Is it Friday already?  Did I read enough news?  Did I memorize the correct facts?  Am I ready for my weekly New York Times (NYT) Quiz, and more importantly, will I be able to share my score? The NYT Quiz has become a thing for my dad, brother, and me.  I recently added my son-in-law and daughter-in-law’s sister to the unwritten competition. 

Shiny Object

I try to read and keep up with the news, but you know, the phone rings, a text Bings, a dog barks, an email chimes, a shiny object flies by, and I am out. And then Friday rolls by, and I need to compete with my family to show myself and them, that I can still retain information. 

There are two problems: the NYT is a bit tricky, when a topic comes up and I think they are asking something I know, the NYT goes and asks some obscure question about the topic.  “No Fair,” I say out loud to the dogs.  I knew this one.  And it’s multiple-choice! JEEZ!

It’s Not Cheating

Some Fridays, I take the CNN 5 Things quiz as a prep for the NYT’s Quiz. I don’t call that cheating because it’s a quiz, not a cheat sheet.  I typically do very well guessing the correct answers.  Recently, CNN stopped sending me their Five Things newsletter – Did they suspect I was using them to improve my NYT scores?

This past week was very busy and I didn’t have much time to digest the news.  I awoke at 6 AM and opened the NYT quiz.  Uh Oh!  The first question was wrong.  Ok, I’ll keep going.  Hmm, the third question is wrong. 

FLASHBACK Quiz

We recently added the NYT Flashback Quiz. My brother, Keith, consistently out defeats me. The quiz starts off with an mysterious facts and gives you the date ranging from BC times to current. Next, a new detail flashes and the participant must determine if it happened before or after the fist fact. Are you following me? Eithg more facts pop-up individually, as you place (Guess) them in chronological order.

Next Week, NYT Quiz

So, I decided to take a bi-week. And vowed to pay more attention to current events next week.   Unless, of course, the phone rings, a text Bings, a dog barks, an email chimes, a shiny object flies by.

I hope you read my article thoroughly, there WILL be a quiz next week!

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Vickie Rubin, M.S. Ed.  is the author of the award-winning memoir Raising Jess: A Story of Hope published by Page Publishing. This heartwarming story describes the joy and challenges of caring for her daughter, who was born with a rare chromosome deletion.  . Vickie’s debut memoir won the 2022 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Award for Non-Fiction and was a Finalist in the Best Book Award and Books Excellence Award for inspirational memoir. Her stories have been published in Newsweek, as well as Disability related publications and Opinion Pieces.  Vickie started writing her humorous blog in 2020; she writes regularly about raising a child with a disability, family, marriage, and RV Travel.