And just like that, we’ve arrived at another Friday — and another edition of the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. As your quizmaster, my job is to dig into some of the stories The Times has published — online or in print — over the previous seven days and pull out 10 multiple-choice questions.
Your job (if you can call it that) is to keep up on the news of the week and answer them correctly. If you haven’t exactly kept up — or simply want to do a little pre-quiz cramming — this week I’m mining the minutiae of my colleagues’ stories about an airport beef between San Francisco and Oakland, the origins of a certain Japanese cuisine and how reality TV inspired some Buddhist monks to try something novel.
Before digging in, a quick shout-out to those who stopped by to play a live version of the News Quiz at last weekend’s Festival of Books. What the spirited round of festival- and USC-themed questions revealed (besides the fact that open-ended questions work much better than multiple-choice ones with a live audience) is that Mudd Hall’s namesake, Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, was a renowned mining engineer; FOB dates to 1996; and one of the most popular guests that first year was Abigail Van Buren of “Dear Abby” fame (who was the twin sister of rival advice columnist Ann Landers).
Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let’s get started.
