The Daily News Quiz
Six questions from the August 13, 2026 Brief — no peeking, and the recaps are waiting at the end.
1. Three states are scheduled to carry out executions on the same day Thursday, the first such convergence since 2010. Which states?
2. A federal lawsuit targets a Trump Media service charging how much per month for early access to Trump's Truth Social posts?
3. The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for what record price?
4. Why will Anthropic embed machine-readable watermarks in Claude-generated text and files?
5. Who won the Wisconsin Democratic governor primary, defeating Francesca Hong by roughly 3,000 votes?
6. Deer-vehicle collisions dropped 76% on Washington's Olympic Peninsula in areas where which predator was present?