The Slate Quiz with quizmaster Ken Jennings: Play the news quiz for Jan. 29.

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

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

Test your knowledge of the week’s news.
Jan. 29 2016 3:45 AM

Play the Slate News Quiz

With Jeopardy! superchampion Ken Jennings.

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Contestant Ken Jennings attends a press conference.
Ken Jennings in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 2011.

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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 50 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 senior technology writer Will Oremus.

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