Take our latest Week to Week news quiz to find out why you weren't invited for the prime-time GOP debate.
Here are some random but real hints: he was half right; he feels a draft; who watches the watchers; and the Taliban never gets that excited about their visits. Answers are below the quiz.
1. After Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly questioned Donald Trump about misogynistic remarks, how did Trump respond overnight?
a. He released a video of himself apologizing to a life-size cardboard cutout of Kelly
b. His campaign issued a news release with his current and former wives all defending his record with women
c. He called Kelly a "bimbo" in a tweet
d. He asked a Reuters reporter "What kind of dame doesn't like being called names?"
2. Who is Ronald Raven?
a. The U.S. secretary of the interior, who was indicted in New York Thursday for corruption
b. The music industry CEO who finally wed longtime girlfriend Jennifer Aniston after a three-year engagement
c. That's what Rick Perry called Ronald Reagan in the recent GOP debate
d. The former Nevada governor who was excluded from the GOP debate after calling Fox News "the axe of evil"
3. What did United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, and Air Canada all agree on this week?
a. They will have to raise prices in the fall to keep up with fuel costs
b. They will not ship big-game trophies
c. Children under the age of five will now count as carry-on luggage and will cost an extra $25
d. They will not open up new routes to Cuba despite the thaw in relations with the United States
4. In fast-food news, which one of the following is not true?
a. Police discovered a meth lab in an Iowa Taco Bell
b. McDonald's is introducing a burger that replaces the bun with lettuce
c. Burger King paid for the entire wedding of an Illinois couple named Joel Burger and Ashley King
d. In-n-Out Burger announced its entire menu will be gluten-free by December
5. According to The New York Times, what is Vice President Joe Biden "actively considering" doing?
a. Testifying before Congress to defend the Iran nuclear deal
b. Resigning
c. Seeking his old Senate seat after the Obama administration ends
d. Seeking the Democratic nomination for president
6. What anniversary took place on Thursday?
a. 11 years ago, Apple introduced its first iPhone
b. 70 years ago, the United States dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima
c. Hillary and Bill Clinton ordered their email server from Amazon.com a decade ago
d. The American Civil War officially ended 150 years ago on August 6, 1865
7. In a major speech this week, to what did President Obama compare the upcoming congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal?
a. The vote to go to war in Iraq
b. Hitler's decision to invade Russia
c. The discovery of penicillin
d. The Ten Commandments
8. How did former President George W. Bush spend this past Wednesday?
a. Painting a portrait of Cecil the Lion
b. Helping Senate Republicans organize opposition to the Iran nuclear deal
c. Jury duty
d. Helping his brother Jeb prepare for the first GOP debate
9. Who claimed that San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee took bribes and engaged in pay-to-play politics?
a. San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi
b. California Attorney General Kamala Harris
c. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Alicia Florrick
d. Lawyers for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow
10. What does Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane have in common with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton?
a. They discovered they are second cousins in an episode of PBS's Finding Your Roots
b. They are both being sued by Common Cause for voter intimidation in their states
c. They have both said they will resign rather than enforce the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage ruling
d. They have both been charged with criminal offenses
BONUS. Ohio prison officials say a prison-yard fight erupted over what?
a. Disagreements over the choreography of a mass dance to Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
b. Racial tensions between the prisoners
c. Inmates fought over the contents of a package of illegal drugs dropped into the prison yard by a drone
d. Water-saving measures that reduced showers to a weekly 60 seconds per inmate
ANSWERS
1) c.
2) c.
3) b.
4) d.
5) d.
6) b.
7) a.
8) c.
9) d.
10) d (Kane was charged with perjury, obstruction, conspiracy, and other offenses, and Paxton was charged with securities fraud).
BONUS) c.
Want the live news quiz experience? Join us Monday, August 17 in downtown San Francisco for our next live (and lively) Week to Week political roundtable with a news quiz and a social hour at The Commonwealth Club of California. Panelists include Hoover Institution's Carson Bruno, CBS SF's Melissa Griffin Caen, and the San Francisco Chronicle's C.W. Nevius.
Explanations of the hints: he was half right: Perry got half of Reagan's name correct; he feels a draft: the effort to draft Biden into the race got a boost from New York Times reports that he was considering joining; who watches the watchers: attorneys general are supposed to be on the legal side of the law; and the Taliban never gets that excited about their visits: drones generally drop things besides drugs on Taliban leaders.