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Former CEO Martin Shkreli Now Has An Entire — Unflattering — Musical About Him
Did you somehow become comfortably lulled into thinking 2016 had already crested Peak Weird? If so, you clearly got there a little too early. Today’s case in point: The ousted CEO that America loves to...
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Give Your Grey Matter A Weekend Workout With The Consumerist Quiz
We went easy on you last week — the holiday-shortened week and residual high spirits resulted in fewer questions and easily eliminated wrong answers — and it showed, with the median score on the...
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How Well Do You Know Your Fictional Tech Companies?
Sure, we all know that George Costanza worked, however briefly, at Kruger Industrial Smoothing, and that Laverne and Shirley toiled away at Shotz Brewery (before they randomly picked up and moved to...
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Do You Remember What Happened This Week? Maybe Not, But Take Our Quiz Anyway
Monday there was news. Then Tuesday there was also news, some of it new. Wednesday had news too, if we remember it correctly. News definitely happened yesterday (we read about it online), and we have...
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You Can Take Jeremy Bentham’s Mummified Head Through Airport Security, But...
The TSA runs a customer service line on Twitter, at @AskTSA. Most of the questions and complaints it handles are of exactly the sort you’d expect: can I bring an empty water bottle through security?...
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Stephen Colbert Says Comedy Central Unhappy With CBS’s Use Of ‘Stephen...
Last week during the Republican National Convention, CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert brought backhis arch-conservative former alter ego — also named Stephen Colbert — from Comedy Central’s The...
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Give Your Brain A Workout With This Week’s Consumerist Quiz!
That’s right: It’s time to once again put on the mental SCUBA gear and dive deep into your memory, to see if you can recall all the things you’ve read this week. For the uninitiated, the Consumerist...
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How Well Do You Know Your Federal Bureaucrats? Take Our Quiz To Find Out
The federal government is an alphabet soup of bureaus, departments, commissions, agencies, administrations that report to various directors, chairs, commissioners, administrators, and cabinet members....
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Strap On Your Brain Belt: It’s Time For The Consumerist Quiz!
We write stories. You read them. It’s a purely transactional arrangement; no strings attached. Question is: How well do you remember what you’ve read? Take the Consumerist Quiz and find out. We’re...
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How Well Do You Know The Companies That Own Other Companies?
Alphabet owns Google, and Facebook owns Instagram, Yum Brands owns KFC… and they all meet meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado known as “The Meadows” with the Queen, the Vatican,...
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Take A Break From Watching The Olympics On Work Time… It’s The Consumerist Quiz!
It’s not your fault that the folks in Rio scheduled handball in the middle of the workday. We understand that you won’t be denied your chance to watch Durdina Jaukovic and her teammates from Montenegro...
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Have You Been Paying Attention? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out
This summer and its Olympic games might feel like they will never end, but this week certainly will. That can mean only one thing… Actually, it means an awful lot more than one thing, but there’s just...
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Have You Paid Attention This Week? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out
Maybe the rest of the world thinks you’re smart — always coming to you for help setting the clock on their VCR or for recommendations on which wine cooler they should pair with their rice cakes — but...
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Can You Tell Your Exotic Foods From Your Science Fiction Characters?
If someone says “Would you like a strawberry?” you know exactly what they’re talking about. But what if someone asked for your opinion on Dulse: Would you understand that they were referencing an...
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Relive The Summer Of 2016 With The Consumerist Mega-Quiz!
To quote James Douglas Morrison, “summer’s almost gone,” though not really, depending on how you define the term summer. For fans of all things equinox-based, there are three weeks to go. For many...
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Time To See If You’ve Been Paying Attention. Take The Consumerist Quiz & Find...
The kids are back at school. You don’t have any vacation days left until next calendar year. Existence is an abysmal chasm from which nothing escapes, the self is a meaningless fictional construct, and...
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Do You Remember What Happened This Week? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out
The first full week after the end of summer and we’re already packing away the cargo shorts, swimsuits, squirt guns, and our dreams of ever recapturing the joy of youth (Is that just me? Sorry). While...
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Have You Been Paying Attention? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out!
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d with the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, and tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, and all the daughters of...
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Were You Paying Attention This Week? Take The Consumerist Quiz To Find Out
Remember only a few weeks ago, when many of us were complaining about the heat, pining for the start of the new fall TV season, and boasting about how the Browns finally had a franchise quarterback in...
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That Sounds Offal! How Much Do You Know About Your Organ &“Variety” Meats?
Offal — the edible organs and other trimmings from a livestock animal — gets a bad rap, mostly because of the initial ick-factor associated with the idea of chowing down on a brain, testicle, ear, or...
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