Welcome to this week's news quiz

Who's buying whom? What's the word of the year? And what do non-Christians do on Christmas Day? All this and more in this week's quiz. Go 8 for 8 and give yourself a tiny gold tree.

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The Oxford English Dictionary has named a two-word phrase as its word of the year for 2025, and (blessedly) it's not "six-seven." What is the phrase?

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Streaming giant Netflix has announced an agreement to pay about $72 billion to acquire what company, whose properties include film and TV studios, video games, DC Comics and HBO?

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It's a modern tradition that on Dec. 25, as Christians celebrate Christmas Day, many American Jews do what?

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A Centers for Disease Control committee voted on Dec. 5 to stop recommending that all newborns be ...

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Between Nov. 27 and Dec. 2, Pope Leo XIV made his first official international trip as pontiff. Where did he go?

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Over the past 25 years, health care premiums in America have grown by ...

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Scholars recently analyzed 38 million American obituaries published from 1998 to 2024 to see which values families tended to highlight. They found that the words most often mentioned were related to what concept?

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Many people in our modern age experience "nomophobia," which is defined as the fear of what?

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