For the entertainment of its readers, the Associated Press posted a news quiz at 9:49am on December 17, with the headline “Do You Remember What Happened in 2025? Test Your Knowledge.”
They offered up 25 multiple-choice questions, to let use check our memories against the lies published in the Lamestream Media.
Apparently, they thought every newsworthy lie for the year 2025 had already been published by December 17, even though we still had a full two weeks left. A lot of lies can be told in two weeks. As we have learned oh so well.
The first quiz question concerned the devastating Los Angeles wildfires that swept through several neighborhoods last January.
Which common cause was quickly ruled out in the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires?
- Utility lines
- Fireworks
- Lightning
- Arson
I strongly suspect that the Los Angeles wildfires actually did take place, based on the numerous photos and videos we got to see, so that portion of the question is probably authentic. And it’s equally likely that investigators did in fact quickly rule out “Lightning” as a possible cause for the fires, considering, like, clear blue skies. You usually need clouds if you’re gonna have lightning.
In other words, the Lamestream Media did report certain things, this year, that actually took place. Whether we remembered that they happened, almost a year later, is a completely different question. Like, when I read this first question in the AP quiz, I was, like, “Gosh, did those fires happen in 2025?” I had honestly forgotten about the fires in L.A.
But I remember the 75-acre Oak Fire in Aspen Springs, Colorado, on August 10.
Not quite as dramatic. But considerably closer to home. Like, about three miles away.
So I have to ask. How important is it, whether I remember that the wildfires in Los Angeles were not started by lightning, when there was a wildfire just down the street, started by a couple of guys burning trash “in violation of the Second Amended and Restated Ordinance no. 18-2017 for the regulation of open burning in the unincorporated areas of Archuleta County.”
My point being, there’s the news that I need to remember (which in this case concerns, among other details, Second Amended and Restated Ordinance no. 18-2017) and then there’s news that the Associated Press thinks I ought to remember, for whatever reason.
The next AP quiz question.
In January 2025, then President-elect Donald Trump would not rule out seizing which canal?
- Suez Canal
- Kiel Canal
- Panama Canal
- Corinth Canal
Well, there’s only one canal in that list that I’ve even heard of, so it’s a pretty good bet that it’s also the only one President Trump has heard of.
We don’t know, however, if President Trump “would not rule out” seizing the Panama Canal. What President Trumps rules out or doesn’t rule out seems to depend mostly on what he ate for breakfast. Maybe he ruled it out on Monday, and then on Tuesday, changed his mind. He’s a person who “goes with the flow”.
The problem is compounded by fact that the story was published by the Lamestream Media. Otherwise known as the “Fake News”.
By the way, the photo of the President eating Wheaties for breakfast did not appear in the AP news quiz. I picked it from the stock photos they keep here at the Daily Post.
If the AP news quiz had really wanted to put our memories to the test, they could have asked, “What breakfast cereal was President Trump shown eating in the January 3, 2025, edition of the Pagosa Daily Post?”
One of the questions pushed the limits of what a normal person can possibly remember about 2025.
Which amendment limits U.S. presidents to two elected terms, blocking a third-term bid?
- 12th Amendment
- 22nd Amendment
- 20th Amendment
- 25th Amendment
Obviously, the correct answer includes the number “2” either as the first digit or as the second digit. So the best way to cover your bases is to pick “22nd Amendment”.
But the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951. I wasn’t even born. How does the Associated Press expect me to remember something that happened more than a decade before I magically appeared in my mother’s womb? And more than three decades before I found out that FDR was elected to a fourth term as President in 1944?
Wasn’t this quiz supposed to ask me about stuff that happened in 2025? That was, like, the headline. “Do You Remember What Happened in 2025? Test Your Knowledge.”
I also have to file my main objection to the quiz, which is that 19 of the 25 questions related to things that happened in the United States… and of those, 12 related to the federal government.
Of course, we understand that the Associated Press thinks the U.S. is the center of the universe, maybe because we have the most billionaires. But last I looked, more than 95% of the world’s population lives in other countries… sometimes more exotic countries. Indonesia, for example. There’s almost as many people living in Indonesia as in the entire U.S.
And they have “hot news” in Indonesia.
I have no idea what kind of “hot news” they have in Indonesia, because I don’t understand their language, and it’s admittedly harder to remember events from 2025 when they happen on the opposite side of the globe.
Where almost everybody lives, we might add.
One final expression of disappointment with the AP news quiz.
During the 24 hours of December 25, 2025, something happened that I don’t think any of us will ever forget.
U.S. President Donald Trump posted, on Truth Social, over 150 messages of brotherhood and good cheer directed at his fellow Americans. As far as I know, not even FDR ever came close to that record.
Okay, sure, a lot of the posts were mean and nasty, but that’s why we love him.
So let us all remember what happened in 2025, even if the AP posted their news quiz on December 17 and thereby totally missed one of the most memorable events of the year.
Lest we forget!
Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his Substack account.