| Last week's questions proved much harder than we expected. |
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| Hello, Point-dexters! I'm your Quizmaster, Aimee Lucido, and this is Bonus Points: the newsletter that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at last week's Pointed news quiz. | |
| Last week's questions proved much harder than we expected. Only two questions had a get-rate over 90%, and four had get-rates of 50% or less. Only 2% of you got all the questions right, and only .7% got a perfect score of 190. So if that was you this week, give yourself an extra pat on the back. Here's a distribution of the scores: | |
Hardest Question of the Week | |
| Disney won exclusive streaming rights to last year's second-most-watched franchise on Netflix. The show stemmed from a YouTube channel that has the third-most subscribers on the platform. Which show is it? A) Squid Game
B) Ms. Rachel
C) Beast Games
D) CoComelon
There are two clues in this question. 1) The show currently airs on Netflix, and 2) the show stemmed from a popular YouTube channel. I hoped players would first eliminate Squid Game, which did not originate on YouTube (but 29% of you thought it might!). Then, I hoped you'd eliminate Beast Games, which has been an expensive but popular enterprise for Amazon Prime (but 32% of you picked it anyway!). That leaves just Ms. Rachel and CoComelon, which both have ultra-popular YouTube channels. While Ms. Rachel does have a Netflix show, it's pretty new. It started earlier this year and has only released four episodes. CoComelon, on the other hand, has been around Netflix for 13 seasons. Ultimately, only 28% of you got this one right. | |
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| Even though I thought this question included a funny term, we cut it because the actual news item ended up being small in the grand scheme of things. Do you know the answer? At an Oval Office event, Trump reacted angrily after being asked to respond to the perception that he makes outsized tariff threats before ultimately pulling them back. This purported strategy has been coined in the finance world as what type of trade? The word is an acronym, but it sounds like something served at a fast food restaurant founded by Glen Bell. A) PIZZA
B) TACO
C) BURGER
D) SHAKE
TACO trade–which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out–was coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong, but if you, like me, don't run in finance circles, you might have needed to get to this answer from an alternate route. You may have intuited that Glen Bell lent his name to Taco Bell, or you might assume that the two Z's in PIZZA would make it a tough word to acronym. Similarly, the K in SHAKE and the G in BURGER might create some difficulties, but T, A, C, and O are all pretty common letters. Thus: TACO trade! | |
Trivia from Outside the News Cycle | Last week was a short (and frantic!) one thanks to the Memorial Day holiday removing one of my usual question-writing days from the quiz cycle. But it was worth it for the extra day of vacation, and I spent it well. My family and I visited a peninsula in the United States that was named in the 1600s for its abundance of a demersal fish. Where did we go? Tune in to Bonus Points next week for the answer! We're already hard at work drafting this week's Pointed, so if you're looking for a hint to help you join that elusive 190 club, you've come to the right place. Your hint is: Anyone here a Swiftie? She may be your lucky charm this week. That's it for Bonus Points! See you in just 56 hours (ish) for the new Pointed! Aimee Lucido
Aka The Quizmaster | |
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