Quizzes aren’t just about events, news, facts, etc.
Quizzes can themselves become events, creating nuggets of information that can be examined, consumed, discussed, and even parodied.
Sometimes, quizzes are the best revenge for a ridiculous news cycle. Some examples from last week…
(1) The answer to Political Wire‘s question about Trump’s shuffling of Presidential portraits was telling as a sign of Trump’s relentless pettiness. A fact that would otherwise be buried in a news story is held up in the harsh light of multiple choices for consideration on its own. Which answer is the most absurd and therefore probably true, one wonders?
(2) Is there any better way to crisply snapshot the absurdity of Donald Trump’s unrelenting quest to “win” a Nobel Peace Prize than via Chris Cillizza‘s quiz question featuring the mooted answer “Minister of Moose Management”?
Although the answers to Jessica Yellin’s News Not Noise question about the Kennedy Center were all relevant, they were seasoned with enough absurdity to not need an extra slice of Moose Management.
(3) Political Wire readers regularly propose alternative questions and answers to sum up recent events. One reader last proposed this set of correct answers to quiz questions.
To which another reader astutely proposed an even better set…
(4) Finally, some readers are enjoying quizzes so much they’re demanding more!
