The Slate Quiz with quizmaster Ken Jennings: Play the news quiz for July 3.

Think You’re Smarter Than Seth Stevenson? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Think You’re Smarter Than Seth Stevenson? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Test your knowledge of the week’s news.
July 3 2015 1:30 AM

Play the Slate News Quiz

With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.

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Illustration by Slate. Photo by Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek poses with contestant Ken Jennings.
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek poses with contestant Ken Jennings.

Photo by Jeopardy Productions via Getty Images

Welcome back to Slate’s weekly news quiz. I’m your host, 74-time Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings.

Every Friday I’ll be testing your knowledge with 12 challenging questions on the week’s news events, big and small, including happenings in science, sports, politics, and culture both high and low. The questions are multiple-choice, and time is of the essence: You have 30 seconds to answer, and as the seconds tick away, the question’s point value drops from 50 all the way down to zero, so you’ll want to click on your answer as fast as you possibly can. There’s no penalty for an incorrect answer, so feel free to take a guess if your puny human brain fails you.

At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, as well as with the score of a Slatester whom I’ve talked into taking the quiz on the record. This week’s contestant is Slate contributor Seth Stevenson.

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Think you can ace my quiz and beat Stevenson? Good luck!