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From things that suck to stars that shine — it's the weekly news quiz

NPR | By Holly J. Morris
Published January 19, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST
Hint: These are answer-adjacent.
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Hint: These are answer-adjacent.

This week, the Iowa caucuses sucked up news coverage like a Panera bread bowl absorbs turkey chili, or a freshly discovered space entity devours stars.

Low temperatures leached the charge from Teslas as fast as Elon Musk vacuumed the value out of Twitter.

We've run out of synonyms for "suck," so here's the quiz, with only one vaguely Iowa-related question!

P.S. Our friends at Goats and Soda published a nice quiz last week. How well have you been paying attention — to global health and development?

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Holly J. Morris works on NPR's Training team. She was an editor at The Washington Post Express, National Geographic and U.S. News and World Report, and a college teacher.
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