Quiz: How Well Do You Know 2014’s Worst News?

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This year was the worst. It was like if garbage got thrown on top of garbage and then that garbage got eaten by a giant garbage monster and was puked out as some more garbage. How closely were you paying attention to the terrible news of 2014? Take our quiz and find out. If you click an answer and it turns green, you got it right; if it turns red, you got it wrong, and you’re lucky you didn’t spend your whole year on Twitter.

1As the polar vortex swept in, 15 cities saw record-low temperatures for January 7. What was the cold temperature recorded in New York on that day?

10 degrees Fahrenheit -5 degrees Fahrenheit 0 degrees Fahrenheit 4 degrees Fahrenheit

2Which of these is not a torture tactic used by the CIA, according to the torture report released in December 2014?

Rectal rehydration Waterboarding Sleep deprivation Sticking needles underneath a captive’s fingernails

3What is the subreddit where most devotees of #Gamergate congregated?

r/manbabies r/KotakuinAction r/iloveboobs r/boysrulegirlsdrool

4Which celebrity died of a drug overdose in 2014?

Philip Seymour Hoffman Robin Williams Joan Rivers Paul Walker

5Who is Chuck C. Johnson?

A revolutionary journalist The proprietor of Chuck E. Cheese’s A Twitter troll who shit on the floor in college An exiled leprechaun

6Which sea surrounds Crimea, which in 2014 became the site of a dispute over sovereignty between Russia and Ukraine?

Caspian Sea Adriatic Sea Mediterranean Sea Black Sea

7According to CNN’s Don Lemon, what happened to Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

It was shot down. It flew into a black hole and disappeared. It crashed somewhere in the ocean. It kept flying all the way to space to escape the cruel mortal world.

8In which casino did video capture former Baltimore Ravens player Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancée Janay Palmer unconscious?

Revel Borgata Tropicana Trump Taj Mahal

9What is the name of the mountain where ISIS has trapped thousands of Yazidis?

Mount Sinjar Mount Sinai Mount Simeon Mount Barsa

10Where did 22-year-old Elliot Rodger kill six people before shooting himself?

Santa Cruz San Francisco Isla Vista Fresno

11In which country do researchers believe the current Ebola outbreak started?

Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea Mali

12Which of these was not a theory floated by pro-Kremlin leaders about the the MH17 flight disaster?

Ukrainian forces were aiming for Putin's plane and hit a commercial flight by mistake. An air traffic controller deliberately moved the plane off its flight path. The plane was full of dead bodies used for an elaborate setup. U.S.-backed Ukrainian terrorists hijacked the plane and crashed it.

13What weapon did Ferguson police not deploy during protests?

Mega AR-15 Marksman Rifle Grenade Launcher 12-Gauge shotgun They were equipped with all of the above.

2014 Bad News Quiz Results

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