Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Get out your pencils. Sharpen your brain. It’s time to test your knowledge of the world with our annual geography quiz. We’ve used questions devised by Seattle Times travel staff and the Chicago ...

You’d probably be able to point to the continent where the Statue of Liberty stands, right? Well, if the questions got a ...

Do you know your Norway from your Nepal and your Morocco from your Mexico? It’s time to find out! In this geography quiz, ...

Africa is the world’s second largest continent and contains over 50 countries. Africa is in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. It is spread across three of the major lines of latitude: the Tropic ...

Five middle school students proved themselves experts in Middle Eastern and Asian geography by emerging victorious from an annual geography quiz competition Wednesday. “It feels gratifying,” and all ...

In September, a Louisville, Ky., schoolteacher was forced to resign because of “strong parent concerns” that she might be infected with the Ebola virus. The woman, also a registered nurse, had just ...