Welcome to this week's news quiz

The Supreme Court is in session and Nobel winners are being announced. It must be time for an October news quiz! Go 8 for 8 and award yourself the Nobel Prize for Smartyness.

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The Supreme Court's new term began on Oct. 6. What is the traditional way the court determines the date of its first session each fall?

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Oct. 6 was also the first day of this year's Nobel Prize announcements. Who is the only person to win a Nobel Prize whose father, mother and spouse were *also* Nobel Prize winners?

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Which Hollywood star announced this month that they would revive the Committee for the First Amendment − an activist group that their famous father joined during the anti-communist panic of 1947?

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In President Donald Trump's new 20-point plan to settle the war in Gaza, who did he name to his proposed "Board of Peace" that would govern postwar Gaza?

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James Comey pleaded not guilty on Oct. 8 to charges that he lied to Congress. On social media, President Donald Trump called Comey "one of the worst human beings this country has ever been exposed to" and described him as the former ...

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Two pharmacists have sued Walgreens and the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, saying they were punished after refusing, because of their religious beliefs, to dispense what?

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A new study about suicide in America, just published in the Journal of Health Economics, shows that which surprising factor is linked to a rise in suicide deaths by as much as 7.4%?

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"Wings, booze and heartbreak" was the headline on our Oct. 7 story about what topic?

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