Welcome to Slate’s weekly news quiz. Before we get to the questions, we have a special note from Ken Jennings:

I've been writing the Slate News Quiz here since 2012—that comes out to about 184 quizzes—and it's been a genuine pleasure to be asking the trivia questions for a change instead of trying to answer them.  I'm grateful to my friends at Slate for the opportunity, but I'll never forgive them for making me such an expert on climate graphs and political gaffes, smart animals and stupid Florida criminals.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce the end of my tenure on the quiz.  I need to step away to work on a book. I hope you'll remember our time together fondly, and not hold me responsible for how much worse the news has become during the three-and-a-half years I was writing quiz questions about it.  It's going to be so nice to see news about outrageous Trump quotes now without immediately thinking, "Ugh, I need to read this and remember it for Friday."

Fear not, the Slate Quiz will go on, in other capable hands. I'm mostly excited that now I get to play it, too. See you on the leaderboard, news junkies!

—Ken Jennings

As Ken mentioned, the Slate Quiz will continue on. And we will strive, starting with this quiz, to capture the attention to detail and quick wit that has made the quiz such a beloved feature.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming: 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 who has agreed to take the quiz on the record. This week’s contestant is Slate associate editor J. Bryan Lowder.

Can you ace the quiz and beat Lowder? Good luck!