Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: When the Dodgers met Trump, Val Kilmer's debut
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz, where a fresh batch of 10 handcrafted, riffed-from-the-headlines, California-leaning multiple-choice questions are ready to test your news knowledge recall.
This week I'm asking you to put on your thinking cap and see how much you can remember about some of the stories that caught my attention (and hopefully yours) while reading the (print and web) pages of the L.A. Times over the last week. They include the Trump tariffs, the late Val Kilmer's film career, Laurence Fishburne's early television career, In-N-Out Burger's secret menu, a record-setting video-game movie debut, the Donda Academy private school, the Dodgers' recent face time with the U.S. president, a Mark Hoppus memoir and more.
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