” Disease?

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Which Amendment in the Bill of Rights Addresses a Person’s Right to an Attorney?

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Napoleon Bonaparte Condemned the Novels Justine and Juliette by Which Author?

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What Would You Do With a Charabanc?

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

17.10.2025 4

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What Is an Alternate Name for the Condition Called Hyperopia?

16.10.2025 4

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Which French King Was Known as “the Universal Spider”?

15.10.2025 4

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The Hodag Is a Cryptozoological Creature Found in the Northern Region of Which U.S. state?

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The Word Vaccine Is Derived From the Latin Word for Which Animal?

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Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Senior Director of Podcast Operations? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

10.10.2025 10

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Which Bird Is the Smallest Member of the Falcon Species in North America?

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Which Country Was Governed by the Eldest Grandchild of England’s Queen Victoria?

08.10.2025 3

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Which of the March Sisters in Little Women Was a Tomboy Who Challenged Conformity?

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Which Shape Is a Piece of Art Referred to as a Tondo?

06.10.2025 4

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Think You’re Smarter Than Slate’s Director of Media Relations? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

03.10.2025 10

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Which Organ Is Divided Into a Head, Neck, Body, and Tail?

02.10.2025 10

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Who Was the Last President of Germany’s Weimar Republic?

01.10.2025 4

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Which Member of the Kennedy Clan Established the Special Olympics?

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The Adjective Lupine Refers to Which Kind of Animal?

29.09.2025 20

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

26.09.2025 4

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Which Brothers Launched the First Free-Flight Ascent of a Hot-Air Balloon Carrying Humans?

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One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Was the Lighthouse in Which City?

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Calaveras County Hosts an Annual Contest That Features Which Jumping Animal?

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Which Term Refers to an Exclusive Group of People With a Common Interest?

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Think You’re Smarter Than Ben Mathis-Lilley? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

19.09.2025 4

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Which Type of Chemical Compound Exhibits Properties of Both an Acid and a Base?

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Which Republican Was Named Time’s Man of the Year in 1944 and 1959?

17.09.2025 20

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The Number 4 Is the First Digit of All Accounts Associated With Which Major Credit Card?

16.09.2025 4

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The Word Taboo Comes From Which Language?

15.09.2025 10

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

12.09.2025 10

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Chalk Is Composed Primarily of the Carbonate of Which Metallic Element?

11.09.2025 9

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The Term Manifest Destiny Was Coined During the Tenure of Which American President?

10.09.2025 10

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Which Was the Occupation of Title Comic Strip Character Smokey Stover?

09.09.2025 10

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What Does It Mean for Someone to Be Described as Well-Heeled?

08.09.2025 10

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

05.09.2025 20

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Which Nerve Is Primarily Responsible for Triggering a Sneeze?

04.09.2025 5

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Les Trente Glorieuses Was a Period of Economic Growth in France in Which Century?

03.09.2025 3

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Brothers Drew and Nick Lachey Are Members of Which Boy Band?

02.09.2025 10

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What Is the British Term for a Public, Open-Air Swimming Pool?

01.09.2025 5

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

29.08.2025 5

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In Chemistry, How Many Electrons Are Involved in a Triple Bond?

28.08.2025 10

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Which Country Was Hit by the Valdivia Earthquake in 1960?

27.08.2025 4

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A Paradiddle Is a Basic Pattern Used to Playing Which Instrument?

26.08.2025 10

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What Would You Do With a Cheroot?

25.08.2025 3

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

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In Which Kind of Factory Would You Find a Machine Called an Enrober?

21.08.2025 4

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Zine El -Abidine Ben Ali Was Toppled as the Dictator of Which Country in 2011?

20.08.2025 4

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What Was the First Nonhamburger Item Added to the McDonald’s Menu?

19.08.2025 10

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What Word Refers to Someone Described as Long in the Tooth?

18.08.2025 4

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