See if you're scared of the news by taking our latest Week to Week News Quiz.
Here are some random but real hints: The lines were frighteningly long; they're scared of being booted from Rio; the call's coming from inside his house; and at the IRS, no one can hear you scream. Answers are below the quiz.
1. Who is planning to hire hundreds of new employees to deal with slow service?
a. Apple stores
b. Burger King
c. The Transportation Security Administration
d. Tesla Motors
2. What conspiracy theory was promoted by lawyer and Rush to Judgment author Mark Lane, who died this week?
a. The moon landings were faked
b. The Bush administration was behind the 9/11 attacks
c. There was a second gunman in the assassination of President Kennedy
d. The Congressional Benghazi Special Committee is covering up the truth about Benghazi
3. Congress is set to consider legislation on what gender-related issue?
a. Requiring women to register for the draft
b. Barring transgender people from using any restroom on federal government property
c. Requiring publicly listed corporations to have 50-50 gender balance on their boards
d. Reinstating the ban on women in combat positions in the military services
4. Who made damaging accusations that Russian athletes had engaged in an extensive doping program during the Sochi Olympics?
a. U.S. Olympic Committee President Lawrence F. Probst III
b. Ukrainian figure skater Oksana Baiul
c. Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia's anti-doping laboratory
d. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
5. What accusation by the Washington Post did GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump deny this week?
a. Trump's net worth is only $550 million
b. Trump had called for the assassination of President Ronald Reagan
c. Trump supported racial segregation in the early 1990s
d. Trump had pretended to be his own PR man in a 1991 phone call with a journalist
6. On what topic did the Obama administration issue guidance to the nation's public schools this week?
a. They can skip Common Core starting in January 2017
b. They need to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their gender identity
c. They need to reduce budgets by 15 percent in the next budget year
d. Students must be means-tested before receiving school lunches
7. What controversial online sale was launched with the claim that "now is your opportunity to own a piece of American History" ?
a. A copy of the U.S. Constitution that was created in a laboratory with actual DNA from the original document's writers
b. The gun John Wilkes Booth used to kill President Lincoln
c. The gun George Zimmerman used to kill Florida teenager Trayvon Martin
d. The actual bus seat that Rosa Parks refused to vacate
8. What did Germany's domestic intelligence agency accuse Russia of doing?
a. A cyberattack on Germany's parliament, the Bundestag
b. Planning the assassination of Chancellor Angela Merkel
c. Hiding chemical weapons in a former Soviet military camp in eastern Germany
d. Funding right-wing political parties in Germany
9. Who is Michel Temer?
a. The new prime minister of France
b. The interim president of Brazil
c. The recently indicted head of soccer association FIFA
d. Kelly Ripa's new co-host of "Live"
10. What did Donald Trump say is "none of your business"?
a. His marital history
b. His real age
c. His vice presidential pick
d. His tax rate
BONUS. What is Cambodia's government now requiring the media to do?
a. Daily calisthenics in public parks
b. Refer to the prime minister as "Lord Prime Minister and Supreme Military Commander"
c. Never turn their backs on photos of the king
d. End every article about government actions with the words "so it was prophesied"
ANSWERS
1. c.
2. c.
3. a.
4. c.
5. d.
6. b.
7. c.
8. a.
9. b (Temer is filling in during the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff over corruption allegations).
10. d.
BONUS. b.
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Explanations of the hints: The lines were frighteningly long: reports of two-hour waits to get through security at airports prompted the change; they're scared of being booted from Rio: the doping allegations could hurt Russian athletes' hopes at the Rio Olympics; the call's coming from inside his house: Trump denies the allegation that he made the phone call himself while pretending to be his spokesman; and at the IRS, no one can hear you scream: Trump didn't need a spokesman to tell the American people that he thinks his tax rate is none of their business.