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Nov. 26, 2024 4:02 PM PT

Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of the Los Angeles Times News Quiz. I’m Adam Tschorn, senior features writer, former game show question-and-answer man and your weekly quizmaster. I’d like to take a moment and thank those of you who have been clicking through week after week since we launched this quiz project back in January. If answering these 10 handcrafted, California-focused, multiple-choice questions each week is even half as much fun for you as writing them has been for me, then I’ll consider it time well spent.

Since everyone is likely to get more than their fill of politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table — or spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to simply avoid the conversation altogether — my holiday gift to you is a break from the politics. So, go ahead, dig in and devour every last morsel of this week’s quiz, a veritable smorgasbord of questions riffed from my colleagues’ stories published over the last week.

Graze contentedly on questions about the characters in “Gladiator II” and the record-setting box office of “Wicked.” Snack on savory bits about about soap-opera exits and the NFL’s only brothers to coach against each other. And, when you’re ready, show us what you know about Gnatalie, L.A.’s newest sauropod, and Moo Deng, Thailand’s famous pygmy hippo. (Her name, it turns out, would not be out of place on a restaurant menu.)

Your dessert? That’s the sweet taste of victory you’ll be savoring after acing the quiz and proving it to the world by posting your score. (It’s super easy to do and I’d be ... thankful for the effort.)

Are you ready to have some fun? I am. Let’s get started.