Current:Home > MarketsWe promise this week's NPR news quiz isn't ALL about 'Barbie' -WealthMap Solutions
We promise this week's NPR news quiz isn't ALL about 'Barbie'
View
Date:2025-04-15 20:18:36
This week, Barbie the movie broke box office records, lured people to a searingly depressing biopic, dominated Mattel's quarterly earnings call, and is somehow both corporate propaganda and a scream of existential angst. It puzzled and enthralled the Indigo Girls, and inspired this World Cafe playlist.
Barbie the doll may or may not be a feminist icon. She is a strong role model, and a reason to examine the history of women in the workforce. She's the star of this LAist podcast.
Thanks for taking this tour of Barbie and Barbie-adjacent content. Here's a quiz with just one question that references Barbie.
veryGood! (5)
Related
- Military service academies see drop in reported sexual assaults after alarming surge
- 11-year-old killed in Iowa school shooting remembered as a joyful boy who loved soccer and singing
- Horoscopes Today, January 5, 2024
- Family of woman shot during January 6 Capitol riot sues US government, seeking $30 million
- Why Sean "Diddy" Combs Is Being Given a Laptop in Jail Amid Witness Intimidation Fears
- From eerily prescient to wildly incorrect, 100-year-old predictions about 2024
- Bulgarians celebrate the feast of Epiphany with traditional rituals
- Golden Globes: How to watch, who’s coming and what else to know
- The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text on the rise. What to know.
- 5 people have died in a West Virginia house fire, including four young children
Ranking
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
- Track star, convicted killer, now parolee. A timeline of Oscar Pistorius’s life
- Israel signals it has wrapped up major combat in northern Gaza as the war enters its fourth month
- NFL Week 18 playoff clinching scenarios: Four division titles still to be won
- Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time
- Why Gypsy Rose Blanchard's Ex Nicholas Godejohn Filed a New Appeal in Murder Conviction Case
- Colts coach Shane Steichen 'felt good' about failed final play that ended season
- Nikki Haley says she should have said slavery in Civil War answer, expands on pardoning Trump in Iowa town hall
Recommendation
Meta donates $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund
FBI still looking for person who planted pipe bombs ahead of Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Third batch of Epstein documents unsealed in ongoing release of court filings
Marc-Andre Fleury ties Patrick Roy for No. 2 in all-time wins as Wild beat Blue Jackets
Israel lets Palestinians go back to northern Gaza for first time in over a year as cease
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Reveals What Makes Her and Husband Ryan Anderson's Marriage Work
Nadal withdraws from the Australian Open with an injury just one tournament into his comeback
How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally