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Forget the State of the Union. What's the state of your quiz score?

From left: Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO), Punch (lonely monkey) and Flavor Flav (icon).
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From left: Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO), Punch (lonely monkey) and Flavor Flav (icon).

This week, the state of the union was stated (but not uniting) at length. If you know your State of the Union history (or read NPR's coverage …), you'll get at least one question right!

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Holly J. Morris
Holly J. Morris works on NPR's Training team. She was an editor at The Washington Post Express, National Geographic and U.S. News and World Report, and a college teacher.