The Thursday News Quiz: Six Questions on October 22

Welcome back to the Thursday news quiz, a weekly check-in for anyone who claims to know what happened while the group chat was busy arguing about something else. Six questions, four options each, and the answers at the bottom so nobody can peek before committing to a guess. This week's edition of the Thursday news quiz covers a typhoon closing in on Taiwan, an elevator standoff between two very online men, a billion-dollar mood swing in crypto, a bug in a coding language that briefly knocked government websites offline, Gen Z handing holiday plans to artificial intelligence, and a rock record about a week from release.

Scoring is simple. Six out of six on the Thursday news quiz earns the right to explain the news at dinner. Four or five means the headlines did their job. Three or fewer means it might be time to read past the headlines, starting with the stories below. No cheating, no searching, and no claiming partial credit on the ones that feel familiar.

The questions

Same rules as every Thursday news quiz: pick an answer before scrolling to the reveals. Each edition of the Thursday news quiz draws from the stories that dominated the week's feeds.

One. Taiwan issued a land warning on Thursday as Typhoon Champi approached, after the storm spent part of the week as a super typhoon. According to Taiwan's Central Weather Administration, how strong were the gusts near the storm's center? A) Around one hundred miles per hour. B) Around one hundred forty-one miles per hour. C) Around one hundred seventy miles per hour. D) Around two hundred miles per hour.

Two. During a Twitch livestream earlier this week, Hasan Piker described an awkward encounter at the hotel hosting Ludwig and QTCinderella's wedding celebrations. Which podcaster did Piker say locked eyes with him and refused to share the elevator? A) Theo Von. B) Joe Rogan. C) Andrew Schulz. D) Mark Normand.

Three. United States spot Bitcoin ETFs took in hundreds of millions of dollars on Wednesday, their third straight positive day, flipping October's flows back into positive territory after heavy outflows. According to SoSoValue data cited by crypto outlets, roughly how much entered the funds across the Monday-through-Wednesday stretch? A) Around three hundred million dollars. B) Around six hundred million dollars. C) Around one billion dollars. D) Around two billion dollars.

Four. Developers of the PHP programming language disclosed critical vulnerabilities this week, and agencies in countries including the Netherlands and Finland pulled websites offline as a precaution. How many critical vulnerabilities were disclosed? A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Five.

Five. Vision One Research surveyed three thousand UK consumers for its Travel Brand Barometer and found Gen Z increasingly planning holidays with artificial intelligence. What share of Gen Z respondents said they had used AI tools like ChatGPT for holiday planning? A) Twenty-three percent. B) Thirty-seven percent. C) Forty-three percent. D) Fifty-one percent.

Six. Queens of the Stone Age are about a week from releasing their ninth studio album, the first full-length since In Times New Roman arrived in twenty twenty-three. What is the new record called? A) Perfecth. B) Alive in the Catacombs. C) Easy Street. D) In Times New Roman.

The answers

Answers for this week's Thursday news quiz are below, with a note on where each story came from.

One. B. Taiwan's Central Weather Administration put the gusts near the center at that speed on Thursday, Reuters reported. The storm also prompted more than two hundred flight cancellations in the region and forced changes to a major United States-Japan military exercise. Related reading: Typhoon Champi Nears Taiwan as Flights Get Cancelled, according to our earlier reporting.

Two. B. Piker said Rogan was about to step into the elevator, stopped himself after the two locked eyes, and waited for the next one, speaking on his livestream. Fellow streamer Atrioc told the same story on his own broadcast, Sportskeeda reported. Related reading: Joe Rogan Hasan Piker Elevator Snub, Explained, according to our earlier reporting.

Three. C. The three-session total sat near that figure, with BlackRock's IBIT doing most of the heavy lifting after its biggest single day in a year on Monday. Ether funds went the other way, giving back a roughly equal amount across October.

Four. B. PHP's developers identified the pair of flaws, which security researchers said had been uncovered with help from artificial intelligence tools, and urged everyone to patch immediately, Reuters reported.

Five. D. The survey put Gen Z far ahead of the older cohorts, who trailed by wide margins in the same report, GlobeNewswire reported, carrying Vision One's findings. The same study found TikTok has overtaken Google as the top source of holiday inspiration for the generation. Related reading: Gen Z Trusts AI Holiday Planning More Than Google, according to our earlier reporting.

Six. A. The record lands next week through Matador Records, co-produced by Josh Homme and Michael Shuman, with the singles Easy Street, Insignificant Other, and Where the Goth Girls At? already out.

That is the full Thursday news quiz for this week. Six questions, six stories, and a decent excuse to tell everyone at lunch that government websites went dark because of a programming language most people have never heard of. The feeds will be full of fresh material by Friday, so treat this edition as a snapshot of a very busy Thursday. The Thursday news quiz returns next week with six more stories.