Sunday Headlines Quiz: Six Questions From October 25

Milwaukee and the record reliever

The Sunday headlines quiz opens at American Family Field, where the Milwaukee Brewers took the second game of the World Series against the Tampa Bay Rays on October 24. Tampa Bay built an early four run lead, but Milwaukee rallied to win and take a two games to none edge in the best of seven series. The closing work belonged to reliever Aaron Ashby, who finished the game and set a postseason mark in the process. How many consecutive scoreless postseason outings has Ashby now recorded?

Answer: five consecutive scoreless outings. Yahoo Sports reported that Ashby closed the second game by pitching one and two thirds innings, allowing one hit and striking out three, and that the outing passed a record set by Goose Gossage forty-five years ago. According to the same reporting, Ashby has now pitched more than fifteen innings in October without allowing a run. The Brewers head to St. Petersburg for the third game on Monday, with Tampa Bay needing a win to stay alive in the series.

The comeback itself gave Milwaukee its cushion. Sal Frelick tied the second game with a sixth inning homer, according to reporting on the game, and rookie Cooper Pratt drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh. Tampa Bay still had a chance in the ninth, but Yandy Diaz was called out on a check swing to end the game. The Sunday headlines quiz answer turns on the reliever rather than the rally, because the record is what separates this game from a routine comeback win.

Brazil and the runoff ballot

The Sunday headlines quiz moves to Brazil, where voters cast ballots on Sunday in a presidential runoff that final polls called too close to call. The two candidates left standing come from opposite ends of the country's politics, and Brazilians living abroad voted too, including at a polling site in the Financial District of San Francisco. Who are the two candidates contesting the runoff?

Answer: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro. The San Francisco Inquirer reported that the two men entered Sunday's second round within the margin of error in final polls. According to the same reporting, the runoff follows a first round that left neither candidate with an outright win, which is why Brazilian voters returned to the polls on Sunday. The result will decide who leads Latin America's largest country next.

The closeness of the polling is the point of the question. A runoff that final polls cannot separate tends to turn on turnout in the final hours, and on voters who backed eliminated candidates in the first round. The Sunday headlines quiz keeps the question simple because the ballot itself is simple: two names, one winner, and a margin that pollsters could not call in advance.

Reno and the solidarity tour

The Sunday headlines quiz stays with American politics, this time on a college campus in Nevada. A Silicon Valley congressman brought his Students for Solidarity tour to the University of Nevada, Reno, joined by journalist Don Lemon, and used the stop to press his case on college costs, jobs in the age of artificial intelligence, and the cost of living. The visit came a day after the tour's previous stop, and it fed speculation about the congressman's own future plans. Which congressman took the tour to Reno, and what office is he weighing a run for?

Answer: Representative Ro Khanna, weighing a presidential run in 2028. The San Francisco Inquirer reported that Khanna pressed his case at the Reno campus on the tour, with Lemon alongside him. According to the same reporting, the tour frames its pitch around students, connecting the price of college to the way artificial intelligence is changing the job market. A presidential bid would still be years from a formal launch, but the tour stops read as early groundwork.

The Reno stop matters because Nevada votes early in presidential nominating contests, so a visit there draws attention beyond the campus audience. Khanna's tour mixes campus organizing with national themes, which is why a single university stop registered as a national story on Sunday. The Sunday headlines quiz answer pairs the name with the ambition, since the tour only makes sense once both are in view.

Baseball and the salary cap row

The Sunday headlines quiz returns to baseball, away from the field this time. While the World Series played out in Milwaukee, the players' union publicly criticized a proposal from Major League Baseball owners, with the union's interim head choosing unusually blunt language for the plan. The proposal would cap team spending and limit individual shares, according to reporting on the dispute. What did the union call the owners' salary cap proposal?

Answer: a nuclear bomb. Reporting on the dispute said union interim head Bruce Meyer used that phrase for the cap plan and related proposals, arguing they would harm players and competitive balance. According to the same reporting, the owners' plan would cap spending for the following season near two hundred forty-five million dollars per team. The timing sharpened the row, since it broke while the sport's showcase series was still being played.

The dispute sits apart from the games in Milwaukee, but it shapes what the sport looks like after the Series ends. A cap fight between owners and players can spill into labor talks that decide rosters, salaries, and the calendar itself. The Sunday headlines quiz includes it because the language was the story: unions rarely reach for that kind of phrase about a bargaining proposal in public.

Kaduna and the campaign launch

The Sunday headlines quiz crosses to Nigeria, where the ruling party formally launched its presidential campaign on Saturday in the northern city of Kaduna. President Bola Tinubu told supporters at the flag-off that they must turn out in large numbers to re-elect him, and he urged them to vote for the party at every level, from the presidency down to state assemblies. On what date did Tinubu tell supporters they must go out and elect him again?

Answer: January 16, 2027. Naija News reported that Tinubu made the remark at the All Progressives Congress campaign flag-off in Kaduna, and that he expressed confidence his administration's reforms would show results before the election. According to the same reporting, Tinubu accused his opponents of creating the poverty and hunger that critics of his government cite, while opposition leaders have blamed his policies, including the removal of the petrol subsidy, for inflation and hardship.

The Kaduna launch set the tone for a campaign that will run for months. Tinubu framed the vote as a verdict on his economic reforms, while his critics framed it as a verdict on the cost of living. The Sunday headlines quiz answer is a date rather than a slogan, because the date is what turns a rally speech into a calendar event.

Borno and the rescue count

The Sunday headlines quiz closes with a military operation in northeastern Nigeria. Soldiers killed terrorists in a Borno air strike and, across operations over the past week, rescued kidnap victims, recovered ransom money, and arrested suspected terrorists and kidnappers, according to a statement from defence headquarters. How many kidnap victims did soldiers rescue in that week, and how many terrorists were killed in the Borno air strike?

Answer: more than seventy kidnap victims rescued, and fifteen terrorists killed in the Borno strike. The defence headquarters statement, carried in Sunday's Nigerian newspaper roundup, said soldiers also recovered ten million naira in ransom during the same week of operations. According to the statement, Major General Michael Onoja, the Director of Defence Media Operations, disclosed the figures for operations between October 15 and the end of the week. The rescue count stood out because it covered a single week of operations across the country.

The figures describe a week of sustained operations rather than a single raid, which is why the question pairs two numbers. Air strikes, rescues, and arrests each tell a different part of the same campaign against insecurity in the northeast. The Sunday headlines quiz ends there, with a count that measures a week of work instead of one headline moment.

How the Sunday headlines quiz scored

Readers who answered every question from memory did well, and readers who needed the explanations still covered a full news weekend: a record reliever in Milwaukee, a runoff ballot in Brazil, a campus tour stop in Reno, a salary cap row in baseball, a campaign launch in Kaduna, and a rescue count in Borno. The Sunday headlines quiz used only reporting published in recent days, so the answers reflect what was known on Sunday rather than older background. For another round in the same format, see the Saturday headlines test and the Friday headlines quiz, plus the wild headlines quiz from earlier in the week.