Before your poll numbers reach rock bottom, take some time to test your news skills with our latest Week to Week News Quiz.
Here are some random but real hints: They're not even in the running; this is definitely the "worse" part of "for better or worse"; she's a uniter; and that's probably why he supports net neutrality. Answers are below the quiz.
1. Who has been banned from the Rio Olympics?
a. British soccer fans
b. Russian soccer fans
c. Russia's track team
d. NBC announcer Bob Costas
2. On Thursday, who did Senator John McCain say was "directly responsible" for the Orlando gay nightclub massacre?
a. Donald Trump
b. President Obama
c. The gun shop owner who sold the killer the weapons he used
d. Omar Mateen, the gunman
3. In the wake of the Orlando killings, who expressed support for an "intelligence surge" to track and counter terrorists?
a. Hillary Clinton
b. President Obama
c. Donald Trump
d. Saudi King Salman
4. What is a grand jury going to investigate regarding the Orlando massacre?
a. Whether to bring charges against the killer's wife for allegedly knowing about the attack but not alerting authorities
b. The possibility of bringing charges against the gun shop owner who sold the killer the weapons
c. If President Obama was directly responsible for the attack
d. Whether the attack was racially motivated, because the nightclub was hosting a Latin night during the attack
5. What do former Mitt Romney staffer Mike Treiser, historian Anne Applebaum, former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson, writer Ben Howe, former Reagan and Bush appointee Richard Armitage, and satirist P.J. O'Rourke all have in common?
a. They have been implicated in the latest release of the Panama Papers
b. They will be making mid-season guest appearances on Game of Thrones
c. They are Republicans who have announced they are voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November
d. They have all signed up as foreign policy advisors to Donald Trump
6. What did Russian President Vladimir Putin call Donald Trump this week?
a. Unstable
b. "My brother from another mother"
c. Incoherent
d. Bright
7. Who is Jo Cox?
a. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author who died in the Orlando massacre
b. Donald Trump's leading candidate to be his running mate
c. The county chair in Alabama who is refusing to lower county flags in honor of the Orlando dead
d. A British member of Parliament who was assassinated by a man believed to have far-right ties
8. What did the Democrats demand in their filibuster this week?
a. A vote on gun control legislation
b. A law countering the Citizens United case
c. Bernie Sanders endorse Hillary Clinton
d. A vote on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee
9. Who was the latest target of the Anonymous group of hackers?
a. Secretive "dark money" political groups in the United States that keep their donors secret
b. Neo-Nazi groups linked to the murder of a British politician
c. Islamic State
d. The Chicago Bears
10. What did more than 200,000 people watch on Thursday night?
a. President Obama's cameo appearance on The Daily Show
b. Bernie Sanders' speech in which he refused yet again to drop out
c. Donald Trump's appearance as a guest on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
d. YouTube star KevJumba's 30-minute video of a cat wrestling with an ivy plant
BONUS. What event produced an ironic union?
a. A truck carrying bread collided with a truck carrying deli meats in New York
b. An industrial explosion at a chocolate factory in Switzerland resulted in a total of 2 tons of chocolate falling on a nearby peanut butter bottling factory
c. Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn was first announced by Google on Facebook
d. The Portland public radio station had to close for 24 hours on Friday after a truck delivering Chardonnay lost control and crashed into its main entrance
ANSWERS
1. c.
2. b (he later walked back his comments, saying he blamed the president's decision to remove troops from Iraq).
3. a.
4. a.
5. c.
6. d.
7. a.
8. a.
9. c (it was in response to the Orlando killer's identification with ISIS and ISIS's own claiming responsibility for that act of mass murder).
10. b.
BONUS. a.
Want the live news quiz experience? Join us Monday, July 11 in downtown San Francisco for our next live (and lively) Week to Week political roundtable with a news quiz and a social hour at The Commonwealth Club of California. Panelists include Carson Bruno and Melissa Caen.
Explanations of the hints: They're not even in the running: Russia's track and field team is the latest group to pay the price for that country's sports doping scandal; this is definitely the "worse" part of "for better or worse": she reportedly gave conflicting accounts of how much she knew about her husband's intentions; she's a uniter: Hillary's bringing an increasing number of Republicans on board; and that's probably why he supports net neutrality: Sanders viewers watched his speech, which was live-streamed over the internet.