Bing News Quiz: How It Works and Rewards Guide

The Bing News Quiz is a weekly ten-question trivia game published on Bing that tests your knowledge of the past week's top headlines. Playing it earns you Microsoft Rewards points that you can redeem for retail gift cards, contest entries, or charitable donations.

Key takeaways

• The quiz refreshes every Friday with ten multiple-choice questions covering pop culture, world news, and sports.
• Each correct answer awards Microsoft Rewards points, typically between 10 and 30 points total depending on your region and promotion tier.
• You need a free Microsoft account to save your streak and convert your answers into spendable reward points.
• Answering a question incorrectly does not break your account streak, but it prevents you from earning the points tied to that specific question.

What is the Bing News Quiz?

The Bing News Quiz is a bite-sized news recap disguised as a multiple-choice game. Every Friday, the Bing editorial team pulls stories from major news events over the previous seven days and creates ten questions.

Each question gives you three or four potential answers. Once you select an option, the interface tells you immediately whether you were right, provides a quick one-sentence context snippet, and gives you a link to read the original news article. The format makes it an easy way to check if you actually followed the news or just skimmed social media headlines.

How do Microsoft Rewards points work on the quiz?

You earn points by playing the quiz while signed into your Microsoft account. The points feed into your central Microsoft Rewards balance, which you can use for gift cards to retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Xbox, and Starbucks.

The points per quiz are small on their own. Ten to thirty points equals only a few cents of real-world value, since 1,000 Microsoft Rewards points generally translates to roughly $1.00 in gift card value. The real incentive is maintaining a Daily Set streak. Completing the required daily tasks on your dashboard unlocks streak bonus points every few days, which speeds up your earnings significantly.

How do you find and play the quiz?

Finding the quiz takes less than a minute if you know where Microsoft places it.

1. Open your web browser and go to bing.com.
2. Sign in to your Microsoft account using the button in the top right corner.
3. Type "bing news quiz" into the search bar, or click the Microsoft Rewards medal icon in the top right corner to open your dashboard.
4. Locate the quiz card on your Rewards dashboard or in the search results panel.
5. Click the link to launch the quiz directly in your browser.
6. Click your chosen answer for question one. Bing will confirm your choice and show a "Next" button.
7. Repeat the process through question ten until you reach your final results screen.

You can take the quiz on a desktop browser, a mobile browser, or through the Bing and Microsoft Start mobile apps.

What is the honest catch?

The catch is the payout relative to your time. Ten points for answering ten questions is not an efficient way to make money online, and it never will be.

Microsoft designs these quizzes primarily to drive traffic to its MSN news partners and get you to keep Bing set as your default search engine. If you treat the quiz as a quick, five-minute news check-in over morning coffee, it is fun and functional. If you are grinding through it purely for the financial reward, you are spending minutes of mental energy for fractions of a penny.

Why did your quiz points not register?

Points fail to credit for three common reasons:

First, you were not signed in. Bing lets you complete the quiz as an anonymous guest, but it will not credit points retroactively after you finish. Always confirm your profile avatar appears in the top corner before clicking the first answer.

Second, your ad blocker or privacy extension blocked the tracking script. Aggressive tracking blockers occasionally stop the Microsoft Rewards script from signaling that you finished question ten. If you notice your points total staying flat, allowlist the site or try an InPrivate browsing window with extensions paused.

Third, regional limits apply. Microsoft Rewards operates in dozens of countries, but specific bonus quizzes like the weekly news breakdown do not appear in every locale. If you travel internationally, the quiz may vanish from your dashboard until you return to your home region.

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