How much of this week's news did you notice? Every Friday Slate posts a short quiz about the week's news. slate.com/news-and-politics/the-slate-quiz
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High school students can learn about cybersecurity by playing the CyberStart game online for free. Those who complete 20% of the challenges by March 8 will be eligible to compete for college scholarships. www.cyberstartamerica.org (Not a high school student but interested in seeing what it's like? Try the 60-minute CyberStart Go instead: go.cyberstart.com/)
Based on results from Standard & Poor's Global Literacy Survey, only 57% of American adults are considered financially literate. Likewise, the U.S. financial industry's National Financial Capabilities Survey finds that, on average, Americans get only 3 of 6 basic questions about finance correct. Want to try yourself? Here's the quiz along with explanations for each answer: www.usfinancialcapability.org/quiz.php
Having re-watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" recently, I was again struck by the wonderful Dr. Seuss line about the Grinch "puzzling and puzzling ... till his puzzler was sore." If you enjoy puzzling until your puzzler is sore, you may enjoy these logic puzzles and paradoxes from the University of Rochester's philosophy department: www.sas.rochester.edu/phl/puzzles.html
At first glance, this xkcd comic looks like a normal map of the contiguous United States. On closer inspection, though, seven states are missing. Can you identify the seven missing states? imgs.xkcd.com/comics/contiguous_41_states_2x.png
Test your geographic knowledge with this short quiz that requires only one thing: name any country with a four-letter name... then a five-letter name ... then a six-letter name ... up to a 13- letter name: www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/country-naming-geography-quiz
Looking for a game to play with family or friends over Thanksgiving? Or maybe a holiday gift? Check out Trial by Trolley, a board game based on the classic runaway-trolley thought experiment associated with utilitarianism. The game requires at least three players: a "conductor" and two individuals or teams competing to convince the conductor to run over whatever is on their opponent's track and spare whatever is on their own track. It's sort of like the Apples to Apples of moral philosophy. The game is about $25 at Target, Amazon, and other retailers. www.target.com/p/trial-by-trolley-game/-/A-78138830
This 25-question quiz focuses on language geography: given a map, can you name the language spoken in the highlighted region? (Alumni of my "Your Future World: Human Geography 2050" class should be able to get perhaps not all but most of these.) www.sporcle.com/games/the_underground/maps_too_small_for_klingon
What do you know about ocean geography? Take this 24-question quiz to find out: www.usefultrivia.com/geography_trivia/ocean_trivia.html (For any students interested in the National Geographic Society geography bee, please note that although I, personally, consider the answer to #2 correct, NGS considers the world to have four oceans.)
Practice your geography (and probably learn a few new things) with this 35-question British pub quiz. (Please note: unless it has been fixed, the year in Question #11 is incorrect; it should be 1872, not 1862.) www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-05-02/pub-quiz-geography/
This 35-question quiz asks users to identify a sampling of the world's biggest cities based on a photo and a single clue. I think many of my geography students can ace it :-). Be sure to read the info after the answer to learn a bit more about the city (and watch for a few typos). play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-name-the-most-populated-cities-in-the-world-from-a-hint
The University of Arizona has created an imaginative (free) web quest to encourage students to learn about the world. Students can take any of five digital journeys to learn about places, languages, cultures, and histories, with a special emphasis on the Middle East and Latin America. las.arizona.edu/road-maps-around-world-adventure
Practice your U.S. geography: with or without using a U.S. map, try this quiz that pairs two U.S. cities and asks you to identify which one is further north. Be sure to read the interesting factoids that accompany each answer. play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/can-you-guess-which-of-these-two-american-cities-is-furthest-north
The National Geographic Society just canceled this year's state and national geography bees for the first time in the bee's 32-year-history 😕. If you want to get a head start on learning about geography for next year, check out some of these free apps: Geo Bee Now for Android and iOS, Geography Quiz (by Peaksel) for Android and iOS, and the Ultimate Geography Quiz for Android.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in the news recently when he claimed that an NPR reporter, who has a master's degree in European studies from Cambridge, misidentified Bangladesh as Ukraine on a blank map. In response, RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty has put together a short quiz challenging users to correctly identify 10 Eurasian countries on unlabeled maps: www.rferl.org/a/pompeo-npr-kelly-ukraine-map-quiz/30403854.html
NewsCurrents, a weekly subscription news source for students in grades 3-12, posts a free current events quiz every week: www.newscurrents.com/intro/quiz/quiz.html And if you are finding your middle schooler or teen does not know as much about current events as you might like, you can get a 1-year digital subscription to The Washington Post right now for only $59 (or try it free for 4 weeks): www.amazon.com/dp/B072MHQFJ1 (Please note: this is not an affiliate link. I get nothing if you click on this. I just think turning students on to print journalism, even if in digital form, is a very good thing.)
Test your knowledge of world geography with this 20-question sudden-death quiz: ID the countries shown, but one wrong answer and you're out. Can you get all 20?
www.buzzfeed.com/jonmichaelpoff/world-geography-quiz-sudden-death You can practice your world geography AND raise funds for UNICEF by taking this very short quiz: donate.unicefusa.org/page/content/children-on-the-move (Note: you will have to enter an email address to see your score. Your score appears onscreen immediately; the email address is probably collected for fundraising purposes.)
This quiz may or may not yield an accurate summary of your philosophical leanings, but some of the questions are interesting to consider: www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/what-philosophical-school-thought-do-you-fall
Does your student enjoy online quizzes? Use the free quiz-making site Sporcle to create your own customized quizzes. www.sporcle.com/ (As an example, you can try the quiz I made to test out the site: www.sporcle.com/games/keenteam/your-future-world-1.)
Summer is a time when math learning tends to dribble out of our heads. This 15-question (British pub) math quiz serves to tickle the neurons or provide talking points for new math exploration. (The quiz assumes some knowledge of geometry and probability.) www.joe.co.uk/quiz/gcse-maths-quiz-75841
Test your knowledge of African geography! Take this quiz to identify all 54 countries in Africa: www.sporcle.com/games/Chenchilla/africa-find
Cyberattacks are a significant and growing problem for individuals, businesses, and governments. Test how much you know about cybersecurity issues with this quiz from The Wall Street Journal: www.wsj.com/articles/see-how-much-you-really-know-about-cybersecurity-11559672037
The Census Bureau joins in March Madness: test your knowledge of U.S. state and metro area population stats by filling out this "bracket." www.census.gov/dataviz/visualizations/057/
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