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Los Angeles Times
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: LeBron gets a Ken doll, golf gets a Grand Slam
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz where the headlines of the last seven days live again each Friday in the form of 10 handcrafted, California-leaning, multiple-choice questions designed to inform, educate and enlighten. This week we're taking a look at stories about the sixth man ever to earn golf's career Grand Slam, a wolf that may be back from extinction, Mattel's recently revealed LeBron James Ken doll, 'Saturday Night Live's' parody of HBO's 'The White Lotus,' the politician who popped up at Coachella, the famous Amanda hitting this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Lakers' first-round playoff opponents, Disneyland's mysterious and exclusive private club and more. Have you kept abreast of the week's headlines? If you answered yes to that question, you should do swimmingly on the ones that follow. Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
Los Angeles Times
11-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
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. Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
Los Angeles Times
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: What gems bedazzle the Dodgers' blinged-out rings?
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. I'm Adam Tschorn, senior features writer, former game show question-and-answer man, and your weekly quizmaster. This week's 10 handcrafted, California-leaning, multiple-choice questions will test your recall on stories that appeared in The Times (in print or online) over the previous seven days. This week, we're taking a look at stories about the late Richard Chamberlain's standout roles, the Dodgers' blingy new World Series rings, Vice President JD Vance's visit to Pituffik Space Base, the new Hulu streamer that pays homage to 'The Golden Girls,' the latest Sparks jersey getting hoisted to the rafters (it's only the third in the team's history), the big move the Sundance Film Festival will be making in 2027, what the recent quarter-percent increase in L.A. County's sales tax is funding, Larry Mantle's 40-year run manning the microphone and more. If you've kept abreast of the week's news, acing these questions should be a slam dunk. (Maybe not a retire-your-jersey slam dunk but at least a boast-post-your score slam dunk.) Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
Los Angeles Times
28-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: Who did Foreman ‘Rumble in the Jungle' with?
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz for the week of March 28, 2025. I'm your quizmaster Adam Tschorn, back with another 10 handcrafted, highly informative, sometimes funny, always multiple-choice California-leaning quiz questions. This week's political and pop-culture recap will test your recall on such topics as the famous golfer dating a former Trump daughter-in-law (a possibly helpful hint: their kids go to the same Palm Beach school), the late, great George Foreman's most famous boxing match, the humor prize just won by Conan O'Brien (randomly helpful hint: it involves a mustache), the new live-action 'Snow White' movie, the Cabinet position targeted for dismantling by a new presidential executive order, the luxury amenities on offer at LAX's fancy new Delta One Lounge and much more. If you've stayed abreast of the headlines of the last seven days, you should be able to deliver this week's quiz a knockout punch in no time at all. Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
Los Angeles Times
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times News Quiz this week: Ohtani's big swing back home, a new hotel ban
Welcome to the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. Your quizmaster Adam Tschorn here, back with another 10 handcrafted, California-leaning, multiple-choice questions riffing off the stories published in The Times (in print or online) over the previous seven days. This week those topics include a legally questionable hotel ban that's suddenly popular around California, the winner of this year's L.A. Marathon (and what makes him different from every other winner in the last three decades), the Broadway musical President Trump isn't a fan of, the perennially popular sitcom set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company, the new Corita Art Center in downtown L.A.'s Arts District and Conan O'Brien's just-announced post-Oscars hosting gig. If you've kept up on the news of the week, you should be able to answer these questions as easily as Ohtani hit that homer. Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let's get started.
