A quiz!

Just to see if you've been keeping up...

(The answers are published below if you want to cheat.)

1. The federal deal-in-principle to suspend the debt limit includes

   1. Ice cream for all.

   2. Lifetime subscriptions to HBO Max.

   3. New work requirements for older beneficiaries of programs such as SNAP (the food stamp program).

2. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the Republican speaker of the House, is a ______ man.

   1. Sad

   2. Challenged

   3. Both

3. In the hit HBO series, “Succession:”

   1. The South breaks away from the Nor…oh, wait. That’s “secession.” My bad.

   2. Don’t know. Never watched it.

   3. You can watch and watch and never hear a trace of Brian Cox’s Scottish accent (and thanks, Jane, for pointing this out).

4. The first celebrants of what we now know as Memorial Day were:

   1. Blacks who’d escaped slavery in South Carolina.

   2. The Daughters of the American Revolution

   3. A bunch of guys named Mike who also started the cultural phenomenon of “tailgating.”

5. Three western states have come to an agreement on conserving water from:

   1. Lake Mead

   2. The Colorado River

   3. The Pacific Ocean

The answers:

1 C; 2 C; 3 B or C; 4 A; 5 B