These seven questions are based on NJ.com's most popular stories of the past week. So basically you have no excuses.
Each week when it's time to create NJ.com's local news quiz, I look back at the past week to see what stories were the most popular with NJ.com readers. It just seems fair to use stories that most readers were likely to see. I weed out the stories that aren't local, stories that aren't appropriate for a quiz and stories that don't have enough details to make a good quiz question. Then I re-read the stories from the most popular on down and create the seven-question quiz. I try to use important information from each story to create the quiz questions.
Here are the stories that I used to create this week's quiz. Better study up now: I think this week's quiz is pretty tough.
- Iconic South Jersey diner abruptly shuts its doors
- Woman hurt on Six Flags King Cobra water slide reportedly sues for $3M
- Trump Taj Mahal to close after Labor Day due to casino workers' strike
- 'Please send the police, I've been shot,' said man mistakenly shot by police
- With one vote today, N.J. will make it harder to graduate high school
- Is your car a target? The 10 most stolen vehicles in N.J. in 2015
- Hero dog saves stricken owner by smashing window to summon help, cops say
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