Quiz: Is Your Family Trying to Kill You?

How many more of your mother’s nightly Jeopardy! recaps can you endure before you run away from home?

Liz Alterman

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May 21, 2025

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1. Your parents are downsizing, you:

1. Look forward to the countless hours you’ll spend together reminiscing as you sift through photo albums and memorabilia.
2. Book a dumpster for them and hope you can collect the stuff you left in their attic in under thirty minutes.
3. Fake your own death.

2. Your teen lost his iPhone, you:

1. Replace it immediately. You need to be in constant contact.
2. Wait a week before buying him a new one so he understands how tough your disconnected childhood was.
3. Do nothing … other than rejoice that he can’t text you from his bedroom to ask who ate all the Cool Ranch Doritos while you’re rewatching Love Is Blind.

3. Your parents come for a weeklong visit. Their return flight is delayed by an unexpected weather event, you:

1. Appreciate the extra time together. #Grateful
2. Make the best of it by watching quiz shows with them…