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BBC News
15 hours ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Club World Cup quiz: What's the day job of Auckland's amateur goalscorer?
The Fifa Club World Cup group stage finished early on Friday morning. How closely have you been paying attention? From presidential visits to Lionel Messi free-kicks, test yourself with these seven questions. Go to our dedicated football quizzes page, where you can have a go at previous editions and sign up for notifications to get the latest quizzes sent straight to your device
Yahoo
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
I'm Sorry Millennials, But There's Absolutely Zero Chance You Will Be Able To Pass This Quiz...Plus Four More Quizzes You Might Do Well On
The aim of these quizzes is to distinguish all the millennials out there from Gen Z, Gen X, or cuspers on either end. Nobody's saying any one generation is better than the other, only that there are certain things the millennial mind will remember a bit better. 1.I'm Sorry Millennials, But There's Absolutely Zero Chance You Will Be Able To Pass This Quiz In theory, millennials shouldn't do so great on this quiz unless you were particularly observant and have a great memory. Are you up for the challenge? Take the quiz here. Related: Most People Can't Make It To Letter Q Or Further In This Alphabetical Logo Quiz — Can You? Millennial Women Will Remember What These Specific Products From The '90s And 2000s Are These products were incredibly popular among teenagers in their heyday, so if you're the right age you'll definitely remember them. Take the quiz here. Related: If You Get 12/15 On This Honors Vocab Quiz, Your IQ Has To Be At Least 150 Officially An Elder Millennial Or Young Gen X'er If You've Done Half Of These 48 Things (Unless You Lie And Say You Did) This quiz won't ask you to recognize any more ancient artifacts, but it will ask you to admit if you ever did something as embarrassing as drawing a fingerstache or wearing a fedora. Take the quiz here. Millennials Will Be Able To Correctly Answer These Real Jeopardy! Questions About 1990s Movie Quotes Really, anyone with good taste should recognize these movie lines. But millennials should find these Jeopardy! questions especially easy. Take the quiz here. Millennials, If These 31 Films Aren't On Your Watched List, Are You Really One Of Us? No right or wrong answers here. We just want to know if you're familiar with these cinematic touchstones of millennial culture. Take the quiz here. Also in BuzzFeed: This 30-Question Quiz About Your Life Will Reveal Your Entire Personality Type Also in BuzzFeed: I'm Sorry, But I HIGHLY Doubt Anyone Can Name 16/16 Of These Logos Based On Their Mascots Alone Also in BuzzFeed: 18 Facts That Are So Creepy, I Looked Around In Paranoia After I Read Them
The Guardian
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Am I gay? Take this quiz to find out (or not)
'Am I gay?' quizzes were commonplace in my internet search history as a closeted tween. I have vivid memories of combing through each questionnaire, predominantly on BuzzFeed, answering questions about my favourite animal (guinea pig), dream job (acrobat turned weather reporter) and the sports I played (tennis). I also have vivid memories of manipulating each response to seem straighter than I was. 'What's your favourite colour?' Pink, I'd answer. Wait, no – grey! That'll do the trick! The quiz would inevitably spit out an answer: 'You are 72% straight.' Good enough, I'd think, looking at the obviously fabricated score. Sounds about right. Cut to present day, and I've come to realise that these quizzes are a queer rite of passage – and something I still take part in as a 29-year-old, 100% gay adult … just to make sure I'm, y'know, 100% gay. I'm not talking about the sincere online questionnaires genuinely aimed at decoding sexuality. No – I mean the extremely restrictive, undoubtedly sarcastic, completely unscientific quizzes that proclaim to divine queerness based on the most tenuous of preferences. Your favourite fruit's a pear? Straight. You prefer spaghetti over penne? Bicurious. Your favourite school subject was literature? Gay. Whenever I see a gay quiz, no matter where I am or how busy my day is, I'll still immediately click on it, meticulously sifting through each prompt with precision and dedication. Take this BuzzFeed checklist, for example. Mark each box, the quiz demands, that applies to you – and the resulting sum is how straight you are. Do you love giant Jenga? Have you ever taken a photo with a fish? Is Perfect by Ed Sheeran the ideal wedding song? Click, click, click. I end up with a score of six out of 61 and a 'definitely gay' rating. Touché, BuzzFeed, touché. I recently turned to my trusty Instagram audience (who are predominantly queer and/or women), asking them if they, too, had frequented an 'am I gay?' site once or twice in their time. The majority of the 6,500 respondents said that they had. It's clear that so many of us have stumbled upon this corner of the internet, intentionally or otherwise … and who can blame us? It's human nature, after all, to have an innate curiosity about the way in which we're perceived by others (or by the creator of one specific quiz). How does this hobby make me look? What do people think about my pasta preference? Is everyone secretly judging my love of giant Jenga??? Or perhaps it's not even that deep. Maybe it's just fun to point and laugh at a quiz that divides sexuality into categories based on pizza toppings (no pineapple, extra olives) and the number of Gaga songs one can recite (27). Yes, some will contend that these quizzes are reductive … and to those naysayers I say: duh. We know that an online quiz cannot accurately reflect the complexities of the queer experience. We know that liking iced coffee doesn't automatically secure you a one-way ticket to Mardi Gras. But that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun with it. While some play Minecraft, and others Monopoly, I like to play my silly little sexuality quizzes in my gay corner of the internet, marvelling at my supposedly fluctuating queerness as if the level of my desire to have intercourse with the same sex was entirely dependent on my breakfast choice (full English). Or my cocktail order (piña colada). Or my preferred season (spring, mostly). Or the number of Bruce Springsteen albums I can name (none). And remember, we are all unique. There are no wrong answers. Apart from wanting Perfect by Ed Sheeran to play at your wedding. That's wrong.
Fox News
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
American Culture Quiz: Test yourself on festival firsts and summery snacks
The American Culture Quiz is a weekly test of our unique national traits, trends, history and people, including current events and the sights and sounds of the United States. This week's quiz highlights festival firsts, summery snacks — and more. Can you get all 8 questions right? To try your hand at more quizzes from Fox News Digital, click here. Also, to take our latest News Quiz — published every Friday — click here.
Yahoo
31-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Taking Intermittent Quizzes Reduces Achievement Gaps & Enhances Online Learning
This article was originally published in The Conversation. Inserting brief quiz questions into an online lecture can boost learning and may reduce racial achievement gaps, even when students are tuning in remotely in a distracting environment. That's a main finding of our recent research published in Communications Psychology. With co-authors Dahwi Ahn, Hymnjyot Gill and Karl Szpunar, we present evidence that adding mini-quizzes into an online lecture in science, technology, engineering or mathematics – collectively known as STEM – can boost learning, especially for Black students. In our study, we included over 700 students from two large public universities and five two-year community colleges across the U.S. and Canada. All the students watched a 20-minute video lecture on a STEM topic. Each lecture was divided into four 5-minute segments, and following each segment, the students either answered four brief quiz questions or viewed four slides reviewing the content they'd just seen. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This procedure was designed to mimic two kinds of instructions: those in which students must answer in-lecture questions and those in which the instructor regularly goes over recently covered content in class. All students were tested on the lecture content both at the end of the lecture and a day later. When Black students in our study watched a lecture without intermittent quizzes, they underperformed Asian, white and Latino students by about 17%. This achievement gap was reduced to a statistically nonsignificant 3% when students answered intermittent quiz questions. We believe this is because the intermittent quizzes help students stay engaged with the lecture. To simulate the real-world environments that students face during online classes, we manipulated distractions by having some participants watch just the lecture; the rest watched the lecture with either distracting memes on the side or with TikTok videos playing next to it. Surprisingly, the TikTok videos enhanced learning for students who received review slides. They performed about 8% better on the end-of-day tests than those who were not shown any memes or videos, and similar to the students who answered intermittent quiz questions. Our data further showed that this unexpected finding occurred because the TikTok videos encouraged participants to keep watching the lecture. For educators interested in using these tactics, it is important to know that the intermittent quizzing intervention only works if students must answer the questions. This is different from asking questions in a class and waiting for a volunteer to answer. As many teachers know, most students never answer questions in class. If students' minds are wandering, the requirement of answering questions at regular intervals brings students' attention back to the lecture. This intervention is also different from just giving students breaks during which they engage in other activities, such as doodling, answering brain teaser questions or playing a video game. Online education has grown dramatically since the pandemic. Between 2004 and 2016, the percentage of college students enrolling in fully online degrees rose from 5% to 10%. But by 2022, that number nearly tripled to 27%. Relative to in-person classes, online classes are often associated with lower student engagement and higher failure and withdrawal rates. Research also finds that the racial achievement gaps documented in regular classroom learning are magnified in remote settings, likely due to unequal access to technology. Our study therefore offers a scalable, cost-effective way for schools to increase the effectiveness of online education for all students. We are now exploring how to further refine this intervention through experimental work among both university and community college students. As opposed to observational studies, in which researchers track student behaviors and are subject to confounding and extraneous influences, our randomized-controlled study allows us to ascertain the effectiveness of the in-class intervention. Our ongoing research examines the optimal timing and frequency of in-lecture quizzes. We want to ensure that very frequent quizzes will not hinder student engagement or learning. The results of this study may help provide guidance to educators for optimal implementation of in-lecture quizzes. The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
