2025 Summer News Quiz

Which popular video game console released its long-awaited second edition on June 5, becoming the fastest-selling game console of all time?

• Sony PlayStation

• Nintendo Switch

• Microsoft xBox

The spectacular blowup in June between President Trump and which tech titan ripped apart a shaky alliance between two of the world’s most powerful men?

• Elon Musk
• Tim Cook
• Jeff Bezos
• Mark Zuckerberg

Kraft Heinz announced that it would eliminate all chemical dyes from its food products over the next two years. Which of these dye-containing items is NOT produced by Kraft Heinz?

• M&M's
• Jell-O

• Kool-Aid

• Jet Puffed

In June, the Trump administration ordered the deployment of Marines and National Guard troops in response to days of protests in Los Angeles, a rare use of active-duty military forces on U.S. soil.

What were the protests about?

• cuts to the federal workforce

• immigration raids

• the war in Gaza

• reduction in federal grant money

What grinning fuzzy toy has become wildly popular, selling out instantly online and in stores around the world?

• Squishmallows
• Furby
• Labubu

• Beanie Babies

Large crowds across the country gathered to protest the Trump administration, coinciding with a military parade in Washington, D.C. What were the demonstrations called?

• "No Fair"

• "No Kings"

• "No Trumps"

• "No Parade"

Led by the league M.V.P. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, which team won the N.B.A. championship, beating the Indiana Pacers 103-91 in Game 7 of the finals?

• Boston Celtics
• Miami Heat
• Oklahoma City Thunder
• Los Angeles Lakers

Which of the following film franchises has NOT been a top box office hit this summer?

• Lilo & Stitch

• Jurassic Park

• Pirates of the Caribbean

• Superman

A conservative majority on the Supreme Court voted in June to uphold a Tennessee law prohibiting some medical treatments for which group of people?

• transgender minors
• cisgender adults
• gender-fluid teenagers
• non-binary individuals

On June 22, President Trump upended decades of diplomacy when he sent American warplanes and submarines to strike three of which country’s nuclear facilities?

• Syria
• Pakistan
• Iran
• North Korea