NY Times News Quiz
On Tuesday, the Trump administration moved to weaken federal rules limiting the release of what “super pollutant”?
Methane
Before pumpkins, Irish tradition carved jack-o’-lanterns from this root vegetable.
Turnips
What class does the STUDENT Alex Jones have third period?
Ceramics
Dolores Huerta, a longtime labor leader, died Wednesday at 96. Which organization did she co-found?
United Farm Workers
Carving on this South Dakota monument was declared finished on Halloween 1941.
Mount Rushmore
Alex Jones’s Infowars was headquartered in this Texas city.
Austin
On Wednesday, which team won its first World Series in the 57-year history of the franchise?
Milwaukee Brewers
Halloween traces back to this ancient Celtic festival, held around Nov. 1 to mark the end of the harvest season.
Samhain
In one of his best-known rants, Jones complained that chemicals in the water were turning these amphibians gay.
Frogs
In a 20-point drop from the early 1980s, just over a quarter of American 16-year-olds in 2024 possessed what?
A driver's license
This famed escape artist died on Halloween in 1926.
Harry Houdini
Jones’s online store is famous for selling these products, such as “Brain Force,” to fund his show.
Dietary supplements
The acclaimed Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart died Wednesday at 86. His role as which Star Trek captain brought him his greatest fame?
Jean-Luc Picard
Admitted as the 36th state on Halloween 1864, during the Civil War, this Western state's official state bird is the Mountain Bluebird.
Nevada
In 2024, this satirical news outlet bought Infowars out of bankruptcy and turned it into a parody of itself.
The Onion