Welcome to this week's news quiz

With Fritz on vacation, we've crowdsourced this week's quiz by asking The Conversation's team to write questions about their favorite articles of the week. Go 8-for-8 and you'll win an honorary editorship.

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Stacy Morford, climate editor:

Ticks can’t run, but they have their own special way of latching onto a meal: They climb a blade of grass or a leaf and wave their legs until a deer or other food source brushes past. What’s this called?

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Emily Schwartz Greco, philanthropy editor:

Which of these is a real problem the Milton Hershey School Foundation, endowed by the chocolate mogul and his wife, has faced?

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Kate Kilpatrick, Pennsylvania editor:

What popular kids game show of the 1980s featured a giant nose that contestants picked and a sundae slide?

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Maggie Villiger, science editor:

Slips of the tongue where a speaker mixes up the first sounds of words – like saying “It is kisstomary to cuss the bride” rather than "customary to kiss" her – are named after what British reverend?

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Maggie Villiger, science editor:

What species was the fossilized dino "Gus" that sold at auction on June 14 for over $50 million?

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Molly Jackson, religion editor:

What meaningful prop is Athanasius of Alexandria, a fourth-century theologian, holding in a painting featured in TikTok videos?

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Vivian Lam, biotechnology editor:

No drug is a panacea, but GLP-1s such as Ozempic seem to be angling for that title. What's the next condition headlines claim it might be able to treat?

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Katrina Aman, audience editor:

According to a philosopher who wrote for us, why does our gratitude evaporate so easily when we analyze why someone helped us?

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