The Atlantic Daily’s news quiz highlights the hidden nuggets of knowledge that inform each day’s events. To wrap up the year, we’ve compiled a series of questions on some of the topics that we covered in 2017—from health care to catfishing. Test your memory below, and find our coverage of today’s news here.
January–March: Team Trump
1. The Russian word for state-sponsored blackmail is ______________.
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2. An August 2014 memo authored by ____________ shaped the Trump campaign’s anti-immigration platform.
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3. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is well respected as a philanthropist in ____________, Michigan.
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Answers: Kompromat / Kellyanne Conway / Grand Rapids
April–June: Costs of Living
4. About ____________ percent of all U.S. households subscribe to Amazon Prime.
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5. ____________ percent of Americans spend as much on health care a year as everyone else combined.
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6. An estimated ____________ Hong Kong residents live in “coffin homes,” or tiny, subdivided housing units.