NPR dropped its weekly news quiz Thursday, June 5 – and this one didn’t pull punches. The quiz runs through Donald Trump’s wins and losses over the past week, then throws in curveballs involving Serena Williams, Georgia-born R&B singer Peabo Bryson, prediction market platform Kalshi, and United Airlines.
Bryson’s inclusion is the detail that’ll catch Georgia readers off guard. The Augusta native has had a long career stretching back decades, and his appearance in a national news quiz suggests something happened in his world this past week worth tracking.
Background
NPR has published a weekly current-events quiz for years, packaging the week’s hardest-to-follow stories into a format that tests whether readers actually absorbed the news or just scrolled past it. The June 5 edition leans heavily on the Trump administration’s recent record – a subject that’s produced enough material to fill a quiz on its own.
Kalshi, the regulated prediction market that lets users bet real money on news outcomes, has drawn increasing scrutiny from financial regulators. Its appearance in the quiz suggests the platform made news again this past week; the quiz doesn’t spell out why, so readers will have to take it to find out.
United Airlines rounds out the lineup. The carrier has faced operational and labor questions in recent months, though the quiz doesn’t specify which thread it’s pulling on here.
Serena Williams, who retired from professional tennis in 2022, pops up as well. Her post-retirement business and public life have kept her name circulating — but again, what exactly she did this week isn’t disclosed until you sit down and take the thing.
The quiz is structured as a challenge – NPR asks whether you’ve been paying attention, which is the kind of question that sounds casual and isn’t. Scoring well requires tracking not just the biggest headlines but the secondary stories that tend to get buried under the lead items of any given week.
NPR hasn’t posted a score breakdown for the June 5 edition, and it’s unclear how many questions the quiz contains this week.
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