Welcome to the (somewhat shorter this week) LGBTQ Nation News Quiz. We’ve kept you up-to-date on politics, current events, and news from the LGBTQ+ community all week. Now, this is your chance to look back on what happened.
We’ll be testing your knowledge with a series of questions taken from our headlines this past week. Try the quiz without looking up the answers or open another tab and use our search function to find the answers. (We won’t tell.)
See how well you followed the LGBTQ+ news!
What pro-LGBTQ+ statement did President Joe Biden utter during his State of the Union speech?
1. “Transgender Americans: I have your back!”
2. “LGBTQ is A-OK in the USA!”
3. “No one should fear being queer.”
4. “Out of the closets and into the streets!”
How did pro-LGBTQ+ activists respond when haters from the Westboro Baptist Church recently protested in favor of a nonbinary teen’s death?
1. They drowned out the protestors by singing “We are family.”
2. They held a colorful drag performance to Christian music.
3. They threw rainbow-colored paint on the church’s protest signs.
4. They blocked their protest with rainbow-colored umbrellas.
Which of the following inflammatory statements have been made by North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson?
1. He has made all of these statements.
2. “You CAN NOT love God and support the homosexual agenda.”
3. “I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote.”
4. “[The Marvel superhero film Black Panther was] created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists.”
Which state just passed a law to protect access to IVF?
1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Georgia
4. Alabama
Which comedian recently said that they learned a “necessary” lesson from backlash over their anti-LGBTQ+ jokes?
1. Dave Chappelle
2. Wanda Sykes
3. Shane Gillis
4. Kevin Hart
During a heated television appearance, out Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg schooled which news anchor with his defense of “simple fact”?
1. Sean Hannity
2. Megyn Kelly
3. Jesse Watters
4. Joe Kernan
Which New Jersey city became the first official book sanctuary in the state, publicly committing to protecting endangered books from being banned?
1. Newark
2. Princeton
3. Hoboken
4. Jersey City
Voters in which California beach town approved a measure banning the Pride flag from being flown on city property?
1. Laguna Beach
2. Santa Barbara
3. Huntington Beach
4. Solana Beach
Democratic senators from which state came under fire this week for requesting funding NOT be given to an LGBTQ+ center in their state?
1. California
2. Georgia
3. Illinois
4. Pennsylvania
Before dropping out of the presidential race, Nikki Haley became the first woman to win a GOP primary. Where was her first victory over Donald Trump?
1. South Carolina
2. Washington D.C.
3. Arkansas
4. Maine
LGBTQ Nation Weekly News Quiz for the week of March 4, 2024
