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Weekly News Quiz

Brush up on our biggest news stories of the past week

By

Randy Lilleston,

 
AARP
Published October 10, 2024
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Jon Krause

Question 1 of 8

We published a first-person story about this generation’s slang phrases, which include “skibidi,” “rizzler” and “gyatt.”

Generation Alpha, which began roughly in the early 2010s and continues today, is the first to be entirely born in the 21st century (thus the name).

Question 2 of 8

Which presidential candidate was ahead in the most recent AARP poll of Arizona voters?

Trump led Harris by 50 percent to 48 percent, although the lead was within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

Question 3 of 8

This baseball great, perhaps best known for his stint with the Boston Red Sox through most of the 1970s, died recently at 83.

Tiant, a pitcher, also played for Cleveland, Minnesota, the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh and the then-California Angels.

Question 4 of 8

We recently reported about this medical condition, which affects as many as 10 million Americans and sometimes is mistaken for Parkinson’s disease.

About half of all essential tremor cases are inherited, according to the Mayo Clinic.

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Question 5 of 8

This actor recently told AARP that he wold sing the national anthem at a Green Bay Packers football game in January.

Nelson, 80, will appear in the new CBS series George & Mandy’s First Marriage.

Question 6 of 8

Medicare footed the bill for more than $1 billion in fraudulent claims for these, according to our report.

One radiologist ordered over 20,000 braces in a year at a cost to Medicare of $13 million, investigators said.

Question 7 of 8

In a recent article, we suggested you should think twice before cosigning a mortgage for your ...

“Even if everything is sunshine and rainbows in terms of your child’s ability to make the mortgage payments, you’re taking a risk,” warned LendingTree senior economist Jacob Channel.

Question 8 of 8

“Theater is better than the movies, where the object is to make sure that none of the money ends up in the pockets of the writers,” this comedy legend told us in a recent interview.

Idle has written a just-released memoir, The Spamalot Diaries.

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