Join 350,000+ subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of
The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
Want to add more newsletters?
An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Quiz of The Week: 30 November - 6 December
Have you been paying attention to The Week's news?
Find out how closely you’ve been paying attention to the latest news and other global events by putting your knowledge to the test with our Quiz of The Week.
Join more than 350,000 subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
Join more than 350,000 subscribers and keep yourself informed with a selection of The Week’s most interesting, enlightening and entertaining stories - plus daily puzzles.
2. A new study revealed which food lowers the risk of Type 2 diabetes?
Yoghurt
Dark chocolate
Sourdough bread
Blackberries
3. This year's Spotify Wrapped offers each user a personalised what, based on their listening habits?
Podcast
Album cover
Band T-shirt
Fancam
4. Tesla's board was stymied by a US federal judge in its attempt to award founder Elon Musk a pay package worth how much?
$32 billion
$41 billion
$56 billion
$78 billion
5. Following their shock takeover of Aleppo, Syrian rebel militias have taken control of which other city?
Sign up for our Culture & Life newsletter
Your weekly digest of stories about entertainment and leisure, delivered every Friday
Idlib
Hama
Homs
Raqqa
6. "Moana 2" set a US box office record over the Thanksgiving weekend, surpassing which other Disney film?
"Toy Story 4"
"Frozen II"
"Inside Out 2"
"Encanto"
7. A feed additive for what type of livestock prompted backlash, boycotts and a Bill Gates conspiracy theory?
Cows
Sheep
Pigs
Chickens
8.Journalists at which UK newspaper went on strike?
The Telegraph
Daily Mail
The Times
The Guardian
9. How long did South Korea's shock decision to impose martial law last?
2 hours
6 hours
11 hours
18 hours
10. An apparent plastic surgery craze among aspiring Republican insiders has attracted what name?
Trump face
Mar-a-Lago face
MAGA face
Fox face
(Image credit: The Week)
1. Angola
The three-day visit – likely to be Biden's final overseas trip before leaving office – was designed to shore up Western influence in the region, where the abundance of valuable minerals has also attracted attention from China. Biden visited a US-funded rail project, which will transport copper, cobalt and lithium for export overseas.
2. Dark chocolate
The study, which analysed the diets of 192,000 American adults over 34 years, found that people who consume at least five one-ounce servings of dark chocolate a week had a 21% lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. In comparison, milk chocolate offered no such benefits and was linked to a higher risk of weight gain.
3. Podcast
The new addition to Unwrapped sees two eerily human-like AI podcast hosts dissect your 2024 listening trends. It's one of a host of AI-powered features to be incorporated into Spotify in recent months, leading to fears that the platform's curation is increasingly hemming users into an algorithmic echo chamber.
4. $56 billion
Delaware judge Kathaleen McCormick upheld a previous rejection of Musk's eye-popping compensation package, which was ruled to have been improperly negotiated with an insufficiently independent board of directors. Tesla plans to appeal the ruling.
5. Hama
On Thursday, it was reported that the Syrian army had been ordered to withdraw from Hama as insurgents marched on the city. The lightning offensive by Syria's rebel factions has caught President Bashar al-Assad off-guard and seems to have been timed to capitalise on the global conflicts distracting his key allies, Iran and Russia.
6. Frozen II
The Disney sequel broke records by earning $221 million in the US over a five-day period, surpassing Frozen II's $125 million in 2019. It became the highest-grossing film ever released during Thanksgiving weekend.
7. Cows
Danish-Swedish dairy giant Arla's decision to trial Bovaer, a supplement shown to reduce cow flatulence, a leading cause of methane output, became the target of conspiracy theories online, with some users erroneously claiming the product is linked to Bill Gates.
8. The Guardian
Journalists are on strike at The Guardian and its sister publication, The Observer, to protest the planned sale of the latter to digital news start-up Tortoise Media. They argue that the sale betrays the newspaper's core values and could jeopardise the brand.
9. Six hours
President Yoon Suk Yeol's 11pm declaration of martial law, which he blamed on pro-North Korean sympathisers and anti-state activities inside opposition parties, stunned citizens and prompted immediate panic and protest. Just after 5am, the cabinet voted to rescind the order.
10. Mar-a-Lago face
Defined by "copious use of Botox, a Miami-bronze tan, puffy lips and silky-smooth skin", a cosmetic makeover appears to have become the latest must-have "accessory" for Donald Trump's more high-profile supporters, the Daily Mail said.
