Take the pre-Christmas news quiz!
Take the pre-Christmas news quiz!
I’m excited to advise you that Christmas is just four months away. I understand that may be hard to believe with temperatures reaching the 90s quite often this summer, but I hope you cool off a bit by tackling this 122-Shopping-Days-till-Christmas News Quiz. Remember, the actual answer is always at least one of the choices.
1. News reports last week announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will begin lowering standards for new recruits, who will receive less training and no longer be required to have a college degree. Which of the following questions might a new recruit be asked during an initial interview?
a) How do you ensure the accuracy and integrity of information you collect during an investigation?
b) Which was the first vacuum cleaner model manufactured by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover?
c) Who was better looking: Bonnie, or Clyde?
d) Your new Tesla armored Cybertruck has just exploded. Who gets the blame?
e) How do you spell “FBI?”
2. The National Weather Service in Moon Township announced that residents of the Pittsburgh area might experience “a taste of fall” this week. What exactly constitutes a “taste of fall?”
a) Starbucks will begin offering pumpkin spice lattes three weeks earlier than usual.
b) Temperatures may rise no higher than the low 70s on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with lows in the 40s in some areas.
c) With Steelers football preseason practices winding down, leaves will begin falling like quarterbacks.
d) In an effort to cut costs, the Pittsburgh Pirates will not field a team for the rest of the 2025 season but still attract fans to PNC Park; a recording of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series will be broadcast at every remaining home game.
e) Area manufacturing plants will be permitted to pollute the atmosphere in an effort to relive the glory days of the U.S. steel industry.
3. Members of some circles are accusing Cracker Barrel restaurants of becoming “woke” after what change to the chain’s operations?
a) Crackers will no longer be offered with soup.
b) Dining chairs will be actual barrels.
c) The Cracker Barrel logo has been redesigned, removing the cracker barrel and the “Old Timer” sitting next to it.
d) The chain admitted that the beloved “peg game” included on its tables is nothing more than golf tees stuck in holes drilled in a triangular board, not the “cognitive test” President Trump claimed to have passed while dining there.
e) Newly recruited FBI agents will be required to wash dishes at Washington, D.C., Cracker Barrel locations as part of their training.
4. A Justice Department employee was fired from his job last week after he committed an act that Attorney General Pam Bondi called an example of the “Deep State.” What was the act?
a) He admitted that he had voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.
b) He said the food at Cracker Barrel is “kinda greasy.”
c) He said KISS does not deserve to be honored at the Kennedy Center.
d) He threw a footlong submarine sandwich at a federal officer patrolling D.C. streets.
e) He failed the Cracker Barrel cognitive test.
5. Last week former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said, during a podcast: “Let me tell you this: When they get going, I’m telling you, it’s going to be something special, OK?” What was Big Ben referring to?
a) The backup guy to the guy who threw the footlong in D.C.
b) Cracker Barrel, after the new logo hits restaurants nationwide
c) KISS, at the Kennedy Center
d) New Steelers QB Aaron Rogers and wide receiver DK Metcalf
e) The Democratic Party